pachura said:
Brian10122 said:
Lol yobro you're an idiot. Smaller screen doesn't mean files are smaller.
Yes it does. Smaller screen allows for lower resolution textures and models with less triangles - they still look acceptable. The same for full motion videos; with lower resolution you can use
lower bitrates to get the same perceived quality while maintaining identical framerate.
That (combined with compression and video manipulation) is the main reason why they are smaller, not because of resolution. Resolution plays a minimal role in comparison (like key frames). Unlike a picture, a change from one frame of video to the next is based on differences from one render to the next. You could have a 1900x1200 frame to start with, but chances of the next frame being completely different from the last to require a completely new frame of data is slim, when a simple shift of key areas of the image can do the trick at a much less cost to space.