| Like does it have the best quality and audio encoding and all that stuff or does streaming have it better? |
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| nah streaming is all you need preferably on some chinese or russian site which still uses flash player |
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| second-hand indian import of chinese bootleg VHS is the best |
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| I'm sure it is the best... yet I do not have it, heh. |
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| Blu-ray > high quality downloads > streaming Fansubbers over-compress almost everything and most have bad subbing sensibilities. Anime Blu-rays are too expensive, though. |
| Special edition blu rays are the shit, especially when its a limited edition or collectors, you can get some nice extras aswell like NGNL limited edition came with a lot of goodies. Kimi no na wa jp seems to have a bunch of extras and so on. Buy blu rays to support the industry, yeah it might be expensive but how else are they going to make money, its not like anime is mainstream and sells a shit ton so its normal. Oh but in general Normal blu rays have better quality and sound with improvements then the airing series if it is still airing and even if they are found online they tend to have lower quality. |
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| The best way to watch anime is watching episodes in parts on dailymotion on your phone. If you watch anime any other way then you might as well delete your account right now. |
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| I prefer DVD over Blu-ray, because most of the Anime I own was made in 480p or lower resolution, so Blu-ray would be pointless. |
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| Yeah blu-ray has excellent quality. But balancing that with the cost of anime though... maybe not so. I'm sure as heck not going to buy all the 10 seasonal anime I watch every season, only to realise 7-8 of them are forgettable anime. |
| If your favourite character is Tsutsukakushi Tsukiko, you are my soul mate. Been a long time since I've been here, I'll continue expressing myself freely and believe everyone should too. My MAL Interview |
| Eh, of course not. Illegal streaming is the best way, and I'm not even joking. I don't want to pay for something I can have for free. |
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| Watching DVDs on not oversized screens (with resolutions way above 720pixels) offers pictures nice to look at with good colouration (at least with certain settings for digital monitors). Of course, if you have the possibility to watch animation DVDs on a cathodic screen, it can't look better than that. Or better said: it's as well rendered as watching a super-high resolution file/BrD on a super-high resolution screen. Also, BrD is useless for anything made before the late 2000s in Japan if you consider only TV nimation. While the filtering/"recovery" of the original films were usually okay for DVD releases, Blu-ray treatment ends up having different colours and a weird flatness added to the pictures. Seiya said: I prefer DVD over Blu-ray, because most of the Anime I own was made in 480p or lower resolution, so Blu-ray would be pointless. @Ezekiel As you indicated, I was talking about those plenty of pre-2000 Blu-ray series. (of course, there can't be comparison when there is no thing to compare) |
Rei_IIIAug 12, 2017 8:58 AM
Rei366 said: There are plenty of pre-2000 Blu-ray series and movies. As for the rest, well, it doesn't matter, since there is no HD option. It's a bit redundant to say Blu-ray is useless if it's not even an option. Also, BrD is useless for anything made before the late 2000s in Japan if you consider only TV nimation. Seiya said: I prefer DVD over Blu-ray, because most of the Anime I own was made in 480p or lower resolution, so Blu-ray would be pointless. |
| Only if you watch boku no pico on bluray |
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| It might be higher quality than streaming, but it's too expensive to watch every single anime that way so you'd need to be confident about the ones you choose to watch on Blu-ray. I do have one anime blu-ray and it doesn't seem too different from watching anime online. |
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| The best way to watch anime is with a SAO-style headset that puts you in the anime. Maybe in a few years... |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| Physical media is literally the worst way to watch anything. |
Chikipichi said: Like does it have the best quality and audio encoding and all that stuff or does streaming have it better? 1) There is one important part of Blue-ray versions. Lack of censorship. Sure, most of the time you aren't missing much, but just compare TV and uncensored versions of Kodomo no Jikan! The anime was so heavily censored they made me thing it's a lot naughtier than it is. 2) A few anime looked a lot better on BD. For example, Kuusen Madoushi was obviously badly animated on TV, but BD version is a lot easier on the eyes. 3) But in general, there is not much to gain from watching something on BD. I do it just because it gives me a reason to re-watch an anime I liked. Edit: I did not even consider people would be discussing actually owning the disks! My computer does not have a BD drive, and I don't see a reason to have it. This technology was born dead. I was talking about downloading BD-based fan translations. |
flannanAug 12, 2017 11:06 AM
flannan said: Considering Blu-ray drives are the whole reason we can watch Blu-ray quality movies and TV shows, the technology is far from dead. It's thriving. Almost everybody who watches anime uses it, indirectly. Edit: I did not even consider people would be discussing actually owning the disks! My computer does not have a BD drive, and I don't see a reason to have it. This technology was born dead. I was talking about downloading BD-based fan translations. I bought Blu-rays for about a year and amassed a small collection. Now I just rent them from Netflix and compress them however much I want. I still purchase TV shows every now and then, though. |
Ezekiel said: flannan said: Considering Blu-ray drives are the whole reason we can watch Blu-ray quality movies and TV shows, the technology is far from dead. It's thriving. Almost everybody who watches anime uses it, indirectly. Edit: I did not even consider people would be discussing actually owning the disks! My computer does not have a BD drive, and I don't see a reason to have it. This technology was born dead. I was talking about downloading BD-based fan translations. I bought Blu-rays for about a year and amassed a small collection. Now I just rent them from Netflix and compress them however much I want. I still purchase TV shows every now and then, though. DVD quality was good enough back in the day, and had all the same advantages. I still have no idea why people shifted to BDs, unless it's to let dumb objects like TVs and fridges play anime. |
flannan said: Yeah, it was good enough, back in the day. When SDTVs were the standard. Ezekiel said: Considering Blu-ray drives are the whole reason we can watch Blu-ray quality movies and TV shows, the technology is far from dead. It's thriving. Almost everybody who watches anime uses it, indirectly. I bought Blu-rays for about a year and amassed a small collection. Now I just rent them from Netflix and compress them however much I want. I still purchase TV shows every now and then, though. DVD quality was good enough back in the day, and had all the same advantages. I still have no idea why people shifted to BDs, unless it's to let dumb objects like TVs and fridges play anime. The benefits are obvious. Higher res video and audio, more data (which helped games, but also made them more expensive and made the developers lazy), harder to scratch, subtitles no longer looking awful... SD subs: http://i.imgur.com/zrg87tU.png HD subs: http://i.imgur.com/4NmCY6K.png The DRM is more intrusive, though. A small number of the movies I rented wouldn't even read and some of the newer ones had a hundred almost identical files. I still watch DVD rips all the time. I agree that SD can look pretty good. |
Ezekiel said: Yeah, it was good enough, back in the day. When SDTVs were the standard. I still have no idea why people shifted to BDs, unless it's to let dumb objects like TVs and fridges play anime. The benefits are obvious. Higher res video and audio, more data (which helped games, but also made them more expensive and made the developers lazy), harder to scratch, subtitles no longer looking awful... SD subs: http://i.imgur.com/zrg87tU.png HD subs: http://i.imgur.com/4NmCY6K.png The DRM is more intrusive, though. A small number of the movies I rented wouldn't even read and some of the newer ones had a hundred almost identical files. I still watch DVD rips all the time. I agree that SD can look pretty good. Is there any meaningful difference between the resolutions of the two screenshots? They both seem the same "slightly bigger than my screen" size. I also fail to understand why subs have to look different. To me it looks more like they are using different fonts. Anyway, when I said BDs were born dead, I meant that they can't compare to modern hard drives as a means of long-term information storage. And could not do that even when they were introduced. And they cannot compare to the internet as a means of information distribution too. |
flannan said: No, the SD subs are lower res and a different format. DVD typically uses Vobsub, while Blu-ray uses PGS. I took both screenshots at 1920x1080 so that you'd see how the SD subs look blown up.Ezekiel said: Yeah, it was good enough, back in the day. When SDTVs were the standard. The benefits are obvious. Higher res video and audio, more data (which helped games, but also made them more expensive and made the developers lazy), harder to scratch, subtitles no longer looking awful... SD subs: http://i.imgur.com/zrg87tU.png HD subs: http://i.imgur.com/4NmCY6K.png The DRM is more intrusive, though. A small number of the movies I rented wouldn't even read and some of the newer ones had a hundred almost identical files. I still watch DVD rips all the time. I agree that SD can look pretty good. Is there any meaningful difference between the resolutions of the two screenshots? They both seem the same "slightly bigger than my screen" size. I also fail to understand why subs have to look different. To me it looks more like they are using different fonts. Anyway, when I said BDs were born dead, I meant that they can't compare to modern hard drives as a means of long-term information storage. And could not do that even when they were introduced. And they cannot compare to the internet as a means of information distribution too. Yeah, hard drives are better, but where does the data you put on those hard drives come from? Blu-rays and DVDs. I don't want to depend solely on downloads. It's riskier, unless you use a VPN probably, and uploaders often compress the videos to shit. I can't even find all the movies I watch as download with seeds. Streaming doesn't compare. The quality is inferior, it doesn't always work, there are no chapters (I like to skip openings.), no commentary tracks, it takes longer to seek, movies and shows are removed, the menus are more distracting, and they sometimes crop it so that it fits on a widescreen (They did that with the original House of Cards (BBC) on Netflix. The Blu-ray is 4:3). |
EzekielAug 12, 2017 12:49 PM
| The best way to watch anime is when you have it for free. |
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| Yes. The Blu-Ray rips from Nyaa are truly the best way to watch if you want to sit and watch it download. |
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| Yes, with current technology BD, especially 4k discs, are supposedly the best way to watch it from an audio/video perspective assuming you have the right TV and a good surround sound system. |
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97"  |
| No, the best way to watch anime is with your eyes. |
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Kruszer said: Yes, with current technology BD, especially 4k discs, are supposedly the best way to watch it from an audio/video perspective assuming you have the right TV and a good surround sound system. I still don't see the point of surround sound. 2 channel stereo is still my favorite way to listen to music/movies. |
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Seiya said: Have you ever owned a surround system? How can you say stereo is your favorite if you haven't tried both? Kruszer said: Yes, with current technology BD, especially 4k discs, are supposedly the best way to watch it from an audio/video perspective assuming you have the right TV and a good surround sound system. I still don't see the point of surround sound. 2 channel stereo is still my favorite way to listen to music/movies. I've never owned a system, and I'm kind of skeptical. I wonder if it's a gimmick. I still keep most of the surround sound tracks, including the bigger ones, just in case, for the future. Though, if it has a 1500 kbps track and a much, much bigger one, I usually delete the bigger one. |
Ezekiel said: Seiya said: Have you ever owned a surround system? How can you say stereo is your favorite if you haven't tried both? I still don't see the point of surround sound. 2 channel stereo is still my favorite way to listen to music/movies. I've never owned a system, and I'm kind of skeptical. I wonder if it's a gimmick. I still keep most of the surround sound tracks, including the bigger ones, just in case, for the future. Though, if it has a 1500 kbps track and a much, much bigger one, I usually delete the bigger one. My parents had a surround system, and to me, it was a gimmick. We didn't use it for very long. |
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| I like DVDs. I actually own a lot of VHSes which I still watch... I think me and @Seiya are similar. I think blu-ray sometimes freaks me out with how shiny it is and sometimes how it messes up the colors in older anime. |
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| There is no "best way" to watch anime..... |
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| In terms of: Quality - I think yes, better than streaming or downloading videos. Most of them are over-compressed and they tend to lose the quality. Cost - Hell no. Blu-ray is soooo expensive. Legality - Legal but still no. I would prefer subscribing in some legal sites to watch. |
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| The best way is to torrent hq blue ray rips for free |
| Generally, yes. But it's not like you have to buy Blu-Rays for every anime that gets released. |
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| Its also the most expensive lmao better have deep pockets if your going that route, sell your testicles to science |
Seiya said: Kruszer said: Yes, with current technology BD, especially 4k discs, are supposedly the best way to watch it from an audio/video perspective assuming you have the right TV and a good surround sound system. I still don't see the point of surround sound. 2 channel stereo is still my favorite way to listen to music/movies. It depends entirely on what you watch with it and the quality of your speakers. If you just buy one of those cheapo home theaters in a box from Walmart with a player included that might not be worth it. If you buy a good audio receiver and some quality speakers that probably will be. Also I get more usage out of my surround sound system for Hollywood movies, because they have better mixes than most of my anime. Still try watching something like Redline, The Garden of Sinners, or Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn on BD in a cranked up surround sound system and you will hear audio bliss. |
KruszerAug 13, 2017 4:36 AM
| "The name's Gambit. Remember it." -Gambit "X-Men '97" |
| I've only seen a couple anime on blu ray, not really worth it |
Chikipichi said: Like does it have the best quality and audio encoding and all that stuff or does streaming have it better? Pretty sure this is bait but eh. It entirely depends on the encoder and person putting it together. I could get a BDMV, run it through handbrake, slap on some unedited, non-TSed subs and give it to you as "bluray anime", and I promise you it'd look shit. |
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| @Kuromii Nah fam it just when I get a job I want to watch anime in the best way possible with my 4k tv ill probably get. |
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| The best way to watch anime is clearly with a shitty old laptop. |
| Wouldn't it be better if Studios do stuff like their own Patreon just so that you don't have to buy BrDs? The biggest issue is that When you do BrDs you have to check region codes and stuff. Sure brds have better quality because the creators had more time to touch up the animation and etc. |
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