(Feel free to delete post if not allowed) Looking at internet plans for 1 person and wondering if 16mps is good enough for mainly youtube and TV use?
(Feel free to delete post if not allowed) Looking at internet plans for 1 person and wondering if 16mps is good enough for mainly youtube and TV use?
To give you a bit more detailed information:
For 1080p YouTube has a maximum bitrate of around 8mbit (although, it can go significantly lower and still be acceptable).
So, 16mbit will be plenty.
For 4k (which I understand you don’t care about but just for completeness) can theoretically go up to around 40mbit/s, but in reality I’ve very rarely seen anything beyond about 25mbit.
With 16 Mbit you would struggle to do consistent and good looking 4k.
If you have a HDR screen and want HDR content, you need to essentially double the bitrate, meaning that you can just barely support the best quality HDR 1080p content on YouTube.
Other streaming services follow similar numbers, but most services stream on a lower bitrate than YouTube, so it should work just as smooth or smoother (although obviously at lower quality)