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Originally Posted by Audionut
Sounds like production workflows need overhauling.
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Yeah, I'll get on that once I wean the industry off 24p
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I can't recall the specifics, but I do recall some sort of overview on bandwidth statistics, showing that some large percentage of worldwide bandwidth is Netflix.
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Yeah, the majority of internet traffic is now some sort of video. The public numbers use a wide variety of methodology, and have been known to get it wrong by a factor of 2x.
This is one reason we need to forever push the boundaries of compression efficiency. Once we get to transparent compression quality, we need to keep making the required bandwidth to reach that ever lower. Over my 25 years doing digital video, we've seen ~20% improvement every year in the bandwidth required to achieve a given level of quality. Decent 1080p today takes fewer bits than ugly 320x176 did back in 1995.