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How do you store your anime, /a/nons?
>>142384756
on Usagi's laptop
External HDD and DVDs/BDs
>>142384756
Keep em on a 4TB hard drive, backed up on another local 4TB hard drive.
I should also keep a text file inventory of what animes I have, because I'm not going to store animes remotely. Using the inventory I can just redownload them if my computer is ever stolen or something.
>>142384756
I convert them to text files and print them out on copy paper. Then if I just want to rewatch something I scan the paper and reverse decode the text.
George, Paul and Ringo are where I store my animu. John is for vidya games but is mostly empty now since Yoko was the SSD I had my OS on, got corrupted and I lost my Steam library and haven't taken the time to download it all again.
I have a record cutter made for each episode so that I can engrave them onto vinyl because everyone knows analog has more detail and is just better
>>142384756
vanilla 4tb drive
>>142384756
Cassette tapes.
>>142387515
Impressive.
>>142385270
>Animés
>>142387515
Is this possible? That's kinda interesting
Would the source for an episode even fit on one sheet of paper?
>>142387801
>Yoko instead of Brian
Shameful
>>142387515
is that actually possible?
>>142389161
>Brian
Yoko because it left John mostly empty and devoid of anything good. If the OS on the SSD had completely destroyed John, I would have named it Mark David Chapman.
>>142389334
It doesn't feel like it contains 500mb of video because it doesn't. You're on the same level of understanding computers as people who think stuff in the recycle bin doesn't take up hard drive space.
It got truncated, for whatever reason.
>>142388915
It's not impossible, you just need to use base64 or some other way to represent it as only printable characters. Every 1MB of data would end up needing over well over a million printable ASCII characters. You're not talking about a sheet of paper, you're talking about hundreds of novels worth of text.
>>142389721
>You're not talking about a sheet of paper, you're talking about hundreds of novels worth of text.
Is there any anime fan dedicated enough to print out every episode of his favorite show like this? What if he covered every inch of space in his house with the pages? Would he then be living in the anime?
External HDD
>>142384756
On my hard drive.
VHS tapes with op/ed removed
Purchased DVDs/BDs from Japan (US products are garbage)
Internal drive for things I'm currently watching
I also have some old series like UFO Princess and Cosplay Complex on a CD somewhere
>>142389721
Add to this that scanning the data back in is non-trivial. We're certainly better at it than we used to be, and the problem is vastly simplified by using a standard font in the first place, but it wouldn't take much to corrupt the file.
I have a plex server with over 6TB of storage space. Granted, I have other things besides anime but it does take up a good chunk of it.
Gonna eventually get another 3-5TB HDD so I can put more stuff on.
![[SMC] Sailor Moon R 60 (R1 DVD.H264.AC3) [A8212292].mkv_snapshot_08.20_[2015.10.25_23.36.40].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3LHJmjf.jpg "[SMC] Sailor Moon R 60 (R1 DVD.H264.AC3) [A8212292].mkv_snapshot_08.20_[2015.10.25_23.36.40].jpg")
On Dylitium Crystals shoved up your warp core.
Betamax cassettes.
I have a file server with like 30 TB of storage, so I just keep my anime on that.
>>142384756
>500GB for watch and delete
>750GB for games/manga
>1TB for storing anime, have other shit on it though
>Just got a new 2TB external for only anime/movies
>Downloading anime
Why the fuck would you do that?
>>142389274
Technically. Probably thousands of dollars of ink / toner for a single video.
External hard drive
In the fridge of course
Word document
https://youtu.be/IoMo07uyn6M
I watch what I want to, and then I clear it off. What do I look like, the fucking Japanese National Library or something?
>>142391310
>Chinese
>VHS
They've moved onto VCD.
>>142393988
You could have at least cleaned that shit out before storing your anime in it.
>>142393807
>He keeps the same name when they were downloaded as torrents
>He doesn't rename them to make it look more decent
Just write ["name of anime" latino] in Google and I get dozens of pages to watch online.
I can't waste my HDD space in anime when i could use it to store videogames instead
>>142386029
>Two drive backup
>Text for for knowing what you have on the drives
Are you me?
>Mainly store on family 1TB drive
>320GB personal encrypted drive for backup
>Text file on pc with all the folder names
I'm a NEET so i don't have much storage space, as a result I only can download 360p anime
In Al Capone's vault.
>>142396975
You are the pleb actually.
At the end of each year's autumn cour, the entire year's broadcast output is muxed into unified files containing subs and dubs in various languages.
These are then copied onto numbered SD cards.
A 7 inch tablet, bought especially for this occasion, in prepared with adequate player software, an index for the SD cards are some relevant information on each series.
The tablet and cards, along with a solar charger, are then placed into a metal can, which is filled with mineral oil and soldered shut.
The can is subsequently buried along a local highway, one mile away from the previous year's can.
This is one example of technology making things easier. The way things used to be, I would have to get a small TV, a VCR and a generator, and bury them in an oil drum with cassettes representing only a fraction of the year's output.
>>142384756
Recycling Bin
>>142384756
On a server with the rest of my media.
8 x 4tb hdds.
>>142384756
750 gb HDD for both anime and hentaicompressed
>storing anime
Are you one of those people?
6 TB NAS
>>142384756
The world stores it for me.
>storing things you have already seen
What's the point?
>>142384756
Actual official DVDs on a shelf and on the HD of an old computer I only use for storage.
>>142384756
Kissanime.to stores them for me.
>>142405222
>not masterani.me
>>142405245
>Not a single dubbed anime
Materani.me is shit compared to kissanime
>>142384756
I feel weird for saying this after reading everyone else's responses, but
For anime that's actually good/that I consider worth owning and that has rewatch value, I own the blu-rays/dvds.
For everything else (i.e. things I watch just to pass the time), I just stream it because I know I'll watch through it once and then never think about it again.
>>142396975
I keep the extra information purposely
>>142384756
I don't
>>142396975
Renaming them screws up torrent seeding.
On floppy disks as highly compressed video files not exceeding 1.44mb per episode.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0329-K5YaBQ
>>142384756
NAS server. Everything else is for plebs.
>>142384756
Sorry to be am autistic Little fuck but.
What's the point of downloading animu? For flac/10bit audio?
>>142405590
I don't mind spening lots of money on anime. I've spent well over 1k on my server and HDDs just to store it, and I've spent much more than that on my computer, TV to watch on, manga and merch I buy.
That said, if I bought BDs for even a fraction of the anime I've watched, it would be into the 6 figures.
>>142409634
Better quality than streaming.
Archival purposes if for any reason your favourite shows become inaccessible.
>>142409688
Another question
Do those mad vr /especial codec configuration change anything?
Implying I download bluray rips
>>142409634
Watching things in high quality
Making webms/taking proper screenshots
Makes rewatching more convenient
Can pick and chose what subtitles and encodes you prefer.
Archiving. I have plenty of files that are no longer obtainable anywhere, even though filesharing is the best and easiest it's ever been. Things don't last forever.
>>142410072
madvr can create noticeable differences in video, but don't lose perspective. In reality it's subjective whether the differences are better, and you can live without it.
Also, madvr makes taking screenshots a pain in the ass, so I don't use it.
>>142410072
>Do those mad vr /especial codec configuration change anything?
Are you serious?
>>142410381
>In reality it's subjective whether the differences are better,
You don't know how to confiure properly. There's nothing subjective about accurate color reproduction and debanding.
>Also, madvr makes taking screenshots a pain in the ass, so I don't use it.
How bad are you with technology to think this?
>>142409634
As mentioned, free streaming can be unreliable and mediocre to bad in quality. Paid streaming services may have a limited catalog and carry some cost. Sharing streaming of either with friends can be a challenge.
Then again, I also buy BR/DVD when they go on sale.
>>142389825
>Would he then be living in the anime?
I need to do this
>>142409634
Better video and audio quality is a perk (though you have to hunt for a good release). My main things are
more convenient viewing experience, because desktop player is so much more powerful than an internet player.
much easier to take screenshots, which will be higher quality too.
and I take a lot of screenshots. I got 380 from just the first two episodes of Oreimo. That's on pace for 5000+ for the whole show. I couldn't dream of doing that without downloading.
>>142410425
You need to let go of your autism.
If you did a blind test, plenty of people would say they liked the non madvr version better.
>>142410836
>Any attention to detail or semblance of standards for you hobby is now referred to as autism
Fucking love this meme.
>>142405590
Good for you for supporting quality anime.
>>142384756
>Download show
>Immediately delete it once I'm done
>Buy DVD/Blu Ray if it was really good
>>142410766
With a lot of desktop players, like VLC for example, you can copy down the stream's URL from the browser and open that using the player.
As for quality, my God, they're drawing for fuck's sake. Until you get to the point where it's really blocky, you lose absolutely nothing from one quality setting to another. HD anime is like the most autistic idea ever to come out of the industry.
>>142412206
Realizing someone is a tripfag on /a/ and saving yourself the trouble of responding to a shitpost is like realizing you're responding to a Canadian flag on /pol/.
>>142412323
And you respond anyway you retard.
>>142412419
>Calling someone an idiot is the same as seriously responding to the content of their post
Brilliant.
I convert the episodes to raw binary, hack every printer in the city and make them print it out.
>>142412459
It is, attention is attention, it does not matter if it is positive or negative.
>>142412529
>attention is attention, it does not matter if it is positive or negative.
Congratulations. You managed to be almost as stupid as the tripfag.
>>142412622
But not as retarded as (you)
>>142412652
>(you)
No, you're definitely the most retarded.
>>142384756
>store anime
What, why would you do that? Watch and delete it, though I have to admit that I have Evangelion and Oreimo stored somewhere.
>>142407854
That's what hardlinks are for
I only save the finest, High Quality Blu-ray rips of the anime I watch.
Then I save it all on Floppy Disk :U
