Forum - View topicHelp about anime and Blu-ray players.
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Naotas Forehead
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I own a cheap blu ray and was wondering if there is any thing I can download to watch anime movies?
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Leprochaun
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I've never owned a blu-ray player so I've no idea what they can do besides play blu-ray discs.
Is it similar to a roku in that it can stream things from netflix/hulu/other? If it can you'd probably want to get a subscription to crunchyroll or hulu plus provided it supports them. I'm not sure about any sort of apps you can put onto a roku or a blu-ray that would play anime movies without requiring a subscription. |
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Key
Moderator
 Posts: 18587 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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And making requests for how to get access to anything that isn't legally available in a particular format is strictly forbidden. I'll leave this open for the moment (aside from correcting the thread title), but any posts along that line will get this locked.
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varmintx
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Key is being overly generous. Give us some details...or ANY details, and I'll likely be able to help you.
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Dessa
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To answer this in the legal-est way possible...
If your BD player is "cheap", as you call it, it probably does not have the capability to stream video directly to it. What this will leave you with is downloading. There are very few legal downloading options, and none free. Amazon Instant Video does have a few titles, as well as Playstation Network (if they're still there, at least). I think there's some on iTunes, and last I heard both FUNimation and Viz offer some titles for download. Depending on the title and where you're getting it from, you're likely going to be paying about $2-5 per episode. Once you have the episodes, you're going to have up to 3 options. All, two, one, or none of them may work for you. Option 1: Direct data transfer to your BD player. This requires on-board memory that can hold enough data, as well as a way to get it from your computer to your player (probably involving USB). Option 2: "Streaming" via off-board memory. By this I mean having a flash drive, external harddrive, etc, that you connect to the player via USB and it can read. Option 3: Burning the files to disc. If this will work, and the media it'll work with depends on your player. I have a DVD/VCR combo, and while it will read files burned onto a CD, it won't read files burned onto a DVD. Your player, if it is "cheap", likely won't read files burned onto a BD or DVD, but might with CDs. With my own experience, low-quality (i.e. not what you'd be buying from the companies) episodes fit 4-5 episodes on a CD. The episodes you'd be buying might fit 1 per disc, but might be too big. If you'd want to burn them as BD, you'd have to make sure you have a program that lets you author a BD/DVD (meaning, make it with menus and such like a real BD/DVD), which, in my experience, have varying usefulness. And you'll still have size problems. All three of these (except for authoring a BD/DVD) also require that your BD player can read the file type. All in all, unless it's a show that's only available (legally) in a digital-format, you're going to be better off with just buying the releases. |
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