Have a question about the 4K resolution. Once it is unlocked is available indefinetly, or only while upgraded to premium?

If you bought a show while you had a Premium account, the 4K version will be yours forever, even if you cancel your Premium membership in the future.

I gotcha. Thank you. Another question- Are the 4K shows sold seperately, or just unlocked to download? Just trying to do my homework before I jump into the premium deal.

The 4k shows are unlocked for download after you purchase the premium subscription. To my knowledge no other purchase is required after that to d/l the 4k shows for the year of the subscription.

When you Become a Premium member, It Last for a period of 1 year.
During that Year you will be able to download any card released in 4K, and also All the Cards that were released Prior to the start of your membership in 4K.
Once you download in 4k, that card is available to you in 4k for ever ( as long as iStripper exists )

Of Course, you have to purchase the cards that you want.
But there isn't any additional cost added to the card for the 4K version.


So even though your Membership expires, you will still have access to anything in 4K you Obtained while you had your Membership.
You don't loose access to it.

When the Membership expires, Anything New released, will no longer be available to you in 4K.
Unless you Join again..

Also,

Premium Members also get an Extra 20%, for the 1st 10 days after a card is released.
Buy it within that 10 day period and you get the extra 20% off..

Same with the VR videos.

Of Course, you have to purchase the cards that you want.

Oop's, I forgot to mention that 'little' detail...

Sorry about that..

Oop's, I forgot to mention that 'little' detail...

Let me guess ... you are a car salesman. 😆😀

Let me guess ... you are a car salesman. 😆😀

Actually no, I am not in sales per se but I do sell stuff as a part of my overall job, but mostly in the nature of repairs to existing equipment. Those things tend to sell themselves due to the client's need to use the equipment.

But I do sort of see where you might draw that conclusion... 😜

iStipper has never prodced cards in a higher resolution than they have been recorded in.
( except of the VG Classic collection, that is the only product that has been upscaled to a higher then recorded resolution )

The Most current Information I have from the team is that they are recording in 5K
and producing 4K, 3K, 1080p and 720p product from the 5K recordings.

With the most current equipment they have, it takes them well over 12 hours to process a card.
This means, the production team makes the required edits and adjustments
then clicks the Process button, and it takes 12 hours to see the finished results.

When they first produced 4K, the higher bit rate took over 24 hrs to process.

iStripper is producing 30 minute long video every day.

it's not like a commercial or a tv show or a movie where they have days, or weeks, Months or years to work on the final product.

The Team is pumping out 4K 30 minute length video in less than a day.

Until current computer processing power quadruples, and the price becomes affordable
I believe 4K will be the Limit of the iStripper product for the foreseeable future.

There also has to be a user base capable of experiencing the new resolutions.

if you look at the collected Stats from web users around the world,
The Screen Resolutions being used are actually Dropping, not Increasing.
this is because more and more Mobile users are replacing the traditional Desktop users in volume.

But if you only consider Desk top / lap top users
1366 x 768 tops the list, followed closely by 1920 x 1080

these two combined Make up 60% of the users
Lower resolutions make up about the next 30%
and about 10% fall into the higher or Unknown resolutions.

This is one site you can check stats at, there are many others.
https://gs.statcounter.com/

Anyway, that's my perspective...

4k will be the upper limit for a while.


Some math...
Average Card size in 4K = 1.8GB
360 cards a year x 1.8GB = 648 gigabytes a year
if you plan for the Next 5 years, that's 3.24 terabytes needed for the Cards.
add another terabyte for the photos and videos.
So between 4.2 and 5TB should be enough storage to last the next 5 years for iStripper

For all of the Previous content up to today,
I'm using just shy of 4TB for all of the iStripper content.

An 8TB or 10TB drive should cover the past, Current and the Next 5 years

Also remember, that you should have a back up plan.
so instead of just One drive, Double up, or even get a third.
Use One, and use the other(s) for your Backups.

I'm currently using a Synology NAS with Four 4TB drives in a Raid 5 configuration.
This results in 10.9 TB of Usable Storage.

I also have Two 8Tb drives that I'm using to back up the iStripper files to.

I hope, to update the four 4TB drives to four 8TB drives.

And that will yield 21.8 TB of storage in raid 5

Why Raid 5 or 6
HDD fail. Often without prior indication.
Raid 5 offers Hot swap and rebuild of a single failed drive.
Raid 6 offers Hot Swap and rebuild of up to Two failed drives.

If you are running a Raid setup, Make sure you have at least one Spare drive you can swap in,
in case of a failure.

Then Get a replacement right away.
Not on my Home system, but on my business system, I've had two drives fail with in a week of one another.
Good thing I had got the spare right away.