The World of Urusei Yatsura's Lum
Miscellaneous => General Discussion => Topic started by: Urusei0Yatsura on January 22, 2010, 03:08:06 AM
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What model television and DVD/Blu-ray player do you watch anime, what are its special features? and what experiences have you had with them?
I have an 8 year old Oritron DVD100 that has no special features and is PAL region 2. I suspect Oritron is something of an obscure brand as I can't seem to find anything about it and don't think it even has its own website. I can't judge the quality of the sound and picture as that is the only DVD player I've watched, the only camparison being that it looks better than VHS. The problems I've had with it is a delay of around 10-20 minutes of the disc tray opening after pressing the OPEN button; this has only began during 2009.
I have a PAL Sakuran 31.5" LCD 1080p 50Hz HDTV that has a grainy picture in dim light that is noticable even with the anti-grain turned on maximum, black faded areas in the corners of the screen which oddly enough only happen when Top Gear is on and average sound quality. I used to have a 90s 50Hz PAL Panasonic standard definition cathode ray tube television with Dolby stereo sound that had a perfect picture, making me think that flat screens, despite having a higher resolution are a step back rather than a step forward in quality (has anyone else had a problems with the picture on a CRT TV?) and had richer sound quality with deeper base on its built in stereo speakers.
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I've always watched it on my tiny 13" MacBook screen, the smaller PSP screen, or the even smaller iPod screen. But I got myelf a 40" Samsung LCD a month ago, so I've been enjoying HD anime on that ^^
I just use my PS3 for DVDs/Blurays.
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I have a philips dvd player from walmart, it was around 40-50 bucks,its DivX compatible so I can burn dvds without transcoding.
Now I have a bluray player that plays files from a flash drive and it plays MP4s and MKVs.
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I now have a 26 inch Kogan LED TV with Panasonic blu ray 5.1 surround sound system. The sound and picture quality is good.
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When the 2010 Vocaloid Concert discs came available, I know I wanted to buy the BluRay version, as I consider this show to be Very Important historically*. Small problem: no BluRay player (just a DVD player). Some research brought me to my Panasonic DMP-BD65 BluRay player (which also plays DVD, CD, and .mp3 discs among many others).
At the moment I am still viewing these shows through my old Sony 24" standard television set: been shopping for an HDTV and will likely upgrade soon.
(* of equal importance: a Japanese DVD won't play on a region-1 DVD player, BUT a Japanese BluRay WILL play on a BluRay player configured for the NorthAmerican market since they and I and you are all in the same "district" BluRay-wise)