Sell it to me! Seriously, I'd love to hear how much better the quality could be....

nottorp · on Jan 14, 2022

Get a blu ray (not even UHD) of Matrix (the 1999 one, there were never any sequels) and compare the lobby explosion scene with any torrent or stream.

Mind, it's not worth it for most movies. However, those flames are a good example of why bandwidth can matter.

dx034 · on Jan 14, 2022

But even a 20GB file? Streams are much more compressed, but I found files >20GB or so to be pretty much the same quality.

Which doesn't really matter though, you can also find 40GB files of most movies, they should (if encoded well) definitely match the quality.

cbg0 · on Jan 14, 2022

It varies quite a bit, I see a lot of banding in various scenes on my TV with 20GB WEB-DLs compared to an actual 4K BR rip.

rosndo · on Jan 14, 2022

In most cases that is to be expected because WEB-DLs tend to be poorly encoded. You should be looking for a remux.

oauea · on Jan 14, 2022

High quality torrents exist? I could download this right now: BD66 / m2ts / Blu-ray / 2160p / Scene / Dolby Atmos / Dolby Vision / HDR10. It's a 64GB file.

dopa42365 · on Jan 14, 2022

Yep, just search for "FraMeSToR" releases.

iamacyborg · on Jan 14, 2022

Yeah, at that point you're basically just downloading a bluray rip.

wing-_-nuts · on Jan 14, 2022

I bought a copy of planet earth / blue planet II to test out my new fancy oled this year. It's a damned near religious experience watching those series in 4k.

chungy · on Jan 14, 2022

Blu-ray 1080p movies tend to be around 35-45GB per title. 4k movies tend to be around 70-100GB per title.

The disc capacity contributes a lot to disc authors tweaking codec settings to value quality above file size. Visible artifacts are fairly rare even on complex scenes. You could practically believe you're watching a lossless source.