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Considering the size of bluray rips, let alone UHD ones, TPB downloads are usually a significant step down in terms of quality vs directly ripping a disk.
by iamacyborg 5y ago
Considering the size of bluray rips, let alone UHD ones, TPB downloads are usually a significant step down in terms of quality vs directly ripping a disk.
- black3r 5y agoi don't use TPB, so I don't know if they are there as well, but elsewhere on torrents you can find both full blu-ray disc copies and "remuxes", which are just directly ripped from blu-ray to mkv without any loss of audio/video quality.
- tjpnz 5y agoWith modern codecs you're unlikely to notice much difference between a 20GB download and a rip you did yourself.
- chungy 5y agoThe words of somebody that's never witnessed the quality of a UHD disc :)
- dotancohen 5y agoSell it to me! Seriously, I'd love to hear how much better the quality could be. I miss 35 mm and spot (and hear) digital artifacts often and it drives me crazy.
- nottorp 5y agoGet a blu ray (not even UHD) of Matrix (the 1999 one, there were never any sequels) and compare the lobby explosion scene with any torrent or stream. Mind, it's not worth it for most movies. However, those flames are a good example of why bandwidth can matter.
- dx034 5y agoBut even a 20GB file? Streams are much more compressed, but I found files >20GB or so to be pretty much the same quality. Which doesn't really matter though, you can also find 40GB files of most movies, they should (if encoded well) definitely match the quality.
- oauea 5y agoHigh quality torrents exist? I could download this right now: BD66 / m2ts / Blu-ray / 2160p / Scene / Dolby Atmos / Dolby Vision / HDR10. It's a 64GB file.
- dopa42365 5y agoYep, just search for "FraMeSToR" releases.
- iamacyborg 5y agoYeah, at that point you're basically just downloading a bluray rip.
- wing-_-nuts 5y agoI bought a copy of planet earth / blue planet II to test out my new fancy oled this year. It's a damned near religious experience watching those series in 4k.
- chungy 5y agoBlu-ray 1080p movies tend to be around 35-45GB per title. 4k movies tend to be around 70-100GB per title. The disc capacity contributes a lot to disc authors tweaking codec settings to value quality above file size. Visible artifacts are fairly rare even on complex scenes. You could practically believe you're watching a lossless source.
- brnt 5y agoIgnorance is bliss, and I prefer bliss ;)
- aqfamnzc 5y agoThis is legitimately the stance I take on audio quality, video quality above 1080p (although I do notice the difference in bitrate between streams), cars, video games, and a lot of other things.
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- brnt 5y agoI've been spoiling myself and forced Netflix to 1080p (due to Linux, by default it won't go over 720) and I'm starting to slowly agree higher bitrates do look nicer. It's just that I come from VCD rips and still think that anything better than DVD is fantasticly detailed. Just never had the urge to let myself get used to better, but I'm starting to with 1080p.
- iamacyborg 5y agoIt's wild to me that in 2022 people still aren't used to consuming HD media.
- majewsky 5y ago720p does in fact count as HD. Either that or you don't remember SD content. :)
- brnt 5y agoI watch things for the story, not the pixels :)
- iamacyborg 5y agoThose pixels add up to a beautiful experience, particularly if you're watching something like Too Old to Die Young.
- Mashimo 5y agoYou can download UHD disks if you want. I only have a 7 year old 1080p projector @ 100", so for me a 10 - 20 GB rip is fine.
- TacticalCoder 5y agoI also only have a 1080p projector, no TV... 2 GB rips (not 20 GB) at 1080p are totally fine (and way, way, way better than any streaming service).
- Bud 5y agoEven on a good 4K TV, 2GB rips (and definitely the 4-6GB rips you can often also find) are really quite adequate for a lot of movies if it's a modern codec and the rip has been done well. Some movies are a bit more challenging than others, of course.