Yeah maybe I’m not very competent on that with my 7yo cheap phone and 1080p LCD screen (free from someone who wanted to trash it) ^^’

My guess would be deleting higher res versions of less watched videos and unwatched videos alltogether.

Anyway archiving everything everyone does is - imho - a fool’s errand.

My bet is that if a video is famous it’s gonna get replicated. And if it doesn’t, well, it will join the unending list of lost medias.

Anyway we just can’t archive anything anyone produces forever.

But they still look great in 1080p or even 720p (audio still excluded) don’t they?

Otoh do we need perfect (or even good) persistence for the 36284th similar bbq tuto or some random-ass cat video?

Currently data storage is dirt cheap because globalised mass production of electronics is a wild thing.

As soon as we get past our current peak everything production at least on copper, rare metals, and petrol (there’s more, I’m just not knowledgeable enough) and we start to have to ration things a bit high res video streaming will be one of the first things to go.

And still, do you need a 4K video stream for a music video?

I understand wanting higher res audio (which still amounts to minuscule amounts of bandwith compared to the video stream) but I don’t get how image quality is important in this setting.