2006-11-10 06:47:30 · 13 answers · asked by Gary H 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Its all down to the resolution of the orignal video...not your PC. The videos on youtube and similar sites are very low quality to allow fast download...
...if you want to see some hi definition (high resolution) videos check out some hi-def film trailers...like these here
http://www.apple.com/trailers/
When you make a small video full screen size you are 'upscaling' the video to fit the screen...this means the software is basically 'making up' the other pixels to fill the screen...so you often get soft or blurred images this way.
2006-11-10 06:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by DrWorm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not the quality of the pc that matters, but instead the quality of the recording that you are wishing to view. When watching vids on Youtube or googlevideo I often find that the smaller the screen the better the quality, and i mean this in the sense of not maximising the screen size of the video.
Also, on this not - check out the Eagle's Hotel California acoustic video, its awesome, on a small screen of course!
2006-11-10 07:12:05 · answer #2 · answered by ng51online 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not enough info. is video on a CD/DVD if so then slow reading due to poor performance does exactly what you say. anyway poor performance results in all players reducing their bit rates because they have to keep up with the minmum 20 hertz frame rate for your eyes to think the video is smooth. In other words it has to make up 20 screens worth of stuff per second even if it only has the data for about 2 screens worth thats why it would look blocky. anyway your pc may have very poor performance due to something else. eg your hard disk is very very busy, too busy to transfer high rate video as well as whatever else its doing. alternatively you have an Antivirus that is clobbering your performance badly. if you have rebuilt your pc then you may have the wrong display driver. Does a HQ photo look really spot on. if so its probably got the right driver.
2016-05-22 03:15:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the resolution of videos are much smaller than the resolution of the screen display, this means when you switch to full-screen they are stretched from a smaller image to fit your screen. this makes the picture blocky 'cause each pixel is stretched.
plus, higher quality means a far larger filesize, a far larger filesize means higher bandwith usage on the site (data transfer from the site to it's users), which in turn means it costs them alot more to operate the site every month. there are very few advantages to providing very high quality video and lots of disadvantages.
basically, it's all down to bandwidth issues and money.
2006-11-10 06:50:21 · answer #4 · answered by piquet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its probably because your screen resolution is higher than the video that you are watching,thus giving poor quality
2006-11-10 06:52:34 · answer #5 · answered by tonytucks 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Main reason is that the video uploaded to the sites you're watching from have very low resolution. Most places where you can watch videos converts them to lower resolution for viewing to save storage and bandwidth.
2006-11-10 06:51:23 · answer #6 · answered by mis d 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not your PC, its the videos, you can have the worst PC on the world and the best quality video and it will look amazing, all based on the video, not ur pc
2006-11-10 06:49:22 · answer #7 · answered by doctorslapnut 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has nothing to do with your PC. The image quality of online videos is terrible because providers have to keep the bitrate low enough to be able to stream them. AFAIK, there's no way around this.
2006-11-10 06:50:50 · answer #8 · answered by MikEnigma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they`re only uploaded as a small pic so if you make them full screen the resolution reduces dramatically
2006-11-10 06:50:11 · answer #9 · answered by OhSimonsBinDrinkin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on the size of the videos
2006-11-10 06:49:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋