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A good Tablet for watching unconverted anime (.mkv,.avi, 720/1080)?

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Hayaku:
I was going to suggest the ipad 2, but I tried it out and was not pleased with the results..... all the players on the app store that promised mkv playback (cinexplayer, buzzplayer, air video etc. ) but the ipad 2 sucks as a media player... the battery time is good but it get's choppy when playing the files (at least for me)... unless you want to buy just to jailbreak it and use xbmc to play the mkv files, as I've heard some good things about this app.

I'd suggest you wait for a new android tab, maybe the new samsung galaxy tab? These have no problems with playing mkv I think. The reason why I think so is because the samsung galaxy sII my brother has can play them without any problems, but I don't have the tab so I can't verify the reliability of those....

fohfoh:
Uhh... you guys correct me if I'm wrong, but your tables are all 1Ghz tables possibly with 2 cores. 720/1080? I highly doubt a wonderful tablet viewing experience.

IIRC, Acer has the windows tablet. I believe you can pick up one of the i5 (or something) ones for about $1400. Highly overpriced of course, but it would be capable of what OP requested. IF windows 8 is supposed to be as great as it is touted to be, it would be a good upgrade for that same tablet in the future.

criver:
Hi!

I have a Zenithink ZT-280 C91 - bought it for around 200$ - for now it has played perfectly everything I've tried (some AMVs from youtube, Ergo Proxy from the torrents, Motto To Love Ru from the torrents - and I'm really happy with it  ;D) - it doesn't lag (unless shitty android.process.med ia starts up - which eats your CPU like crazy - in which case I just kill android.process.med ia or try freezing it or disable it from the terminal emulator). I used MoboPlayer until I tried playing Motto To Love Ru, Mobo Player apparently didn't support the subtitles in this one so I did a little research and found MX Video Player - this player played even the subtitles - what's more MoboPlayer can play the subtitles if I extract them from the mkv (there's even a app on android that can extract them - mkv SubExtract or sth like this)...
So what I'd say is that tablets are nice! I've been reading manga on my tablet, listening to music , been watching animes, browsing the web etc. (btw, the wireless's not so nice - but I have a RJ45 slot on my tablet - so I can connect it through a cable). What's more, recently there have been a lot of tablets coming out - even nice cheap ones - for example my C91 runs Android 4.0 Ice-Cream Sandwich, has 10'' capactive screen with a resolution of 1024x600, a Cortex A9 1Ghz CPU (actually it's 800Mhz - maybe if I overclock it it will go up to 1Ghz), 512RAM, 8GB memory (but I use a usb flash which has 16GB and my SD card has 8GB)... Another great tablet I think of buying (though it's a 7'' - I like tablets with at least 9'' screen) is the Ainol Novo 7 Elf - I think it was around 160$ - and had a Cortex A10 1.5Ghz CPU, 1Gb Ram (in specs it obviously outmatches my C91), also runs ICS - so I'd say there are quite a few cheap tablets that can perform really well... By the way if you want to watch your movies(animes) from an external HDD - most tablets can't provide enough energy to an external HDD - so your HDD should have the option to be plugged in a socket - on the other hand, if you use a usb flash drive like me (mine is 16GB) you can watch everything without needing anything else than your tablet and the usb flash drive (by the way you could have around this much space = SD card space(up to 32GB for most tablets)+usb flash drive space(don't know what's the maximum the tablet can handle, but considering that it can read a HDD then I'd guess more than 1TB lol)+internal NAND storage (some space will go for android but you should have left "internal space-1Gb")).

P.S. By the way some tablets have a HDMI switch (like mine) - so obviously you can plug an LCD screen in your tablet (though I think that'd be only helpful for smaller tablets or using your tbalet like a dvd player).

nstgc:
I have an Asus Transformer Prime and it can play back HD videos just fine with MX Player. I haven't tried Full HD (which will likely work just as well) nor Hi10P encodes, but most anime should work fine. I would wait for the Transformer 700 though. My model has WiFi problems, and a smaller screen. The TF700 will have a 1920x1200 Screen instead of the 1280x800 Screen like mine.

[edit] Hi10P requires software decoding, which is slow, at least with the free version.

[edit2] Also that was a 720p encode. A 480 may be a bit faster.

[edit3] 1080p works with normal 8b encodes. So yeah, with MX Player, you can watch anime videos without transcoding so long as it isn't 10b encoded.

mgz:

--- Quote from: azael113 on October 02, 2011, 07:00:32 PM ---To start off, this is my first forum post in the 4 years I've been a member of BT ^_^

Anyway, I'm in the Navy and on the ship we have pretty limited space, my rack is like a box with a curtain making even watching anime on my laptop a pain in the ass. A lot of guys now get tablets to watch movies and Velcro to the top of their rack. Makes things pretty simple and easy to put away.

I was curious if anyone knew a good tablet that I would be able to watch my anime from my external HD or move it over to the tablet without having to go through the hassle of conversion and the like while still maintaining decent framerate/audio/and subtitles in place. The majority of my anime is in .mkv now but I have lots of .avi and the like. I've searched google and forums but unfortunately I couldn't really find a straight answer - though there may not be one.

If anyone has some constructive input I'd appreciate it. Thanks again guys.

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