Your comment about compression hit the nail on the head; the source material when HD was in relative infancy in the consumer market was always of high quality. When you had a 720p display, the 1080p content you were watching wasn't streamed over the internet, it was usually from a Blu-ray (or HD-DVD if you made that bet like I did, oops) or HD-capable game console.
I got my first 4K TV -- a 55" Samsung KS8500 -- in 2016. Back then, you weren't streaming a damn thing in 4K -- just 1080p -- so again, consuming 4K content meant you were forced to view high quality source material. I remember how blown away I was by watching the Blu-ray version of BBC Planet Earth on my first 1080p TV (a Samsung 46" B6000 'Touch of Color'), and that level of awe was matched when I watched BBC Planet Earth II on UHD Blu-ray with HDR for the first time.
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Originally Posted by Azure
Typical dumb take.
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