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[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

Exactly this. I don't need 1080P or 4k mp4 rips with 10bit audio, and I definitely don't have the storage for it, but when that's all that is seeding, its usually quicker to just download it and re-encode.

[-] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

This pretty much. I've never understood the point of something like The_Avengers.[4K][8K][16][Dolby_7.18_3D][128subs].mkv... what, do people want to take note of The Hulk's groin warts?

For stuff like animation content, even 720p is too much unless it's content from the last ~5 years. Anything before Infinity Train does pretty well on 540p or 480p with 96k audio, and if I'm looking for a movie from the 80s, let alone a black-and-white from the 50s, I'm certainly not interested in a 8K rip that would naturally have to be an AI upscale.

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