| Pro-Tigole (The Fan) | Anti-Tigole (The Purist) | | :--- | :--- | | (500+ movies on a 5TB drive) | “Why not just buy the disc?” | | Streams perfectly on Plex/Jellyfin without transcoding | Removes grain/noise to save bitrate (some call it wax-like) | | 98% of the visual quality at 15% of the file size | Dark/silent scenes can show slight banding if you pixel-peep | | Excellent for projectors or average living rooms | Not suitable for pro video editing or archiving |
While SSDs have dropped in price, a NAS (Network Attached Storage) full of 18TB drives is still a luxury. Tigole encodes allow collectors to hoard 2,000+ movies without buying a server rack. tigole movies
Tigole primarily uses the x265 (HEVC) codec with 10-bit color depth. This allows for over a billion colors, significantly reducing "banding" in gradients (like skies or dark scenes) compared to standard 8-bit encodes. | Pro-Tigole (The Fan) | Anti-Tigole (The Purist)