1080p scaled down, without a doubt. It contains much more data, so once you scale it to 480p it looks like super-sharp uncompressed video.

YouTube for Android has now lowered the maximum streaming quality for content in India to just 480p as the country has now gone into full lockdown. [Update 07/16]: So after 4 long months of 480p video ...

Verizon Wireless will start throttling video streams to resolutions as low as 480p on smartphones this week. Most data plans will get 720p video on smartphones, but customers won't have any option to ...