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?
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.
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