Speaking of credits, I wish that Sentai would explicitly credit each role as well as each actor for each episode.
When I watched Episode 2 of Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians (Which I only did for the commentary tracks: the show ain’t worth it otherwise) through Funi’s streaming service the vertical panning shots were rather jerky. When I played the DVD through Media Player Classic with the LAV splitter set up to use hardware-based decoding and video enhancement those scenes were smooth. I wonder if using a different software, like PowerDVD 12, would produce the same smoothness?
So far, every DVD/BD/media file that I’ve tried has been pretty smooth, smoother than its streaming counterpart but yet my players do not say that they are actively smoothing out panning scenes; PowerDVD 12 doesn’t have a very detailed menu for that stuff and it won’t let me change anything on that menu when a blu-ray is being played.
I like the “movie effect” as much as the next guy, but I don’t like jerky panning/scrolling and I don’t mind if my anime looks fluid as, because it is animated, can’t really get that “soap opera effect” that happens when you smooth out live-action.
NewEgg was-only on their eBay store (of all places)-selling Asus Nexus 7 tablets for 130 bucks. I’ve been wanting a cheap, but decent Android device to play around with (I don’t want to root my actual phone) and so I got one. Hopefully it was a smart choice.
Which version was it? Does it have the camera on the back or no? If so, you got the newer one (with the full Kit Kat experience, not the water down Kit Kat)
It is the older model, the HD one instead of the Full HD one, but I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to get a name-brand, well regarded tablet for the price of the hated, no-name tablets.
I wish that it had a SD card slot, but it does have 32 gigs of internal storage. I hear that you can hook a USB drive to it, but only of the device is rooted.
I also see that it is still possible to install Flash on android, so I could watch TAN on it in HD (since it doesn’t seem to give me an HD option when I set my browser to ipad mode). Though I’m concerned that it won’t work as the current version of mobile Firefox doesn’t seem to have plugin support, or at least I no longer see the plugin options in the menu.
As I understand it, 4.4/KitKat broke something that doesn’t allow Flash to work on Firefox. I would assume if they figure what needs to be fixed, it will be back.
Pretty cool. I haven’t really played too much with android as I don’t want to really experiment with my phone and my only other android device was just a single core Gingerbread device, a droid eris.
I really want to get flash working as I streamed upotte on my phone and since it only gave me SD as an option it didn’t look too hot. I don’t want to put the now ancient and unsupported flash onto my jelly bean phone, especially as Googling has told me that flash is rather unstable on jelly bean, albeit on later versions than mine.
Also with flash I could stream crunchyroll in HD. I don’t remember why they took the HD streaming off of their app on android but it hasn’t been an option for me in years and it keeps me from streaming from them. I don’t know of crunchyroll will stream to my phone in HD if I use a browser with its user agent set to iPad. Haven’t tried
Discovered that as cool as my PC case is, I really needed to get one with a fan on the side panel as I have 2 GPUs in CrossFire and there is only about an inch of space between the 2 cards, space which gets so stuffy that it shoots the GPU up over 25* centigrade and causes the GPU to shut itself down.
I guess part of the problem is that the GPU cooler “cheats” and vents a lot of the hot air into the case instead of blowing it all out the back, which is great normally but pretty poor when it vents the hot back into the same 1" space from which it expects to suck in the cool.
If only those darned crypto-currency miners weren’t driving up the prices on any GPUs worth having to ridiculous prices…
Careful… you don’t want to have what happened to me. :blink: Anyway, while we are on the topic of CPU/GPU operating temperatures… how hot does your CPU usually run? My AMD Phenom II in this crappy case with a standard heat sink usually runs 25-40c° in room temperature dependent upon the load it is under.
I would like it to run a lot cooler, but with the stock crap I have ATM… that is a no-go. I even have manually altered the baseline steady heat sink fan speed to 25% which I believe was 10% before so. With all this said… you can never have enough cooling.
I haven’t been logging my CPU temps lately. When I had my overclocked Phenom II 955 ovrclocked by 800-1000 Mhz on the stock cooler I saw serious heat throttling but now that I’ve upgraded to a 8350 with a dual-fan Hyper 212+ air cooler I haven’t been having any heat issues, but I also haven’t been overclocking. I’m still amazed at how usable the Phenom IIs are, since they’re ~5 years old now.
It fascinates me that the XFX 6850, which runs cool even when as overclocked as AMD’s own utility allows, is significantly larger than the XFX 6870. If they were the same length than rigging up a fan to ventilate the gap between cards would be easier. The 6870 also requires 2 power plugs while the 6850 requires only and can be overclocked to reach 6870 levels of performance.
I guess I could swap the cards, taking the slight performance hit but seeing if the 6850 will stay cool in the cramped primary slot.
Google gave me all of my apps but with stock settings; Firefox did by come with adblock edge. The keyboard is completely different from my phone’s.
Software buttons are a total Royal waste, a leap in yge wrong direction. For some reason, the screen has about an inch of empty space beneath it, prefect for buttons, but Google left that empty and made on screen buttons. Also, the on screen buttons don’t have the "menu"button and the equivalent button is in the upper left corner of the screen. That’s the worst place for it.
This thing is more than 2x the size of my phone. It definitely ain’t pocket sized
The menu key is normally hidden actually. When a program is not designed for the on screen keys, it appear in the right of the screen button row as three vertical dots.
I HATE how they did those buttons on the Nexus 4 however. Basically, it’s on the bottom for portrait, and on the right for landscape. If you’re in a program with free rotation, you can have the buttons jump when going to landscape mode. So two of the three positions you can rotate the screen has the buttons in one place. I doubt they fixed it for the Nexus 5.
Almost every tablet I seen has that inch of space there, I guess to have a place to hold the thing in landscape.
I do wish that Android would link the physical menu key to the on-screen menu. I often hold and operate my phone with my right hand and so going to the top-left of the screen to hit the menus isn’t all that fun. If Android could be set to make the menu deploy when the menu button is pressed and for it to appear out of the bottom of the screen it would meet with my approval.
Streaming anime is still kind of a pain. Dolphin crashes when I try and use Flash and if I use the iPad player on TAN (which, interestingly, will play in landscape or portrait) there’s no HD option. I can use Flash in FireFox but it takes a while for the video to load and I’ve been getting Amazon “video not found” errors when trying to turn on the HD. Crunchyroll’s app definitely still isn’t in HD on Android. That’s a shame.
Funi’s app works for me now, since my Nexus isn’t a VZW device, but it is kind of awkward to use as it requires making diagonal swipes across the screen, very Fruit Ninja-esque.
Maybe now that I have a sizable screen and some more virtual horsepower I can look into getting some games on Android. Some of my friends have been nagging me to play the Fate games but they don’t seem to be on anything besides PSP or PSV. Except for Agarest War and Spectral Souls I haven’t found too many JRPGs on Play.
…I was wondering how apps that don’t have an on screen menu would work. Thanks.
Like https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By1zvnWgV4tUazlmaGpSU3ZsN0k/edit?usp=sharing. See the three dots? That’s a result of this app not being designed to have an on screen menu button, and not having whatever code is needed to let Android know the app is aware devices don’t have menus now. (Froyo was the newest version of Android when I found this app BTW, and hasn’t been updated since)
I found some apps that give me the 3 dots. I wish there were an option to always have that button.
Now that I have experienced 2560*1440 I can’t find satisfaction in any lower resolution. PPI is nice and all but a higher PPI @ a lower res isn’t as good as a higher res display with a lower PPI. The only real tablet that goes that high res is the Kindle Fire HDX but I’m not a fan of a walled garden Android platform. It’s an oxymoron.
On my Android phone I can enter numbers by either switching to the numeric keypad or by long-pressing letters in the top row of the default alphabetic keyboard.
On the Nexus I can only enter numbers by switching to the numeric keyboard. It really slows me down. However, the Nexus does come with an emoticon button on its keyboard, which my phone does not. So I don’t know what means but Google thinks that it is important that I can type it with just a single tap.
I have https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nuance.swype.dtc installed. My last non-Nexus had it built in, and I had to install it on my Nexus 7 when I got it. This was long before Google included the swipe feature in their BTW, but the long press for numbers (AND symbols, like @ / ! and what have you) made me keep using it. There is a free trial version for you to try out.
Anyway, while we are on the topic of CPU/GPU operating temperatures… how hot does your CPU usually run? My AMD Phenom II in this crappy case with a standard heat sink usually runs 25-40c° in room temperature dependent upon the load it is under.
means but Google thinks that it is important that I can type it with just a single tap.