Good enough for who? You? Sure. But not everyone watches on a small screen. Some people might actually care about the quality too. Some of us can't goto the theatre.

2GB isn't large by any stretch. There are 720p versions of pretty much everything (at least that's what I see on most Usenet Indexers). You could easily get a multiple terabyte external drive if your internal storage is full.

500mb 1080p HEVC for most shows on a 75" TV, but if it's a space sci-fi show with lots of dark scenes I need that 1GB-2GB episode.

Some shows get by on 200MB, but it depends how static the scenes are and how much lighting there is.

Not on my 65" 8k OLED they aren't! You can absolutely tell the difference.

Smaller/low res screens though, sure.

I paid for this 4k TV, so damn it I want all the pixels!

Seriously though, resolution is only half the equation. Bitrate, HDR, and compression methods are very important as well.

I feel you, but I also have a feeling this will be blasphemy to some.

Might as well download the episode in GIF format at that point, right guys? 😅

Yeah, 300-350MB h265 is great for anime. The 1GB+ are fine and all, but I'd rather save storage space.

Your best bet would be to use handbrake and transcode them down yourself. I have a relatively. I've setup for my living room and thus want to get the best quality I can. Exact opposite reasons to you but, It's easy to downgrade, basically impossible to upgrade.

But that's my two cents. Ideally, every file is uploaded with both of us in mind.

As long as you are happy with that, all good. Fuck the people that sets a standard for you.

The rise of HEVC and AV1 is arriving! Keeping the quality with a smaller file size. Plex and most android devices support AV1 now too!

720p for most tv shows is fine for me. 1080p for films.

Why not just use those streaming sites then? You don't need to download anything

I sort by size, then seeders. I didn't buy all my hifi tv and surround sound to watch compression in action. I couldn't imagine those 200 to 300 mb episodes, but to each their own. i usually pull the 3 gb to 4 gb episodes.

A 12tb WD hard drive is like 200$ when they go on sale. That equates to about 0.015$/gb. So that 3 gb show costs all of a nickel to store.

1337x has tons of episodes that are that size. It seems to either be ~200mb or 2gb+ though. It would be cool if there were a nice middle ground.

Yes, for you and several others that is why those exist. Doesn’t mean there are no others who like to watch it in higher resolution on larger screens.

absolutely agree. for most shows, I don't particularly care what I download, but for specific shows like GoT, I'll go for the high quality x264 copy

You could transcode your downloads and store them at a lower quality if you want to save space. It is extra steps though.

my laptop, my simple 1920x1080 tv or even my phone

yeah well that's cool but I like my media big and (when appropriate) loud, with as high a quality as I can get

I usually aim for 1080p top, since all my screens resultion don't go above that.

Sometime even 720p, depends on how many seeders.

Yeah, I agree, I can understand wanting higher resolutions but there are diminishing returns and even 1 GB for a half-hour episode is pretty absurd.

Plus, you can't seed what you can't keep.

I downloaded some 200mb episodes on telegram but I've never seen such bs before. Because of that I only download from the Usenet and have a look on the nfo before.