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I watch a fair amount of series, but I'm not a data hoarder. I see the value in 2GB episodes, but I watch most series on my laptop, my simple 1920x1080 tv or even my phone where that value doesn't make a difference. If I want to have a theater experience, I'll go to the theater.

Most of the times I just want to enjoy a good story and relax before I go to bed.

I don't have infinite storage and I hate when I want to download something new, but Im out of storage, so I have to delete stuff first.

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[–] prole@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Streaming is always an option. You don't need to download every video you want to watch.

[–] Pulp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Always? Sometimes not

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[–] Marxine@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Agreed, since I mostly watch stuff on my not-4K laptop or my not-4K phone.

For people who like to watch stuff on huge 4K screens and stuff, they'll require higher quality videos, but as long as everyone has their needs meet I'm more than fine.

couldn't agree more. I watch pretty much everything on a 50" 720p TV from 10ish years ago. as long as its not some god awful 240p pixelated garbage, I'm fine. When I go over to some buddies places where they have newer nicer tvs and the qaulity is better, I still am 99% focused on story and idaf about the pockmarks on someones face etc.

I don't hate extra quality but end of the day, i want to prioritize disk space without having complete garbage on quality. love it when encoders can do stuff in x265 instead of x264 to cut off a few extra MB.

i have a theory that when quality started going crazy (2K by my mark) is about the same time where story quality in tv shows started taking a big dive. Byt I'm sure lot of ppl not agree lol.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

For me, that size in fullHD in x265 is indeed good enough.

[–] query@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

For any and all talk shows, there should be a sub-720p option. Don't really need the video feed at all for most of an episode.

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I download the biggest files i can get. Im going to delete it when I'm done with it anyways, who cares about the space.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Blasphemy! Don't you care about your share ratio?

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Also i should mention that I do torrent occasionaly and I leave it seeding for ages. So my torrent ratios are very healthy.

[–] idle@158436977.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I primarily use Usenet, so no seeding.

[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I am a data hoarder and endorse this message.

[–] jpablo68@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

40MB anime episodes are perfection 200MB episodes are good

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