Warner Bros. Discovery is on the eve of launching Max, its new streaming service that combines the already-existing platforms of HBO Max and Discovery+. But don’t expect Aubrey Plaza to be am…

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    1 year ago

    Gave up on Netflix a good 10 years ago when they first started quiet rumours about stopping people from accessing other countries catalogues. Immediately spun up an install of Plex and today am sitting on 30+TB of everything-I-ever-wanna-have and won’t be going back. Only access to any paid streaming service I have is D+ via a friends account, and I’ve used it 4x in 2 years lol.

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      1 year ago

      What level of quality do you store your content at? 1080p? 4K?

      I want to build my own catalog of Movies also, but I’m afraid of not getting enough Storage for 4K because it costs so much. I mean, sure, I can get 4TB HDDs for 59.99, but how much 4K Content is that?

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        I’d guesstimate something like 100 movies. 4k Movies can be massive depending on the bitrate, HDR, etc…

        My smaller 4k files are ~20GB and my biggest ones are 87GB(3 hour movie, high bitrate)…

        Seems that “typical” is closer to 40… so 100 movies is probably about right.

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          100 movies per 4TB? If that’s true, that’s pretty reasonable! Id probably get 4 drives and do 3+1 Parity

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            That’s my guess… I have majority 1080p content, with a sprinkling of 4k stuff. I’m at 27TB for 6062 movies. 160 of which are 4k at varying bitrates.

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        I store almost everything but my few favorite movies in 1080p. but I also let friends request content and I have automatic lists setup to add new stuff as it comes out so I try not to keep 4k, plus watching 4k outside of the house can be stressful on the server so 1080p is good for me, I have about 60tb of 1080p shows movies and youtube series

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          Do you see a major quality difference watching 1080p on a 4K display? And have you tried looking at Streamed 4K vs Local 1080p to see if the difference in quality is there?

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            for me 1080p is fine, I dont have that big of a tv, my concern is just storage space and my laziness. If I cared a bit more I would probably setup a second instance of Radarr to do 4k for my personal viewing, or if I didnt share my library with my family and friends. With 4k comes other issues you normally dont see when streaming since streaming services transcode down the move the bit rate is a lot lower and you dont see any issues, but when streaming locally the bit rate can go well over 100mbit and most tv’s dont have over 100mbit connection, so you need something like an nvidia shield or xbox to not have stuttering, but it does look really nice seeing clear blacks instead of the blocks you get when watching something from like prime video. its comparable to playing the bluray if you have the right setup and file.

            I prefer to do 1080p mainly because I share my library with friends and family and let them request whatever they want, their requests are automatically approved and pulled so my storage space is important, for example someone requested the office, thats like 560gb right there, but I really liked the show chernobyl so I pulled that at 4k and its only 5 episodes and thats already 140gb