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fubuu11:
before anything else English is not my primary language so forgive me if i made some mistakes...  :-[

so my question is... in what resu should i download my animes??
i know that some 1080p are just upscaled 720 but there are some that are natively 1080...
i am dling the best quality releases available for preservation... with that in mind
should i stick to 720 or upgrade to 1080??
please help...  :'(

kitamesume:
three questions:
1) do you have enough storage for 1080p copies?
2) is your "player" strong enough to handle 1080p?
3) does your monitor or TV have 1920x1080?


--- Quote from: fubuu11 on October 13, 2012, 01:03:32 PM ---i know that some 1080p are just upscaled 720 but there are some that are natively 1080...

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yes its true, but doesn't necessarily mean its a bad thing, some upscaled 720->1080 are quite good, to the point of passing an "OK" from moderators as an alternate 1080p copy.
in uploading in BBT, the uploads goes through a quality check first imho which makes most copies "good".

fubuu11:

--- Quote from: kitamesume on October 13, 2012, 01:09:01 PM ---three questions:
1) do you have enough storage for 1080p copies?
2) is your "player" strong enough to handle 1080p?
3) does your monitor or TV have 1920x1080?


--- Quote from: fubuu11 on October 13, 2012, 01:03:32 PM ---i know that some 1080p are just upscaled 720 but there are some that are natively 1080...

--- End quote ---

yes its true, but doesn't necessarily mean its a bad thing, some upscaled 720->1080 are quite good, to the point of passing an "OK" from moderators as an alternate 1080p copy.
in uploading in BBT, the uploads goes through a quality check first imho which makes most copies "good".

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1)I'm planing to  add 3tb worth of hard drive space so that would give me 6month of dl i guess...
2)player?? i use pc so yes i do dl 1080p sometimes and i don't have any problems playing them
3)i only have a 19led at the moment but planning to upgrade soon...

kitamesume:
what i meant about player is the broad meaning of "player" which means the object in question that would "play" the video, some people use a cellphone, others use a video player on a literal sense. although you're using a PC, its not a guarantee that you'd be able to support full 1080p without the machine's specifications, for example an old pentium dual core would suffer decoding hi10p 1080p and so on.

with a monitor not having a resolution of 1080p it wouldn't be as nice when playing 1080p videos on it, since it's gonna get downscaled back to whatever the monitor's resolution is, although some results to a sharper image but still its not a good idea.

but based on some of what you've said, i can say "go ahead" and grab 1080p if its available, otherwise you can just grab 720p, theres really no point of arguing 720p vs 1080p without a reason of "why not".
without a "why not" its always 720p < 1080p.

failboat:
If you feel like the minor eyecandy and crispness it adds to the video if you're watching it on a 1080p monitor is worth the bigger filesize, then of course it's "worth it".

All depends on what you want. I don't really care about it personally, it is a cartoon after all and will for the most part just look a tiny bit sharper, but I often snatch 1080p releases anyways. I don't need to worry about space or bandwidth and generally snatch what I will be able to seed better.

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