Streaming vs Downloading
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This is a continutation of the discussion that came up in this post:
Wizard Girl Ambitious Vol.1
I haven't posted the image attached to the original post due to it having a very subjective message, and I hope people can keep it as objective as possible, because we couldn't care less about what you preffer personally.
Why not just download a compilation of the episodes? Not only would it save you the time of always opening your web browser and searching for the correct episode, but if you actually took your time to read what we discussed, you would know that it's lesser in terms of quality. I don't say that without any evidence either.
For a streaming site to be able to maintain itself and pay it's server costs it needs some sort of funding. Crunchyroll for example has a membership fee, maintaning a decent quality standard. Even though it is the leading site on anime streaming, it still can't offer the best quality:
Therefore, the limit of the quality is up to you, and not up to a company trying to limit themselves so that they can offer a wider audience of people anime.
As for the other streaming sites, what limits them is their funds. Funds that come from adds usually can't pay for anything better than 480p, and even the sites that can offer 480p is scarce.
Wizard Girl Ambitious Vol.1
I haven't posted the image attached to the original post due to it having a very subjective message, and I hope people can keep it as objective as possible, because we couldn't care less about what you preffer personally.
endless017 wrote...
Well you see, I'm a fan of Naruto, Onepiece and Bleach(hardcore fan). So can you imagine.. Even if I find a decent site to DL., that's still a lot of episodes to download!, right? Streaming would be the best choice, for me that is.Why not just download a compilation of the episodes? Not only would it save you the time of always opening your web browser and searching for the correct episode, but if you actually took your time to read what we discussed, you would know that it's lesser in terms of quality. I don't say that without any evidence either.
For a streaming site to be able to maintain itself and pay it's server costs it needs some sort of funding. Crunchyroll for example has a membership fee, maintaning a decent quality standard. Even though it is the leading site on anime streaming, it still can't offer the best quality:
When you're encoding video for millions of users around the world, there are compromises that must be made. For example, a 2Mbit stream vs. a 1.5Mbit stream would alienate something around 20% of our international users. 1.5Mbit DSL is an exceedingly common internet connection. We've done significant testing with h.264 encode profiles and settings but we found that aggressive 720p encode settings like a high number of reference frames was very taxing on the Flash decoder (which isn't very good to begin with). What we've chosen is a balance between encode quality with decode performance.
Link to the postTherefore, the limit of the quality is up to you, and not up to a company trying to limit themselves so that they can offer a wider audience of people anime.
As for the other streaming sites, what limits them is their funds. Funds that come from adds usually can't pay for anything better than 480p, and even the sites that can offer 480p is scarce.
