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Where do you source your harddrives from? And I guess you have some redundancies if you’re using used drives.
Your standards are undoubtedly higher than mine. HDR might be overkill (?), but I just find it very jarring when a scene that should be uniformly dark or black turns into bunches of little squares dancing around the screen. Do I need HDR to avoid that? I mean, yes, I do love the theater blacks enough that when Rogue One went from video outer space to film outerspace it melted my brain a little, so maybe I should look into that. But, overall, I think regular BluRay is the highest I’d want to target.
The system has really fucked itself with all the controls it has, especially for high quality streaming which they absolutely cannot guarantee AND they put a lot of restrictions on it as well.
I will speak up for having a physical library. It’s nice for guests to have something to pick up and hold. Of course, most of my guests these days are future and imaginary.
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I ordered my last ones directly from seagate but it’s an awful time to buy storage in general right now, the ones I bought last year are already over twice as expensive. I use backblaze for backup as they don’t have storage limits and it’s 100/year.
As someone else said the squares are how it saves space and it usually does the black areas first as (older) monitors are bad at showing detail in black.
Yeah there’s been multiple times where I’ve pirated things for subscriptions I’m already paying for (for other people mostly) because the draconian DRM or shitty players won’t actually play it at the full quality (drm requirements for hdr/4k, desktop player not supporting surround sound etc).
Yeah I mean it’s nice to have physical things but it’s not worth it to me and my friends just use my server anyways.
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