What screen/tv/monitor do you use to watch anime with?

Considering what you’ve made public about your viewing habits in the past, the shit doesn’t matter if the TV is 65, 77, or 1000 inches. The bottleneck is the source. LMFAO

Using a 65 inch OLED to watch torrent-quality media just makes artifacts like motion stutter stand out more. Screen size only matters if you’re actually watching official Blu-rays, DVDs, or high-quality streaming. And even then, you need capable hardware to handle the shit too. lol

You could have saved yourself money with a 35 or 40 inch monitor (if all you use it for is watching internet ripped Anime). Then have fewer noticeable artifacts, and extra chump change for another hard drive to store your digitally ripped quality garbage on. lol

All the TVs that are wall mounted around my house are Bravia OLED 4K Smart TVs between 43 to 65 inches. But those TVs would be pointless if I was only using them to watch ripped shit off the internet. lol

Considering what you’ve made public about your viewing habits in the past, the shit doesn’t matter if the TV is 65, 77, or 1000 inches. The bottleneck is the source. LMFAO

Using a 65 inch OLED to watch torrent-quality media just makes artifacts like motion stutter stand out more. Screen size only matters if you’re actually watching official Blu-rays, DVDs, or high-quality streaming. And even then, you need capable hardware to handle the shit too. lol

You could have saved yourself money with a 35 or 40 inch monitor (if all you use it for is watching internet ripped Anime). Then have fewer noticeable artifacts, and extra chump change for another hard drive to store your digitally ripped quality garbage on. lol

All the TVs that are wall mounted around my house are Bravia OLED 4K Smart TVs between 43 to 65 inches. But those TVs would be pointless if I was only using them to watch ripped shit off the internet. lol

@ColourWheel
I'd have to disagree here. Screen size matters regardless of content quality - it's often about the viewing distance and the space you're in. I certainly find some screens too small for certain setups, no matter what I'm watching.

If the source is poor quality, it's still a bad viewing experience on any screen - I don't think a bigger or smaller display makes much difference unless it's so low quality and too small of a size that it masks the issues. I live with someone who watches content from poor sources on a 55" 4K TV that feels a tad tiny in the space, and the quality problems are clearly visible. I'd still prefer a bigger screen there, even for mediocre 1080p Netflix. It would give much better immersion.

Interestingly, I've found source quality matters less with anime than live-action content. My theory is that animation doesn't suffer the same compression artifacts, or perhaps anime torrents are just better quality than other type of content overall. I can't tell much difference between Blu-ray and good torrents for anime - I've watched NGE, Perfect Blue, and Lain from both sources without issues. The only problem I've noticed is occasional poor audio compression with some torrents I've downloaded, but perhaps the anime just had poor audio itself originally. Also for analogue films, there are multiple restorations, and you never know quite which one you will get if you choose torrents blindly. I assume anime has been all digital from a certain point, so the source choice may matter much less for anime.

With live-action though, most streaming services I used had visible compression (Apple TV is probably best), and torrents are often badly compressed or from questionable sources. It makes me think either my brain is less bothered by anime quality issues, or animation simply handles compression better than live-action.

I can also see all the pixels when I am at IMAX screenings because you are so close to the screen - but I'd still choose IMAX for any action heavy, immersive film. Much more immersive.

I would have to disagree with your take here, considering I own shit to actually compare what shitty slop gets torrented. lol

You’re mixing up immersion with image fidelity, and those aren’t the same fucking thing.

Yes, viewing distance and room size matter for comfort and immersion. I don't think anybody would dispute that shit. But that’s a separate axis from whether a larger screen improves the viewing experience when the source itself is compromised. A bigger display does not make poor encoding “less bad”. The shit simply scales the fucking flaws with it. lol

In fact, your own example accidentally supports my point:



Exactly. Smaller displays can mask fucking compression artifacts, banding, cadence issues, stutter, etc... especially with animation pans. Larger OLEDs do the opposite because they’re brutally fucking honest. That’s not subjective, that’s how shit like pixel density, motion handling, and panel response fucking work to begin with. lol

As for anime “handling compression better”, that shit is only partially true, and only under very specific conditions. Anime is not inherently more compression-friendly, it’s simpler in motion and texture when officially mastered well. But once shit is introduce like low-bitrate encodes (shit that isn't inherently around 6gb or more in size for a 22min episode and even that is bad fidelity) you get bad IVTC/cadence errors, aggressive filtering, poor deinterlacing, and even shitter streaming re-encodes of re-encodes. Information just gets removed in the process of anything that is re-encoded down to smaller file sizes.

Anime has actually always looked worse than live-action in motion. Flat colors exaggerate banding, pans exaggerate stutter, and line art exposes macroblocking instantly. Anyone who’s done serious A/B testing between Blu-ray and torrents on a large OLED has seen this shit. I have done fucking tests against this shit multiple times with official physical copies, dating back to the 2000s, since I noticed shit started being 1st torrented. lol

“I can’t tell the difference between Blu-ray and good torrents” usually just means, the torrent was sourced from the Blu-ray, or the viewing setup wasn’t sensitive enough to reveal the differences and not that the differences aren’t fucking there. lol

Your IMAX comparison also kind of gives the fucking game away too. People choose IMAX despite visible pixels because immersion outweighs fidelity for that experience, but that doesn’t mean the image is objectively better. It means people are prioritizing scale over precision. That’s a valid preference, but it’s not an argument against source bottlenecks. And any OLED TV is not an IMAX theater experience, no matter how much someone wants to pretend it is. lol

• Bigger screens "can" increase immersion
  
• Smaller screens "can" hide flaws
  
• Source quality sets the ceiling
  

Once shit like the source hits that ceiling, screen size just determines how clearly it can be fucking seen at it's limits.

That shit is a pretty fucking glaring distinction that you have completely glossed over covering it with a pile of dogshit. lol



That shit is not a good argument, that is just you outsourcing your opinions to others. The shit will only look great to you because you likely don't own enough Official physical copies of shit to notice any difference, if all you have been doing is pirating shit your entire life. lol

I would have to disagree with your take here, considering I own shit to actually compare what shitty slop gets torrented. lol

You’re mixing up immersion with image fidelity, and those aren’t the same fucking thing.

Yes, viewing distance and room size matter for comfort and immersion. I don't think anybody would dispute that shit. But that’s a separate axis from whether a larger screen improves the viewing experience when the source itself is compromised. A bigger display does not make poor encoding “less bad”. The shit simply scales the fucking flaws with it. lol

In fact, your own example accidentally supports my point:



Exactly. Smaller displays can mask fucking compression artifacts, banding, cadence issues, stutter, etc... especially with animation pans. Larger OLEDs do the opposite because they’re brutally fucking honest. That’s not subjective, that’s how shit like pixel density, motion handling, and panel response fucking work to begin with. lol

As for anime “handling compression better”, that shit is only partially true, and only under very specific conditions. Anime is not inherently more compression-friendly, it’s simpler in motion and texture when officially mastered well. But once shit is introduce like low-bitrate encodes (shit that isn't inherently around 6gb or more in size for a 22min episode and even that is bad fidelity) you get bad IVTC/cadence errors, aggressive filtering, poor deinterlacing, and even shitter streaming re-encodes of re-encodes. Information just gets removed in the process of anything that is re-encoded down to smaller file sizes.

Anime has actually always looked worse than live-action in motion. Flat colors exaggerate banding, pans exaggerate stutter, and line art exposes macroblocking instantly. Anyone who’s done serious A/B testing between Blu-ray and torrents on a large OLED has seen this shit. I have done fucking tests against this shit multiple times with official physical copies, dating back to the 2000s, since I noticed shit started being 1st torrented. lol

“I can’t tell the difference between Blu-ray and good torrents” usually just means, the torrent was sourced from the Blu-ray, or the viewing setup wasn’t sensitive enough to reveal the differences and not that the differences aren’t fucking there. lol

Your IMAX comparison also kind of gives the fucking game away too. People choose IMAX despite visible pixels because immersion outweighs fidelity for that experience, but that doesn’t mean the image is objectively better. It means people are prioritizing scale over precision. That’s a valid preference, but it’s not an argument against source bottlenecks. And any OLED TV is not an IMAX theater experience, no matter how much someone wants to pretend it is. lol

• Bigger screens "can" increase immersion
  
• Smaller screens "can" hide flaws
  
• Source quality sets the ceiling
  

Once shit like the source hits that ceiling, screen size just determines how clearly it can be fucking seen at it's limits.

That shit is a pretty fucking glaring distinction that you have completely glossed over covering it with a pile of dogshit. lol



That shit is not a good argument, that is just you outsourcing your opinions to others. The shit will only look great to you because you likely don't own enough Official physical copies of shit to notice any difference, if all you have been doing is pirating shit your entire life. lol