Originally Posted by MikeSmoke

When I set up my "new" streaming site several years ago, I encoded the videos at a decent, not great, bitrate. I think it was somewhere just under 1000 kbps.
I was then deluged with *hundreds* of complaints from people who didn't have a good enough connection to watch the videos (and therefore, would not be able to spend any money on the site).
I had to re-encode hundreds of videos at a crappy bit-rate (about 576 kbps) so that everyone could watch them --- have encoded them at the same rate ever since --- and haven't had a single request to improve the quality in nearly three years.
Just my