@TwitchTV
Starting right now, transcodes for new broadcasts are: Low (360p) Med (480p) High (720p). Thank you all for the valuable feedback!
— Twitch (@TwitchTV) August 29, 2013
Twitch Blog: ‘Major Changes Coming to Twitch Transcodes’
We’ll soon be changing our transcode labels from 240p/360p/etc, to “Low,” “Medium,” and “High.” Live (the actual quality set in your broadcast software) will continue being an option on web as long as partners are sending us an excellent quality stream, and will be renamed to “Source.” This is for a number of reasons, primarily to unify the Twitch experience across all platforms. We also want to shift viewers away from the idea that broadcasting at a higher resolution (without considering bitrates, framerates, hardware resources, etc) automatically translates to higher quality, which is what the current labels tend to do. Traditionally lower-res broadcasters, such as those in the speedrunning and retro gaming communities, should find this change especially beneficial as they’ll be receiving three transcodes regardless of their resolution.
Sources: Twitch Twitter, Twitch Blog
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