@BillDem - just saying 1080p without quoting a data rate and frame rate, and codec tells you absolutely NOTHING about the quality of video you're going to end up with.. almost all streaming services, cable companies etc use a data rate of about 5Mb/s (blueRay max is 42Mb/s). 1080p video from a streaming service 1080p or not is not going to approach blueRay quality any time soon. at those low data rates/high compression 1080p video will not, on average look better than 720p video.. and could look worse if you are playing video with lots of movement. if you are compressing 1080p video down a lot to meet the data rate limitations you're going to get a ton of artifacting, possibly picture break up, bad colour accuracy etc.. when you have lots of movement.. or you have to run a lower frame rate which also makes the picture look unnatural and crappy.
scenes with slow movement or with larger areas that are static require lower data rate and will look better/crisper on 1080p than 720p, but how many movies are like that.. given the kind of internet connection that most people have 720p video is the best all round res to use for streaming video..
don't fall for the resolution scam that other providers are feeding you.. if you can only pump data down a pipe at a given data rate then you can only reasonably expect a certain quality of video.. think before you fall for this crap..
if you want to predict the quality of video for a service you need to know the resolution, the data rate, frame rate, and codec.. then you can actually compare.. don't be scammed into thinking that 1080p == better picture quality!
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