I never choose higher bitrate releases. IDK why exactly. When you search for a movie and there’s a half dozen releases, you choose the groups you know, and the number of seeders, and usually end up with a 2gb to 4gb release size. The bitrate doesn’t really factor into my decision, partly I suppose because it’s always “good enough”, and partly because it’s not a reliable indicator of image quality anyway.
Once I upgraded to a 4k tv I started pulling 4K HDR versions. It can be hard to know how good the quality will be between 5GB, 10GB, 25GB and 50GB movies, because there are many substandard releases out there. Especially true with older content.
Newer stuff can make a difference, but let’s be realistic. It costs nothing to just download a few versions and see. :)
People tend to forget bitrate when talking about image quality, and arguably it’s even more important than resolution. Even a 480p video can look great at a small screen if encoded with a good bitrate, and even a 4k video can look like shit if encoded with too low bitrate
Hell, OLED and high bitrate 1080 is probably good enough for me for the rest of my life.
Shitrate 4k and 1080p are all you get on streaming platforms. Hard to get good quality bitrates outside of I guess bluray and piracy.
I never choose higher bitrate releases. IDK why exactly. When you search for a movie and there’s a half dozen releases, you choose the groups you know, and the number of seeders, and usually end up with a 2gb to 4gb release size. The bitrate doesn’t really factor into my decision, partly I suppose because it’s always “good enough”, and partly because it’s not a reliable indicator of image quality anyway.
Once I upgraded to a 4k tv I started pulling 4K HDR versions. It can be hard to know how good the quality will be between 5GB, 10GB, 25GB and 50GB movies, because there are many substandard releases out there. Especially true with older content.
Newer stuff can make a difference, but let’s be realistic. It costs nothing to just download a few versions and see. :)
That’s kind of my point though.
I just don’t care enough about the quality.
I feel like that was implied in my comment ;-)
And piracy gets them from Bluray.
Now that that’s dying I’m afraid we’re gonna be stuck with streaming bitrates.
I guess we should buy more Blu-rays. But I don’t have a good space to library all of them… wait a sec… I have an idea…
Same, I have a 55" OLED and I game in 1080p. 4K looks a bit crisper, but my video card doesn’t like me when we do that.
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People tend to forget bitrate when talking about image quality, and arguably it’s even more important than resolution. Even a 480p video can look great at a small screen if encoded with a good bitrate, and even a 4k video can look like shit if encoded with too low bitrate
I’d be surprised if the average person can differentiate 720p and 4k
I legitimately cannot tell the difference between 1080 and 4k, however I do wear glasses.
But 720 feels like garbage to me.
Wasn’t speaking about you.
Depends on the screen size and distance.
At a typical screen size and distance
I mean that’s vague.
I’d say it depends on the content too. On a computer monitor at typical size/distance? Yeah probably. Small text will look much much better.
I don’t think so. Average TV size: 40-50"? Average distance: 6 feet?