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  • 50TB!

    I know many people have much more, but wow. 4k I’m guessing? Or full quality 1080 Blu-ray rips?

    My TV is… Inadequate. An old 1080p LCD that won’t die. But it’s plenty big, and the backlight is even and the blacks are black enough. It’s plenty clear.

    I’ve really enjoyed 4k stuff on my buddies TV. But not enough to justify ditching a perfectly good TV, and the costs associated with a proper HDR OLED, and the increase to my current storage solution (8TB) and the time to find and download everything at Max resolution. I download most my stuff at 720p, I don’t really notice the difference between the two unless I’m pixel peeping.

    Plus my family uses my media server remotely, and my upload is only 14mbps, so I’d need to force transcoding, and I’m not sure my server has enough chooch to do 4 concurrent transcoded streams.

    I really should just bite the bullet and start with my storage and get higher bitrate stuff now… gah… it’s a slippery slope lol, and so far I’ve been happy with my simple setup…

    Sorry for the wall of text, guess I just needed to write this all out 🤷‍♂️



  • Don’t forget deleting things you “bought” from right out under your nose.

    Seriously, I did the same thing, early times pirating, only for my whole family. And when Netflix was good, requests for TV shows and movies went way down. I only had to pirate really obscure stuff that wasn’t easily accessible.

    But now I’m back in full swing, more than ever before honestly, out of necessity. And I don’t see it slowing down.