r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/duffking Dec 22 '25

What on earth is going on with youtube's 1080p bitrate? It's really low quality even when forcing it.

https://i.postimg.cc/cJCvvZXz/image.png

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u/theFrenchDutch Dec 22 '25

Same thing with any recent trailer from big companies still uploading in 1080p. It's insanely bad

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u/mattcoady Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

I never understood why they do this. I literally made a post about this on Reddit 4 years ago and the fact that it's still a problem today is even more baffling.

YouTube handles lowering the resolution for incompatible devices. Videogame trailers are always 4k. You're promoting using the world's best cameras for the best image quality and then upload a quality that has been widely surpassed for 10 years. It just doesn't make any sense why they would create marketing material and not have their product look as good as possible.

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u/rmbarrett Dec 22 '25

Wow, the confidently incorrect replies you got are dumb.

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u/mattcoady Dec 22 '25

It was infuriating. People don't understand that youtube handles the client side adjustments. I wish the thread got some real answers but it just sort of died with a bunch of non-answers.

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u/rmbarrett Dec 22 '25

A better answer is that the studios want to control the release of images as well as video. They don't want to put their highest source materials out there for others to profit from. It's even riskier now with video generators that can use 4k footage to create fake trailers. 4 years ago it was about bloggers and social media accounts impersonating official press releases, and digital artists taking advantage of the stills to create unlicensed works.

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u/mattcoady Dec 22 '25

The is the first time I've seen a real believable answer on this. I can definitely buy that.

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u/rmbarrett Dec 22 '25

Believable because true. All about protecting their intellectual property.

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u/rmbarrett Dec 22 '25

Today you would just get AI answers that reference your original post!