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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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[–] DanglingFury@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I sort by size, then seeders. I didn't buy all my hifi tv and surround sound to watch compression in action. I couldn't imagine those 200 to 300 mb episodes, but to each their own. i usually pull the 3 gb to 4 gb episodes.

A 12tb WD hard drive is like 200$ when they go on sale. That equates to about 0.015$/gb. So that 3 gb show costs all of a nickel to store.

[–] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Some of my TV shows are 15gb per episode lol

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now that just sounds like poor compression on the video.

[–] FippleStone@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

H.265 is my favourite codec on the citadel

[–] p5f20w18k@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Could be, but they look amazing and I've got space for it

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

Stranger things s4e9 4k web dl is 16gb. They are rare, you got a lot of them?