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It's often of poor quality and not in 4k. I rented a movie from YouTube the other day and the stream supported HDR, and if I had a 5.1 surround that would have worked, too!

If you're not watching 4 hours of TV per day it's not that expensive to rent content, but I'm saying this from the point of a westerner. For other parts of the world a $5 USD for a movie for 48 hours doesn't make any sense over straight up piracy.

> It's often of poor quality and not in 4k.

This really depends on how good of a pirate you are. If you put in some effort, you'll be watching 4k blu-ray movies in a higher bitrate than streaming services offer.

Yep. I actually prefer, ahem, sourced content because it looks better even on my iPhone. Apple TV+ is pretty good, but the other services are really stingy with bitrate.

I haven't encountered poor quality recently on usenet. Except for shows that are so old that it doesn't make sense to go higher than 720p. The tooling has also improved greatly and can be automated to the point that getting a whole series is a matter of 2-3 clicks.

YouTube hit me worst: I rented my all time favourite movie "Where eagles dare" and got it voiced over in French...

Never again will I rent / buy anything from YouTube, ever.

Either Netflix has it, or down to pirate bay it is.

...Merde.

Honestly, who has time for that these days.

I honestly don't know if you mean VOD streaming services or piracy.

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