What is a very good bitrate for 4K video files above which it does not make sense to go? - eviltoast

Now you can find the same 4K video from few GBs to a hundred GBs, and I am wondering: where to stop? With music there is a similar phenomenon by which after a certain bitrate it becomes an esoteric art to detect improvements. So, what is your “very good enough” bitrate for 4K videos?

  • twistedtxb@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    In my very humble and personal opinion, theres a finite number of content I will be able to watch in my lifetime.

    Like many others I’m pretty sure, I have long gone past this limit, yet my personal collection of 50+mbps remuxes barely go over 6TB. This is hardly bank breaking

    • nestEggParrot@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      How? I have mostly 1080 and 720 collection and have filled 10 TB. Free space is down to 500GB and am budgeting for more drives.

      Most aren’t even good rips just something I could find.

      Granted i haven’t more than 40% of it and is purgable if I end up needing space.