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10-bit and 8-bit the new standard?
Hadouken:
I doubt 10-bit is "widely used" outside of anime.
Bob2004:
Yeah, the benefits of 10-bit are vastly reduced in most non-anime video, so, combined with the poor support, it is generally not used much anywhere else. Since so few people actually use it, it'll be a long, long time until we start seeing hardware support for it - frankly, it's likely that h.265 will have become the anime standard before we start getting hardware support for 10-bit, if we get it at all.
That said, 10-bit is pretty much the current standard for anime releases (at least in HD), so if you want to watch most of them, you do need to be able to play it, or convert it to a different format. Which means using a computer (or phone/tablet/etc) with the power to handle it.
vuzedome:
Well at least the scene is finally moving into x264, yup xvid was still the standard only up to a few weeks ago.
The leechers were raging real hard when they found out about it, it's even worse than the Anime community raging when we did the transition.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: xdiv on March 06, 2012, 01:43:16 PM ---I personally don't see difference, apart file size, and I don't really care for file size.
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There's hardly a visible difference when you're just watching anime normally, assuming you don't plaster your face to the screen looking for artifacts, because heck, how enjoyable would your viewing experience be if that was how you watch anime?
When you take screenshots and compare them, then you start noticing minor details after a bit of eye strain. But yeah, really, someone who doesn't care about saving a few hundred megs to a couple gigs per series would probably be indifferent (assuming his hardware can handle the necessary software).
zherok:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on March 07, 2012, 03:37:30 AM ---When you take screenshots and compare them, then you start noticing minor details after a bit of eye strain. But yeah, really, someone who doesn't care about saving a few hundred megs to a couple gigs per series would probably be indifferent (assuming his hardware can handle the necessary software).
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The general trend seems to be keeping file sizes about the same while using the savings to bump up the quality of the encode.
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