[bananicorn]

The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spB4ezsQ6II

[diggan]

Absolute travesty to view that video via YouTube though, as the compression destroys the frames when there are hundreds of colorful balls in view.

Anyone know of an alternative source, ideally without the typical internet-friendly/heavy compression?

[tantalor]

Here's a 4k "remaster"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UXS6DBD6g0

[dredmorbius]

The same problem with confetti and snow in videos, due to compression:

<https://tensorpix.ai/blog/video-compression-snow-confetti>

Video compression functions best where little of the shot changes frame-to-frame. This is also why rapid-cut video performs poorly online.

[Synaesthesia]

I watched it, it's not so bad. Anyway, it's not like TV doesn't use compression, and back then it was more primitive MPEG-2.

[ginko]

This was a commercial produced for European television in 2005. Barely anyone even had an HDTV back then. I certainly saw it in standard definition when it aired.