[Starlink] Sidebar to It’s the Latency, FCC: Measure it?

[David Lang]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2024, Colin_Higbie via Starlink wrote:

> Will that 25Mbps requirement change in the future? Probably. It will probably 
> go up even though 4K HDR streaming will probably be achievable with less 
> bandwidth in the future due to further improvements in compression algorithms. 
> This is because, yeah, eventually maybe 8K or higher resolutions will be a 
> standard, or maybe there will be a higher bit depth HDR (that seems slightly 
> more likely to me). It's not at all clear though that's the case. At some 
> point, you reach a state where there is no benefit to higher resolutions. 
> Phones hit that point a few years ago and have stopped moving to higher 
> resolution displays. There is currently 0% of content from any major provider 
> that's in 8K (just some experimental YouTube videos), and a person viewing 8K 
> would be unlikely to report any visual advantage over 4K (SD -> HD is huge, HD 
> -> 4K is noticeable, 4K -> 8K is imperceptible for camera-recording scenes on 
> any standard size viewing experience).

I'll point out that professional still cameras (DSLRs and the new mirrorless 
ones) also seem to have stalled with the top-of-the-line Canon and Nikon topping 
out at around 20-24 mp (after selling some models that went to 30p or so), Sony 
has some models at 45 mp.

8k video is in the ballpark of 30mp

David Lang