Which resolution of anime to download in for the best quality on aired releases?

which resolution of anime to download in for the best quality on aired releases?

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>he downloads anime
Just stream lmao

I'm only downloading 1080p lately, the difference is really notable. Unless you've got a datacap/shit connection, there's no downside.

What kind of braindead question is that?
The larger resolutions will generally have higher quality (although it depends on the colorspace and compression, too).
With older shows 720p will generally be good enough, but relatively recent releases profit from 1080p.

>the difference is really notable
I have a shot connection, so I download in 720, and tell myself there is no difference because I'm really just sour grapes over my internet speeds.

360p

No, what it really depends on is what the original file was. And it wasn't 1080p in most cases when it comes to anime.

1080p is literally just bigger 720p. There's no difference in quality in seasonal releases.

Go back normiescum

>taking the bait
don't enable him

There's no definitive answer to this question, it depends largely on what the source quality is, what video player you're using and what your actual screen resolution is

For example if you know the source is 720p but there's a 1080p file on offer but you use MPV with Autistic upscaling plugins obviously you should use the 720p file as it will be better than whatever retarded upscaling method is being used by the distributors of the file

>normiescum
It's normalfag.
You need to go back.

This but unironically

4k or bust

360p. You know how some things just look better with less detail, because exposing too much detail also reveals the imperfections? That's anime.

Just stream there are 1080p streams now

So, Yea Forums has been reduced to this, huh, I almost wish Daiz would come back, almost

Same as your monitor. You should avoid scaling if you can.

psst they are all scaled when aired.

So? You're adding down-/up-scale on top of that.
And more often than not the quality is not optimal.
I do. It's a pain to download video on each device that I own.
Resolution, in and itself, means nothing.

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Kill yourself

Why, though?

>When you don't know what you're talking about.
kufufu

How new are you? Honestly

Care to elaborate? If I remember correctly, Catmull-Rom with ringing filter gets the best result for downscaling, and I can't quite remember which is best for upscaling.
Jinc is nice but I was never used NNEDI.
But more often than not it will be something suboptimal, so 1:1 is the best choice.
Something like two and a half years on this board.
It's just triggers my autism that streaming is automatically associated with Youtube-like service for the braindead retards who pretend that they have better things to do than to care about the quality of the content and advertising.

>2019
>4k TV's and monitors are common
>still no 1440p anime let alone 4k

Kill yourself

I love you too, user.

Geez, is like it had something to do with the anime itself and no how the video is encoded or something

720 because very few anime are made at source any higher than that. 1080+ is always upscaled

rare 1080p anime

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Fuck's sake..
For starters, 720p is either the original resolution that most stuff gets produced at or downscaled a bit. Very rarely does anything get produced at 1080 so most such releases are upscaled - they might just profit from being less bitstarved (from shitty compression) than 720p, which can happen. Streaming sites like kissanime have shit even further compressed and slap dumb watermatks on top, so if you give a single fuck about quality avoid streaming.

Downscaling in media player does not reduce quality unless you have a really shitty program, it will generally give you a sharper result because more information is available and can look better than native resolution.

Resolution means a fucking lot - it's the upper bound for the amount of information that you can fit in an image. Something of lower resolution can only look better if the higher resolution thing was shittily compressed or if the original content was upscaled and the extra information was added artificially - which happens to be the case with most 1080p anime.

Resorts to I've been around so long I know what I'm talking about.

>360p retro
>720p fucking normalfag
>1080p patrician

What do you even need the resolution for? Anime is generally not all that detailed to begin with. I don't see how that benefits the end consumer experience at all. You're looking at slightly crisper simplistic animation.

I just said what it was, I didn't give an opinion, user.

Not that user, but I'd say that's about it - sharp lines without fucking up any textures or introducing artifacts/blur through upscaling. You don't NEED it per se, hell you mostly wouldn't miss any details on 480p, but it's nice to look at.

There is because of shit streaming compression. 720p bitrate is a lot lower so you get worse quality.

>For starters, 720p is either the original resolution that most stuff gets produced at or downscaled a bit
So? Most monitors are 1080p nowadays and space is dirt-cheap. If you think that your on-the-fly upscale is better than pre-made one, I suggest you think again.
Unless the creator of the file is an idiot, then all bets are off.
>Downscaling in media player does not reduce quality
It does if it's not a perfect match like 2x2 > 1x1. And even then you need to determine the colour for the resulting pixel. It's not as trivial as you think it is.
>upper bound for the amount of information that you can fit in an image
Yes, but in practice, RAW video has an enormous size. In practice, it's the combination of the codec, profile(which is usually a tradeoff between the computational complexity and the size), bitrate and resolution.
The resolution has meaning only as long as everything else if fixed or when it's much lower than the target device.
>I've been around so long
Two and a half is still almost a newfag.
Most of my knowledge is quite rusty, though, because it was acquired way before that when I was maintaining the torrent for the long running anime and actually looked into what is best for encoding/decoding shit.

144p

1080p is like 0.1% better quality than 720p when both are fullscreened. I've compared them, it's extremely minor.
I go with the 720p for more convenience.

1080, so when i take my pantyshot screenshots they're all already 1920x1080 ready

>If you think that your on-the-fly upscale is better than pre-made one, I suggest you think again.
It... usually is. Honestly we had this all covered like over 10 years ago or something.

Then the maintainer is an idiot and you're right to use something that is close to the original. But if he is the only source of the video, chances are 720p version is fucked up too.

>What kind of braindead question is that?
Does it matter when you give him an equally brain dead answer? No, "larger resolutions will generally have higher quality" and no "With older shows 720p will generally be good enough". All of this depends on the source and what resolution it was mastered in. That's why sites like anibin exist in the first place.

It's just anime, there isn't much consideration given the quality and resolution at all. Same with manga. Rare is the day I find a hi resolution digital release, it's like nobody fucking knows what they're doing in this stupid backwards country. They'd probably still release and produce at 480p if the world wouldn't rage at the idea.

for starters not horriblesubs

720p + madvr

what the FUCK is wrong with horrible?

>720 because very few anime are made at source any higher than that.
>For starters, 720p is either the original resolution that most stuff gets produced at or downscaled a bit.
Meanwhile, in reality, every second show that has aired this season was mastered in HV1280+.

>memevr
Lol

nice try, I won't get baited into trying mpv again buddy

to be honest I don't give a shit

Then don't offer your uninformed opinion.

Correct, but my point still stands. 1:1 is usually better if the maintainer is not an idiot. If he is, then *probably* the higher the better because it slightly reduces the detail loss.

I'm just saying that you are literally wasting GPU power and resources on something, that's not even noticeable.

>not watching anime on your Lenovo ThinkPad™ t480s running Windows 10™ 1903 using KLite Codecs
Fucking plebians

Pre-made upscale might be better, but not necessarily nor significantly so and you're still just creating information via filters. Since you can get fairly decent upscaling in stuff like mpv and mpc-hc it ends up being a tradeoff between size and computing power needed for playback. Even with cheap storage, a gigabyte per episode of seasonal stuff seems ridiculous to me when it doesn't make much of a difference.
Sure, downscaling depends on the ratio so if you're downscaling by 3% you're gonna end up with stuff looking funny, but going from 1080 to 720 generally gives you plenty of extra data to work with and you won't end up with a messed up image. As long as you have a non-retarded algorithm that takes each pixel in the resized image and approximates it from multiple source pixels you'll be fine, and that's most of them nowadays.
Yes, nobody uses raw video, but if we assume the encodes are made in similar quality then the resolution plays an important role. If the larger resolution file has worse quality, it might not. We pretty much agree here.
If you're referring to anibin analysis, i believe the entries like HV1280+/844 mean 1280 horizontal, 844 vertical - a bit over 720p but nowhere near 1080p.

>wasting GPU power and resources on something, that's not even noticeable.

Suck to be you with less than 20/20 vision.

Yeah, i checked, anibin uses HVFULL for full HD (1080)