I tend to either act as a data hoarder, but most of the time end up being overwhelmed with anxiety about having so much data. Even when I just look at my personal photos, I just feel impeding doom knowing it can only grow and grow, it will never get smaller.

I was wondering if this had a term.

And coming from this question, I am just amazed by this community. What has prompted your interest in data hoarding?

  • DocMadCow@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    There sure are and you see it in the video piracy community all the time. You have guys that love giant episodes, and then people download the same episode at the same resolutions that is 1/10 the size! I can’t imagine watching a 200 to 300mb episode of a 44 minute show. Personally I would rather watch something on BluRay most of the time over streaming due to the low quality of so many movies on major streaming providers.

    • alfred725@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      theres usually reasons.

      First, people may still be used to getting charged insane amounts of money for internet bandwidth. Download limits and overage charges are a real problem, especially for phones.

      Download speeds. Downloading a 4k movie can take hours where the 1080p could be a few minutes.

      People may not have a ton of storage space. The choice is between one 4k movie, or ten 1080p movies.

      There’s no need for retention. You’re downloading a movie for yourself, not for archiving. There’s no need for the HD version.

      Tech. If you don’t have a 4k monitor, the 4k resolution is wasted.

      Quality. Just because the file is bigger doesn’t mean it’s higher quality. If the show was produced at 1080p, upscaling it to 4k doesn’t actually increase the quality. I’ve downloaded 4k anime that was upscaled from 1080p and it actually was worse quality because it had a few corrupted artefacts. Corruption on a couple frames throughout the movie because the upscaling wasn’t done perfectly and you wouldn’t catch it unless you sat to watch the whole thing.

      • NavinF@alien.topBEnglish
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        11 months ago

        If you don’t have a 4k monitor, the 4k resolution is wasted

        This is usually incorrect in practice since 1080p uploads rarely have enough bitrate to match a 1080p monitor. Resolution is not that important, but bitrate is

    • nurseynurseygander@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I mean, I have shit eyesight and I grew up with videotape then DVDs. Visually sumptuous things like House of the Dragon, yes, I want that in 1080p, I can appreciate the difference enough for that, but 720p seems perfectly serviceable to me for ordinary things. (I have finally tracked down and replaced my very old 480p shows, though).