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Aug 30, 2014 12:17 PM
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Will it survive for the western audience?

Discuss the future of the anime industry.

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Aug 30, 2014 12:18 PM
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What if there was a website that streamed all your favorite animu legally for free?
Aug 30, 2014 12:20 PM
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fst said:
What if there was a website that streamed all your favorite animu legally for free?
Is it as high-quality as the one provided by pirate websites in mkv and with the possiblity of 60fps and other general quality enhancements?
Or is it some poorly encoded shit like crunchyroll?
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Aug 30, 2014 12:21 PM
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That 60 fps shit is overrated.
Aug 30, 2014 12:21 PM
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just go on IRC and torrent the old fashion way you plebs

Aug 30, 2014 12:24 PM
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Anime is dead now.

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That 60 fps shit is overrated.

Only way to watch Sidonia though.
Aug 30, 2014 12:27 PM
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Say goodbye to your fans outside japan. we are just filthy gaijin after all.
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Aug 30, 2014 12:33 PM
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Piracy will finds a way, like always did.
Aug 30, 2014 12:40 PM
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Aug 30, 2014 12:43 PM

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mclovinballz said:
Anime is dead now.

fst said:
That 60 fps shit is overrated.

Only way to watch Sidonia though.

I'll never understand Japan's obsession with low-framerate CGI. It takes 0 extra effort on the animators' part to just render it at full 24 FPS, yet they still choose to make it look like shit anyway.
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Aug 30, 2014 12:47 PM

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Your average western casual would probably stop watching it because they don't know how to DL.
Aug 30, 2014 12:48 PM

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Kokororin said:
fst said:
What if there was a website that streamed all your favorite animu legally for free?
Is it as high-quality as the one provided by pirate websites in mkv and with the possiblity of 60fps and other general quality enhancements?
Or is it some poorly encoded shit like crunchyroll?


60fps what in the blue fuck? this isn't video games you bumpkin
Aug 30, 2014 12:50 PM

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Piracy will always find a way. But, for the sake of argument, if piracy in anime was 100% stopped, then I have a year's worth of anime I have saved up to watch before actually having to sign up for hulu or crunchyroll.
Aug 30, 2014 1:03 PM

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japan would lose a lot of potential dvd sales in the west
Aug 30, 2014 1:06 PM

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hybreezy said:
Kokororin said:
Is it as high-quality as the one provided by pirate websites in mkv and with the possiblity of 60fps and other general quality enhancements?
Or is it some poorly encoded shit like crunchyroll?


60fps what in the blue fuck? this isn't video games you bumpkin


It actually just makes it look and feel like a daytime soap opera, not a video game.

Which is why it's overrated.
Aug 30, 2014 1:12 PM

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i dont understand fps thing but i still enjoy
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Aug 30, 2014 1:14 PM

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60fps what in the blue fuck? this isn't video games you bumpkin

It only makes more sense to want better smoothness in a viideo you WATCH compared to a video you PLAY.
I don't care about 60fps in video games because graphics don't matter to me in video games.
But an anime obviously graphic smoothness matters more than in video games, so I don't see your logic.

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japan would lose a lot of potential dvd sales in the west
Probably.

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I prefer my fpses to be high. Because higher = better, right?? must be true

/Sarcasm/

http://30vs60.com/
SVP does interpolation:
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Aug 30, 2014 1:17 PM

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Kokororin said:
hybreezy said:
60fps what in the blue fuck? this isn't video games you bumpkin

It only makes more sense to want better smoothness in a viideo you WATCH compared to a video you PLAY.
I don't care about 60fps in video games because graphics don't matter to me in video games.
But an anime obviously graphic smoothness matters more than in video games, so I don't see your logic.


this is a bad joke going over my head right?
Aug 30, 2014 1:18 PM

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hybreezy said:
Kokororin said:

It only makes more sense to want better smoothness in a viideo you WATCH compared to a video you PLAY.
I don't care about 60fps in video games because graphics don't matter to me in video games.
But an anime obviously graphic smoothness matters more than in video games, so I don't see your logic.


this is a bad joke going over my head right?
Instead of dancing around, can you give your explanation for why it makes sense to care about graphics in video games but not in shows (like anime for instance)?
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Aug 30, 2014 1:21 PM

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For gameplay reasons, particularly in shooter games, framerate is much more important in games than in anime.

Although it obviously doesn't matter if the only games you play are 2048 and KanColle.

It's also highly ironic to say framerate in games don't matter, and then show a comparison of 30 fps vs 60 fps that's from a video game.

Even that aside, it's a bad way to illustrate your point. That's a rendering thing; the 60 fps example isn't made by frame interpolation. A framerate increase from frame interpolation looks different from a framerate increase by rendering 3D graphics at a higher rate, you can see this easily if you pause and examine the interpolated frames.

The interpolated frames look nothing like what that infographic displayes. Here's an interpolated frame from the Barakamon OP

Aug 30, 2014 1:27 PM

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fst said:
For gameplay reasons, particularly in shooter games, framerate is much more important in games than in anime.

Although it obviously doesn't matter if the only games you play are 2048 and KanColle.

In video games you do two things: watch and play. In anime you do only one thing: watch
The video smoothness is tied to the "watch" part, so even if the "watch" part is bad, there's stil lthe play part to compensate. In anime there's only the "watch" part that you can do. You can't control the anime. It should be more important to have better visuals in anime than in games. That's my preference, I'm arguing because someone just called out on me for caring about quality on anime when supposedly you should only care if it's games.

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It's also highly ironic to say framerate in games don't matter, and then show a comparison of 30 fps vs 60 fps that's from a video game.

You don't play the game in that site I gave, you just watch it. Same for anime, you just watch. The comparision works for showing video where you just watch.
When I'm playing I pay more attention to the game surroundings/strategy/reflexes than the video quality.

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Even that aside, it's a bad way to illustrate your point. That's a rendering thing; the 60 fps example isn't made by frame interpolation. A framerate increase from frame interpolation looks different from a framerate increase by rendering 3D graphics at a higher rate, you can see this easily if you pause and examine the interpolated frames.
Indeed, but that's irrelevant, someone said "higher fps doesn't make any difference" in:
I prefer my fpses to be high. Because higher = better, right?? must be true
/Sarcasm/
And I proved it does by providing game footage in different fps.
The quote here doesn't say "anime" but FPS in general.
Smooth Video Project proves you can - via interpolation - create 60fps in general pre-rendered video too.
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Aug 30, 2014 1:36 PM

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Nobody cares what fps you watch a video game at; you could watch a game at 24 fps just fine. Playing it at 24 fps vs playing at 60 fps is a very different matter.
Aug 30, 2014 1:37 PM

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fst said:
Nobody cares what fps you watch a video game at; you could watch a game at 24 fps just fine. Playing it at 24 fps vs playing at 60 fps is a very different matter.
And why is it different for anime?
Unless you're watching an anime made in powerpoint, there will have movement present in the anime and the smoothness in which frames switch and the interpolation between positions is visible will be present.
Same applies for video games.
I don't care about games to be honest and that's part of the reason I disregard quality for it.

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Here, this isn't from a video game:

Better now?

Regardless, I would rather have this topic not be derailed any further.
What was I supposed to do? Have people egg on me for caring about quality and just sit and watch without defending myself?
If you don't care about quality, cool, that's fine, go watch your crunchyroll. But why be disrespectful to people who care about quality?

If you think "quality only matters in video games" that's cool too, but the same as above applies ^
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Aug 30, 2014 1:41 PM

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The problem (as far as I'm concerned, anyway) is not that higher framerates isn't better, it's that it doesn't really look better when you get higher framerates by frame interpolation.

That and your fallacious arguments about video game framerates and your poor examples.
Aug 30, 2014 1:43 PM

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Kokororin said:
In video games you do two things: watch and play. In anime you do only one thing: watch
The video smoothness is tied to the "watch" part, so even if the "watch" part is bad, there's stil lthe play part to compensate. In anime there's only the "watch" part that you can do.

this is acceptable...
Aug 30, 2014 1:47 PM

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fst said:
The problem (as far as I'm concerned, anyway) is not that higher framerates isn't better, it's that it doesn't really look better when you get higher framerates by frame interpolation.

It obviously does, have you ever tried yourself? The gif I showed is frame interpolation if you don't know.
Honestly, I just love to get my quaility little mkv from <pirate website>, plug my notebook on my television, enable 60fps frame interpolation, use a good video renderer, good video filters, lay on my bed and chill all day. I tried watching crunchyroll on my TV and it just feels horrible since I'm used to quality.
The lack of decent codecs, video rendering, lack of options to apply your fragment shaders of preference in case you dislike the original video choice, lack of subtitles filtering customization and all the blablabla shit that adds to quality is just a cut-off.

fst said:
That and your fallacious arguments about video game framerates and your poor examples.
Point one.
My examples posted are perfectly good too.
If 60fps didn't really made any difference then wouldn't be so many developers working on it for the sake of bringing a smoother video experience to users.

Edit: Anyway I'm off to bed, please try watching anime with quality for yourself once, friendly suggestion.
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Aug 30, 2014 1:51 PM

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I have tried it. The algorithm works fine for pans and zooms. It does not work fine for anything more complicated than that, as shown in the example I posted earlier inside the spoiler tags.

I found it to be disappointing overall, though it is necessary to make Sidonia watchable.
Aug 30, 2014 9:37 PM

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Aug 30, 2014 9:41 PM
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I'll never understand Japan's obsession with low-framerate CGI. It takes 0 extra effort on the animators' part to just render it at full 24 FPS, yet they still choose to make it look like shit anyway.


i agree its not that they are rendering this CGI animation on last decade computers
Aug 30, 2014 9:45 PM

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I'll never understand Japan's obsession with low-framerate CGI. It takes 0 extra effort on the animators' part to just render it at full 24 FPS, yet they still choose to make it look like shit anyway.


i agree its not that they are rendering this CGI animation on last decade computers


They might be, actually. The last decade was only 4 years ago...
Aug 30, 2014 9:46 PM

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Most shit's still down? Srsly, I cannot believe I have to resort to DDL...



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i agree its not that they are rendering this CGI animation on last decade computers


They might be, actually. The last decade was only 4 years ago...


then how can you explain some CGI TV anime that has better FPS like Majestic Prince and Cat Shit One

i think the japanese are just obsess with the idea of Limited Animation of poor FPS in general, i know that Limited Animation is good on producing fast 2D anime works and made them cheap too but 3D anime should not have thesame kind of treatment lol
Aug 30, 2014 9:51 PM

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I don't know how the studio works, I'm just saying it's plausible that they're rendering on computers from the last decade.
Aug 31, 2014 2:22 AM

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It'll never happen. Piracy always finds a way, cut off 1 head and 2 grow back. DDOS that's happening on nyaa won't last either
Aug 31, 2014 4:41 AM
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go back to vhs fansubs like i grew up on?
Aug 31, 2014 4:48 AM

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People will always find a way to pirate. Don't worry, torrents won't die ;) No matter what you do.
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Aug 31, 2014 4:51 AM

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Simple, torrenting will just become a lot more popular for anime.
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Piracy will come back.
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Aug 31, 2014 8:41 AM
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Oh dang if this happen, NO MORE FREE KAMEN RIDER EACH WEEK.
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600 sites closed down, 9001 more goes up.
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Not a Big deal......Since I've already watched Inferno Cop and SSJMaster vs. Xinil - A story of epic battles! Season 2 my Life is complete.........a few thousand anime wo'nt make much of a difference
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Not a Big deal......Since I've already watched Inferno Cop and SSJMaster vs. Xinil - A story of epic battles! Season 2 my Life is complete.........a few thousand anime wo'nt make much of a difference


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Aug 31, 2014 11:00 AM

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i'd have to DL all my anime, but even that's a ballache! and i probably wouldn't watch as much then consequently
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vongola-undecimo said:
Not a Big deal......Since I've already watched Inferno Cop and SSJMaster vs. Xinil - A story of epic battles! Season 2 my Life is complete.........a few thousand anime wo'nt make much of a difference


what the.. who the fuck changed mars of destructon title on mal lmao. im quite shocked when i go to my profile page lmao


If you're referring to SSJMaster vs. Xinil - A story of epic battles! Season 2,then that was the name all along......you were simply intoxicated by the epicness and never realised
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vongola-undecimo said:
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what the.. who the fuck changed mars of destructon title on mal lmao. im quite shocked when i go to my profile page lmao


If you're referring to SSJMaster vs. Xinil - A story of epic battles! Season 2,then that was the name all along......you were simply intoxicated by the epicness and never realised

w...what!?

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i dont understand fps thing but i still enjoy
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Aug 31, 2014 4:03 PM
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When the inofficial steamingsites would shut down, many Europeans and Americans wouldn't be able to watch anime. Althrough a core of fans would go to payed sites, many audience (and thus possible DVD and figure buyers) would dissapear. This would lead to consequences in the culture of Anime. For example, in recent years the drawning of anime characters has taken steps towards western drawing, with clothing, facial expressions, etc. When the audience would be mainly Japan and South Korea again, the drawing style would probably be set back to how was drawn in the late 80's, simple because those drawing style's make characters look more like ordinary Japanese.
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When the inofficial steamingsites would shut down, many Europeans and Americans wouldn't be able to watch anime.


good for Japanese, no one will call them having shit tastes
Aug 31, 2014 7:25 PM

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Your average western casual would probably stop watching it because they don't know how to DL.

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Aug 31, 2014 7:51 PM

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Streaming sites < couldnt care less because i do not stream ANY of the episodes i watch.

Torrent trackers will never die out,never! i got all the sub and rip groups that matter on my RSS feed subscribed via Feedly which notifies me if of new releases the moment they are out.

I dl every single episode from nyaa,tokyotosho,bakabt trackers since ages.

For the ppl who want to continue watching anime daily/weekly nothing will change.
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