Comment on Netflix raises prices as password boost fades
karashta@lemm.ee 4 days agoI keep telling my friends this. It was incredibly simple to do. And you can start with only a couple smaller 1 or 4 TB drives and still end up starting a decent collection
DdCno1@beehaw.org 4 days ago
Especially if you’re fine with the low image quality of streaming services. Equivalent video files aren’t particularly big.
freeman@feddit.org 2 days ago
Its about ~2-3GB for a movie for me. The Quality isnt great but still better than Netflix streams.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 days ago
I would recommend “spending” about 6 GB on a 1080p x265 encoding of a movie, if you can. The quality is much better, good enough to be viewed up close on a large screen, unless there’s a large amount of high frequency detail, like in recent animated or very CGI-heavy movies - or unless it’s an older film with strong film grain and/or large mass scenes (think Lawrence of Arabia). Those do benefit from higher bitrates and resolutions, even if your screen isn’t 4K.