| We know that today, storage isn't nearly an issue as it was back then. Still, for people who watch a ton of anime, storing everything they come by can stack up. I myself, usually keep things I only really like in 200~400 Mb per episode, in 720p with the usual video and sound codecs. I have also many movies so things must be careful balanced between my external drives. Some series I really like or that have a focus on artwork or great animation I go for the 1080p, but those are rare. Older series that never got Blu-ray usually have a very good-looking remastered edition that looks pretty good and those are what I always aim for. As for streaming, I avoid it, I like to have the thing, be it physically or in hard-drive, streaming rarely goes smoothly. |
VeethornAug 19, 2014 4:26 AM
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| 720p if possible. 480p or lower if I can't find anything else. I'll stream it if I don't think I'll like the show that much, it's currently airing or I just can't find it elsewhere. |
| I don't usually download episodes, but when I do, they're either 720p or 1080p. 1080p for those episodes which I liked a lot. |
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| I tend to download 720p most of the time if the option available. |
| I guess I'm one of the few people who still download 480p versions. I just prefer 480p since I don't watch in full screen mode and their size is smaller (150MB to 300MB) which is an advantage since I store most of the anime I downloaded. But I do download 720p versions only if 480p version is not available at all. |
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| i always delete downloaded anime after watching rare cases i dont but just symbolically cause i really loved the anime but i never rewatched if i did, i'd just store the version i watched also what do you mean by streaming rarely goes smoothly streaming always goes smoothly if you know what you're doing |
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| I usually download 1080P but if I know the show isn't anything special visually, I just download 720P. I do stream if I don't feel like downloading though. |
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| Stream at 360p. Gotta love New Zealand internet and our 20Gb data caps. |
| Whatever floats my boat at the time. Obviously hentai is downloaded though. That said, Katanagatari in 1080p is a sight to behold. edit: that choice of phrasing was coincidental |
FloatsBoats said: Stream at 360p. Gotta love New Zealand internet and our 20Gb data caps. Wow that sucks. If I had a cap that low I wouldn't be wasting my bandwidth on MAL. I store 720p |
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| Oh baby, my time to shine. I stream Anime I use Windows 8 I like itunes to play mp3 I play League to pass the time. Yes that is Windows Media Player. and Elfen Lied is in my honest opinion, one of the best manga ever made. Hang on, let me get my Riot Shield. |
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| 1080p when available, otherwise 720p Only actually save series I deem worthwhile of it though, got about 800GB of anime and 250GB of visual novels on my comp + home server atm iirc |
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DerpHole said: FloatsBoats said: Stream at 360p. Gotta love New Zealand internet and our 20Gb data caps. Wow that sucks. If I had a cap that low I wouldn't be wasting my bandwidth on MAL. I store 720p I make sure to download stuff like Mushishi at 720p by going to someone elses house and stealing their internet. We're just in a shit part of the country and can't git gud internet atm. |
Lime_ said: Oh baby, my time to shine. I like itunes to play mp3 what gives bro Lime_ said: and Elfen Lied is in my honest opinion, one of the best manga ever made. nvm, we's cool |
Lime_ said: I stream Anime in native language subsOh baby, my time to shine. I stream Anime I use Windows 8 I like itunes to play mp3 I play League to pass the time. Yes that is Windows Media Player. and Elfen Lied is in my honest opinion, one of the best manga ever made. Hang on, let me get my Riot Shield. I use Windows Vista I like Windows Media Player to play mp3 I play Candy Crush to pass the time.emulated in bluestacks ;-; Yes that is Internet Explorer and Elfen Lied is in my honest opinion, one of the best anime ever made. |
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| 720p > ALL. 480p is shit and 1080p takes too long to download and large file size, no difference than 720p. I stream when I ain't got no time to download or cbf life. |
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| I download everything in highest available quality so usually 1080p and I keep only those anime I liked and rated 7+ and delete the rest after watching. From my completed anime, around half of them is deleted and I store rest on external hdd's |
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| Since the cabling in my area is shit I can't utilize the speed of the internet I have and the amount I have (250GB+ I think). I used to download anime as it came out subbed but I found myself impatient for it. I ended up finding a streaming website that uses HTML5 instead of flashplayer (Well still theres hte option), so I've been streaming my anime and only been downloading the ones I know I'll rewatch later. If I do, then I download 1080p. |
| mostly 720p coz their aint much difference when it comes to anime most of the time tbh BUT I get 1080p for shows that matter and have a CLEAR differnce like Cowboy Bebop, Monogatari Series, Beserk, Hyouka, Kara no Kyoukai, Katanagatari, Hellsing Ultimate, Shingeki No Kyojin, Future Boy Conan etc etc Anime movies I always go 1080p unless I got no choice but to go 4 720p. Dont stream much unless its an old ass anime during the early 2000 and before and I cant find decent torrents for em. I diont the quality as much as I used to now tho since I got sum nice ass enhancements with FFDSHOW |
TheNoseOfDeathAug 19, 2014 7:10 AM
| My Manga List My Anime List Shabada shabadabadaba I am DjG545 aka Dj Fo Fo aka The Mutha Fkn Name I'm Usin Now |
| Download 720p ones(airing) or stream the 720p ones (usually when I marathon). |
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| I know a website that re-encodes 720p to much smaller sized 720p and 480p, and I usually download 480p from that website. The size is around 50MB to 100MB for 480p, but quality looks good |
| I stopped when I had about 1.5TB full of anime and my hard drives started crashing one after the other. Too bothersome to keep buying new ones, now I just delete 95% of the stuff I watch and also keep 8+ rated movies or 9+ rated series. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| 1080p always. But I only keep 15%-20% of everything I watch. |
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| 720p for airing animes and 1080p for old ones, or whichever is the highest quality for the anime. |
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| I watch streamed on kissanime in 1080p. |
| 720p/1080p |
| Sometimes I stream simply just because I am too lazy to download. But if I download anime, I always download 720p. Now half of my 2TB external Hardisk was full of anime |
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| dvds and blu-rays |
| Just because you know how to use a torrent does not give you the god given right to pirate. My actual list: https://kitsu.io/users/mattbenz99/library check out my youtube channel for my review: https://www.youtube.com/user/mattbenz99 |
| I prefer streaming off of Crunchyroll/Funimation/whatever since downloading is a bit of a hassle. If I download stuff, it's because I either really like it or I couldn't find a stream for it, in which case it's 720p or 480p, whichever I can find. |
| I stick to 480p-576p when possible, or sometimes 360p-400p if that's what's available in SD. 720p is the absolute ceiling, as I barely see any difference between 720p and somewhat lower resolutions, let alone 720p and 1080p. Actual file size limits are harder to stick to because all shows are different; it's more about whatever size provides good quality that minimizes artifacts, but without entering diminishing-returns/overkill territory. You don't need as much bitrate and filesize for a show like Yuru Yuri as you do for Madoka Magica. I will get 720p Blu-Ray rips over lower-res TV-rips where no low-res disc rips are available if there's significant decensoring, added scenes, or fixed animation. Though stuff like Nisekoi where the Blu-Ray changes mostly make things worse make it easy to stick to 480p TV-rips. Though the most reliable storage has always been retail discs -- I've had a few HDDs die, and maybe there's some rot/corruption in my burned DVD-Rs (although I haven't encountered it yet), but none of my retail DVDs has ever gone bad. Veethorn said: You would think so, yet we still see people whining about the space taken by English audio on dual-audio releases as if they're still burning CD-Rs and storing on 160 GB HDDs. Then they turn around and DL releases with 24-bit FLAC and DTS-MA TrueHD audio that waste far more space for placebo audio improvements.We know that today, storage isn't nearly an issue as it was back then. FloatsBoats said: A waste of stolen bandwidth, given that the first Mushi-shi series was produced in SD and the Blu-Rays are shoddy upscales.I make sure to download stuff like Mushishi at 720p by going to someone elses house and stealing their internet. |
| I always download in 1080p because I watch anime on my TV using Apple TV. |
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| When I'm not too bothered about a show I just stream it. If I like it enough, I'll start downloading the episodes in 720p but otherwise I don't really want to waste any space. |
| I usually watch anime through streaming on Crunchyroll. Ive never downloaded anime and don't plan on it. |
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| 720p if it's available in small file size, otherwise 480p if there isn't a small file size for 720p available. Also some anime are 480p only. |
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| Well I usually watch shows in 720p or stream but when I store shows usually it is 1080p. |
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| Download: 720p, 576p, 480p Stream: 360p for shows I don't care for |
| I usually aim for 720p, but I take whatever I can. |
| i stream anime since i dont have any room on my hard drive |
| RRRRRRRRRR |
| I download in 720p if available. 1080p is only useful if you have a large television as your monitor, which I have and it doesn't impress me... I think 1080p anime is over the top and takes up too much space on a hard drive. Streaming websites are only useful for downloading anything that doesn't have a torrent |
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| mostly 720p 1080p for movies that i watch on my flat screen |
| Stream currently airing stuff (cause I don't have the bandwidth to support that much downloading...), and dl what I want to keep. 720p minimum, definitely 1080p if it's available. |
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| always 720p, 1080p is too big and not worth it unless you have a huge monitor. |
| Usually I do 1080p downloads unless I'm downloading more than 3 or so episodes, then its not worth it with my internet speed and I go with 720p download instead if I'm downloading a lot of episodes at the same time. I never download 1080p whole series at a time, takes forever and file sizes are just flat out stupid big. I have about 500 GB total on my inernal harddrive for my macbook pro, which is my main computer I use for watching anime. I have another really old computer with 250 GB total, but with about 80GB space on it. When my mac hard drive gets to 400 something GB, I then delete quite a few series and only keep the ones I really enjoyed on my computer. |
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| I just put most of it on flash-disks. I didn't watch that much anime after all(comparing people from mal with 500+ completed list). |
| I usually stream in 720p, I know two sites that give me the option for HD so I use them. Then when I download (which is rare, because I only do it to shows I love) I go for 1080p. |
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