Some members already reduce as far as they can before quality loss becomes apparent
because of uploading limitations or simply to keep the files available to free downloaders
because of filehost restrictions.
The TV forums about usually have 3-4 different sizes to cover all bases
If you dont have up to date hardware the upper end is waste of bandwidth
Theres a good article here talking about the new codec versus the old h264
H265 is reducing the size of files by some margin
The cost would seem to be its forward looking
H.265 benchmarked: Does the next-generation video codec live up to expectations?
By Joel Hruska on July 23, 2013
https://www.extremetech.com/computin...o-expectations