• T156@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    Or give an option to toggle. Surely letting people turn it off would save them even more resources, if they don’t have to bother with upscaling the video in the first place.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      13 days ago

      It likely costs them less to upscale than it does to store and serve a full sized video, so they’re not giving the uploader the choice.