Big Files
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I almost never download any movie that is encoded to be over 10mb per minute. That is 900 megs for a 90 minute long movie. A DVD sized rip is 50mb per minute! That is ridiculous and does nothing but take 5 times longer to transfer, and 5 times as much storage. Unless the movie is a DVD rip with VOB files and intact menus, I don't think there is any justification in having movies of that size.
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Before answering longer, it needs first clarification if you mean Mega Bits (Mb) or Mega Bytes (MB). I don't think you mean milli bits (mb. You use per minute, which is quite unusual for bit rates. Those are usually indicated per second.
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While it's true that for accuracy's sake, a distinction between megabits and megabytes is worth making, for the same reason, it's worth making clear that there's no such measure as a millibit. The existence of a prefix convention doesn't make it valid when applied to all measures.
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Actually, long time ago when usenet was king and we had superfast dial-up connections!), it was a sort of standard that 10MB (megabytes) was about right for 10 minutes of movie. If people posted huge files they would get shouted down because in those days posts got pushed off the group.
When collecting movies of the 80s and 90s I tend to stick to files between 600MB and 1.5GB. There is no good reason to download large DVD files made from movies of that era unless the original has been remastered or for the DVD extras.
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Actually, long time ago when usenet was king and we had superfast dial-up connections!), it was a sort of standard that 10MB (megabytes) was about right for 10 minutes of movie. If people posted huge files they would get shouted down because in those days posts got pushed off the group.
When collecting movies of the 80s and 90s I tend to stick to files between 600MB and 1.5GB. There is no good reason to download large DVD files made from movies of that era unless the original has been remastered or for the DVD extras.
I am all for bigger file sizes as long as there is a noticeable improvement in quality. With the right encoding settings, it is amazing how small files can be and have excellent quality. Also, with the wrong encoding settings, it doesn't matter how big the movie is, it is still going to be awful. There are people that do things like take an old worn out VHS tape, and convert it to a digital file that fills up an entire DVD. That is insane and annoying.
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It can be even more annoying to try to download a large file on the kind of internet connection that I'm currently on until the end of the month… It's included in the rent, but I share it with 9 or 10 other apartments, so suddenly it isn't so fast.....
The promised speed: 2mbit DL / 800kbit UL
Actual Speeds: 1.1mbit (if I'm lucky) / 128kbit (if I'm lucky)
Downloading larger files with this kind of speed can be reeeeeeeeeeeally frustrating. That being said, I cannot wait until October 30th when I get my own connection hooked up, which will run me a whopping 50mbit DL / 5mbit UL... That's even faster than what I had in the city of Kitchener. Even there I was only able to pull in a mere 6mbit DL / 800kbit UL.....
So.... On that note.... Excessively large files that do not warrant such a size (such as a DVD size for a VHS rip) are extremely annoying in my view.
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but i like high quality
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agree with the original post.
there are so many low resolution files like 640x320 and so bigger than 1, 2, 3 gbts…
That's absolutely nonsensical as people can manage to squeeze hd quality in 700mb files nowdays.
it's only making problems for the bandwidth and storage space and the quality of the video remains bad
