[fndrplayer13]

This is exactly what I thought while reading this. I don't think todays consumers care about that stuff. I think maybe they did somewhat more when we all had the original iPods or napster or whatever, but those days are long since past. I think these days most consumers are back to focusing on the picture and audio quality without regard to "geeky" numbers. I'm an engineer who has spent quite a bit of time dealing with video encoding in my career, and to be honest, I've never really bothered looking much into what Netflix, Google Play, iTunes, etc send my way. Thats because the quality is always good enough.

[johnpowell]

I run a plex server and share with 12 people. A few months ago I asked everyone to watch the same shows in SD and 720P and pick if the 720P version was worth the extra bandwidth and the size of my library being drastically reduced. Three people picked the 720p option. But they were the three that watch very little.

Movies were different. I did the same thing but with 720p and 1080p versions of movies. The majority wanted 1080p even if it meant a smaller library.