On Saturday, 19 July 2014 at 22:42:40 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote:
... and I did try YouTube now just to see if the quality is
really that bad.
It isn't:
http://i.imgur.com/Cu1tUQl.png
That's about as good as the archive.org originals.
I took this with YouTube resolution set to 1280x720 on a
1920x1080 monitor.
I really think you are doing something wrong. Or YouTube is
serving lower resolution to you for some reason even if you
have HD turned on. Maybe a crappy ISP?
... and for completeness here's a screen of the same video with
360p (480p actually looks better):
http://i.imgur.com/bE1ak5i.png
I think this is what YouTube is serving to you (even though
colors seem different? - details are the same)
