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One of the most popular types of content is now remuxed (not reencoded or recompressed) 4k blu-ray rips that can be anywhere from 50-150Gb per disc. In the DVD/
by mapontosevenths 2y ago
One of the most popular types of content is now remuxed (not reencoded or recompressed) 4k blu-ray rips that can be anywhere from 50-150Gb per disc. In the DVD/Blu-ray era movies were often reencoded to lower bitrates the way streaming services now do and had tiny original sources. Those files were orders of magnitude smaller (600Mb-1.5Gb typically).
The people who still care enough to pirate in the era of ubiquitous streaming are often doing it explicitly to get the best possible quality, because no streaming service now offers anything of comparable fidelity for any price.
- alickz 2y agosome (most?) streaming services don't even allow you to manually set the quality anymore gotta hope they decide your connection is capable of 4k (and they decide they want to spare you the bandwidth)