Their technique barely gets them close to their goal, while their mother removes all of the peel, but none of the rest perfectly.

You might want to consider used hardware. Should be ca. 50 Bucks+ drives.

Used drives are quite cheap, too. Just use some redundant setup.

That’s not what Bitrate means. They use a lossy compression to send you the video. When targeting lower bandwidth/bitrate you see more artifacting.

Bitrate and resolution do their own thing.