[Medox]

Mandatory recommendation of the Gigapixels of Andromeda [4K] [1] video/version. Especially with this particular song(!), as the 8K version [2] has a different one which doesn't really give the chills... Although, 60fps makes the image much better. Maybe combine the song from [1] with the video from [2]...

The source picture is the 1.5 gigapixels version (69.536 x 22.230 pixels).

Fun fact: watching the video on certain TV's makes them flicker wildly. Probably because they struggle with many dots in motion. On a monitor it works flawlessly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9bNqBeAtC8

[nixass]

These kind of videos are great but what makes them even better is background music selection. Videos like this (as well as astronomy related channels) are the main reason why my music taste shifted from mainstream to indie music makers like Carbon Based Lifeforms, Sync24, Pete Namlook, Solar Fields, Stellardrone, Cell.. to name few.

[radiorental]

Have loved some of those for years and never heard of others. Thanks for the recommendations and it sort of speaks to how special and unique they are (o;

[archerx]

It’s probably motion smoothing causing it to flicker on certain TVs. Why motion smoothing exists on TVs is another question. I guess some people want everything to look like a cheap soap opera.

[The5thElephant]

It's not so simple. Background panning on modern TVs can look very juttery/flickery with motion-smoothing completely off. OLEDs can turn on and off very quickly, and 24 frames a second really isn't that many, so you end up seeing each frame rather distinctly instead of the more smoothed out and less instant frame updates you got on older TVs.

I've found the lowest motion-smoothing setting makes watching stuff like this far more enjoyable while avoiding the awful soap-opera effect you get from higher settings.

It felt awful to admit to myself since I hated on motion-smoothing for so long, but I simply cannot not see the 24 frames in pretty much all scenes where the camera is panning and background has to move a lot.

[LeifCarrotson]

If you can't reliably stream 4k or 8k 60fps, or even if you could and are stymied by Youtube compression (your 'smart TV' may be turning this incompressible video into meaningless snow), grab the source from the author as a download over Bittorent:

https://daveachuk.gumroad.com/