How do you watch?

Highspar · Joined: 18 Feb 2002 Posts: 27 Location: London, Canada

<Highspar's deep thoughts>
Eyeing my growing collection of anime, I wonder if I should change my vote from comptuer monitor, to just collecting. A quick glance at my horribly behind list of animes I notice not 1, not 2, but 5 complted tv series (at least 13 eps, or in inu yasha's case 60 now Shocked

) that I haven't even watched one episode of. Me thinks I should either stop dling for a bit, and start watching, or just say "screw it" and keep sucking.

I'll probably keep sucking. Very Happy

</Highspar's deep thoughts>

Gorunova · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 11:10 pm Post subject:

earthdark · Joined: 21 Feb 2002 Posts: 73

I think it'll be of the latter, where broadband access either becomes too expensive or too limited. The anime thing has hit critical mass, even if companies started aggresively prosecuting subbers, there'll still be "underground" subbers churning out releases...

xo · Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2002 10:36 am Post subject:

Keikai · Joined: 18 Feb 2002 Posts: 178 Location: Miami, FL

50% of the time, TV-out on laptop to TV (when friends are over)
50% of the time, full screen on the laptop (when watching alone)

Of course, thats just what I get around to watching, my most accurate answer is the last one since I rarely find the time. Sad

Also, that's just the stuff I get from usenet. I also buy and rent DVDs a good bit too.

Melchior · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 12:45 am Post subject:

Heh, seems like I'm the only one who voted that I only collect anime! I do watch it, on occasion... Okay, reasonably often, but I don't watch anywhere near as much as I download.

As far as cables go, Firecaster, check out Radio Shack. I used to work at Radio Shack in Vancouver (that was hell, I'm happy that I'm no longer working there, it was soooooooo not worth minimum-wage-or-commissions-whichever-is-higher with their crap-ass commissions schedule. Most of the employees there make less than $9/hr), and we definitely had three-cable RCA cables for less than the pricing you seem to be describing. Over here I buy most of my non-essential cables from dollar-stores (two-cable RCA cables for like $2 for 3 feet). Are you looking for 25 inch cables, or 25 *foot* cables? 25 feet's not too hard either.

Hmmm... I'm checking out radioshack.ca right now-- a 24' single-RCA cable costs $13. Product number 15-1539. A triple-cable RCA cable, 12' costs $17 (15-1512). The quality's probably not exactly amazing on either of those cables, but from my experience, you can do a lot worse than Radio Shack cables-- dollar store cables are sooooo much thinner than Radio Shack's cheapest cables.

Firecaster · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 1:54 pm Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 3:14 pm Post subject:

Incidentally, one quality note remains that I forgot to mention earlier: ground loops.

If you plug your computer into your TV and you find that the quality sucks ass, disconnect any cables or antennas from your TV. I found that when I started using my stereo system to play audio from my computer (it makes a big difference if you've got a nice stereo system), I found that I'd get a 60 Hz hum going in my speakers. It was very noticeable, louder than the music coming out of my comptuer on occasion!

One day the hum disappeared mysteriously, only to return again a couple days later. I figured out what had happened there-- I'd disconnected the cable line from my VCR to move it to a different room to copy a tape from another VCR, and when I reconnected the VCR in my room (connecting it to the stereo system, as I always have) the hum returned. Solution? Ensure that the ground cable isn't continuous from your computer to your cable line. Since I hardly ever watched broadcast TV, I simply disconnected my cable line. Problem solved-- whenever something was coming on TV that I wanted to watch, I'd reconnect the cable and not listen to computer music at the same time.

Foxdemon · Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 6

I wacht anime on my 17'' monitor using Divx player ^_^"