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200mb episodes are good enough! (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago (21 children)

Good enough for who? You? Sure. But not everyone watches on a small screen. Some people might actually care about the quality too. Some of us can't goto the theatre.

2GB isn't large by any stretch. There are 720p versions of pretty much everything (at least that's what I see on most Usenet Indexers). You could easily get a multiple terabyte external drive if your internal storage is full.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe try watching a 1080p HEVC or AV1 episode, 200MB for half an hour or 400MB for an hour and it looks amazing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

HEVC is a great codec. Not everyone is encoding with it yet. Couple that with "fun" scene rules and we get what we get. 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The amount of old content still on ancient codecs is disgusting

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