So, a post titled weirdly and written by 'zeust'? Okay, it's fun time.
Unfortunately, it's not really a fun time and if you ask me honestly, days of darkness have arrived. Anyhow, let's not delve into more attractive way of saying it and be frank: Server is left with ~10 GB and we are at a point where we can't really upload any non-ongoing thing. Even with ongoing stuff, 10 GB will be consumed in a week or two. So, what I am trying to say is:
After much discussion we have decided to start deleting stuff.
And following things will be our target for deletion: 1- Duplicate encodes. (Like BDs version from different encoders.)
2- HDTV 720p releases of the anime that already have a BD 720p release on Hi10.
3- BD 720p releases of the anime that already have a BD 1080p release.
Let me be clear about the 3rd point. We have already deleted many duplicate things and even HDTV releases, but we believe we still have many completely unnecessary releases that we can delete to make some space; however, that will be, let's be optimistic and say, ~25 GB. It's next to nothing as it will be covered in few weeks as well. So what then? Well, that's where the 3rd step will kick in.
What the hell, isn't it a bit harsh? Yes, it is. But we can't help it anymore. Normally in cases like such, we request our fan to donate (which in a way I'm telling you indirectly even now XD) but unfortunately reality is pretty harsh. People donate for one time and get over it even though I deeply emphasized in my previous post (when server space was almost NULL) that every one should keep donating even little. Anyway, as things stand now WE CAN'T AFFORD TO UPGRADE OUR SERVER BECAUSE WE DON'T GET MUCH DONATION. If we upgrade next month hoping that you will donate after reading this post and the month after that we get no donation we WILL LOSE THE SERVER AS WELL AS ALL THE DATA (ALL ANIME WE HAVE ATM). Considering much regarding this, we decided not to take such a huge risk, but start deleting stuff to create some space. On a side note, upgrading (2TB extra space) will make our donation target to be €120 monthly.
So, how is it going to affect Hi10 in future? Simply said, since we will have to delete BD 720ps eventually, we won't be able to encode BD 720ps in future. Only BD 1080ps will get the chance to be a part of Hi10.
Now, time for some frankly talk:
First thing I want to mention is that if you are thinking that maybe BD 720ps shouldn't be deleted because you can't play 1080ps, then, unfortunately, you'll have to cope with it somehow. I once used to have core duo 2 and I could watch 1080p videos flawlessly. I highly doubt anyone having a system below that in this age, but if you happen to have such a system, get a 'real system' seriously. Moreover, look at the era we are entering; 4K is getting popular and soon 1080p will become standard. Considering the trend and the future, keeping 720ps while deleting 1080ps is seriously counter-productive measure and that's the main reason we won't do it.
Second thing I want to discuss is 'the donations'. All I can do is to say: Donate. Last time I carefully spoon-fed people that how even 1$ from 5% of our visitors can save Hi10 easily, but after a few months we are at the same point. Even now if you are getting passionate, don't be... What we really want is little but steady donation, not a one time donation. Instead of exhausting your pocket in one go, it's better to give little by little (if you can afford obviously); psychologically speaking it's like this: Jogging for 3 hours in one day will weaver your resolve next day because well... jogging for 3 hours is horrendously tiring, thus the next day when you think of 'jogging' you will automatically get the idea of 'the trauma you had for that 3 hours'. But if you jog for 20 mins, the next day you will be able to do it again because well... it's just 20 mins, c'mon. So you might end up jogging for 20 mins for the entire year and that's just way more better than a one time 3-hour jogging. It's not really relevant to donation, you might think, but our mind does somethings unconsciously without even getting your permission, ironically. So, it's better to follow the advice of your well-wisher, I mean ME. XD
The situation of donations in a nutshell:
'Getting less donation?'
'What should we do?'
'Ah, zeust, please spank people.'
(After one spanking-session)
'Got good donations lasting roughly 2 months (last time 3 months).'
(After ~2 months)
'Almost touching the target.'
(After another month)
'Getting less donation?'
(Another spanking-session)
(After ~3 months)
(Another spanking-session, te- wait, wtf? People have started to enjoy getting spanked, instead of donating.)
It might be funny, but it is somewhat similar to this, if not all. What I mean to say is: This isn't the first time we are making such a post. Maybe we aren't destined to donation XD What I actually mean to say is: YOU ARE NOT DONATING. Actually you have no right to donate to us, but ironically we are ALL dependent on you. (Yes, you... Yes yes, you... not you, the one with some money, I mean XD) We are devoting a noticeable portion of our life to Hi10 (for free), so maybe you should be a bit considerate too? (I don't believe, I'm TRAINING you how to donate.)
Btw, the title 'donation that Hi10 gets' is a rip-off from anime title 'Basketball that Kuroko Plays' XD
Third, the purpose of this post might appear a bit confusing. It's more of a premonition, you could say, but we decided to share it because we care about you. (Why else are we doing all the hard work on encoding and all?) We have been discussing this for many days and before we take any drastic measure, it's more humane to aware our fans that even though we are awesome, there comes a time when awesome things have to sacrifice a portion of their awesomeness. (In this case: Hi10 deleting its releases to save space).
Fourth, it'd be a waste of time to suggest us to host files on file-hosting servers (MEGA etc). We work in this field. We know the upsides and downsides of such services. But if you think that there's some creative way that can really be awesome, I don't mind your sharing it.
Lastly, all those who ARE donating or those who ONCE donated, we are really grateful for your attention. This post is not meant as 'Well, you donated but it didn't help.' We are seriously in favor of all the fans who love us, watch me troll, follow us and donated to Hi10. The fact that I'm bluntly saying that 'it's NOT like who donated previously didn't help much' means that we certainly are thankful of you by being transparent. (Or maybe I'm playing a reverse psychology on you and just know how to make you happy?? XD) Well, if I'm being that truthful, then accept this truth as well: THANKS FOR DONATING TO US, I/WE REALLY LOVE YOUR LOVE FOR US. XD
NOTE ABOUT PICTURE:
It has many meanings and those having a light heart should skip this section XD
01- Isn't it cute? Doesn't it make you wonder 'OMG, why are you crying? She says 'onii-chan, donate' and you be like 'Here I come. I'm at the top of the world...' XD
02- Maybe it's telling you how are we feeling about deleting the stuff we encoded and put so much effort into.
03- Maybe it's telling us how you are feeling after hearing 'BD 720ps' are going to decrease.
04- Maybe it's telling both (Hi10 and you) that she doesn't even care and just has her own reasons.
05- Maybe it's telling the donator that we just can't write down how grateful we are for your support.
06- Maybe it's telling me that you did manage to write down how grateful Hi10 is. So 5th point is a lie?
07- Maybe it's telling you to tell me that I should not make fun of her and let her rest in piece.
08- Maybe she has realized that I'm a sadist?
09- Maybe I have realized I've got some one to troll?
10- Maybe you have realized it's getting out of control???
So as I said, it's a masterpiece of its own kind.
LAST NOTE:
Don't forget to keep an optimistic mind about all this situation and keep helping us whenever possible. If you can donate, that's the best we can get. Otherwise, we'll have to take drastic measures to save Hi10 but be with us (if you want to, of course.)
P.S: By the way, if you happen to notice any duplicate (or unnecessary) releases, you can always inform us (on chatango, or by commenting on the respective post). It's better to have 1000 pair of eyes, instead of 20 pair of eyes.
177 thoughts on “Hi10 – Going HIGH – Or Down? | Since it’s HIGH, it can’t really decide”
As Zeust said, we don’t need much but steady donations and that will allow us to upgrade the server and save BD720ps.
We don’t wanna delete them either since it takes tremendous amount of time to encode them, deleting them will be our be our last resort if donations weren’t to stay steady.
Yea, I work everyday and i’m sure a few of your other users do too. I’m willing to donate $5-10, every single month for at least the next 12 months if not longer. If there are other like minded individuals, lets get together and sponsor these motherfuckers who make the internet awesome.
If no better option will be found, it would make sense to anounce the next batch of condemned releases a week in advance, so anyone concerned could download or request to keep them.
Point 3 is a bummer, but if you could actually consider the sakuga in an anime that would help, shows that have alot of sakuga animation can be encoded at 1080p whilst those with little or none can be left at 720p.
Can you please tell us which series you are going to delete ?
I would like to download those series and keep seeding them for others whenever I can… I don’t really have some crazy upload speeds, but at least all that time you people spent encoding those series wont go to waste.
Maybe there will be some other people who will be willing to help seeding those series too.
I agree with iScarlet. I have a 2TB new HD and decent DL/UL speed (~1.5 MB/s). I can download the soon-to-be-deleted 720p BD versions, and seed them when people need in the future. I love Hi10 encodes and they shouldn’t be easily deleted.
At the same time, let’s contribute to this anime community that has been providing best quality encodes to us.
I know you’re going to hate hearing this, but it actually makes more sense to delete the 1080p versions of things… This is a choice I have had to live with for years… for one thing, my monitor is only 720p itself, so1080p does me little good. For another, I know from long discussions that many people here use older pc’s that do not handle 1080p quality very well, so you may lose some people… either way I guess, as I also know some people here want 1080p and hate 720p… hmm… but the major point is that I have been saving all my anime downloads for the last 12 years or so, so I know how hard it is to choose what stays and what goes, to save space… I can understand only wanting the highest quality, but 1080p’s are literally double the server space of 720p’s… so you can save twice as much space by getting rid of 1080p stuff… getting rid of 100 copies of 720p series will give you about 1TB of space… but getting rid of the 1080p versions might get you 3TB’s… it makes a huge difference if space is as much of a concern as quality… if it’s not though, I understand.
Not really, it sounds like it makes sense for you, but not for the rest of the world. I’m currently using a $350 desktop PC to watch anime and 720p and 1080p releases alike have no trouble with k-lite. I also have another older HP desktop that has intel Pentium D with 2GB DDR2, that’s an 8 year old PC right there, that has no issues watching anime (although it can’t do much else at a decent speed).
Please Eric, did you know? people are different from you, who get enough with 720p, to be frankly you just being spoiled in here “720p enough no need for 1080p” that’s really a childish statement, think about others don’t think about yourself.
Not really. In many cases the 1080p releases is either the same size or sometimes even less than the 720p releases. There’s very few cases where 1080p is double 720p sizes.
This move makes a lot of sense. Instead of keeping 2-3 copies of a single series, deleting the TV and BD720 would make a lot of space free.
I really agree though that informing users about a week in advance of anime that will be deleted would be optimal.
Deleting BD 720p is a good move. 1080p and 720p difference is very noticeable. Size is not a matter because the difference betweeen them is so small.
I always download 1080p if it is available, that is the best way to enjoy an episode.. Because when you have 1080p, you can just downsize it yourself. But if you only have 720p, upsizing that to 1080 will be a nightmare.
So at least, in the future even if they delete the 720p, if Hi10 have the 1080p copy they can always do 720p of it (Well, if there are greater demand and time w/c is I doubt).
So, keeping the lowest resolution is really BAD. Just buy a new PC if yours cannoy play it coz even my tablet can.
Wouldn’t it make sense to keep 720p and not 1080p? I feel like 720p releases is more downloadable by people than 1080p. Why I think because of the file size diference and screen sizes. But this my opinion though.
not for the future
if still keep 1080 it be best for future reason
and why 720 deleted
and because technology always upgraded and your pc or laptop will be upgraded eventually
nope i don’t agree my PC had bigger monitor, for that easy to download, that’s depend on your internet speed not because it’s 1080p, if it hard for you to download, don’t blame the size of 1080p. that’s what i think, it may now 720p are best but since technology keep growing, who knows even TV version will showed using 1080p quality in the future
Since the main point of HI10 is the smaller size I won’t complain with point 1, 2 or 3. Actually I’m one of the.. not so many as I thought.. that value quality. When available I always chose 1080.. By the way,never had a problem with it with my 8 yrs old pc.. yes, it was high-end at the time, yet 8 years is not a short time.
For the sake of the ones that prefer 720 I won’t suggest to keep it, but to pin an updated list of the going-to-be-deleted series.
Well I’ll still donate every month (if i dont forget….tehe). If I can have a say: (As a donator also) please delete the 1080p encodes rather than the 720p ones.
-why? cos, i mean, originally anime is built for 720p or less, so 1080p ones are upscales during bluray conversion when they make them BDs.
THIS. Most anime is made with 720p resolution. There’s still no anime with original 1080p (the most high original resolution is 900+ and it’s still rare), 1080p in BD is just an upscale. Deleting 1080p is more reasonable than deleting 720p.
you should use other hosts like [ex.ua] [cloud.mail.ru]
and for who will upload you should make an announcement to ask the members to upload some specific series which you intend to delete .
you should think about that if the cost is cheaper .
if you would delete BD720p’s, could you please at least post a tutorial on how to re-encode BD1080p videos into 720p like the way you do? i mostly watch anime from my phone, and it’s not really smooth if i try to watch 1080p with it.
Willing to donate since I just got a job (for now). It’s always a shame to delete encodes, since they are a result of hard work. And, it’s always better to have an option between 720p and 1080p.
How about deleting series that are not too popular or that have low ratings? You could post a poll about the series you are going to delete to see if anyone have objections to it.
not good idea i think, all non-popular must put in MEGA, assuming it gets lower download count we can has free MEGA users up em and the 50gb storage per user and 10gb bandwidth will suffice to host non-popular animu, hi10 anime could get support from community by upping non popular on MEGA, because
NO DELETE!
not every people think that one series is bad like others.
each people thinks differently.
if one people said “that series is no good” and i watch that but i like it? 😀
If you are after small repeated donations have you considered Patreon? It’s made for such donations and to keep people up with them and with another donation push you might end up with a decent amount a month.
Delete the BD 720p with 1080p and for some people complaining about it you can upgrade your oven toaster and have a better quality watching this anime on 1080p.
there’s no poll needed for choosing between 720p or 1080p, because the result will be obvious…
it much better if we’re talking about the future..
i vote for that 3 option,
KEEP 1080p whether its scaled or not..
DELETING 720p must be taken into a next level of consideration…
this is not the problem that need a huge debate… every wise thing has been answered all in your mind, leave your selfishness, unless you have some money to donate,, 🙂
my old PC cant handle 1080p very well , sometimes it crash on OP/ED that lots of animation and karaoke effect,,, but i leave no whine..
please handsome,, dont use your low-end laptop or even notebook or netbook to watch movie/anime,,
PC is LOT LOT cheaper ,,,
Dont forget to use K-Lite Codec Pack Guide by Zash from this site..
and start watch anime like a boss..
🙂
One thing I want to know is how the future of the BD encodes is going to go. Will you encode all BDs with both 720p and 1080p or is 720p completely abandoned for BDs forever? If 720p is abandoned forever, a small guide on how to downscale the videos to 720p for people having trouble would be good since some are asking for it. But frankly, if your CPU can’t handle playing 1080p, then I’m not sure how it’s gonna encode at a reasonable speed.
Yes, you’ve got it right. Encoding a BD 1080p at good quality is not an easy task and you should have at least system as capable as ‘Intel i5’.
About guides, there are countless guides on encoding things on Hi10; if you can encode, down-scaling is not a problem anymore. (Just need to add a avisynth filter). However, the idea of downsizing 1080p re-encodes to another re-encode of 720p is just a waste of your time and system, imo.
If you people can afford to encode 1080p to 720p, you must be able to play 1080p anyway.
In case you can’t play 1080ps, my advice is to get a real system. Seriously, Intel i3 is a piece of cake in this age. (It’s more than enough for 1080p playback.)
I would like to add that I prefer 720p over 1080p solely because of its file size….even though my computer can support both. But, space? I can’t support too much 1080p.
Just one question, what are the plans when this “space” issue comes up again…?
for the duplicate encodes better keep the best quality
if there is a way to keep BD 720p the better, i mean even if you guys say go buy a new PC, well frankly not everyone has the money to buy thats why most people still stick to 720p.. even if they badly want to upgrade, they can’t since they can’t afford.
just a suggestion
if the last resort is to delete BD 720p, than i suggest using Filehost and post it here or in the forums, even if it means re-uploading from time to time if it gets deleted, if thats the case i bet most of the people who have downloaded the series can volunteer to upload the series that way we can help each other out and it will be less problem for the encoder to keep uploading it on filehost.. i don’t mind volunteering for uploading the BD 720p on filehost each time it gets deleted 🙂 just my opinion
I plan to keep donating. Not related, but I’m watching on an Android tablet that can’t quite handle 1080p, though I can convert those to 720p using my PC, so I’d hate to see the 720p encodes go, but I’d live with it.
Since some people asked for it, and I’m also interested what’s the general opinion, I’ve added a poll about 720p vs 1080p releases here. http://hi10anime.com/polls/
Not like this will decide anything, but all of you should vote, so we can clearly see your opinions.
i know it’s cliche
but i have a little money, i want to donate but
i don’t have credit card, so i still searching for a way to donating
it’s not much, but i’ve got a feeling if there’s a way, i could regularly donate
or so i thought
i’m too afraid to ask, that’s why i’m just searching the way of my own until this post
so maybe there’s a way, if any of you cared to explain
Compare the two releases for each series, and leave the version which you find better! (file size vs quality, etc
Seems reasonable, and just like Mike said we can help each other by uploading the file unto File Host even though if it’s get deleted from time to time. I might be able to help too sometimes if the series still resides within the temporary HDD I left with a friend server to download things it’s a 4TB and usually will be filled in around 2-3 month each time before I collected them and stored it at home.
Just please keep a reminder on what about to get deleted so that people who still interested in them might be able to download them first.
As for the 1080p, a PC will cost less than most people think. Today integrated SoC will play them easily. Thing is people always want to bring them along like on their mobile phone and laptop, notebook, tablet, etc. That’s the ones which usually cost higher. I got my Nexus 7 Mark II a while back it’s cost only around $250 when I bought them and it plays 1080p just fine. My custom built PC just cost me around $400 it’s an i5. So It’s less than most people think to build decent PC just to be able to play the 1080p.
Of course to be able to enjoy them fully like me that’s a different thing xD. Buy decent sound system with Full HD projector but that’s a different story right ;).
Just a suggestion, I don’t really have any idea if this is possible or how it works but, but I’m going to give it a shot. Does hi10 can also do what HorribleSubs does? You know, the IRC/ XDCC thingy?
we can always try and donate to your bitcoin address:
1C4uSam8kxYSKZtAMRL7id4TWszTt8H8kX
it anonymous, and you can pay them through many ways
and even if you don’t have any money like me, then there are many sites that make a small free payments for different stuff that we do, i have been doing so for about 4-5 months now, i visit coinbox.com once everyday and claim the small prize from every site for Hi10Animes’ bitcoin address, i know its not much but this way you can easily donate a $1-2 per month i believe
eg.
Faucet site: visiting 1 sites just once a day makes $0.0025/month on average, and we can claim on each site every every half hour, and there are about than 40 such site that i know of, and even if we claim this prize just 5 times a day, that would be around $0.5 at current price, and that is for the least paying website
And then there are other types of site too which are not limited to just faucet, so i believe that if WE ALL just give about half a hour per day, we can easily donate enough to save this site
If you guys like the idea i can post more sites like this
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Another thing we can do is to visit the site regularly without being logged in, so that ads appear on our pages and the site gets paid for it,
in case you don’t want to log in and out repeatedly, you can always use the incognito/inPrivate/private browsing to avoid so, i don’t about IE users but for others
Chrome: ctrl+shift+N
Firefox: ctrl+shift+P
and then just visit the site once, a few times a day
okay, i’m interested in this one.
if i can help a little thats okay but i dont understand how to do this.
i already open the DONATE > BITCOIN/SMS from this site,
and click the link, but it says :
Unknown protocol
Opera was unable to open the link since no application
associated with “bitcoin:” protocol was found in your system
I rather choose Delete BD 1080p,
the reason isn’t because “BD 720p has smaller size, and quality is still great!”
the reason is because Most anime is made with 720p resolution. There’s still no anime with original 1080p (the most high original resolution is 900+ and it’s still rare), 1080p in BD is just an upscale. Deleting 1080p is more reasonable than deleting 720p.
I’m just gonna mention some anime that on the tip of my head right now..
Madoka (obviously, because of Zeust’s pic) and monogatari series
dl the BDMV and see it for yourself before you comment next time
they did “upscale” the resolution but in a different way then the “upscale” that CR did, the quality is noticeable
they have the original resources anyway..
last, this isn’t video game where 900p is the natural thing..
I dunno where this 900p rumors comes from, tbh..
Point 1: No problem with this.
Point 2: Go for it! DVD too, if any (haven’t gone through the list).
Point 3: No big deal, although my laptop is furious when come to 1080p 😀
“Friendly talk” : Agree
Ok, I may able to donate some(€1~5) in the future ( maybe few days … weeks).
Just what the hell is your problem? (All of you…) Who asked you to tell us what you think about 720ps or 1080ps?
Keep your tongue behind your teeth, if you can’t donate.
‘I think 720p is better and this bullshit and that bullshit.’
Your bullshit will not help us when we have no money to pay our servers and the data that will be deleted WILL be our data (the things we put so much effort into), all you will care about is: ‘Oh, shit… I hadn’t downloaded that anime yet. Meh, well… let’s google out some other site.’
If you are a donater, ignore my rudeness. Please continue 🙂
zeust, you kinda asked people their opinions when you posted this post, and left it open to comments. 9_9 I was kinda annoyed that Yuna called me selfish, spoiled, and childish for taking up the issue in the first place… it’s a valid thing to want to talk about. From my experience, roughly half your visitors are people who download your 720p’s because they love the file size, for a variety of reasons. and half download the 1080p’s for the quality. But you guys need to save space, you said so yourself, so I naturally wondered why you would keep the larger file size and dump the smaller. I still stand by my “1080p is basically double the file size of 720p” statement… yes, there’s some variation, but it’s basically correct. RARELY a 1080p encode is only 50% larger than the 720p encode… that’s a HUGE space savings if you get rid of the 1080p… I understand why you won’t choose that, but I disagree with your reasoning. Anyway, it’s your choice, so the rest of us will just have to live with whatever you decide. I get it.
Still, don’t tell people to buy things like new computers or bigger screens, that’s not a realistic outlook. People buy their computers when the old ones are close to end of life, not just because a new one came out… My father is still using a computer than only runs Windows XP. 😛 and there are as I said a HUGE variety of reasons for wanting the smallest file size possible and still get good image quality… not just processing power limitations, but also storage issues, device issues, sharing issues, bandwidth issues, etc etc… but there’s only ONE issue that 1080p lovers look at: quality. Quality that in many cases is actually NO different than the 720p version. And people who love quality most, probably don’t even come to a Hi10p site… and those who do would probably just get their 1080p versions elsewhere if you stopped offering them… I dunno, it just seems like, for a website where bandwidth and storage are huge issues, and high compression that maintains video quality is a major point, you all are kind of oddly attached to 1080p… meh.
As I say, do what you want. If that means there will be no more small file size videos available here, I’m sure the 50% or more of your visitors who like small files will just go to nyaa for 480p’s or something…
I know you’re not actually interested in our opinions, but it might be interesting to discover our stats… that one user posted a poll asking people “which should we delete”… a more useful poll for you guys might be “what are your download habits”
a) 720p BD
b) 1080p BD
c) smallest available file size
d) highest available quality
e) by torrents
f) by direct downloads
Here’s a suggestion.
User your money to donate to help upgrade servers so they can keep both 720p and 1080, or use you money to upgrade your system so that you can watch 1080p so it doesn’t matter whether they delete the 720p version or not XD
What Spkilla said, rather than fighting about the 720/1080p thing, lets find some people who would be willing to donate steadily every month so everyone can be happy.
I’m finishing my studies in November and the first thing imma do after I get a job is donate to Hi10.
While it will be bad to lose 720p (my older laptop doesn’t have a screen big enough for 1080p) we’ll just have to use 1080p. If HI10 needs to go only1080 to survive then do so guys. No point going under because you are hold on to multiply formats
In case your computer has trouble with 1080p get 480/720 encodes from other sources even if they take up more room. I know Horrible subs code in 480/720 on top of their massive 1080 files. I’d rather have real subgroups encodes but I use 480/720 encodes on my laptop since it’s only got a 320gig drive. I use 720 and higher on my desktop.
First i want to thank you for the good work. Half of all anime in my HDD are encoded by you.
But i don’t think that deleting 720 BD is a good idea, because everyone who can “use” 720 can “use” 1080, but not the other way around.
Also the quality difference from 720 isn’t so dramatic ( while the size sometimes is, others not ) that will make people stop using this site while if only 1080 were available many people will leave.
Also for the quality freaks probably they wouldn’t even use this site in first place…
Why don’t you invest more in the torrents? It’s the only sustainable future for this great site.
I and many more people would help a lot. I always try to seed but so few people is downloading from torrents…
TORRENTS FTW! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
I’m agree with all of the decisions, I understand..
well, in my opinion, I’m already comfortable w/ any 720p release, & thinking that maybe you can reconsider again in 3rd point, because literally 1080p takes serious space of servers’ GBs~
its OK if you proceed deleting 720p, but perhaps you can show us the guide to encode those 1080p to 720p manually (since I’m also curious how to encode those manually.. hehe)
no offence bro-tachi, I’ve been w/ Hi10 since 2 years ago & you all have work hard for us all these time.. we will support you till the end, peace forever~ 😀
i’m willing to donate but i cant right now.
i’m still looking for steady job 🙁
hmm, the problem w/ upload some series to other host site,
if someone cant download from that host can be a problem.
but if upload to many host can waste a lot of time, too.
plus if the data is deleted :<
btw, im curious about torrent.
i really dont understand torrent after this long.
if u guys make torrent, the data is from this server too?
u guys upload again or take from the same DDL link?
Hello everyone! This may sound a bit stupid and I hope people don’t think I’m a douche now, but does anyone know, in how far it is legal/illegal to support a site that uploads shows or movies which don’t belong to them?
I really really wanna donate. I have enough money to spare 5-10€ a month, and I’ve already downloaded a lot of shows here, and I’m more than thankful for the great service and quality. So I definitely feel like giving something back to hi10.
I just worry if it could bring me,( or anyone else for that matter) into problems with the law if something should ever happen with the site.
I’d be glad if someone could clear these doubts and hope I won’t get too much hate for what I wrote =))
@ John Smith It’s perfectly legal to donate to these guys… You are donating to support their coolness, not the morbid crime of encoding and offer download service of anime…
Now serious, there are no way any government/police would go for you.
the problem in every country is different i suppose.. (for “This” law of Copyright),
thank godness, i live in the country where this law dont Apply…
i’m jack sparrow the pirates of the Internet..
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you say :
“How Far it is legal/illegal to support a site that uploads shows or movies which don’t belong to them?”
i say just how far you love this site, and how far you want to see those already encoded file being deleted…
start talking to yourself,, 🙂
and for all seriousness, to everyone start to donate
🙂
Even if this is “illegal” given money to the owners isn’t. Because donators are GIVING money in trade for NOTHING*.
*there are same rewards but technically speaking the rewards aren’t a crime either.
But i ll say it again the best solution is constant flow of donation + torrents. Torrents are the best way to spread anime, i don’t understand why all torrents from this site aren’t in place like Nyaa, TPB and KickassTorrent. It would even bring more people to know about this great site, because “most” young people can’t donate and others are dumb ( i mean can’t find good stuff like this in the web ) would also leave their pcs on and seed helping to spread the message of god i mean high quality low sized anime.
it’s kinda silly for someone who downloads from this site to be worried about the legality of donating to the site… you’re already doing the “worse” illegal thing by downloading. 😛 Heh.
Even if this is “illegal” given money to the owners isn’t. Because donators are GIVING money in trade for NOTHING*.
I guess I can live with that. Thanks for the fast replies. I checked some things and in my country it’s the case that as long as I don’t spread them and/or make money with the shows, they can’t do shit against me. So I’ll be going ahead and donate some money ^^
well, i´m one of those who cant play 1080p, but im not going to say you should keep the 720p ones, its only for the BD encodes at least for now, so if i really want to get the BD version of one i just have to download from the original source when its complete and burn it when download is complete, and with that i mean that you just have to do what is better for the site, i´ll get a better PC as soon as i can, i want to be able to play not only 1080p but 4k too
Hi guys, I really would recommend to delete the BD 1080p stuff, because in most cases deleting 1 BD 1080p series is equivalent to deleting 2 BD 720p series. Though I have a good pc which can play everything including the 1080p encodes, please give it a thought.
And, I would suggest you to atleast put up a list of BD 720p stuff which you are going to delete on this page. So that we can atleast download that stuff for future uploads or use.
And if possible you can give us a weeks time to atleast download the ones which we want.(Just a suggestion)
Also, I want to donate but I only have a debit card (I am from India) so if there is a way possible please let we know.
And lastly, I say this again please consider putting up a list of the stuff that is deleted or is going to be deleted…
I agree with aruv42. There is still no anime made at an original 1080 size because it’s more time and money consuming. In the anime industry, the best made anime resolution is a bit more than 900p. So I think it’s better to delete the 1080p if there is really no other choice (The 1080p is just an upscale). Not all people have decent PCs that can play a 1080p video file smoothly. And also, if the BD 720p is already available, the HDTV version should be deleted.If you think I’m wrong then please correct me.
By the way, I’m an engineering student so I can’t really donate. I’ll donate once I graduate and got a decent job.
This is great for me. Delete HDTV versions but please can you provide 720p. I love this site because of the great quality with small size and no annoying watermark.
Before you start deleting, would it be possible for you to please put up a notice of which series are scheduled for deletion so that whoever still wants the files can download them?
Google Drive is an alternative way to save your files. Free Account were given 15GB space, with a 100mbps speed per file (tested by myself). Consider replacing your hosting or mega to Google Drive.
anime is one of the best thing that make the awesomeness of internet.. actually, I always watched anime in my spare time (weekend),
I’m a student in Indonesia, I do some part time in a small startup company and get some money there. actually, the money is more than enough for my daily. and I always interested in some social donation up till now. but in your case.. i don’t know how exactly to donate, not to mention that i don’t own any credit cards.. yep, I got also same problem when i really want to buy some things from ebay. I always go to people who give service to buy via internet in my local forum (cc/paypal).
i do really want to donate some.. but, yeah.. if anybody here can give me solution, i’ll be here to hear 🙂
I myself got a Debit credit card, this way I know exactly how much is on it and I can’t spend anymore than what I have put on it.
When I purchase anything online such as oh I don’t know how about we go with books as the example, I remember to put enough on it so that it will cover the purchase, currency exchange (which I calculate) and also shipping and a little bit extra in-case excess charges are involved or whatever.
That way if someone steals your card all they can play around with is whatever is on that card and you wont get into any nasty credit card debt.
That way you can be more wise about your spending, have a good look into it and find what is right for you, most places usually take Visa cards which may come in help with overseas traveling and PayPal for more security online. Some people may know more about the subject than I do but that is about sums up what I would do with a credit card so that’s my personal opinion.
I hope that helps, but you yourself need to do the research as each country maybe different as well as your bank and what they will offer you.
Enable a recurring donation plan “kinda thingy” for PayPal and I’ll be happy to donate 10 €/$ every month, it’s not a big deal really, considering for what I get in return. Well, except the server that hates my IP. But another option would be a VIP and a Public area, I’m sure quite a few if not a lot would seriously consider donating a steady amount, when you think about it, all the time you put into “non-/OC” versions, 720/1080p, encoding files on this scale and magnitude must require quite a lot of resources as well as time to do quality control not to mention whatever else is going on that some might not be aware of, but ye, this is just off the top of my bat and figured I’d add some incentives, at least as to why I started to donate.
Well, one of the reasons I love Hi10 is that there’s no VIP/Public area–and because of the Batch MEGA/MF uploads. Everybody gets the same treatment. Now I haven’t donated anything to Hi10–mostly because I’m still a student, I don’t have any credit card, also I’m fairly new here. I’m not saying I don’t want a VIP corner for the donators, I’m saying that even if there’s a VIP corner, give them BETTER services than we’re getting now instead of downgrading our current services.
I have a really slow internet [average DL speed is 100 KBps] and I love the 720p encodes here. The quality is top notch considering the low file size. I’d hate it if the 720ps get deleted. I’m fine with playing 1080ps on PC but my Tab can’t handle 1080p and I use my tab A LOT for watching stuffs. Also the file size of 1080p encodes– it’s harder to download with my connection. I’m sure this won’t change your decision or action but saying this anyway.
PS: Please don’t ask me to upgrade my connection, this is the fastest broadband available here in my place.
I personally favor 720p anytime. My PC can play 1080p easily, but as pointed out before, most 1080p are just upscales. That, and my connection sucks (rural area here).
If you really want the best and most perfect quality, please BUY the series and give some money to those who produce our visual drugs. If that quality is available for free too, there are less buyers and, in the long run, less anime.
Is there any way besides donating? Like, if users would click ads more?
Also, making OC mandatory might help to save some space too.
I’m very willing to donate if you guys are in need of the money for space or servers or whatever, and I liked that there used to be a donation progress bar, so I could tell if you guys actually needed donations or (as it happened the last time there was a post like this) so many people donated that you didn’t need money that month.
it was different if you watch it on display that support 1080p. and if you play 1080 on 720p the line of the art was more sharp and less noise you will see it just like HD release. And i am sure more or less you will update your pc or gadget into 1080p in the future and source 720p will be less avaiable on the torrent.
I guess 1080 is the future. We can’t fight it I guess.
I’m staying with 720p tho, in the first place, saving space is my reason for going with hi10p, not watch 1080p in full glory, You can do that with the original release. If I can’t get it anywhere, there’s always vafe, your vafe guide is easy to follow. Viva vafe!
Well if you find any dead links you should report it on the Post/Chatbox, or you can even PM an encoder to check it out.Although it’s highly unlikely that there are any dead links since we don’t delete files unless a better version(BD) is already there maybe on a different post, but its possible that someone forgot to delete a post which consists dead link.Another thing is that you can easily use “IDM Queue” for downloading multiple files, infact that’s better than using a torrent IMO.
And about some torrents being dead, well the thing is, previously we were using “nori.jp” domain which expired about 6 months ago, and we switched to “uni.cx” and all of those old torrent which have “nori.jp” in webseed needs to be updated. But you can manually edit the webseed of any torrent by replacing “nori.jp” with “uni.cx” and they would work.For editing the webseed just right click on torrent in utorrent/bittorrent and go to “properties->Advance”.
Giving someone FTP access can put our database at a huge risk, so I don’t think that would be an option.
Although that is pretty impressive… He’s willing to pay all your server fees every month, for FTP access… 0_0 if you could figure out how to configure an FTP that did not allow him “owner level” access, so he could not rename, move, or delete things, it sounds like all your server money problems could vanish immediately… 0_0 I’d definitely try to figure out some way to get that to happen, if I were you 😉
…it is sad though…. I mean, I’m sure you have hundreds of leechers… there’s some way to set up automatic monthly payments, right? if you had just 300 people willing to automatically pay $0.50 (fifty cents) per month, wouldn’t that solve your problems for a long time? until the next server increase, anyway? ..And if you have 1000 or more unique visitors… they’d just have to agree to automatically pay like 15 cents per month or so… less than 2 dollars per year… I spend more than that on snacks every day…
Also I agree, that donations bar was a helpful visual.
Balwant, there’s no way to reply to your comment about a secure ftp, so I am replying here… have you discussed with Chul Ho Lee and the other Hi10 members, some way to compromise? Immediately the idea that springs to mind is that Chul Ho Lee becomes Hi10’s “secret sponsor” and in return you guys set up a separate, duplicate (smaller, since you could put on it only what he/she requests) FTP server, using Chul’s funds to maintain both the “main” server and “Chul’s FTP server”… Again, this is definitely something that should be hashed out between you guys and Chul… i have no idea how realistic it is, but if Chul is really willing to fund you guys up to $200 per month, it’s kind of a big deal, I would think…
I’m a big fan of Hi10anime but sadly, I’m a non-donator.
I decided to share “my” thoughts about this and hopefully, it helps.
1) Any resolution is fine with me as long as I can watch all anime(old & new). 720p TV only is already fine and enough for my eyes to use it’s ability to see clearly.
2) There are ways to watch animes on a bigger picture using any computer(PC/Laptop) even future computers.
a) Just get a large flat screen TV and plug HDMI OR,
b) Get a mini projector and plug VGA and watch it on the wall at night.
3) 4k and above resolutions are the new trend now but it’s resolution is 3840×2160+++. The question is…
a) Will you own a computer(PC/laptop) with monitor on that size in the future? I ain’t going to carry a super wide computer =P
b) Maybe your reason is, 1080p is more clearly and the amount of information my eyes is receiving is really high which seems like real. And, my eyes can’t stand the lower resolutions even 720p. Well, I would suggest watch/download 3D copies instead of HD.
c) Oh! you own a cinema. Well, you’re one of a kind -_-
4) Since to me 720p is enough, my 1TB anime collection has been reduced by half. Not all are from Hi10anime but I’m really thankful to the key people of Hi10Anime.
Summary:
– Retain 720p TV or BD maximum.
– Replace 1080p by 720p or delete 1080p. (Sorry and thanks for the hardwork of encoders of 1080p)
– Be satisfy that anime right now are really watchable unlike before.
I wish Hi10anime reaches at least 10 years or forever running XD
Replacing 720p by 1080p is smarter option. Just because your pc doesn’t run full hd that doesn’t mean others are also as useless as you….. Always keep the best quality, so deleting 720 ones is a smarter choice.
1080 releases are upscales basically. Like others said, anime isn’t produced at 1080. Maybe in the future studios will produce at a higher resolution. Until then, 720 has all the details from production. Except for a handful of 960 animes.
Why not try to partner up with a private tracker (torrents) like animetorrents.me?
you can upload old series or if be the 720p series to there if you no longer have the space to keep on your servers. That way you have lots more space for your newer projects and people who want the old stuff (or less quality) can go there and download. That way you wont have to permanently delete the files you put all the hard work in for!
Told here several times, DDL will be abused, people will not donate, etc but it is time for solutions, not whinings. I suggest:
1. Shut down DDL and make downloads available using webseed only. (torrents)
2. Delete 1080p, they are upscales anyway, keep 720p and if a series is so popular or has really good graphics, drawing etc. or it is proven that its native resolution is 1080p, make exceptions.
3. Donators only could get maximum speed and unrestricted DDLs.
4.Ongoing series could bu uploaded to MEGA, but you should change names or 7zip them, that way MEGA will not delete the files. (even better if password protected)
5. Do not be afraid to share. That is why torrents are dying. Because you do not want to upload. Due to server problems and ddl, I was forced to DL from your torrents, once connected, I saw people sharing the torrent, despite the fact it was at 70-80%(unseeded). Just put a tutorial for the people who is still afraid of using this new technology, because most of your torrents still keep the old webseed which is down and should be changed manually to get the new webseed. That is why downloads on your torrents are stuck in most cases. Regarding DDL, well, you already know…
I know you guys like the idea of letting everyone use the direct download option and else, however reality is harsh, i would recommend asking 1-5 USD(1 seems low enough, you will be making the monthly reach by sheer numbers) per month to each member who wants to Direct download any episode, take it as a vip or premium member(of course they can donate more if they want to) if they dont like the idea they can just use the torrent(make sure you have the batches working), this way you get to keep the server and maybe upgrade it, thing is if you guys dont do this soon eventually you will be full or possibly close the site, which to be honest i will suck, love the site and the work you guys put into it.
sorry i have the money but Im not in the situation which i would be able to donate.i live in a country that has been boycotted by all american and European countrys .I cant turn my money into dollar or euro . i cant even have an international credit card.thats cruel isnt it?becouse of those stupid boycotts i can even help my favourite site.i finally ended up not being able to help this site.at the end its just the people who suffer from this nonsense stupid politician boycotts.so sorry i cant even serve a bit useful :'(
Well, I’ve been using the site for quite a long time now. I’ll be getting some money soon (hopefully) and I’ll try my best to donate as much as possible. I love this site and it would be sad to see it go down 🙁
If you could please make donating via Paypal a bit easier, would be good, thanks! Specifically making available a real “donate” button and automatic monthly donation.
I would raise donation cost to $10-$15 per month, but allowing more than 1 download at a time… (example: max 3 downloads at once) people who want to download for free, can use torrents… (that would increase torrent seeds and make better speeds for all… lots of torrents are close to dead) and the people who donate are rewarded with greater benefits for a bit higher price…
or keep the same system but allow bigger donations to download more than 1 at a time…
First off, I’m really thankful for all the people who has been re-encoding a variety of series and sharing it with us because this has helped me a great deal considering my download speed is very low.
As for he bandwith issue, I do believe that we can use other downloading sites, such as Mega, uptobox, or mediafire (with the name changes) for TV encodes. The BD encodes will stay on the Hi10 server.
Also if you want to delete other series, may I suggest to give people a week to download the whole series? Pick several members that are active or willing to help to keep the series in case of issues such as this one (lack of bandwith) or to reupload to other servers when the time comes. Having designated members assigned to keep certain series could help when necessary.
Uhhm and for uptobox, a registered account only has 1 TB storage space and files will get deleted after 90 days after last downloads.
And uptobox offers a way to become premium member using ‘uptobox points’.
10 points for 30 premium days.
25 points for 90 premium days.
50 points for 180 premium days.
100 points for 365 premium days.
1 point=1000 downloads on uptobox.
100*1000=100.000 downloads for a whole year premium member.
And for Hi10 scale, maybe it’s not too hard.
Just telling some info, since I hosting some files…..
wow, HEVC standard looks like it will blow Hi10 out of the water when it’s finally a standard format… theoretically it will be capable of encoding 4K images at smaller file sizes than current 1080p’s… 0_0 That will be something to see… imagine 720p shows where the total file size is about 1 Mb per minute of show… 0_0
Err.. do you even read. Fourth, it’d be a waste of time to suggest us to host files on file-hosting servers (MEGA etc). We work in this field. We know the upsides and downsides of such services. But if you think that there’s some creative way that can really be awesome, I don’t mind your sharing it.
They’re not down, it might look like it, but it’s really because the servers get super busy on the weekends.
Maybe it cannot connect to the server after clicking skip ad, but when you try it second time, it’s working
Been trying for the last few days and it’s not working 🙁 nothing on my end is blocking the connection, and I was able to get a file from the direct DL 2 weeks ago… trying multiple times and whatnot, isn’t working.
Attempting to get the small batch torrent files also isn’t working, I really think you guys should at least host the torrent batch files else where? Food for thought.
How about showing the server costs collected/month?
Maybe if you dont show it, people may think the donation already enough so they didnt donate.
Just had a thought about uploading to file host sites.
How about uploading to multi-upload sites like embedupload?
Of course the files will still eventually die, but at least there will be multiple hosts to DL from before that happens…
…There are 1200+ encoded anime and 10000+ episode.
Manage these number of anime on file-sharing site is too much to ask for a small anime encoding site…
I’d like to donate in monthly, something like 5-10€ like some stated before.
But there is a way to donate monthly with paypal other than doing the full donate action once a month ?
I’ve donated to a real person via PayPal and I think this person doesn’t want to publish his name so openly on this site. That’s my guess why there isn’t a simple guide.
What? HEVC not implemented yet? and what is this encoding doing here in this same marvelous ite? (one of the few, I must say, to use HEVC) make comparisons and decide for yourself, it saves a lot of bandwith. The only downside on HEVC encoding is 1. Takes decades to encode, 2. It started at Main Profile, and years have to pass to reach a High profile (just when AVC started). Pros are: 1. Great quality 2. Smaller size. Example: http://hi10anime.com/tag/hevc/
As Zeust said, we don’t need much but steady donations and that will allow us to upgrade the server and save BD720ps.
We don’t wanna delete them either since it takes tremendous amount of time to encode them, deleting them will be our be our last resort if donations weren’t to stay steady.
Yea, I work everyday and i’m sure a few of your other users do too. I’m willing to donate $5-10, every single month for at least the next 12 months if not longer. If there are other like minded individuals, lets get together and sponsor these motherfuckers who make the internet awesome.
i agree… 5-10$ a month shouldn’t be that hard
i agree with point 1 and 2
Is storing the least popular titles elsewhere and uploading them to the server on demand an option?
Not really an option, uploading takes time, and when you have slow upload speed like me(~50 kB/s) it takes forever to upload.
When will this deleting begin?
Why not just only use mega for uploads? Most people like downloading from there anyway.
Mega have deleted my accounts twice already and I lost more than 30GB of data, also batch torrents can’t be webseeded from Mega.
If no better option will be found, it would make sense to anounce the next batch of condemned releases a week in advance, so anyone concerned could download or request to keep them.
🙁
Point 3 is a bummer, but if you could actually consider the sakuga in an anime that would help, shows that have alot of sakuga animation can be encoded at 1080p whilst those with little or none can be left at 720p.
Can you please tell us which series you are going to delete ?
I would like to download those series and keep seeding them for others whenever I can… I don’t really have some crazy upload speeds, but at least all that time you people spent encoding those series wont go to waste.
Maybe there will be some other people who will be willing to help seeding those series too.
i too am willing to seed as much, however slow my upload my be
Thank you very much iScarlet. You’re very kind.
I agree with iScarlet. I have a 2TB new HD and decent DL/UL speed (~1.5 MB/s). I can download the soon-to-be-deleted 720p BD versions, and seed them when people need in the future. I love Hi10 encodes and they shouldn’t be easily deleted.
At the same time, let’s contribute to this anime community that has been providing best quality encodes to us.
Without new BD 720p releases this site will be effectively dead to me.
I know you’re going to hate hearing this, but it actually makes more sense to delete the 1080p versions of things… This is a choice I have had to live with for years… for one thing, my monitor is only 720p itself, so1080p does me little good. For another, I know from long discussions that many people here use older pc’s that do not handle 1080p quality very well, so you may lose some people… either way I guess, as I also know some people here want 1080p and hate 720p… hmm… but the major point is that I have been saving all my anime downloads for the last 12 years or so, so I know how hard it is to choose what stays and what goes, to save space… I can understand only wanting the highest quality, but 1080p’s are literally double the server space of 720p’s… so you can save twice as much space by getting rid of 1080p stuff… getting rid of 100 copies of 720p series will give you about 1TB of space… but getting rid of the 1080p versions might get you 3TB’s… it makes a huge difference if space is as much of a concern as quality… if it’s not though, I understand.
sorry, I meant getting rid of “1000”,,, not 100
Not really, it sounds like it makes sense for you, but not for the rest of the world. I’m currently using a $350 desktop PC to watch anime and 720p and 1080p releases alike have no trouble with k-lite. I also have another older HP desktop that has intel Pentium D with 2GB DDR2, that’s an 8 year old PC right there, that has no issues watching anime (although it can’t do much else at a decent speed).
Please Eric, did you know? people are different from you, who get enough with 720p, to be frankly you just being spoiled in here “720p enough no need for 1080p” that’s really a childish statement, think about others don’t think about yourself.
Not really. In many cases the 1080p releases is either the same size or sometimes even less than the 720p releases. There’s very few cases where 1080p is double 720p sizes.
This move makes a lot of sense. Instead of keeping 2-3 copies of a single series, deleting the TV and BD720 would make a lot of space free.
I really agree though that informing users about a week in advance of anime that will be deleted would be optimal.
Deleting BD 720p is a good move. 1080p and 720p difference is very noticeable. Size is not a matter because the difference betweeen them is so small.
I always download 1080p if it is available, that is the best way to enjoy an episode.. Because when you have 1080p, you can just downsize it yourself. But if you only have 720p, upsizing that to 1080 will be a nightmare.
So at least, in the future even if they delete the 720p, if Hi10 have the 1080p copy they can always do 720p of it (Well, if there are greater demand and time w/c is I doubt).
So, keeping the lowest resolution is really BAD. Just buy a new PC if yours cannoy play it coz even my tablet can.
sorry i can’t donate for HI10 crew since i still a student(17)…i hope i can donate to you after I getting a work..well maybe several years later? 🙂
Wouldn’t it make sense to keep 720p and not 1080p? I feel like 720p releases is more downloadable by people than 1080p. Why I think because of the file size diference and screen sizes. But this my opinion though.
not for the future
if still keep 1080 it be best for future reason
and why 720 deleted
and because technology always upgraded and your pc or laptop will be upgraded eventually
nope i don’t agree my PC had bigger monitor, for that easy to download, that’s depend on your internet speed not because it’s 1080p, if it hard for you to download, don’t blame the size of 1080p. that’s what i think, it may now 720p are best but since technology keep growing, who knows even TV version will showed using 1080p quality in the future
Since the main point of HI10 is the smaller size I won’t complain with point 1, 2 or 3. Actually I’m one of the.. not so many as I thought.. that value quality. When available I always chose 1080.. By the way,never had a problem with it with my 8 yrs old pc.. yes, it was high-end at the time, yet 8 years is not a short time.
For the sake of the ones that prefer 720 I won’t suggest to keep it, but to pin an updated list of the going-to-be-deleted series.
Thanks for your work.
Well I’ll still donate every month (if i dont forget….tehe). If I can have a say: (As a donator also) please delete the 1080p encodes rather than the 720p ones.
-why? cos, i mean, originally anime is built for 720p or less, so 1080p ones are upscales during bluray conversion when they make them BDs.
Or lets have a poll to see if we (people) want 720p or 1080p BDs
THIS. Most anime is made with 720p resolution. There’s still no anime with original 1080p (the most high original resolution is 900+ and it’s still rare), 1080p in BD is just an upscale. Deleting 1080p is more reasonable than deleting 720p.
you should use other hosts like [ex.ua] [cloud.mail.ru]
and for who will upload you should make an announcement to ask the members to upload some specific series which you intend to delete .
you should think about that if the cost is cheaper .
will you guys still encode the 720pBDs if theres no 1080pBD for that show?
if you would delete BD720p’s, could you please at least post a tutorial on how to re-encode BD1080p videos into 720p like the way you do? i mostly watch anime from my phone, and it’s not really smooth if i try to watch 1080p with it.
just do more donations and less spanking guys.
too many “M” guy around here.
Willing to donate since I just got a job (for now). It’s always a shame to delete encodes, since they are a result of hard work. And, it’s always better to have an option between 720p and 1080p.
1. Delete TV releases which have BDs.
2. Use MEGA for ongoing shows.
3. Delete upscaled BD 1080p which has BD 720p.
4. Or you can just donate.
How about deleting series that are not too popular or that have low ratings? You could post a poll about the series you are going to delete to see if anyone have objections to it.
No!!! Deleting BD 720p with already has 1080p is better. or uploading all 720p Bds to MEGA then deleting it.
actually MEGA free is very limited, 50gb storage and 10gb bandwidth
not good idea i think, all non-popular must put in MEGA, assuming it gets lower download count we can has free MEGA users up em and the 50gb storage per user and 10gb bandwidth will suffice to host non-popular animu, hi10 anime could get support from community by upping non popular on MEGA, because
non-popular = lower download count
lower download count = lesser bandwidth requirement
10gb bandwidth (free users on MEGA), prolly sufficient for non-popular animu
NO DELETE!
not every people think that one series is bad like others.
each people thinks differently.
if one people said “that series is no good” and i watch that but i like it? 😀
If you are after small repeated donations have you considered Patreon? It’s made for such donations and to keep people up with them and with another donation push you might end up with a decent amount a month.
Just an idea to look into.
Patreon is for more well… not the “grey” area we deal with.
i cliked the wrong icon, men i want to upvote your comment.
done 🙂
Delete the BD 720p with 1080p and for some people complaining about it you can upgrade your oven toaster and have a better quality watching this anime on 1080p.
there’s no poll needed for choosing between 720p or 1080p, because the result will be obvious…
it much better if we’re talking about the future..
i vote for that 3 option,
KEEP 1080p whether its scaled or not..
DELETING 720p must be taken into a next level of consideration…
this is not the problem that need a huge debate… every wise thing has been answered all in your mind, leave your selfishness, unless you have some money to donate,, 🙂
my old PC cant handle 1080p very well , sometimes it crash on OP/ED that lots of animation and karaoke effect,,, but i leave no whine..
please handsome,, dont use your low-end laptop or even notebook or netbook to watch movie/anime,,
PC is LOT LOT cheaper ,,,
Dont forget to use K-Lite Codec Pack Guide by Zash from this site..
and start watch anime like a boss..
🙂
how about upload everything to MEGA? i have a lot of Hi10 anime serries on my hard drive, i can batch upload them to MEGA while I am at school
actually no, free account has only 50gb storage cap and 10gb bandwidth please ignore my previous comment
One thing I want to know is how the future of the BD encodes is going to go. Will you encode all BDs with both 720p and 1080p or is 720p completely abandoned for BDs forever? If 720p is abandoned forever, a small guide on how to downscale the videos to 720p for people having trouble would be good since some are asking for it. But frankly, if your CPU can’t handle playing 1080p, then I’m not sure how it’s gonna encode at a reasonable speed.
Yes, you’ve got it right. Encoding a BD 1080p at good quality is not an easy task and you should have at least system as capable as ‘Intel i5’.
About guides, there are countless guides on encoding things on Hi10; if you can encode, down-scaling is not a problem anymore. (Just need to add a avisynth filter). However, the idea of downsizing 1080p re-encodes to another re-encode of 720p is just a waste of your time and system, imo.
If you people can afford to encode 1080p to 720p, you must be able to play 1080p anyway.
In case you can’t play 1080ps, my advice is to get a real system. Seriously, Intel i3 is a piece of cake in this age. (It’s more than enough for 1080p playback.)
Seems like a fair reasoning to do.
I would like to add that I prefer 720p over 1080p solely because of its file size….even though my computer can support both. But, space? I can’t support too much 1080p.
Just one question, what are the plans when this “space” issue comes up again…?
I have to agree with 1 & 2
for the duplicate encodes better keep the best quality
if there is a way to keep BD 720p the better, i mean even if you guys say go buy a new PC, well frankly not everyone has the money to buy thats why most people still stick to 720p.. even if they badly want to upgrade, they can’t since they can’t afford.
just a suggestion
if the last resort is to delete BD 720p, than i suggest using Filehost and post it here or in the forums, even if it means re-uploading from time to time if it gets deleted, if thats the case i bet most of the people who have downloaded the series can volunteer to upload the series that way we can help each other out and it will be less problem for the encoder to keep uploading it on filehost.. i don’t mind volunteering for uploading the BD 720p on filehost each time it gets deleted 🙂 just my opinion
I plan to keep donating. Not related, but I’m watching on an Android tablet that can’t quite handle 1080p, though I can convert those to 720p using my PC, so I’d hate to see the 720p encodes go, but I’d live with it.
Since some people asked for it, and I’m also interested what’s the general opinion, I’ve added a poll about 720p vs 1080p releases here.
http://hi10anime.com/polls/
Not like this will decide anything, but all of you should vote, so we can clearly see your opinions.
i know it’s cliche
but i have a little money, i want to donate but
i don’t have credit card, so i still searching for a way to donating
it’s not much, but i’ve got a feeling if there’s a way, i could regularly donate
or so i thought
i’m too afraid to ask, that’s why i’m just searching the way of my own until this post
so maybe there’s a way, if any of you cared to explain
Donating with Western Union requires no credit card.
i’m considering that too, just wondering if the payment is suits my “little money”
thx 4 the suggestion
zzlbox.com is a nice option for cloud storage.
Delete 11eyes worst series ever! Vi!
I just vote for this:
Compare the two releases for each series, and leave the version which you find better! (file size vs quality, etc
Seems reasonable, and just like Mike said we can help each other by uploading the file unto File Host even though if it’s get deleted from time to time. I might be able to help too sometimes if the series still resides within the temporary HDD I left with a friend server to download things it’s a 4TB and usually will be filled in around 2-3 month each time before I collected them and stored it at home.
Just please keep a reminder on what about to get deleted so that people who still interested in them might be able to download them first.
As for the 1080p, a PC will cost less than most people think. Today integrated SoC will play them easily. Thing is people always want to bring them along like on their mobile phone and laptop, notebook, tablet, etc. That’s the ones which usually cost higher. I got my Nexus 7 Mark II a while back it’s cost only around $250 when I bought them and it plays 1080p just fine. My custom built PC just cost me around $400 it’s an i5. So It’s less than most people think to build decent PC just to be able to play the 1080p.
Of course to be able to enjoy them fully like me that’s a different thing xD. Buy decent sound system with Full HD projector but that’s a different story right ;).
Everyone who has decent upload speed should create a MEGA account. Upload everything you have there. It should be sufficient.
Just suggesting. 🙂
When Mega delete our file what you think about our feeling
By everyone I mean the leechers. They should support if they have brains, nice upload speed and some patience. 🙂
Its simple we kill the “720p files”.
hi1080p will be awesome 😛
Just a suggestion, I don’t really have any idea if this is possible or how it works but, but I’m going to give it a shot. Does hi10 can also do what HorribleSubs does? You know, the IRC/ XDCC thingy?
we can always try and donate to your bitcoin address:
1C4uSam8kxYSKZtAMRL7id4TWszTt8H8kX
it anonymous, and you can pay them through many ways
and even if you don’t have any money like me, then there are many sites that make a small free payments for different stuff that we do, i have been doing so for about 4-5 months now, i visit coinbox.com once everyday and claim the small prize from every site for Hi10Animes’ bitcoin address, i know its not much but this way you can easily donate a $1-2 per month i believe
eg.
Faucet site: visiting 1 sites just once a day makes $0.0025/month on average, and we can claim on each site every every half hour, and there are about than 40 such site that i know of, and even if we claim this prize just 5 times a day, that would be around $0.5 at current price, and that is for the least paying website
And then there are other types of site too which are not limited to just faucet, so i believe that if WE ALL just give about half a hour per day, we can easily donate enough to save this site
If you guys like the idea i can post more sites like this
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Another thing we can do is to visit the site regularly without being logged in, so that ads appear on our pages and the site gets paid for it,
in case you don’t want to log in and out repeatedly, you can always use the incognito/inPrivate/private browsing to avoid so, i don’t about IE users but for others
Chrome: ctrl+shift+N
Firefox: ctrl+shift+P
and then just visit the site once, a few times a day
is that how bitcoin works? not familiar with it. interesting.
okay, i’m interested in this one.
if i can help a little thats okay but i dont understand how to do this.
i already open the DONATE > BITCOIN/SMS from this site,
and click the link, but it says :
Unknown protocol
Opera was unable to open the link since no application
associated with “bitcoin:” protocol was found in your system
A little help, maybe? 😀
Thanks so much.
I like where this is going. Some people already know why 😉
I rather choose Delete BD 1080p,
the reason isn’t because “BD 720p has smaller size, and quality is still great!”
the reason is because Most anime is made with 720p resolution. There’s still no anime with original 1080p (the most high original resolution is 900+ and it’s still rare), 1080p in BD is just an upscale. Deleting 1080p is more reasonable than deleting 720p.
*cough* Fate/zero *cough*
that only applied for the HDTV release (even then some anime are starting to get animated in 1080p too recently even in HDTV)
most of the BD release is actually animated in 1080p, not just an “upscale” like what CR usually did with their releases..
>most of the BD release is actually animated in 1080p
That’s wrong. Do you really think they re-make a whole series in 1080p just for the BD? That would be way too expensive for every studio.
I’m just gonna mention some anime that on the tip of my head right now..
Madoka (obviously, because of Zeust’s pic) and monogatari series
dl the BDMV and see it for yourself before you comment next time
they did “upscale” the resolution but in a different way then the “upscale” that CR did, the quality is noticeable
they have the original resources anyway..
last, this isn’t video game where 900p is the natural thing..
I dunno where this 900p rumors comes from, tbh..
Point 1: No problem with this.
Point 2: Go for it! DVD too, if any (haven’t gone through the list).
Point 3: No big deal, although my laptop is furious when come to 1080p 😀
“Friendly talk” : Agree
Ok, I may able to donate some(€1~5) in the future ( maybe few days … weeks).
Just what the hell is your problem? (All of you…) Who asked you to tell us what you think about 720ps or 1080ps?
Keep your tongue behind your teeth, if you can’t donate.
‘I think 720p is better and this bullshit and that bullshit.’
Your bullshit will not help us when we have no money to pay our servers and the data that will be deleted WILL be our data (the things we put so much effort into), all you will care about is: ‘Oh, shit… I hadn’t downloaded that anime yet. Meh, well… let’s google out some other site.’
If you are a donater, ignore my rudeness. Please continue 🙂
hm yeah i agree with that
Aye Sir!! 😀
wow. point taken. but i’ll still donate so u know.
With that attitude you will get more donaters for sure.
zeust, you kinda asked people their opinions when you posted this post, and left it open to comments. 9_9 I was kinda annoyed that Yuna called me selfish, spoiled, and childish for taking up the issue in the first place… it’s a valid thing to want to talk about. From my experience, roughly half your visitors are people who download your 720p’s because they love the file size, for a variety of reasons. and half download the 1080p’s for the quality. But you guys need to save space, you said so yourself, so I naturally wondered why you would keep the larger file size and dump the smaller. I still stand by my “1080p is basically double the file size of 720p” statement… yes, there’s some variation, but it’s basically correct. RARELY a 1080p encode is only 50% larger than the 720p encode… that’s a HUGE space savings if you get rid of the 1080p… I understand why you won’t choose that, but I disagree with your reasoning. Anyway, it’s your choice, so the rest of us will just have to live with whatever you decide. I get it.
Still, don’t tell people to buy things like new computers or bigger screens, that’s not a realistic outlook. People buy their computers when the old ones are close to end of life, not just because a new one came out… My father is still using a computer than only runs Windows XP. 😛 and there are as I said a HUGE variety of reasons for wanting the smallest file size possible and still get good image quality… not just processing power limitations, but also storage issues, device issues, sharing issues, bandwidth issues, etc etc… but there’s only ONE issue that 1080p lovers look at: quality. Quality that in many cases is actually NO different than the 720p version. And people who love quality most, probably don’t even come to a Hi10p site… and those who do would probably just get their 1080p versions elsewhere if you stopped offering them… I dunno, it just seems like, for a website where bandwidth and storage are huge issues, and high compression that maintains video quality is a major point, you all are kind of oddly attached to 1080p… meh.
As I say, do what you want. If that means there will be no more small file size videos available here, I’m sure the 50% or more of your visitors who like small files will just go to nyaa for 480p’s or something…
I know you’re not actually interested in our opinions, but it might be interesting to discover our stats… that one user posted a poll asking people “which should we delete”… a more useful poll for you guys might be “what are your download habits”
a) 720p BD
b) 1080p BD
c) smallest available file size
d) highest available quality
e) by torrents
f) by direct downloads
or maybe a “which do you want and why” poll…
anyway, good luck, you guys, I’m rooting for you…
Here’s a suggestion.
User your money to donate to help upgrade servers so they can keep both 720p and 1080, or use you money to upgrade your system so that you can watch 1080p so it doesn’t matter whether they delete the 720p version or not XD
What Spkilla said, rather than fighting about the 720/1080p thing, lets find some people who would be willing to donate steadily every month so everyone can be happy.
I’m finishing my studies in November and the first thing imma do after I get a job is donate to Hi10.
Seriously, if you don’t like them getting rid of the 720p BDs, then either gtfo or stfu and donate.
While it will be bad to lose 720p (my older laptop doesn’t have a screen big enough for 1080p) we’ll just have to use 1080p. If HI10 needs to go only1080 to survive then do so guys. No point going under because you are hold on to multiply formats
In case your computer has trouble with 1080p get 480/720 encodes from other sources even if they take up more room. I know Horrible subs code in 480/720 on top of their massive 1080 files. I’d rather have real subgroups encodes but I use 480/720 encodes on my laptop since it’s only got a 320gig drive. I use 720 and higher on my desktop.
I would love to donate something via PayPal but I do not want to have mail contact about it.
Talk with Zet on Chatango if that’s good for you.
First i want to thank you for the good work. Half of all anime in my HDD are encoded by you.
But i don’t think that deleting 720 BD is a good idea, because everyone who can “use” 720 can “use” 1080, but not the other way around.
Also the quality difference from 720 isn’t so dramatic ( while the size sometimes is, others not ) that will make people stop using this site while if only 1080 were available many people will leave.
Also for the quality freaks probably they wouldn’t even use this site in first place…
Why don’t you invest more in the torrents? It’s the only sustainable future for this great site.
I and many more people would help a lot. I always try to seed but so few people is downloading from torrents…
TORRENTS FTW! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
I’m agree with all of the decisions, I understand..
well, in my opinion, I’m already comfortable w/ any 720p release, & thinking that maybe you can reconsider again in 3rd point, because literally 1080p takes serious space of servers’ GBs~
its OK if you proceed deleting 720p, but perhaps you can show us the guide to encode those 1080p to 720p manually (since I’m also curious how to encode those manually.. hehe)
no offence bro-tachi, I’ve been w/ Hi10 since 2 years ago & you all have work hard for us all these time.. we will support you till the end, peace forever~ 😀
There is lot of guide here you need to search.
http://hi10anime.com/guide/tools-guides/
agreed
but I don’t think the old computers can do this way.
encoding at least require a med-spec PC because encoding takes a long time.
I agreed for deleting 720p rather than 1080p.
nooooooooooooooooooo
any thing but not the BD 720ps ^_^
its the best size and quality
Can’t we people just keep seeding the torrents for the ones that are about to be deleted cause of the cost management.
i’m willing to donate but i cant right now.
i’m still looking for steady job 🙁
hmm, the problem w/ upload some series to other host site,
if someone cant download from that host can be a problem.
but if upload to many host can waste a lot of time, too.
plus if the data is deleted :<
btw, im curious about torrent.
i really dont understand torrent after this long.
if u guys make torrent, the data is from this server too?
u guys upload again or take from the same DDL link?
sorry for my bad eng.
Hello everyone! This may sound a bit stupid and I hope people don’t think I’m a douche now, but does anyone know, in how far it is legal/illegal to support a site that uploads shows or movies which don’t belong to them?
I really really wanna donate. I have enough money to spare 5-10€ a month, and I’ve already downloaded a lot of shows here, and I’m more than thankful for the great service and quality. So I definitely feel like giving something back to hi10.
I just worry if it could bring me,( or anyone else for that matter) into problems with the law if something should ever happen with the site.
I’d be glad if someone could clear these doubts and hope I won’t get too much hate for what I wrote =))
Anyways. Hi10, fight!!
@ John Smith It’s perfectly legal to donate to these guys… You are donating to support their coolness, not the morbid crime of encoding and offer download service of anime…
Now serious, there are no way any government/police would go for you.
the problem in every country is different i suppose.. (for “This” law of Copyright),
thank godness, i live in the country where this law dont Apply…
i’m jack sparrow the pirates of the Internet..
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you say :
“How Far it is legal/illegal to support a site that uploads shows or movies which don’t belong to them?”
i say just how far you love this site, and how far you want to see those already encoded file being deleted…
start talking to yourself,, 🙂
and for all seriousness, to everyone start to donate
🙂
Even if this is “illegal” given money to the owners isn’t. Because donators are GIVING money in trade for NOTHING*.
*there are same rewards but technically speaking the rewards aren’t a crime either.
But i ll say it again the best solution is constant flow of donation + torrents. Torrents are the best way to spread anime, i don’t understand why all torrents from this site aren’t in place like Nyaa, TPB and KickassTorrent. It would even bring more people to know about this great site, because “most” young people can’t donate and others are dumb ( i mean can’t find good stuff like this in the web ) would also leave their pcs on and seed helping to spread the message of god i mean high quality low sized anime.
it’s kinda silly for someone who downloads from this site to be worried about the legality of donating to the site… you’re already doing the “worse” illegal thing by downloading. 😛 Heh.
Even if this is “illegal” given money to the owners isn’t. Because donators are GIVING money in trade for NOTHING*.
I guess I can live with that. Thanks for the fast replies. I checked some things and in my country it’s the case that as long as I don’t spread them and/or make money with the shows, they can’t do shit against me. So I’ll be going ahead and donate some money ^^
Again, thanks for the replies
well, i´m one of those who cant play 1080p, but im not going to say you should keep the 720p ones, its only for the BD encodes at least for now, so if i really want to get the BD version of one i just have to download from the original source when its complete and burn it when download is complete, and with that i mean that you just have to do what is better for the site, i´ll get a better PC as soon as i can, i want to be able to play not only 1080p but 4k too
Hi guys, I really would recommend to delete the BD 1080p stuff, because in most cases deleting 1 BD 1080p series is equivalent to deleting 2 BD 720p series. Though I have a good pc which can play everything including the 1080p encodes, please give it a thought.
And, I would suggest you to atleast put up a list of BD 720p stuff which you are going to delete on this page. So that we can atleast download that stuff for future uploads or use.
And if possible you can give us a weeks time to atleast download the ones which we want.(Just a suggestion)
Also, I want to donate but I only have a debit card (I am from India) so if there is a way possible please let we know.
And lastly, I say this again please consider putting up a list of the stuff that is deleted or is going to be deleted…
Thank you.
Awaiting your Reply…
I agree with aruv42. There is still no anime made at an original 1080 size because it’s more time and money consuming. In the anime industry, the best made anime resolution is a bit more than 900p. So I think it’s better to delete the 1080p if there is really no other choice (The 1080p is just an upscale). Not all people have decent PCs that can play a 1080p video file smoothly. And also, if the BD 720p is already available, the HDTV version should be deleted.If you think I’m wrong then please correct me.
By the way, I’m an engineering student so I can’t really donate. I’ll donate once I graduate and got a decent job.
hi. is it just me but lately i haven’t be able to dwonload anything from hi10 server.
it’s always says error 503.
is there aybody with same issue?
It’s just you. I have no such problem. My last try was 5 minutes ago.
This is great for me. Delete HDTV versions but please can you provide 720p. I love this site because of the great quality with small size and no annoying watermark.
100GB free
Before you start deleting, would it be possible for you to please put up a notice of which series are scheduled for deletion so that whoever still wants the files can download them?
Google Drive is an alternative way to save your files. Free Account were given 15GB space, with a 100mbps speed per file (tested by myself). Consider replacing your hosting or mega to Google Drive.
So you think file wont deleted? It will deleted once get report by random spy who saw the link from our site
just mega.co.nz good for upload anime
alternatif upload mega.co.nz or nyaatorrent…
we love download it there
anime is one of the best thing that make the awesomeness of internet.. actually, I always watched anime in my spare time (weekend),
I’m a student in Indonesia, I do some part time in a small startup company and get some money there. actually, the money is more than enough for my daily. and I always interested in some social donation up till now. but in your case.. i don’t know how exactly to donate, not to mention that i don’t own any credit cards.. yep, I got also same problem when i really want to buy some things from ebay. I always go to people who give service to buy via internet in my local forum (cc/paypal).
i do really want to donate some.. but, yeah.. if anybody here can give me solution, i’ll be here to hear 🙂
I myself got a Debit credit card, this way I know exactly how much is on it and I can’t spend anymore than what I have put on it.
When I purchase anything online such as oh I don’t know how about we go with books as the example, I remember to put enough on it so that it will cover the purchase, currency exchange (which I calculate) and also shipping and a little bit extra in-case excess charges are involved or whatever.
That way if someone steals your card all they can play around with is whatever is on that card and you wont get into any nasty credit card debt.
That way you can be more wise about your spending, have a good look into it and find what is right for you, most places usually take Visa cards which may come in help with overseas traveling and PayPal for more security online. Some people may know more about the subject than I do but that is about sums up what I would do with a credit card so that’s my personal opinion.
I hope that helps, but you yourself need to do the research as each country maybe different as well as your bank and what they will offer you.
<— Steady Donator. Had been and always will be.
Not much but a little amount of €10 EUR will helps Hi10anime alot.
I had been a lecher ever since I'm a student. Now that I have a decent job, it's time to give back to the community.
I'm from Malaysia and donated via paypal.
Enable a recurring donation plan “kinda thingy” for PayPal and I’ll be happy to donate 10 €/$ every month, it’s not a big deal really, considering for what I get in return. Well, except the server that hates my IP. But another option would be a VIP and a Public area, I’m sure quite a few if not a lot would seriously consider donating a steady amount, when you think about it, all the time you put into “non-/OC” versions, 720/1080p, encoding files on this scale and magnitude must require quite a lot of resources as well as time to do quality control not to mention whatever else is going on that some might not be aware of, but ye, this is just off the top of my bat and figured I’d add some incentives, at least as to why I started to donate.
Just my random thoughts..
Well, one of the reasons I love Hi10 is that there’s no VIP/Public area–and because of the Batch MEGA/MF uploads. Everybody gets the same treatment. Now I haven’t donated anything to Hi10–mostly because I’m still a student, I don’t have any credit card, also I’m fairly new here. I’m not saying I don’t want a VIP corner for the donators, I’m saying that even if there’s a VIP corner, give them BETTER services than we’re getting now instead of downgrading our current services.
…So what does this mean for Naruto Shippuuden? Because the HS releases are inferior to Taka
Will Taka be kept or deleted?
i think taka or kurama will be kept > better sub
hs= horrible sub > fast release
they already deleted HS up to kurama
I have a really slow internet [average DL speed is 100 KBps] and I love the 720p encodes here. The quality is top notch considering the low file size. I’d hate it if the 720ps get deleted. I’m fine with playing 1080ps on PC but my Tab can’t handle 1080p and I use my tab A LOT for watching stuffs. Also the file size of 1080p encodes– it’s harder to download with my connection. I’m sure this won’t change your decision or action but saying this anyway.
PS: Please don’t ask me to upgrade my connection, this is the fastest broadband available here in my place.
I personally favor 720p anytime. My PC can play 1080p easily, but as pointed out before, most 1080p are just upscales. That, and my connection sucks (rural area here).
If you really want the best and most perfect quality, please BUY the series and give some money to those who produce our visual drugs. If that quality is available for free too, there are less buyers and, in the long run, less anime.
Is there any way besides donating? Like, if users would click ads more?
Also, making OC mandatory might help to save some space too.
I’m very willing to donate if you guys are in need of the money for space or servers or whatever, and I liked that there used to be a donation progress bar, so I could tell if you guys actually needed donations or (as it happened the last time there was a post like this) so many people donated that you didn’t need money that month.
Please bring back the donation progress bar.
There’s not much difference between 1080 and 720 but the size. Shouldn’t the 1080 should be deleted? Same quality but smaller size-
it was different if you watch it on display that support 1080p. and if you play 1080 on 720p the line of the art was more sharp and less noise you will see it just like HD release. And i am sure more or less you will update your pc or gadget into 1080p in the future and source 720p will be less avaiable on the torrent.
I guess 1080 is the future. We can’t fight it I guess.
I’m staying with 720p tho, in the first place, saving space is my reason for going with hi10p, not watch 1080p in full glory, You can do that with the original release. If I can’t get it anywhere, there’s always vafe, your vafe guide is easy to follow. Viva vafe!
I donated $20, to find out that some DDL links are dead… 1 download max at a time (can’t batch queue) and lots torrents are dead…
I would be willing to donate $100-200 per month for 1 connection ftp access… it is a pain to download 1 episode at a time without a queue system… :/
Well if you find any dead links you should report it on the Post/Chatbox, or you can even PM an encoder to check it out.Although it’s highly unlikely that there are any dead links since we don’t delete files unless a better version(BD) is already there maybe on a different post, but its possible that someone forgot to delete a post which consists dead link.Another thing is that you can easily use “IDM Queue” for downloading multiple files, infact that’s better than using a torrent IMO.
And about some torrents being dead, well the thing is, previously we were using “nori.jp” domain which expired about 6 months ago, and we switched to “uni.cx” and all of those old torrent which have “nori.jp” in webseed needs to be updated. But you can manually edit the webseed of any torrent by replacing “nori.jp” with “uni.cx” and they would work.For editing the webseed just right click on torrent in utorrent/bittorrent and go to “properties->Advance”.
Giving someone FTP access can put our database at a huge risk, so I don’t think that would be an option.
Although that is pretty impressive… He’s willing to pay all your server fees every month, for FTP access… 0_0 if you could figure out how to configure an FTP that did not allow him “owner level” access, so he could not rename, move, or delete things, it sounds like all your server money problems could vanish immediately… 0_0 I’d definitely try to figure out some way to get that to happen, if I were you 😉
…it is sad though…. I mean, I’m sure you have hundreds of leechers… there’s some way to set up automatic monthly payments, right? if you had just 300 people willing to automatically pay $0.50 (fifty cents) per month, wouldn’t that solve your problems for a long time? until the next server increase, anyway? ..And if you have 1000 or more unique visitors… they’d just have to agree to automatically pay like 15 cents per month or so… less than 2 dollars per year… I spend more than that on snacks every day…
Also I agree, that donations bar was a helpful visual.
I asked Sync if it was possible to set up FTP in a secure way, but it isn’t.
Can’t we have a vote on 1080 or 720? I’m curious which one is more popular.
http://hi10anime.com/site-news/hi10-going-high/#comment-57235
Balwant, there’s no way to reply to your comment about a secure ftp, so I am replying here… have you discussed with Chul Ho Lee and the other Hi10 members, some way to compromise? Immediately the idea that springs to mind is that Chul Ho Lee becomes Hi10’s “secret sponsor” and in return you guys set up a separate, duplicate (smaller, since you could put on it only what he/she requests) FTP server, using Chul’s funds to maintain both the “main” server and “Chul’s FTP server”… Again, this is definitely something that should be hashed out between you guys and Chul… i have no idea how realistic it is, but if Chul is really willing to fund you guys up to $200 per month, it’s kind of a big deal, I would think…
Hi there,
I’m a big fan of Hi10anime but sadly, I’m a non-donator.
I decided to share “my” thoughts about this and hopefully, it helps.
1) Any resolution is fine with me as long as I can watch all anime(old & new). 720p TV only is already fine and enough for my eyes to use it’s ability to see clearly.
2) There are ways to watch animes on a bigger picture using any computer(PC/Laptop) even future computers.
a) Just get a large flat screen TV and plug HDMI OR,
b) Get a mini projector and plug VGA and watch it on the wall at night.
3) 4k and above resolutions are the new trend now but it’s resolution is 3840×2160+++. The question is…
a) Will you own a computer(PC/laptop) with monitor on that size in the future? I ain’t going to carry a super wide computer =P
b) Maybe your reason is, 1080p is more clearly and the amount of information my eyes is receiving is really high which seems like real. And, my eyes can’t stand the lower resolutions even 720p. Well, I would suggest watch/download 3D copies instead of HD.
c) Oh! you own a cinema. Well, you’re one of a kind -_-
4) Since to me 720p is enough, my 1TB anime collection has been reduced by half. Not all are from Hi10anime but I’m really thankful to the key people of Hi10Anime.
Summary:
– Retain 720p TV or BD maximum.
– Replace 1080p by 720p or delete 1080p. (Sorry and thanks for the hardwork of encoders of 1080p)
– Be satisfy that anime right now are really watchable unlike before.
I wish Hi10anime reaches at least 10 years or forever running XD
Peace
Replacing 720p by 1080p is smarter option. Just because your pc doesn’t run full hd that doesn’t mean others are also as useless as you….. Always keep the best quality, so deleting 720 ones is a smarter choice.
1080 releases are upscales basically. Like others said, anime isn’t produced at 1080. Maybe in the future studios will produce at a higher resolution. Until then, 720 has all the details from production. Except for a handful of 960 animes.
Why not try to partner up with a private tracker (torrents) like animetorrents.me?
you can upload old series or if be the 720p series to there if you no longer have the space to keep on your servers. That way you have lots more space for your newer projects and people who want the old stuff (or less quality) can go there and download. That way you wont have to permanently delete the files you put all the hard work in for!
Is the site still under constructions? I can’t get anything from uni.cx, direct nor torrent since yesterday-
Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at hi10anime.uni.cx
-this is all I get. WOT also said hi10anime.uni.cx as a phishing site.
Told here several times, DDL will be abused, people will not donate, etc but it is time for solutions, not whinings. I suggest:
1. Shut down DDL and make downloads available using webseed only. (torrents)
2. Delete 1080p, they are upscales anyway, keep 720p and if a series is so popular or has really good graphics, drawing etc. or it is proven that its native resolution is 1080p, make exceptions.
3. Donators only could get maximum speed and unrestricted DDLs.
4.Ongoing series could bu uploaded to MEGA, but you should change names or 7zip them, that way MEGA will not delete the files. (even better if password protected)
5. Do not be afraid to share. That is why torrents are dying. Because you do not want to upload. Due to server problems and ddl, I was forced to DL from your torrents, once connected, I saw people sharing the torrent, despite the fact it was at 70-80%(unseeded). Just put a tutorial for the people who is still afraid of using this new technology, because most of your torrents still keep the old webseed which is down and should be changed manually to get the new webseed. That is why downloads on your torrents are stuck in most cases. Regarding DDL, well, you already know…
Great decision, 1080p for the win
everyone should vote C) Compare the two releases for each series, and leave the version which you find better! (file size vs quality, etc.
I know you guys like the idea of letting everyone use the direct download option and else, however reality is harsh, i would recommend asking 1-5 USD(1 seems low enough, you will be making the monthly reach by sheer numbers) per month to each member who wants to Direct download any episode, take it as a vip or premium member(of course they can donate more if they want to) if they dont like the idea they can just use the torrent(make sure you have the batches working), this way you get to keep the server and maybe upgrade it, thing is if you guys dont do this soon eventually you will be full or possibly close the site, which to be honest i will suck, love the site and the work you guys put into it.
sorry i have the money but Im not in the situation which i would be able to donate.i live in a country that has been boycotted by all american and European countrys .I cant turn my money into dollar or euro . i cant even have an international credit card.thats cruel isnt it?becouse of those stupid boycotts i can even help my favourite site.i finally ended up not being able to help this site.at the end its just the people who suffer from this nonsense stupid politician boycotts.so sorry i cant even serve a bit useful :'(
Well, I’ve been using the site for quite a long time now. I’ll be getting some money soon (hopefully) and I’ll try my best to donate as much as possible. I love this site and it would be sad to see it go down 🙁
If you could please make donating via Paypal a bit easier, would be good, thanks! Specifically making available a real “donate” button and automatic monthly donation.
Here’s my opinion and suggestions:
I would raise donation cost to $10-$15 per month, but allowing more than 1 download at a time… (example: max 3 downloads at once) people who want to download for free, can use torrents… (that would increase torrent seeds and make better speeds for all… lots of torrents are close to dead) and the people who donate are rewarded with greater benefits for a bit higher price…
or keep the same system but allow bigger donations to download more than 1 at a time…
old torrent need replace new webseeb becasue nori.jp not work anymore
Hi,
First off, I’m really thankful for all the people who has been re-encoding a variety of series and sharing it with us because this has helped me a great deal considering my download speed is very low.
As for he bandwith issue, I do believe that we can use other downloading sites, such as Mega, uptobox, or mediafire (with the name changes) for TV encodes. The BD encodes will stay on the Hi10 server.
Also if you want to delete other series, may I suggest to give people a week to download the whole series? Pick several members that are active or willing to help to keep the series in case of issues such as this one (lack of bandwith) or to reupload to other servers when the time comes. Having designated members assigned to keep certain series could help when necessary.
Just my 0.99 cents!…..not even a penny!
Thank you and yours truly,
Pervert!
Uhhm and for uptobox, a registered account only has 1 TB storage space and files will get deleted after 90 days after last downloads.
And uptobox offers a way to become premium member using ‘uptobox points’.
10 points for 30 premium days.
25 points for 90 premium days.
50 points for 180 premium days.
100 points for 365 premium days.
1 point=1000 downloads on uptobox.
100*1000=100.000 downloads for a whole year premium member.
And for Hi10 scale, maybe it’s not too hard.
Just telling some info, since I hosting some files…..
DMCA will deleted our file if someone report it
Uhhmm thats one problem too..
>>hosting some files
O’Reilly ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
And forgot to say, change the name to HEVCani.me, the new codec h265 can save lots of space, but implies you to start from scratch.
why would they change it if they still not implement it yet.┐(´＿`；)┌
easier said than done.
that can be suggest later, first thing is donate :3
wow, HEVC standard looks like it will blow Hi10 out of the water when it’s finally a standard format… theoretically it will be capable of encoding 4K images at smaller file sizes than current 1080p’s… 0_0 That will be something to see… imagine 720p shows where the total file size is about 1 Mb per minute of show… 0_0
Yeah, That Science ..
xD.. LOL
How about MEGA you can upload there too right?
Err.. do you even read.
Fourth, it’d be a waste of time to suggest us to host files on file-hosting servers (MEGA etc). We work in this field. We know the upsides and downsides of such services. But if you think that there’s some creative way that can really be awesome, I don’t mind your sharing it.
Funny how MEGA links are still up, but the direct DL links are down…
They’re not down, it might look like it, but it’s really because the servers get super busy on the weekends.
Maybe it cannot connect to the server after clicking skip ad, but when you try it second time, it’s working
Been trying for the last few days and it’s not working 🙁 nothing on my end is blocking the connection, and I was able to get a file from the direct DL 2 weeks ago… trying multiple times and whatnot, isn’t working.
Attempting to get the small batch torrent files also isn’t working, I really think you guys should at least host the torrent batch files else where? Food for thought.
How about showing the server costs collected/month?
Maybe if you dont show it, people may think the donation already enough so they didnt donate.
if we show dat there high chance someone report our site like last time and our paypal banned like last year or dmca
ouch… did not know that was because of the donations bar… 🙁
Oh didn’t know that. sorry
Just had a thought about uploading to file host sites.
How about uploading to multi-upload sites like embedupload?
Of course the files will still eventually die, but at least there will be multiple hosts to DL from before that happens…
…There are 1200+ encoded anime and 10000+ episode.
Manage these number of anime on file-sharing site is too much to ask for a small anime encoding site…
I’d like to donate in monthly, something like 5-10€ like some stated before.
But there is a way to donate monthly with paypal other than doing the full donate action once a month ?
Same exact question as Morphin007.
Would like to set up a regular monthly donation.
Sent an email from the Donate Other page, but got no response ?!?
I thought you guys wanted these steady donations???? Why won’t you answer or explain how to set it up?
Waiting to be able to support I guess…
I’ve donated to a real person via PayPal and I think this person doesn’t want to publish his name so openly on this site. That’s my guess why there isn’t a simple guide.
What? HEVC not implemented yet? and what is this encoding doing here in this same marvelous ite? (one of the few, I must say, to use HEVC) make comparisons and decide for yourself, it saves a lot of bandwith. The only downside on HEVC encoding is 1. Takes decades to encode, 2. It started at Main Profile, and years have to pass to reach a High profile (just when AVC started). Pros are: 1. Great quality 2. Smaller size. Example: http://hi10anime.com/tag/hevc/
He was testing it and reason we didnt use it take forever to encode
>>What? HEVC not implemented yet?
do u even understand implement 🙂
>>He was testing it and reason we didnt use it take forever to encode
Thx KungYii1994 for clear it up 🙂