Oversized files - self defeating
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Unless a movie is a DVD rip in VOB format, there is very little reason for a movie to me more than 10mb per minute. That would mean no movie should be much more than 1 gig in size.
It's obvious that some people are trying to get upload credits by taking a movie, and intentionally increasing it's size. It's not possible to improve the quality of a movie by increasing it's size. A DVD has a capacity of 4.77 gb, so when someone posts a single file that is 6.5 gigs or even more, you can be sure that the file has been bloated to get more credits.
What these people don't realize is that they are only screwing themselves. Almost none of the people on this site are stupid, and they download the smaller versions of the same movies. If you look on other torrent sites, it's quite obvious that the smaller versions get downloaded 10 times as often.
I recommend that if you do download one of these oversized files, convert it to a smaller size and upload it to give yourself a load of credits!
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Well - did you here something about video quality? As you said yourself reducing size is another expression for reducing quality. Have you ever tried to view a 320px x 400px on a 47" Tv-screen? Good luck you can black out one pixel with your thumb!
On the other hand: what about collections for a special theme? Are I supposed to upload each and every part as a single file? Just have a look at my last uploads of ClubBangBoys - each year (except 2014) is > 100 GB with ~ 100 single episodes. Also too big for downloading??? The current seeders seem to think otherwise!
And to mention DVD: first thing is ripping a DVD in a single files means quality reduction. Second there are double sized DVD with a capacity of > 8 GB. We recommend since years to upload a DVD as a (complete!) copy of the VIDEO_TS folder. A couple of years ago there was even a staff discussion to forbid uploads of single VOB files without IFO and BUP.
In a good client you can select your download files. If you please you can download just the *.VOB files.
