lol It's funny you should mention that because it's really noticeable the difference between 720p and 1080p in file size, a lot of people seem to go for the 720p and honestly I can barely tell the difference so I often download that as well, can fit tons on my hard drives as a result.
I usually watch on a 30 inch monitor. The difference is pretty significant IMHO. If I were to spend time and storage space on something it would have to be at least 1080p.
That said, I can't really be arsed to torrent high quality rips anymore, so I just watch 720p or 1080 with shitty compression on "totally legit" streaming sites.
On the other hand, I archive video games that I've played and they tend to make movies look tiny im comparison. Although I'm starting to question that too. Am I really ever going to replay them? Probably going to weed out everything but the most memorable ones.
It must be because I'm a 90's era kid, I'm used to CRT monitors and televisions at 480p so 720p looks mostly crisp to me, I do see a difference in 1080p but it's kind of like bluray and I don't consider the resolution to be significant enough of a difference for me to care unless I'm watching something lengthy maybe and feel like immersing myself like lord of the rings and whatnot.
I'm from that era, too. Computer CRTs were already pretty high res. The limiting factor was mostly the terrible TV signal and crappy DVD rips in Divx compression.
Like old games it's nostalgia that's best left unrevisited because it doesn't stand the test of time IMHO. These days even uncompressed DVDs look kinda sad and I wonder if I should upgrade the few DVDs I have to Blurays or high quality rips, assuming they've remastered that stuff in a higher resolution.
3 Terabyte? That's like 5 movies.
lol It's funny you should mention that because it's really noticeable the difference between 720p and 1080p in file size, a lot of people seem to go for the 720p and honestly I can barely tell the difference so I often download that as well, can fit tons on my hard drives as a result.
I usually watch on a 30 inch monitor. The difference is pretty significant IMHO. If I were to spend time and storage space on something it would have to be at least 1080p.
That said, I can't really be arsed to torrent high quality rips anymore, so I just watch 720p or 1080 with shitty compression on "totally legit" streaming sites.
On the other hand, I archive video games that I've played and they tend to make movies look tiny im comparison. Although I'm starting to question that too. Am I really ever going to replay them? Probably going to weed out everything but the most memorable ones.
It must be because I'm a 90's era kid, I'm used to CRT monitors and televisions at 480p so 720p looks mostly crisp to me, I do see a difference in 1080p but it's kind of like bluray and I don't consider the resolution to be significant enough of a difference for me to care unless I'm watching something lengthy maybe and feel like immersing myself like lord of the rings and whatnot.
I'm from that era, too. Computer CRTs were already pretty high res. The limiting factor was mostly the terrible TV signal and crappy DVD rips in Divx compression.
Like old games it's nostalgia that's best left unrevisited because it doesn't stand the test of time IMHO. These days even uncompressed DVDs look kinda sad and I wonder if I should upgrade the few DVDs I have to Blurays or high quality rips, assuming they've remastered that stuff in a higher resolution.