Old, low resolution...

No, I don't drop a show just because of the resolution, but if it's way too bad, then I have no choice but to drop it.

One wouldn't have such a problem if they didn't only rely on streaming or internet piracy. Anime officially released on physical media even localized below 480p looks and sounds fucking better than some crappy pirated copy floating around the internet that was even ripped from even some series at 720p in the late 2000s.

This is exactly why I don't waste my time trying to consume pre-contemporary Anime series even on Official platforms. Commonly too often, even Official internet platforms that are offering licensed series from in their library from the past are simply just relying on ripping copies themselves from Official physical media (A prime example of this is what Funimation use to offer when it was still around which was the "Soul Eater" series, which was an atrocious quality experience for someone like me where I just dropped it).

@ColourWheel
You mean the Soul Eater Blu-rays or streaming?

@nirererin I think I made a thread about anime screen resolution a few months ago on this website.

@DesuMaiden That's actually pretty common in this community; most recent threads are either revivals or summaries of older ones. I didn’t know you made this thread a few months ago, though.

Please, don't tell me you watch anime online instead of torrenting.
It's a non-issue with torrents, those are usually encoded in such a way (And remember: Bitrate is usually the biggest culprit) that you can't notice it's not 720p most of the time.
Let me post screencaps of two anime I watched in 480p: Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma and Figure 17: Tsubasa & Hikaru (OK, just checked, apparently I'm watching Figure 17 in 360p)

Please, don't tell me you watch anime online instead of torrenting.
It's a non-issue with torrents, those are usually encoded in such a way (And remember: Bitrate is usually the biggest culprit) that you can't notice it's not 720p most of the time.
Let me post screencaps of two anime I watched in 480p: Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma and Figure 17: Tsubasa & Hikaru (OK, just checked, apparently I'm watching Figure 17 in 360p)

@thewiru

The closest thing to that would be the fact that I never watched Fairy Tail Movie 1: Houou no Miko at the time because the only version with Portuguese subtitles I found on the internet had a bad audio quality and the image seemed weird, though it wasn't a resolution issue.

I mean, COME ON, you're telling me that THIS is unwatchable?

I mean, COME ON, you're telling me that THIS is unwatchable?

@thewiru No, those images look pretty good and interesting. I’m obviously going to watch them. Btw, what are the names of those anime?

@thewiru

lol Sure it looks ok if one is watching still images on a 5" monitor. The moment one tries to play any actual Japanese Anime released before the turn of the century that has been unprofessionally digitally converted into some video format on a full blown TV monitor such as a 50"+ HDTV screen (which will almost always automatically stretch the picture to fit the screen), one will likely end up seeing randomly perpetual appearing digital artifacts, irritating animated motion stuttering and judders (specifically happens during animated panning sequences), or even jagged/overly sharp/or blurry/or even unnaturally looking animated art that isn't even a close representation to what it is suppose to originally look like when actually viewed in real time. This isn't even touching on audio quality either...

Even one specific still image you have posted of "Emma" in one of your 1st post on this thread (the largest one so far with a 16:9 ratio aspect), I can already imagine myself getting a head ache trying to watch the actual video file you got that screenshot from even if it's a torrent copy. I can already tell you it looks visually cloudy/blurry and clearly shows signs of being littered with visible artifacts. If you actually took the time to hunt down "Emma" on an actual Official physical copy to watch, such as the 2008 domestic release of the complete series on DVD, you will likely realize how shitty that digitally ripped copy of that Anime series that you have took that screenshot from really is. lol

Any Anime digitally ripped that was never suppose to be in digital format to begin with is unwatchable to me. Which is why I collect and always consume any pre-contemporary Japanese Anime on Official Physical copies. Because I am not going to waste my time to consume beyond mediocre media quality. I would even go as far as hunting down extremely hard to find Japanese Laserdisc copies of entire series to accomplish watching Anime in actual quality than to waste time with some internet file.

/a/ told me that this bloom effect from anime of the era was the "sovl" leaving, which is why modern anime doesn't have any.

Good try, but I don't have a 50"+ HDTV screen.

Anime4K on a good video player like MPV can salvage pretty much anything. It takes a combination of low native resolution, a 4:3 aspect ratio, poor "remastering", compression artifacts, low bitrate and bad lighting decisions for upscaling to under-deliver, even on modern displays. And guess how Betterman's BD release turned out?