On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:09:26 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 12:23:32
on Thu, 24 Oct 2019, David Cantrell remarked:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 07:02:49PM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 16:08:54 on Tue, 22 Oct
2019, Recliner remarked:
Presumably they'll have moved on from HDDs to solid state storage by now?
They're only storing relatively low res compressed JPEGs, so the files will
be small.
My dashcam stores ridiculously uncompressed video.
250MB every 5 minutes.

Downloaded TV shows are typically 200MB for their 42 minutes.

I think that shows it's quite some time since you were on the
naughtynet! Looking at dodgy copies of rugby world cup quarter finals
highlights as an example, in the list I'm looking at right now no-one is
offering files that highly-compressed. Of those that are on offer, the
least popular is the most compressed (348MB for 32 minutes) and the most
popular is the least compressed (1.56GB for 32 minutes).

For the majority of TV soap operas, what we once might have described as
"VHS quality" is entirely adequate for viewers to follow the [rather
weak in many cases] plotline|story-arc.

Yes, but not if they're shown on 55" TVs. People now expect HD
quality.