Despite increasing computing power, high quality media still presents a storage problem. If the raw file is compressed to piss poor quality with an algorithm, the same algorithm could be used to faithfully (or with a margin of error outside our sensorial capabilities) live upscale the media file back while you are playing it. So you could have a full 8k video library resting on 720p files, lossless audio coming from 192kbps files, and stuff like that, a quality good enough to embed for piss poor connections and processing power, but that can be locally live upscaled by the algorithm on better devices.
ps: Upscaling media is already real, it’s just bad at the moment. Funny to see people believing it won’t get better. How easily are you still telling AI videos apart from the real thing without the aid of professional tools? Just a year ago it wasn’t so difficult.
I think there is a fundamental-misunderstanding in that…
You can fake resolution, but you can’t create it, once you’ve thrown it away, with lossy-compression.
The brilliantest example ever, was given like this ( had to do with “universal file compression” scammery, last-century )
Say you’ve got 4 files, that are 2-bits long:
& you compress them all down to 1-bit, so now you’ve got 2 compressed files:
… how could you de-compress them back out to 4 separate files?
The information’s GONE.
You’ve only got 2 left, right?
The same is true for compressing media-files.
I wish all the quote-images were done in SVG, all the audio was in OPUS, & all photos were in JXL, simply because that seems to be the optimal solution.
I wish the best video-format ( that isn’t patent-encumbered ), AV1 or something, were normal, too.
It isn’t that there is some specific video-resolution which is required, for the archived quality, rather, it is that there is some specific information retention that is required, & some of that information may have to do with resolution, other may have to do with color, other may have to do with motion, etc…
so it isn’t specific-resolution, rather, it is specific-percentage-of-information-discarding that is what’s being done…
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