I understand the updates to the HEVC spec have mainly added support for additional profiles and metadata that do not really impact compression efficiency, but once streaming fully transitions to AV1 (which is 30% more efficient than HEVC), I expect streaming video to match or even surpass UHD.
It’s not all that rare. 50-60 GB is typical. Kino and Criterion releases are almost all now 80-90 GB, and larger file sizes are becoming more common from other distributors as they increasingly use triple layer discs. I rip all my UHDs to a media server, and my wallet has become keenly...
I’ve deliberately avoided posting because I’m not particularly interested in perpetuating any “debate” on these releases, but since Crawdaddy asked for input from the “silent majority”:
I have only watched Aliens and The Abyss so far. They’re not the masters I would have chosen to release, but...