A new TV offers the possibility to watch 4k movies to me. I am thinking about upgrading my library but I’m not sure if I want to replace my 1080 collection. I’ve read that some use a separate 4k library.
Do you? How do you deal with it? I mostly add movies with trakt and radarr automatically. Do you use separate accounts?
I think people who have separate libraries don’t have access to hardware transcoding, or prefer not to use it. That’s the only reason I can see for it. My library is fully mixed, if a connection or device cannot support the resolution or codec, my server will transcode it in real time. Is transcoding the best quality? No, but if it’s transcoding because a device can’t handle higher quality I’m unlikely to notice the difference between a 1080p file and a live transcode of a 2160p file. We don’t have a ton of TVs in the house and the main event TV is high enough quality that I’m now downloading most things in UHD.
This is the perspective of someone with a dedicated 24/7 media server with plenty of storage that is easily expanded.
Or we don’t have the upload pipe for it. Or both.
Most people would be streaming to another TV in their home.
The OP and I are talking about hosting video for people outside our homes. I have many friends and family who use my Plex server all over the world
OP doesn’t say anything about that.
I meant the OP of the comment I’m referring to, wrong terminology I guess
You and I are the only two people in this thread, that’s why I was confused.
Clearly I am confused too
Well I guess we’re in good company then. lol