Aren't even the "high quality" 4k streams like 15GB/movie? So at $20/TB that's ~$0.30/movie at streaming quality? And you could still have probably better than DVD quality that people used to pay $20 for for like ~2GB, or $0.04.

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Tallain 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A terabyte is no longer $20, unfortunately.

	▲	ndriscoll 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There's an 18 TB refurb from serverpartdeals right now. Or there are a bunch of smaller new ones in the $20s on Amazon. The analysis doesn't really change even if you're looking at e.g. $30/TB. It's still hundreds or thousands of items for a year of subscription cost; more than you could reasonably watch. Even going full 8 TB SSDs at $150/TB is still thrift store cost per movie when you amortize it ($2.25 at 15GB, or $0.30 at 2GB). Of course then as another comment here said, you're more likely to realize you don't actually want any of it. And then when you realize it's not worth pennies to store, you also realize it's not worth your time to watch.
	▲	Vaushite 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's $30. It used to be $10, now it's $30. It's tripled in price but it's still cheap enough for pirated movies. If that's still too much, get the 1080p version instead. This is about $/TB on bigger drives. If you only want a 1TB drive it'll be more like $50. Don't get an SSD, far too expensive.

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lkjdsklf an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

no it's not 15Gb/movie

A UHD movie with UHD and dolby audio and all that is anywhere from 50 to 70Gb. That's if you rip it straight off the disc.

You can shrink it a little by being pickier about which audio tracks you take, but not much.

You can do other things to it to make it smaller, but then it's not the equivalent of the physical disc

	▲	ndriscoll 38 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's a bluray rip. AFAIK every streaming service is way lower bitrate than that, even at maximum quality.

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gfody 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

perfectly reasonable quality 4k 10-bit hdr x265 is around 1gb/hr - the files I see that are 10-20x larger webrips from streaming networks seem to mostly contain noise and all compress back down to ~1gb/hr after denoising

	▲	dns_snek an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You might want to check your math again. 1 GB/h is 2.3 mbit/s, if we're being generous. That would be absolutely riddled with compression artifacts unless you're encoding a screensaver. 2 Mb/s is awful for anything with movement, 8 Mb/s is decent enough, 20 Mb/s is very good to my eyes, and 80 Mb/s is nice, clearly better especially in scenes with significant movement, but it's not revolutionary. I don't watch webrips unless there's no other option, it's mostly WEB-DL or bluray rips.