I'm glad that AV1 encodes are picking up steam but sometimes I do wish they'd juice those bitrates just a tiny bit higher. A 4k encode of The Way of Water I recently saw could have done with an extra gigabyte of video or two, and it would've been done. That's all I would have needed forever. But it was just a bit low enough that I have to instead hang onto like a 35GB HEVC 4k encode instead, well more than twice the size of the AV1 encode.
Also every now and then I see an AV1 encode that mangles some finer details. Overall, though, the people who do it do a good job.
I don't even bother with 4k anymore because 4k playback from plex to chromecast is such a shitshow (I really need to try plex alternatives. I really want AMD hardware encoding and a less glitched app). Its not like I have some high end 80" tv with oled blacks or whatever anyhow, and I don't sit 3 feet away from my very modestly sized TV so I can't tell much difference unless I'm really looking, even dropping down to 1080. Plus I got scammed by an ISP so I'm back to dogshit upload speeds, so anything above 1080 isn't going to be viewable from outside of my home.
I only do 4K for action oriented films. Most movies, especially drama ones, do not need to be in such a high resolution. Once I'm enjoying the story the diff between 4k and 1080 does not matter at all.
I'm glad that AV1 encodes are picking up steam but sometimes I do wish they'd juice those bitrates just a tiny bit higher. A 4k encode of The Way of Water I recently saw could have done with an extra gigabyte of video or two, and it would've been done. That's all I would have needed forever. But it was just a bit low enough that I have to instead hang onto like a 35GB HEVC 4k encode instead, well more than twice the size of the AV1 encode.
Also every now and then I see an AV1 encode that mangles some finer details. Overall, though, the people who do it do a good job.
I don't even bother with 4k anymore because 4k playback from plex to chromecast is such a shitshow (I really need to try plex alternatives. I really want AMD hardware encoding and a less glitched app). Its not like I have some high end 80" tv with oled blacks or whatever anyhow, and I don't sit 3 feet away from my very modestly sized TV so I can't tell much difference unless I'm really looking, even dropping down to 1080. Plus I got scammed by an ISP so I'm back to dogshit upload speeds, so anything above 1080 isn't going to be viewable from outside of my home.
I only do 4K for action oriented films. Most movies, especially drama ones, do not need to be in such a high resolution. Once I'm enjoying the story the diff between 4k and 1080 does not matter at all.