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 ...
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