oowwweee<\/a> that caught our our eye, complaining about worse-than-expected video quality when filming on a Pixel 9 Pro XL past 3x zoom. Even though they were a pretty new owner of the phone, they noted that they only first observed the problem after installing the latest updates.<\/p>\nWe might write that off as new-user unfamiliarity, but a number of other owners of Pixel 9-series phones chimed in with their own complaints, and it\u2019s hard to ignore all the details aligning. We seem to be looking at some kind of temporal issue, with stuttering frames or images tearing. It only appears to manifest at intermediate zoom levels, and users report first noticing it after installing recent updates.<\/p>\n
Compared to some of the other ways video quality could be impacted, not everyone\u2019s going to necessarily notice or even really be bothered by something like this. That almost makes us even more curious: Is this an actual problem? Let\u2019s hear from you:<\/p>\n
Has your Pixel 9 gotten worse at recording video recently?<\/p>\n
22 votes<\/p>\n
Yeah, it’s gotten worse since I first had the phone.<\/p>\n
50%<\/p>\n
I hadn’t noticed before, but now that I try it while zooming, I see the problem.<\/p>\n
27%<\/p>\n
Nope, I’m not seeing any difference over time.<\/p>\n
23%<\/p>\n
More than just knowing whether or not you\u2019re dissatisfied with zoomed video quality on your phone, we want to know exactly which Pixel model you\u2019re experiencing this with. We\u2019ve seen reports mentioning both the 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL, but we\u2019re curious if this is impacting any other handsets, too.<\/p>\n
After responding to our poll, scroll down and let us know in the comments which Pixel model you\u2019re testing with, as well as when you first noticed a problem. Hopefully that will give us a little more data towards working out exactly what might be going on here.<\/p>\n
Got a tip? Talk to us!<\/strong>\u00a0Email our staff at news@androidauthority.com<\/a>. You can stay anonymous or get credit for the info, it’s your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Maring \/ Android Authority TL;DR Owners of Pixel 9 family phones report stuttering and tearing video recorded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[867,23758,547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-42283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-google","9":"tag-google-pixel-9","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114384108520549961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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