. However, there are a couple of things that I really miss. First of all I miss a group list of the best fansubs and DVD groups (those who has the best video, sound and sub quality), rated by the AnimeDB crew and not us users. The reason is that we users are obviously not very good at rating fansubs for what they are. Most of the groups on the group list, no matter rating, have few votes which make it difficult to see if the particular group is a good one or not, unless you actually download anime from them and see for yourself. And since it can take awhile to download an episode of a series (several hours for those with slow internet access or if one sources gives a slow download), it would be much easier and painless to download from those who has the best quality.
The second thing I miss (or rather wish you could do, since it probably would cause a lot of work) is a rating system which shows what groups who actually has the best video, audio and sub quality of the particular anime series, etc. The reason is that even the good fansubs and etc tends to give out anime with rather bad, even terrible quality, compared to a lot of other anime they have distributed. An example of this is Lunar who distribute “Bleach”, an ongoing series, with high quality but also distribute “Starship Operators” (also an ongoing series?) with rather low quality. In Lunars distribution of “Starship Operators” you can see lots of big squares here and there but still, according to AnimeDB, it is a high quality anime just like Bleach. The only difference between “Bleach” and “Starship Operators” is the video codec bitrate where “Starship Operators” has 55kBits/s less than “Bleach”. Still, after watching a few episodes of “Starship Operators” from Lunar, I have to say that the quality was rather low.
I hope you can do something about this. I strongly believe that easy information about high quality anime will make people, especially new bees more aware or pickier about the video and audio quality, which would (hopefully) result to that more people download anime with higher quality and will therefore also share more anime with higher quality, which again would result to that there are much more, and much easier to get high quality anime trough the p2p/sharing/dc++ whatever community.
Last words (gibberish), I am very happy (dah!) that there are anime groups out there making anime available to all of us. Even us poor ones. Still, I cherish anime not only with good stories, but also good video and sound quality. Therefore I think that those groups that won’t or can’t distribute high quality (video and audio) anime should just quit what they are doing or keep it for them self rather than filling the sharing community with junk. Even if it is free junk, it is still junk. And we don’t want that do we
? Well, that’s enough gibberish from me