The only demerit of switching to HEVC is not being able to play it on VERY old hardware. Any mid-tier phone can handle 1080p HEVC. Most, if not any, cheap android-based TV boxes can too. Even my old 4-cores AMD based laptop from 2013 can handle 1080 HEVC, through it might die if I try 4K on it. TV boxes, RasberryPies, Intel based MiniPCs - there are many cheap choices to get proper hardware that would be able to handle even future 4K releases. Well, it's understandable if you're that poor, but otherwise there is really no reason to avoid HEVC now? Or is there?
Always wanted to say: over 1Gb per episode for low or no action, non-3D anime with low or no noise is just wrong. When I see like an almost the same or actually the same quality in 100-400Mb-per-episode releases... damn, I really start to question the sanity of 1.4Gb-per-ep ones. But we're getting it for free here, and I've finally got a bigass HDD exclusevly for anime, so I won't complain. For now XD
EDIT: it seems I was wrong, there is a sharpening filter. That one kills half-tones in dark areas thus killing some details. Not that you'd find many people who care about that... but it isn't a good thing.
@Futagen @luna_luca: Already said, there are many cheap tv boxes that handle HEVC. They are really, really cheap. I suggest you to buy them, you will not regret it. The advantage of HEVC is file size, and that can solve or at least easy the burden of seeding 1gb+ file per episode releases, an issue Moozzi2 was having for some time on his releases.
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I am always grateful for your help
Thanks to you, the anime life is very fulfilling.
Someone https://nyaa.si/view/843452 due to HDD crash
Can you ask for the release? .
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