There are alot of paying members here that use the argument "You don't pay for it, so fuck yourself, you don't deserve nothing!" Well, this point of view is based on your inability to enjoy something if it's available to all the others. Also paying gets you access to special feature, but that doesn't buy a patent of superiority over other members of the community without distinction. The issues here are:
1) is the quality good enough to make other people who know nothing about GB interested in the site? most people here agree that no, this is not the case.
2) should long-time visitors get such a downgrade in quality, especially for content that is available also on other sites (like trailers) and GB features (like quick looks)? most people agree that the downgrade in quality is noticeable. This is not one guy whining, there are 5 pages of thread full of people saying that the lost in quality is evident.
Those are the questions, and these seem to be the collective opinion here. Trying to force over everyone else here the idea that you are the only entitled to have an opinion because you paid it's not gonna change that.
Moreover both questions are posed from the perspective of people who care for GB. If you think that the only way to care for GB is to pay, you are an elitist who thinks that you can buy access to a community that is much larger than that.
You should also see that employing you way of thinking would lead eventually to someone replying "what do you want, you're a paying member, you get HD content anyway, get the fuck off this thread!". This is not happening fortunately, and you can see that there are lots of paying member too who are equally arguing that all video content should be in 720p without distinction whatsoever.
My two cents are: 480p with a decent bandwidth could be enough to have a quality close to the old 'high' quality. If that's the case, there's no hurry to give everyone 720p.
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