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Playing videos on a DVD player using USB or SD
SprkLft Drvr:
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on October 03, 2010, 04:32:54 AM ---
--- Quote from: SprkLft Drvr on September 25, 2010, 02:10:59 AM ---
--- Quote ---1080p offers no noticeable change in quality but makes the file size disgustingly massive. 26 Episodes of Clannad was 23GB. The same 26 in 720p was 13GB. Do I really want to DL 10GB more?
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I don't know about your eyes but I like to watch my anime on my desktop PC and on my TV and I find 1080 noticeably better quality than 720. With 1TB hard drives costing AU$100 that 10GB more of download is costing me a MASSIVE $1 worth of storage space! I’m happy to use that much bandwidth/storage to have a nicer viewing experience.
And if you are watching Clanned on an old laptop where 1080 is not any better than 720 no one is forcing you to get the large version. This site has the smaller copy just as readily available, you can even get the 480 version just as simply and save that $1 of hard drive space.
I find it dumb that you are using words like fad, ridiculous and disgusting to describe a resolution that no one is forcing you to use and provides noticeable benefits to people who do like it.
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Please show me where I used the words Fad or Ridiculous. Obviously, HD space is not an issue. In Canada, for 60$ a month gets me 60gb bandwidth so that 10gbs is 1/6 of my allowance. I'm commenting on the quality difference from my iMac, which has a resolution of 2560x1440. If you are sitting a reasonable distance away you cannot see the difference at all. I'm not compaining that anyone is forcing me, but am simply refuting your argument now.
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1080
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The lighting difference is because I paused slightly after.
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The bit tomoya-kun quotes above wasn't me it was yobbin2000. Not tomoya-kun's fault I think. I quoted a bit from yobbin2000 and probably got a little too cute with the multi-quote and add quote features and messed things up, then yobbin2000 quoted me which is where tomoya-kun got that from.
Back when I was still able to watch on my computer I only cared about getting a resolution that my computer could handle - which was 480p for avi or 360p for mkv, so of course I preferred avi. Now I look forward to watching what I can on my dvd player until I can buy a machine that will let me watch 720p and 1080p so I can decide for myself which to download when I have a choice.
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: SprkLft Drvr on October 03, 2010, 07:25:15 AM ---
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on October 03, 2010, 04:32:54 AM ---
--- Quote from: SprkLft Drvr on September 25, 2010, 02:10:59 AM ---
--- Quote ---1080p offers no noticeable change in quality but makes the file size disgustingly massive. 26 Episodes of Clannad was 23GB. The same 26 in 720p was 13GB. Do I really want to DL 10GB more?
--- End quote ---
I don't know about your eyes but I like to watch my anime on my desktop PC and on my TV and I find 1080 noticeably better quality than 720. With 1TB hard drives costing AU$100 that 10GB more of download is costing me a MASSIVE $1 worth of storage space! I’m happy to use that much bandwidth/storage to have a nicer viewing experience.
And if you are watching Clanned on an old laptop where 1080 is not any better than 720 no one is forcing you to get the large version. This site has the smaller copy just as readily available, you can even get the 480 version just as simply and save that $1 of hard drive space.
I find it dumb that you are using words like fad, ridiculous and disgusting to describe a resolution that no one is forcing you to use and provides noticeable benefits to people who do like it.
--- End quote ---
Please show me where I used the words Fad or Ridiculous. Obviously, HD space is not an issue. In Canada, for 60$ a month gets me 60gb bandwidth so that 10gbs is 1/6 of my allowance. I'm commenting on the quality difference from my iMac, which has a resolution of 2560x1440. If you are sitting a reasonable distance away you cannot see the difference at all. I'm not compaining that anyone is forcing me, but am simply refuting your argument now.
720
(click to show/hide)
1080
(click to show/hide)
The lighting difference is because I paused slightly after.
--- End quote ---
The bit tomoya-kun quotes above wasn't me it was yobbin2000. Not tomoya-kun's fault I think. I quoted a bit from yobbin2000 and probably got a little too cute with the multi-quote and add quote features and messed things up, then yobbin2000 quoted me which is where tomoya-kun got that from.
Back when I was still able to watch on my computer I only cared about getting a resolution that my computer could handle - which was 480p for avi or 360p for mkv, so of course I preferred avi. Now I look forward to watching what I can on my dvd player until I can buy a machine that will let me watch 720p and 1080p so I can decide for myself which to download when I have a choice.
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Sorry about the quote thing. I still don't understand how a computer can't play 1080p or 720p video, my Fall 2007 Macbook can output to a 1080p monitor with 1080p video fine, and that only has a an integrated 950.
SprkLft Drvr:
--- Quote ---I still don't understand how a computer can't play 1080p or 720p video, my Fall 2007 Macbook can output to a 1080p monitor with 1080p video fine, and that only has a an integrated 950.
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But I bought this machine in 2001 and even then it wasn't top of the line, for instance it only has 8MB of video ram and only half a gig of total ram. Doubtless the operating system has accumulated a certain amount of cruft but even using a BartPE boot disk to give me a nice clean minimal operating system it wont perform like it used to. I've run programs that ran fine 7-8 years ago that just crawl now, so yes the hardware itself doesn't perform like it used to.
Anyway it's nice to watch some of the stuff I've downloaded. The DVD player that rathoriel recommended plays all AVIs and most MP4s, OGMs, etc. just not MKVs. The MKVs don't even show so you can't select them, the other formats display as one of two different but similar type of icon. The fancier icon just plays, the other one sometimes doesn't or has problems like freezing momentarily or stopping altogether. Still I needed a dvd player anyway and the added functionality is quite nice.
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