I was getting ready to pass on the link to the DevWeek 2022 YouTube playlist to our development team but noticed that most of the content is 720p making code and some slides difficult or impossible to read. It's 2022, my display is 2K, my eyes are vintage(1963); 4K would be groovy. 🥺😄 Is content available somewhere else or can the YouTube content be upscaled? PS: The front-end of Luis' Modern Functional & Fluent CFML REST APIs presentation seems to be missing.

Michael, the vast majority of speakers do not have anything approaching the bandwidth required to stream anything north of 720p. In some cases even this pushes the limits of their connections. Also, most of our viewership have home-quality internet. Which, of course, has vastly improved over the years of course, but can still have difficulties with larger videos. Not even taking into account users on mobile platforms using up their bandwidth. Most speakers with code samples provide github repos to pull the code from so you can display it locally and play with it. Apologies about Luis's talk, we had a technical issue and the first portion was not able to be recovered.

oh, doh! I think you're saying these things are constrained by reality. Now I feel like an elitist snob and my eyes are still bad. 😉 No worries and thanks for all the hard work!

I feel out of touch too. I didn't think having 5 Mbps upload was a big deal, but if the vast majority of speakers don't have that then the state of internet access is worse than I thought.

Keep in mind that your advertised and your actual uploads are often not going to match up. My (admittedly ridiculous) fiber line is rated at "1Gbps+" and my actual is 900Mbps. Which is insane and I am amazingly lucky to have that. But if your internet says it is "30 down, 15 up" or something along those lines, it will be under that. Plus no one else in the house will be able to use it for anything. Occasionally your TV shares that bandwidth too. Anyway, things are VASTLY better than they were once. But let's remember that 720p is considered "HD". I mean, it ain't 4K, but none of y'all want to see my ugly mug in 4K anyhow. Speaking of which, I'll be in maximum resolution in Vegas this October, so come on by lol 🙂