I’ve amassed a sizeable hoard, nearly all encoded h264 or h265.
The space savings made by AV1 are attractive, but I don’t want to move on it until after I’ve acquired hardware capable of AV1 GPU accelerated decode.
Even then, the cost of reacquiring some works has to be weighed. Storage space gets freed; but how often do I actually revisit some cherished items?
Anybody else having to make similar evaluations?
We don’t have plunder, that would imply that we’re stealing.
If we don’t own digital purchases on purchase, as they can remove titles if they want to, then downloading is not owning/stealing. 😛
Downloading has never been stealing to be fair, that has always been emotive framing for copyright supporting propaganda.