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Tangentially -- I keep wondering when we'll reach a point of storage size where piracy becomes "give me everything" rather than "I'd like that movie, please".

Tangentially -- I keep wondering when we'll reach a point of storage size where piracy becomes "give me everything" rather than "I'd like that movie, please". When will we reach the point of being able to trivially store and copy the top 100 or top 1,000 movies from every year since the beginning of movies. Or every TV episode and movie in English, ever.

tracker1 3y ago
Depends on the resolution, compression and quality level you expect. I'm generally fine with 1080p as I don't notice the difference to 4k that much, also am generally fine with h.265 at decent compression and prefer the way it degrades (blurry background) over most others like h.264 (weird blocky background). But YMMV, my vision is not the best by any stretch, and when I was younger I'd probably notice a lot more. In this, I'll often go for movies that are <4gb and TV episodes that are under 500mb in size. I do pay for several streaming options, but often still find it easier to just hit the high seas for content. For example, Paramount+ doesn't work with my pihole, and I didn't feel like figuring out what domains they'd require me to whitelist. Edit: I had setup a relatively large NAS as I was wanting to get into Chia when it came out... that said, the first few days it became obvious I would never get a coin compared to the really big minors, so now I have a 6-drive and 5-drive raid6 array with 12tb drives. So I'm set on storage for a long while. And the Synology box supports another 5-drive expansion case to grow with. I maxed the ram, and added the 10G network card.
paradox460 3y ago
If you use radarr and sonarr, you can kind of already do it. There are lists that give you feeds of new movies or shows, and things like Plex will alert you about new content, ready to watch
ac29 3y ago
Top 100 movies per year for the past 100 years isn't that much storage. Maybe 50-200 TB? Doable by a dedicated storage enthusiast with a modest budget. Every movie and and TV show in English is going to be several orders of magnitude larger.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y ago
  Even going for everything in a niche at 1080p is going to blow out the budget on storage alone. Unless of course the niche is incredibly small, like animated Christmas horror movies.

tracker1 3y ago

Depends on the resolution, compression and quality level you expect. I'm generally fine with 1080p as I don't notice the difference to 4k that much, also am generally fine with h.265 at decent compression and prefer the way it degrades (blurry background) over most others like h.264 (weird blocky background). But YMMV, my vision is not the best by any stretch, and when I was younger I'd probably notice a lot more. In this, I'll often go for movies that are <4gb and TV episodes that are under 500mb in size. I do pay for several streaming options, but often still find it easier to just hit the high seas for content. For example, Paramount+ doesn't work with my pihole, and I didn't feel like figuring out what domains they'd require me to whitelist. Edit: I had setup a relatively large NAS as I was wanting to get into Chia when it came out... that said, the first few days it became obvious I would never get a coin compared to the really big minors, so now I have a 6-drive and 5-drive raid6 array with 12tb drives. So I'm set on storage for a long while. And the Synology box supports another 5-drive expansion case to grow with. I maxed the ram, and added the 10G network card.

paradox460 3y ago

If you use radarr and sonarr, you can kind of already do it. There are lists that give you feeds of new movies or shows, and things like Plex will alert you about new content, ready to watch

ac29 3y ago

Top 100 movies per year for the past 100 years isn't that much storage. Maybe 50-200 TB? Doable by a dedicated storage enthusiast with a modest budget. Every movie and and TV show in English is going to be several orders of magnitude larger.

Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y ago
Even going for everything in a niche at 1080p is going to blow out the budget on storage alone. Unless of course the niche is incredibly small, like animated Christmas horror movies.