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Unfortunately quality is entirely subjective. What you may think is fine, I may hate, and vice versa.
Generally speaking, for a given movie, quality and bitrate are linked, but two movies with the same bitrate likely don't have the same quality because of a myriad of factors.
For me, with a few limited exceptions of movies I know like the back of my hand, I have a really hard time distinguishing between a good 4K webrip (15-20 Mbps) and remux (40-80 Mbps), so I have no issue keeping the majority of my library encoded at ~18Mbps
Unfortunately there's no quality magic wand, but if you find a release group that does encodes you like, try to get to their home tracker and just let them handle it.
If you're good with 1080p non-HDR content, for your use case you probably want to focus on "AVC" aka "H.264" or "x264" encodes of decent bitrate. HEVC yields better quality than AVC for a given bitrate, but comes at the cost of being much more intensive to encode and decode, which may be a source of problems for your 10 y.o. box. If your bar is "tell what's happening", you can go to pretty low bitrates.
Handbrake is a robust piece of software, but it's really not beginner friendly because the automatic encoder settings will just absolutely ruin whatever you feed it.
If you're on windows, check out StaxRip for encoding
That's because Netflix and the other common services usually only stream at 6-15 Mbps. You'll have to resort to Bravia Core or blu-ray discs to get anything in the 80 Mbps range.
I meant visually web vs disc. To me, a 4k 15 Mbps web-DL is visually 99% as good as a 60+Mbps UHD BR remux.
Web-DL may not be how I want to watch something like Interstellar (shot on 70mm film) but is probably fine for something like 7 Fast 9 Furious Tokyo Zoom Zoom (shot on Vin Diesel's iPhone, probably)
IMO it depends on how much action is displayed in the movie. If there are a lot of dynamic scenes like car chases you'll need a high rate while 'simple' dialog scenes can get away with way less.
That also means it depends on what movies you like to watch.