Sometimes I use portable devices to watch series - uConsole is really good for that. And, since the screen is small, and since I want to put my media on a thumb drive offline, it makes sense not to use 4k. But it is surprisingly not as trivial a task to find SD TV series as it might seem. Using online compressors is masochistic, so I want to share my experience using HandBrake - a lightweight offline open-source video converter. I was able to compress the aforementioned Eva (which was already somewhat light) to half the size without a noticeable change in quality. Now, I'm not an audiophile, nor a videophile, I don't care for the cleanest truest image quality - if it's not pixelated, there are no artifacts and if I can see it clearly - it works. Space is of much higher importance for me. If you find yourself in a similar situation, try HandBreak. It is open code, it works on Linux, Mac and Windows. Also, if you know of a dedicated Standard Definition quality media hostings where old SD movies and series can be found, let me know. The ability to convert is nice, bit it takes an awfully long time

I remember always hearing about Evangelion, especially back in the day, on imageboards. I also remember finally watching a full length movie and thinking something like "they made everyone fall in love with this character who hardly says a word in the whole movie". I vaguely remember the plot. It was a long long time ago. I never watched the tv series. Now I want to reconcile that. I have started with the original 1995 episodes, and, can I just say, the way people used to animate is ... I don't know if it's just me, maybe somewhere deep inside I associate that look of old anime with my early childhood where I saw Sailor Moon, and Spirited Away, the happy carefree time, because after that I didn't really watch anime pretty much at all. Or maybe it is the pieces of art themselves and the genius people behind them. Or both. I don't know, but compared to stuff like zootopia/steven universe/star/teen titans/{almost_anything_past_1999_here}, the latter is so much more removed from the world, than the obviously fictional series from the 80s-early 90s. Something happened in the 90s. We got all those crazy wacky cartoons (no shade, they were also cool, just in a different way), and it feels like the more removed from the world they were, the better. And now everything is just sugarcoated and polished, and empty. Although, I shouldn't say everything, but the culture goes in that direction. Partly, I think, it has led to the retro-revival, 'cos like, yeah, it was cooler back then. Now people are dressing up like it's the 90s, the indie web gravitates towards retro, hopefully we get old-school-style series as well. But then again, we have all seen the new HP series trailers, which are as far into wokeness as they could get. Anyway, long post TL;DR - I'm old, it was better back in my days, go watch old stuff P.S. Also, let me know if you have watched the 1995 Eva and whether you liked it or not P.P.S. I'm mainly writing this to be able to remember when I first watched it

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