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Streaming can provide decent quality, but not high quality. That's simply too costly on scale.

Bit rate alone doesn't necessarily tell you quality either.

I suggest you look for downloads and look for

1. Release Groups that match your intentions (once you found favorites you may want to stick to them)
2. Screenshots on releases/info pages
3. Encoding information

To assess encoding information, you look at file type, video codec, and encoding bit-ness.

From high to low compatibility, and low to high compression ratio:

1. mp4 file, AVC/x264/h.264
2. mkv file, HEVC/x265/h.265
3. mkv file, HEVC, 10-bit
4. mkv file, AV1 [10-bit]

You can consider the triplets of the codec to be different names for the same thing.

You'll be able to play all file and codec types on a PC, but not necessarily on other devices. If you're streaming from PC to something else, that's fine too.

I'm usually looking for 10-bit HEVC releases because of their vastly superior size for quality. If that's not available, HEVC or AVC. In most cases, it doesn't matter too much to me.

A video with a lot of movement or visual detail will have bigger sizes.

If you compare an AVC release and bitrate with a HEVC 10-bit release and bitrate, they are vastly different. You can get the same quality for a fraction of file size and bitrate. More bitrate is often a waste of bandwidth and storage space.