I want the stream as high quality as possible because my computer and download speed can handle it. I understand though that concessions have to be made for crappy computers and/or bad internet speeds. So while I voted for Ultra/Ultra I can understand if medium or standard gets a bunch of votes.

As a side note, I don't know of anyone's stream that is 1080p right now. 720 is hard enough!

Lysteria

France2280 Posts

June 03 2010 11:36 GMT

I voted High, because I think it's the best balance between quality and lag.

And HD for SC1, obviously.
Some streams are quite painful to watch sometimes.

letian

Germany4221 Posts

June 03 2010 11:38 GMT

i voted I dont care, beacuse i really dont care)))

Zerum

Sweden348 Posts

June 03 2010 11:38 GMT

I don't like the "ultra" settings and prefer the IMO optimised medium settings for view the battlefield. its allot less cluttered and the effects are clear.

im a roc

United States745 Posts

June 03 2010 11:43 GMT

I get lag on anything but low, so my decision is obvious.

writer22816

United States5775 Posts

June 03 2010 11:45 GMT

Don't care, why would you watch SC2 when you could watch BW?

monkh

United Kingdom568 Posts

June 03 2010 11:50 GMT

would love ultra if i could download at that speed but i voted for medium then no problems with lag ever

Lucumo

6850 Posts

June 03 2010 11:55 GMT

On June 03 2010 20:45 writer22816 wrote:
Don't care, why would you watch SC2 when you could watch BW?

Exactly my thoughts.

Raelcun

United States3747 Posts

June 03 2010 11:55 GMT

Rarely any difference at all between high and ultra except on stupidly high resolutions even on my high high resolution it's hard to see a difference. Voted high quality but I'll watch a low quality stream with good content/commentary.

nate_river

40 Posts

June 03 2010 12:04 GMT

#10

Why the poll changed when bw>sc2 ?Is blizzard involved or i m too suspicious ?

Hyde

Australia14568 Posts

June 03 2010 12:04 GMT

#11

On June 03 2010 20:38 Zerum wrote:
I don't like the "ultra" settings and prefer the IMO optimised medium settings for view the battlefield. its allot less cluttered and the effects are clear.

The poll isn't for in-game graphics. It's asking about streams and vods.
I choose medium, simply because internet in Australia sucks and our speed can't cope, not to mention we have data allocation and HQ streams eat up a lot of bandwidth.

eNoq

Netherlands502 Posts

June 03 2010 12:13 GMT

#12

VOD quality, ofcourse as high as possible.

Navane

Netherlands2761 Posts

June 03 2010 12:26 GMT

#13

Weird poll, since there isn't really a trade-off. All things equal, I want ultra/1600p; if your pc can run sc2, it sure can run a stream at that resolution.

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

June 03 2010 12:27 GMT

#14

My internet is kinda slow, so I prefer slightly less than ultra high quality streams. Not extremely low quality though, since it's not THAT bad.

k!llua

Australia895 Posts

June 03 2010 12:31 GMT

#15

Low, because distinguishing fine details isn't that important and it means it lets me stream perfectly on my crappy ADSL1 (150kb/s) connection.

Standard would be fine though.

Doko

Argentina1737 Posts

June 03 2010 12:41 GMT

#16

Medium resolution @ around 900 kbps looks good enough and will rarely ever lag.

A lot of people are streaming at 720p (1280,720) without the necessary bitrate to maintain quality which ends up in major artifacs specially when there's a lot of camera movement.
The ones that do usually have complains about lag so im going with the safe route.

Corak

Germany188 Posts

June 03 2010 12:53 GMT

#17

Depends if i am watching on my PC Monitor (720p) or on my TV (1080p), but its the PC most of the time.

Kyuki

Sweden1867 Posts

June 03 2010 12:58 GMT

#18

My vote went for 720 High, due to it probably most often beeing abit more stable and beeing abit easier to view in none-full screen mode. If there was full performance out of all of them and I'd watch the best possible resolution in fullscreen ofc.

Necosarius

Sweden4042 Posts

June 03 2010 13:25 GMT

#19

Don't care, I don't watch SC2 streams.

FreshVegetables

Finland513 Posts

June 03 2010 13:27 GMT

#20

I usually watch HDStarcraft/Husky's stream with the 720p HD quality option, I think that's really enough, although i'm sure the 1080p option is useful if you have a bigger screen.