This might technically be true, and yet my experience has been consistently that higher resolution is always better. Perhaps this is just because, in the real world, higher resolution automatically implies a higher filesize (bitrate)?
(My actual strategy is “get the largest file you can at 4K, which seems to work pretty well.)
It is indeed often the case, but there are real-life scenarios where this is false (e.g. 480p DVDs probably look better than YouTube 720p because the latter has a much lower bitrate) and the causal relationship arguably exists in the opposite direction: less bitrate is required to make lower-resolution videos look decent, so lower resolutions tend to be preferred when people need to cut down on bitrate.
This might technically be true, and yet my experience has been consistently that higher resolution is always better. Perhaps this is just because, in the real world, higher resolution automatically implies a higher filesize (bitrate)?
(My actual strategy is “get the largest file you can at 4K, which seems to work pretty well.)
It is indeed often the case, but there are real-life scenarios where this is false (e.g. 480p DVDs probably look better than YouTube 720p because the latter has a much lower bitrate) and the causal relationship arguably exists in the opposite direction: less bitrate is required to make lower-resolution videos look decent, so lower resolutions tend to be preferred when people need to cut down on bitrate.