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So how do you watch your anime and with what? Sitting infront of your PC/Laptop or maybe your home entertainment system., Pictures or it never happened.

I recently bough myself a 32" Sony Bravaria and I use the HDMI connection on my PC to connect to the Sony so I can watch my fansubs on it. So now I can vegitate in my bed while watching Anime

I watch it infront of my PC...
I have a 22" LCD which I watch it on...

Ill try get hold of a camera so I can post pics

I'm still not sure - how do 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios appear on a widescreen LCD?

nuku_za wrote:I'm still not sure - how do 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios appear on a widescreen LCD?

Well, 16:9 is widescreen...

So im guessing you mean how they appear on 16:10 widescreen monitors?

Firstly, 4:3 has black boarders on the side on a widescreen monitor.
Then 16:9 has black boarders at the top and bottom of the screen on a 16:10 monitor.
16:9 looks like it does on the picture posted by Larch on a normal 16:9 TV, in full screen that is

Ill get some pictures and then post them for you

I watch it on my 22" and I use it for my PC, PS3 and 360. A few pixels short of full 1080p but it's the best my budget could get me. At first I thought of getting a full 1080p 32", but I presumed 1080p will soon be surpassed so I settled for a simple 22" LCD which looks absolutely beautiful with anything that I use it with (even downscaled 1080p looks crispy clean)

What do you guys use for audio?

I've been looking into surround sound earphones but they're quite pricey so for the moment it's Griffin earpods with headphone virtualisation.

For audio, well, I use to use my XFX multimedia gaming headset untill I got myself a Sonic Gear Tattoo 333 speaker kit and now I use that...

Id like to get a Z5500 system pretty cool, just need to get some cash and a few other things first

For sound I use my pc`s creative audigy 2 and creative 5.1's

On my 74cm Samsung flat screen TV that's hooked up to my PC as a 2nd monitor.

hook up my tv with my laptop and lay in bed watch~

nuku_za wrote:I'm still not sure - how do 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios appear on a widescreen LCD?

Here we go...

This is how a 4:3 looks on a 16:10 widescreen monitor:
http://kamikakushi-pantsu.com/temp/pcf/notwide.jpg

This is how a 16:9 looks on a 16:10 widescreen monitor:
http://kamikakushi-pantsu.com/temp/pcf/wide.jpg

OK, thanks!!

Thought the image might be stretched...

Will hopefully buy the ol' LCD end of the year.

Nope, it doesnt stretch it.

BTW, I shouldnt have used the same anime and definatly not the same scene...

ToLove-Ru is broadcast in 4:3 as well as 16:9 HD
Soo, the 4:3 is obviously the 4:3 version and the 16:9 is the 16:9 version...

They are different files

I hook-up my PC or laptop up to the TV (nothing fancy) and watch it whilst sprawled out on the couch, with a wireless mouse close at hand to pause the show when the dialogue goes too fast. I tend to also keep a repository of snacks and a hot beverage close by too.

'22 LCD, just fine with it for now.

ZeroS you can't see the difference between 720p and 1080p on anything smaller than a '42 so no loss there. Unless your going all out big, a 720p set's perfect for HD.

Rayne wrote:'22 LCD, just fine with it for now.

ZeroS you can't see the difference between 720p and 1080p on anything smaller than a '42 so no loss there. Unless your going all out big, a 720p set's perfect for HD.

How so?

Am I mistaken in thinking that 1920 x 1080 is full 1080p?

Not at all, you just need to know full HD's nothing but a marketing gimmick.

Look, if you have 20k itching and a big room to fill, by all means, because you'll be sitting much further from the screen. But for the average Joe sitting in his average sized room, 720p is perfect. At this veiwing distance you cannot notice the difference between a '32 720p and a '42 1080p set, thus full HD will not look any better, it will look exactly the same.

Should you have 50x PS3 and 360 games line them up. I bet you either console 40 of them will only be 720p supported. So what's the use if the bigger set's upscaling your 720p image to span it's diaplay? None whatsoever.

Future-proof? Yeah sure. Benefit right now? None. Check this out.

Ok, so from what I understand there isn't substantial quality difference between 1080p and the lesser degrees. The differences lie primarily in size and need for resources in which 1080p is huge and hungry.

It's now no wonder that even top notch games are rendered in 720p.

Thanks for the informative link.