Why is JAV such low video quality?

jommy

The vast majority of JAV scenes are typically 4K, only very rarely 6K or better

Why is this? Is the standard for video quality much lower in Japan? Are studios too cheap to invest in better equipment?

Tried watching JAV many times but it's too low video quality to watch 🥲

Don't even get me started on the censoring 😆

netcat

+1, I share your frustration. JAV scenes are top tier when it comes to models and content. But the censoring and video quality there is crippling. It is so hard to see video after video come up that have so much potential to be great... but are sadly held back.
The censoring concern has been addressed any times before though - sadly there is nothing we can do about it. Japan laws are very strict on this. And models there would face problems even if they tried to shoot uncensored content out of the country.

There is one studio on SLR that produces some good JAV content that you may enjoy:
https://www.sexlikereal.com/studios/covertjapan?from=autocomplete
Unfortunately their publishing cadence is a little slow.

ZENRA

Basically it comes down to $$$. Studios have the ability to shoot in higher resolution, but the cost of mosaic jumps dramatically when doing so. What's more, until only a few months ago, DMM/Fanza had a 4K limit for VR as well so there was little need for studios to shoot any higher. It's also important to note that even now for JAV VR, studio revenue is almost entirely (way over 90%) derived from DMM. Even though SLR offers a greatly enhanced experience compared to a site that still looks like it last had a UI upgrade in 2003, that's where their focus will remain until Japanese demographics change.

stefanno

ZENRA
That's interesting, why would resolution have impact on the mosaic price? Is the price measured per pixel or something?

Fortunately lately more and more studios are finally making a jump to 8k, and the quality looks much better

fenderwq

Slow and steady more and more jav is shot in 8k nowadays. The 4k limit probably had a lot to do with their horrible drm on their videos.
Anyways, give it time. Especially for it all to trickle down to SLR.

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JAV videos tend to be long. Long videos tend to be big. Big videos tend to be costly.

spanker

they could be two or three hours long

fenderwq

There is more and more good 8K JAV vids around nowadays. Give it time sooner or later 4k JAV will be a thing of the past.

InfiniteFun

...the lower the quality, the better the content!

Spoken partly in jest, but there is a valid point here. The less you have to worry about production costs, the more you can concentrate on your own vision. This is the reason why 2D content utterly eclipses VR content, cos it's easy enough to make that anyone can present their own creative vision without having to dumb it down for the lowest common denominator...

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InfiniteFun ...the lower the quality, the better the content!

Too true. Much of what I've been watching recently is 4K.

jommy

It's a shame those studios lack foresight and record in such low quality

VR headsets can only get higher resolution and pixel density, internet streaming can only get faster..

So many videos recorded in poor quality that will look worse and worse as time goes on

It's like how studios film in 1080p 2D when 4K 2D has been around for over 10 years now!

The cost of a 6K VR camera is tiny for those big studios, well worth the investment even for small ones. Who knows, maybe they are actually recording in higher resolution but only release crap quality due to streaming limitations on their websites.

fenderwq

jommy very likely it was dmm's digital right management (their videos require a special player and are encrypted) that kept studio's back.

ZENRA

fenderwq It's $$$ for mosaic mainly, please see my reply above.