xXwendyXx3 said: I stream. Because downloading is taking to long for me ;p. They take as long... |
| I download because my net sucks, though I buy box sets anyway. |
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| Download. I always want the best quality possible. I can't see why people would stream unless it's for legal reasons. "It takes to much time" What? are people that impatient? |
| I don't need a signature. |
| Stream on going, download full series. |
| I prefer my quality to be good as possible and subs along with that so downloading is a must for me. Though I can understand the need to watch streams if you've got a computer that isn't able to store much anime without performance decline. |
| I always try to download anime, that way I don't have to put up with poor quality and ads. |
Pestilence981 said: Not all streams have poor quality I only watch high quality for example crunchyroll, and the only players I know that had ads were megavideo and daily motion, simply installing ad blocker will take care of all of that anyway.I always try to download anime, that way I don't have to put up with poor quality and ads. |
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| I download everything and convert them to mp4 to put them on my ipod. Though I download so much more then I actually watch lol. I have like 150gb's of anime but Ill probably watch at most 20 gigs by the end of the year if I'm lucky. |
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| i download streaming ones. ;) [internet download manager] yes, the quality is no top-notch but still great so yeah, doesn't matter. ~and. i prefer the old way of keeping files [burning DVDs]. i have 400GB, 900+ files and growing. my DVDs are now 6 years old, good as new. i treasure them a lot. ^_^ i don't trust external HD that much, it would definitely kill me if something bad happens in a 500gb [much worse 1TB] external which contains tons of files. that would be soooooo awful. T____T |
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shin_caroline said: You bought your idm right? because if you enter a illegal serial the program automatically locks up on you, happen to me a while back lol.i download streaming ones. ;) [internet download manager] yes, the quality is no top-notch but still great so yeah, doesn't matter. ~and. i prefer the old way of keeping files [burning DVDs]. i have 400GB, 900+ files and growing. my DVDs are now 6 years old, good as new. i treasure them a lot. ^_^ i don't trust external HD that much, it would definitely kill me if something bad happens in a 500gb [much worse 1TB] external which contains tons of files. that would be soooooo awful. T____T |
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360justin said: shin_caroline said: You bought your idm right? because if you enter a illegal serial the program automatically locks up on you, happen to me a while back lol.i download streaming ones. ;) [internet download manager] yes, the quality is no top-notch but still great so yeah, doesn't matter. ~and. i prefer the old way of keeping files [burning DVDs]. i have 400GB, 900+ files and growing. my DVDs are now 6 years old, good as new. i treasure them a lot. ^_^ i don't trust external HD that much, it would definitely kill me if something bad happens in a 500gb [much worse 1TB] external which contains tons of files. that would be soooooo awful. T____T nope. O.O oh, please dont sue me IDM. T_____T been using it for months, found a good bypass. ;) i'm good at that kind of stuffs. LMAO. |
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jiroupuun said: For me, i chose streaming because my laptop can't play videos! x( but if only i can use my desktop, of course i'll vote for download x( VLC and MPC are good video players. :) i download videos with mp4 and flv extensions and they work perfectly fine. |
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shin_caroline said: You must not update the program, because it deletes the serial as well, lol the program is to smart I got mad when it did it to.360justin said: shin_caroline said: You bought your idm right? because if you enter a illegal serial the program automatically locks up on you, happen to me a while back lol.i download streaming ones. ;) [internet download manager] yes, the quality is no top-notch but still great so yeah, doesn't matter. ~and. i prefer the old way of keeping files [burning DVDs]. i have 400GB, 900+ files and growing. my DVDs are now 6 years old, good as new. i treasure them a lot. ^_^ i don't trust external HD that much, it would definitely kill me if something bad happens in a 500gb [much worse 1TB] external which contains tons of files. that would be soooooo awful. T____T nope. O.O oh, please dont sue me IDM. T_____T been using it for months, found a good bypass. ;) i'm good at that kind of stuffs. LMAO. |
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360justin said: You must not update the program, because it deletes the serial as well, lol the program is to smart I got mad when it did it to. actually, they did it on the latest version if i'm not mistaken. i would gladly share the link if you're interested. ^___^ IDM is a good software after all. DomDomSoft, on the other hand, is a good online manga keeper/grabber. |
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shin_caroline said: Thanks for the offer, but I'm good, actually when I had the program it was good downloaded a streaming file right off of dubhappy, I wonder if you could do for crunchyroll? if you can let me know!360justin said: You must not update the program, because it deletes the serial as well, lol the program is to smart I got mad when it did it to. actually, they did it on the latest version if i'm not mistaken. i would gladly share the link if you're interested. ^___^ IDM is a good software after all. DomDomSoft, on the other hand, is a good online manga keeper/grabber. |
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| Stream. I don't really want to wait for it, or take up too much space. Especially if I'm never going to watch it again. |
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IDex said: There is no good reason to stream. This. I remember when I used to stream. What the crap was I doing? And you can stream while downloading a torrent. So instead of watching a video where you can't tell between dirt and concrete, you get a video where you can. The only time where one MAY use streaming sites is because they are extremely poor (but considering you somehow have enough money to get bandwidth...) |
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| I stream because normally i don't rewatch episodes, so no point taking up space with a downloaded episode. |
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| I stream all of my anime. [On a side note, I only read manga online too] I just don't have the computer space to download all this anime that I want to watch. There are just way to many pros for watching anime online [streaming] and plenty of cons for downloading your anime. Here's just a few examples: Streaming Pros: - You can always find your anime and watch it within 5 mins or less. - You get to join in on commenting about it after you watch it and see what others had to say about it too. Downloading Cons: - Takes up lots of space - Takes time to download |
------nathawesome said: But for the downloaders you have people that claim they download those 400 mb mkv files within 5-7 minutes if you are getting these speeds bravo for you, but if its any longer than that I don't see why you should bother.I stream all of my anime. [On a side note, I only read manga online too] I just don't have the computer space to download all this anime that I want to watch. There are just way to many pros for watching anime online [streaming] and plenty of cons for downloading your anime. Here's just a few examples: Streaming Pros: - You can always find your anime and watch it within 5 mins or less. - You get to join in on commenting about it after you watch it and see what others had to say about it too. Downloading Cons: - Takes up lots of space - Takes time to download |
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360justin said: nathawesome said: But for the downloaders you have people that claim they download those 400 mb mkv files within 5-7 minutes if you are getting these speeds bravo for you, but if its any longer than that I don't see why you should bother.I stream all of my anime. [On a side note, I only read manga online too] I just don't have the computer space to download all this anime that I want to watch. There are just way to many pros for watching anime online [streaming] and plenty of cons for downloading your anime. Here's just a few examples: Streaming Pros: - You can always find your anime and watch it within 5 mins or less. - You get to join in on commenting about it after you watch it and see what others had to say about it too. Downloading Cons: - Takes up lots of space - Takes time to download Thats why you build up a "backlog", you simply download severall anime you're planning on watching. If it takes up too much space you can always delete them when you're done with watching it. I got around 60~ series on my HDD, and they only take up around 220~ GB. |
| Well I voted for streaming but to be honest I also download some anime, especially if the anime has a lot of episodes, but if there's 12 episodes then I might just stream it instead. But I hate waiting for anime episodes to stream :/ |
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GlaringDream said: Streaming. It seems pointless to me to download when you can stream it for just as good quality. I'd only want to download it if I wanted to make fanvideos or something. But torrents do have better quality. dmfsan said: rederoin said: 360justin said: nathawesome said: But for the downloaders you have people that claim they download those 400 mb mkv files within 5-7 minutes if you are getting these speeds bravo for you, but if its any longer than that I don't see why you should bother.I stream all of my anime. [On a side note, I only read manga online too] I just don't have the computer space to download all this anime that I want to watch. There are just way to many pros for watching anime online [streaming] and plenty of cons for downloading your anime. Here's just a few examples: Streaming Pros: - You can always find your anime and watch it within 5 mins or less. - You get to join in on commenting about it after you watch it and see what others had to say about it too. Downloading Cons: - Takes up lots of space - Takes time to download Thats why you build up a "backlog", you simply download severall anime you're planning on watching. If it takes up too much space you can always delete them when you're done with watching it. I got around 60~ series on my HDD, and they only take up around 220~ GB. I have 68 GB free, so 220 GB is a lot for me. I always stream them. Some people say they don't want to wait for the download to finish, but you can watch it while it's downloading, so sometimes I download a single episode if the stream flash plugin doesn't work. Like I said, that 220GB is for around 60 series, Its only that big because I'm not deleting all my watched anime. My backlog is 20 to 30 GB at most. |
rederoinJul 10, 2012 8:20 AM
| I have always streamed mine, but I'm thinking about getting an external hard drive and downloading it all xD |
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| Stream 24/7 If you know where to find the animes youre looking for + have a good enough internet, then it's faster than DL'ing (and sometimes safer)... but that's my opinion :P |
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| You forgot Torrent D: Its way better, then DDLs lol nathawesome said: I stream all of my anime. [On a side note, I only read manga online too] I just don't have the computer space to download all this anime that I want to watch. There are just way to many pros for watching anime online [streaming] and plenty of cons for downloading your anime. Here's just a few examples: Streaming Pros: - You can always find your anime and watch it within 5 mins or less. - You get to join in on commenting about it after you watch it and see what others had to say about it too. Downloading Cons: - Takes up lots of space - Takes time to download uh lets see, Streaming, the chat is usually not always talking about your anime, Create a skype omg WORKS Downloading.... I don't know what you are talking about, torrent a 720p from UTW, Commie or HS its done in 3-4 mins, if its new with 1 seed then yes its long. Takes... ALOT.... of Space... huh I'm not sure I read that right lets see, 2.2 TB free and I have every season on my list in my HDD besides OP, naruto, bleach, and fairy tail IDex said: There is no good reason to stream. ^ My new best friend |
KryomaticsJul 11, 2012 12:17 PM
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| It depends on how much I like the show. I usually stream the first episode of a show and then decide from there whether I want to download it or not. I have limited bandwidth, so ;______; |
Jeller said: (and sometimes safer)... but that's my opinion :P Considering the amount of shit the ads on most non-legal stream sites contain (as in trojans, worms and viruses), nope it's not. |
| I stream when I watch new episodes of ongoing series, I download whenever I want to marathon a completed series or If I'm trying to catch up to a series. Movies are definitely a download. |
| Streaming is a pain in the ass. - Waiting for buffering/having it continually pause because of buffering is annoying. - The quality is below average/terrible most of the time. When it's not it plays slower. - Broken video links are a pain. - No wifi = no streaming. - Advertisments on the videos are again, irritating. - Subtitle groups are often switched in the middle of the series, which can make me upset if I favored a particular group or cause confusion if they're quoting something from the previous episode differently. I don't know why so many people stream. |
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noyoureinsane said: Streaming is a pain in the ass. - Waiting for buffering/having it continually pause because of buffering is annoying. - The quality is below average/terrible most of the time. When it's not it plays slower. - Broken video links are a pain. - No wifi = no streaming. - Advertisments on the videos are again, irritating. - Subtitle groups are often switched in the middle of the series, which can make me upset if I favored a particular group or cause confusion if they're quoting something from the previous episode differently. I don't know why so many people stream. You won't have to wait for buffer if you have a fast internet connection lol. There are high quality streams out there, people to lazy to find them, some sites have divx quality, and there is always crunchyroll. Can't really help broken video links No wifi ok, but anyone can just have a Ethernet cable and that should do the trick. I downloaded the extension called ad blocker plus it removes all ad's on page and within video. Sub groups I don't really care as long as it is understandable. People stream because it is fast and easy, its simple overall, a fast internet connection is the key though. |
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360justin said: noyoureinsane said: Streaming is a pain in the ass. - Waiting for buffering/having it continually pause because of buffering is annoying. - The quality is below average/terrible most of the time. When it's not it plays slower. - Broken video links are a pain. - No wifi = no streaming. - Advertisments on the videos are again, irritating. - Subtitle groups are often switched in the middle of the series, which can make me upset if I favored a particular group or cause confusion if they're quoting something from the previous episode differently. I don't know why so many people stream. You won't have to wait for buffer if you have a fast internet connection lol. There are high quality streams out there, people to lazy to find them, some sites have divx quality, and there is always crunchyroll. Can't really help broken video links No wifi ok, but anyone can just have a Ethernet cable and that should do the trick. I downloaded the extension called ad blocker plus it removes all ad's on page and within video. Sub groups I don't really care as long as it is understandable. People stream because it is fast and easy, its simple overall, a fast internet connection is the key though. -Depends on the site you're using. and some people do not have a fast enough connection for it. -But none of them have higher quelity than downloads. Maybe a few anime are the exception to this rule. -Which is why torrents are better. -If there is no internet at all(black-out, a error.. whatever), you can't watch streamed anime. You can just torrent when your pc is turned on, so speed should not be a issue. And torrenting is just as easy. |
chinx16 said: rederoin said: 360justin said: noyoureinsane said: Streaming is a pain in the ass. - Waiting for buffering/having it continually pause because of buffering is annoying. - The quality is below average/terrible most of the time. When it's not it plays slower. - Broken video links are a pain. - No wifi = no streaming. - Advertisments on the videos are again, irritating. - Subtitle groups are often switched in the middle of the series, which can make me upset if I favored a particular group or cause confusion if they're quoting something from the previous episode differently. I don't know why so many people stream. You won't have to wait for buffer if you have a fast internet connection lol. There are high quality streams out there, people to lazy to find them, some sites have divx quality, and there is always crunchyroll. Can't really help broken video links No wifi ok, but anyone can just have a Ethernet cable and that should do the trick. I downloaded the extension called ad blocker plus it removes all ad's on page and within video. Sub groups I don't really care as long as it is understandable. People stream because it is fast and easy, its simple overall, a fast internet connection is the key though. -Depends on the site you're using. and some people do not have a fast enough connection for it. -But none of them have higher quelity than downloads. Maybe a few anime are the exception to this rule. -Which is why torrents are better. -If there is no internet at all(black-out, a error.. whatever), you can't watch streamed anime. You can just torrent when your pc is turned on, so speed should not be a issue. And torrenting is just as easy. Their are a few risk when you download from torrent. Their are possibilities that file your downloading has a virus. Its called "anti-virus", and not downloading obvious traps. I haven't had a virus in the last 1000 or so torrents I downloaded even without ever using anti-virus. If you get a virus from anime torrents while you have a decent anti-virus program, you're doing something wrong. |
LunaJul 12, 2012 11:26 AM
rederoin said: Thats what I use but torrents are based off of seeders and leechers right? don't that impact the speed in a major way?chinx16 said: what kind of anti virus would you recommend? a I myself use Microsoft security essentials. |
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chinx16 said: rederoin said: chinx16 said: what kind of anti virus would you recommend? a I myself use Microsoft security essentials. ohh! thats great thank you. is it better to have more that one anti virus? 1 anti-virus program should be enough. chinx16 said: 360justin said: rederoin said: Thats what I use but torrents are based off of seeders and leechers right? don't that impact the speed in a major way?chinx16 said: what kind of anti virus would you recommend? a I myself use Microsoft security essentials. Well yeah. The more seeders the faster the download speed, right? Yes, but bakabt has amazing seeder:leecher ratio's. |
LunaJul 12, 2012 11:32 AM
| It has to be downloading for me. Try to look for old anime links - all broken. I'd rather have it on my portable hard drive so I can watch it whenever I want, even if it is 50 years later! For me the quality also matters and as someone said earlier, you can allow your friends to copy and paste. Though, at the end of the day, each has its benefits and drawbacks. |
rederoin said: Some torrents site I heard of require you upload the same amount you download, is that true?chinx16 said: rederoin said: chinx16 said: what kind of anti virus would you recommend? a I myself use Microsoft security essentials. ohh! thats great thank you. is it better to have more that one anti virus? 1 anti-virus program should be enough. chinx16 said: 360justin said: rederoin said: Thats what I use but torrents are based off of seeders and leechers right? don't that impact the speed in a major way?chinx16 said: what kind of anti virus would you recommend? a I myself use Microsoft security essentials. Well yeah. The more seeders the faster the download speed, right? Yes, but bakabt has amazing seeder:leecher ratio's. |
LunaJul 12, 2012 11:32 AM
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360justin said: rederoin said: Some torrents site I heard of require you upload the same amount you download, is that true?chinx16 said: rederoin said: chinx16 said: what kind of anti virus would you recommend? a I myself use Microsoft security essentials. ohh! thats great thank you. is it better to have more that one anti virus? 1 anti-virus program should be enough. chinx16 said: 360justin said: rederoin said: Thats what I use but torrents are based off of seeders and leechers right? don't that impact the speed in a major way?chinx16 said: what kind of anti virus would you recommend? a I myself use Microsoft security essentials. Well yeah. The more seeders the faster the download speed, right? Yes, but bakabt has amazing seeder:leecher ratio's. If you're talking about bakabt then it doesn't necessarily have to be exactly the same amount but, a decent amount to show that you aren't just a leecher benefiting from others. Correct me if I am wrong, rarely use the website now. |
LunaJul 12, 2012 11:34 AM
wisdom93 said: Yeah I think its that one, and I don't use torrents all I do is just hook up my computer to my tv with a hdmi cable, and stream.360justin said: rederoin said: Some torrents site I heard of require you upload the same amount you download, is that true?chinx16 said: rederoin said: chinx16 said: what kind of anti virus would you recommend? a I myself use Microsoft security essentials. ohh! thats great thank you. is it better to have more that one anti virus? 1 anti-virus program should be enough. chinx16 said: 360justin said: rederoin said: Thats what I use but torrents are based off of seeders and leechers right? don't that impact the speed in a major way?chinx16 said: what kind of anti virus would you recommend? a I myself use Microsoft security essentials. Well yeah. The more seeders the faster the download speed, right? Yes, but bakabt has amazing seeder:leecher ratio's. If you're talking about bakabt then it doesn't necessarily have to be exactly the same amount but, a decent amount to show that you aren't just a leecher benefiting from others. Correct me if I am wrong, rarely use the website now. |
LunaJul 12, 2012 11:34 AM
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360justin said: heard of require you upload the same amount you download, is that true? Bababt warns you(which means you can't download) if you go below a certain ratio, but that ratio is nowhere near 1.0. But that rule only applies to registered accounts. Other public trackers I know off don't have a Ratio rule. chinx16 said: what site do you usually use ??? e Bakabt piratebay demonoid |
rederoin said: 360justin said: heard of require you upload the same amount you download, is that true? Bababt warns you(which means you can't download) if you go below a certain ratio, but that ratio is nowhere near 1.0. But that rule only applies to registered accounts. Other public trackers I know off don't have a Ratio rule. chinx16 said: what site do you usually use ??? e Bakabt piratebay demonoid Ok what are your speeds usually people tell me they download a 400-500mb episode within 5- minutes I was like wtf? some has said 1080p takes them like 10 minutes. |
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360justin said: rederoin said: 360justin said: heard of require you upload the same amount you download, is that true? Bababt warns you(which means you can't download) if you go below a certain ratio, but that ratio is nowhere near 1.0. But that rule only applies to registered accounts. Other public trackers I know off don't have a Ratio rule. chinx16 said: what site do you usually use ??? e Bakabt piratebay demonoid Ok what are your speeds usually people tell me they download a 400-500mb episode within 5- minutes I was like wtf? some has said 1080p takes them like 10 minutes. Depends on your internet connection and the amount of seeders. |
rederoin said: Interesting, do you use any program to hide your ip address just in case your isp may contact you about using torrents?360justin said: rederoin said: 360justin said: heard of require you upload the same amount you download, is that true? Bababt warns you(which means you can't download) if you go below a certain ratio, but that ratio is nowhere near 1.0. But that rule only applies to registered accounts. Other public trackers I know off don't have a Ratio rule. chinx16 said: what site do you usually use ??? e Bakabt piratebay demonoid Ok what are your speeds usually people tell me they download a 400-500mb episode within 5- minutes I was like wtf? some has said 1080p takes them like 10 minutes. Depends on your internet connection and the amount of seeders. |
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360justin said: people tell me they download a 400-500mb episode within 5- minutes I was like wtf? some has said 1080p takes them like 10 minutes. It's possible. I usually download a 720p episode, for example fairy tail, for 3mins exactly. |
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360justin said: noyoureinsane said: Streaming is a pain in the ass. - Waiting for buffering/having it continually pause because of buffering is annoying. - The quality is below average/terrible most of the time. When it's not it plays slower. - Broken video links are a pain. - No wifi = no streaming. - Advertisments on the videos are again, irritating. - Subtitle groups are often switched in the middle of the series, which can make me upset if I favored a particular group or cause confusion if they're quoting something from the previous episode differently. I don't know why so many people stream. You won't have to wait for buffer if you have a fast internet connection lol. There are high quality streams out there, people to lazy to find them, some sites have divx quality, and there is always crunchyroll. Can't really help broken video links No wifi ok, but anyone can just have a Ethernet cable and that should do the trick. I downloaded the extension called ad blocker plus it removes all ad's on page and within video. Sub groups I don't really care as long as it is understandable. People stream because it is fast and easy, its simple overall, a fast internet connection is the key though. - My internet connection is pretty fast, believe me. It all depends on the video/site though. Besides, even with slow connection if you download there's no buffering issues. - Why make an effort to find DivX quality streams when you can get that same quality simply by downloading? As far as I know, Crunchyroll doesn't give you 720p HD (or something like that) unless you're a premium member. Yet there's the option to download a 720p file for free, why not take it? - Not everyone has Ethernet cable. I don't even know what that is. Again, there's a simpler and more effective solution to it. - Not everyone uses browsers that have those abilities. Personally I do, but my point comes up again - there's a better option. I guess I can see how you find it simple, but it's not like downloading isn't either. chinx16 said: Their are a few risk when you download from torrent. Their are possibilities that file your downloading has a virus. Pretty much what rederoin said. I've downloaded tons of series and as long as you have a secure anti-virus plus your smart enough to at least check some of the torrent comments since they usually say if it's good or not, then there's not all that much to worry about. |
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