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I watch a fair amount of series, but I'm not a data hoarder. I see the value in 2GB episodes, but I watch most series on my laptop, my simple 1920x1080 tv or even my phone where that value doesn't make a difference. If I want to have a theater experience, I'll go to the theater.

Most of the times I just want to enjoy a good story and relax before I go to bed.

I don't have infinite storage and I hate when I want to download something new, but Im out of storage, so I have to delete stuff first.

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[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I am a data hoarder and endorse this message.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Chev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A family of 4 going to the theater is about 1TB of external SSD. Nowadays they are smaller than your regular phone.

[–] Stanley_Pain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is going to be my new way of measuring "worth" how many TBs of SSD storage does thing X equate to lol.

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Chev principle

[–] people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

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? 😅