Netflix animoo discussion

[Artic_counter]

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[...] I tried for Madoka Magica because it's appArently very high rated, but I'm not sure if I'm up for a magical girl show

Contrary to those before me: Don't watch it.

It's shit. I watched it, thought it was shit, got told it was going to get better and continued only to find myself disapointed big time.

Good concept + unlikeable characters = Waste of time

[Snowcrafta]

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I'm watching it, but it's on boner recommendations. We'll see

[MrGiggles]

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Netflix has some really good stuff up lately

Attack on Titan, Trigun, FMA and FMA:BH, Welcome to the NHK, Eden of the East

Spice and Wolf is OK too although it feels like nothing ever happens in that show

I'm just about to start Hetalia because I remember it being super popular a few years back.

[Snowcrafta]

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I got about halfway through Spice and Wolf when it originally aired in Japan, and I 100% agree that it feels like you're watching something on PBS: you're watching something, but nothing happens

[Pseudo Enigma]

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Trigun

actually watching through this right now (torrents obv). Worth the watch. Feels a bit like Cowboy Bebop but a little less sidetracked. Peace and Love baby.

I'm just about to start Hetalia because I remember it being super popular a few years back.

pretty sure it's only popular with 14yo girls, but if someone tells me it has more substance than from what I expect, I'll add it to that so-called backlog.

[Snowcrafta]

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Trigun:

It's a shockingly good series, and the movie is pretty good to boot

[Izzy]

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So netflixs 4k will have about the bitrate as I would expect out of a 1080p video and 1080p videos have the birate of quality 720p video. So I guess this new 4k streaming is basically the announcement of 1080p quality support. Although it will still be worse than a higher bitrate 1080p file without upscaling it.

[Snowcrafta]

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Watch House of Cards season 2, I think that's the only thing in 4K they have introduced at the moment. The bit rate is brand new to the service as of like, last month

[Izzy]

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I don't have netflix and I haven't even seen house of cards season 1. I'd probably just wait for blurays rips though. I'd imagine the 4k stream looks alright on a 1080p screen though. Kind of interesting that they decided to go with H265 encoding. Slightly smaller fize sizes for a drastic increase in decoding processing power. An older computer would probably kill itself trying to play a 4k H265 video.

[Snowcrafta]

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Pretty sure most people who can afford a 4K television probably have a decent computer

[Mike Weedmark]

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Pretty sure most people who can afford a 4K television probably have a decent computer

Most people who can afford a 4k TV probably also spend their time worrying about more urgent things than the infinitesimal difference between HQ 1080p and UltraHD for the purposes of cel-shaded animation.

I only care about differences the human eye can pick up without a microscope. You people o_O

[Izzy]

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Yea, I'm also pretty sure newer 4k tv's can actually decode H265 without a modern computer to begin with. But it still kind of kills the possible backward compatibility with not even that old smart tv's that are 1080p. Most new smart TV's have netflix apps, but if they aren't new enough then they won't be able to handle the new encoding. Alternatively you could connect your computer to a TV and watch netflix from that onto the TV.

At this point you are just getting more and more inconvenienced in comparison to just downloading it and watching it in the same way.

Most people who can afford a 4k TV probably also spend their time worrying about more urgent things than the infinitesimal difference between HQ 1080p and UltraHD for the purposes of cel-shaded animation.

I only care about differences the human eye can pick up without a microscope. You people o_O

You should meet my dad then. I guess he has the mentality that if he is going to spend a metric fuck ton on a 65" 4k tv then it better be god damn amazing.

Also quality loss on anime is actually more noticible than on live footage. The nonsmooth lines in live video is too obscured by all the detail, but in anime where everything is large block of solid colors and clean outlines it is really obvious. At least to me on a large tv from about 10 feet away.

[Mike Weedmark]

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Also quality loss on anime is actually more noticible than on live footage. The nonsmooth lines in live video is too obscured by all the detail, but in anime where everything is large block of solid colors and clean outlines it is really obvious. At least to me on a large tv from about 10 feet away.

Yeah actually, now that you bring this up, it's true. But at the level we're talking about, it would still be splitting hairs, and then splitting those splits.

[Izzy]

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Probably, I'm sure the vast majority don't care. Just personal preference and since the content is available to me I am going to opt for that.

[Snowcrafta]

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I can't tell much of anything when it's running at 720/1080 on the iPad, so no jimmies are ruffled in my case