Like maybe you wanna just lay in bed and watch on your phone instead of having to sit up in a chair for laptop or on a sofa for tv.
Basically: Convienience vs Big Screen? Which is more important to you?
I’ll wait. The phone screen is too fucking small and the sound is a joke. Phones are for memes and shit. I bought that fucking 4K TV for movies. I hardly use it, but that’s what it’s for.
Big screen. If I’m watching something on my phone I’m not enjoying it, I’m merely passing time.
Videos for entertainment are pretty much a big screen (tablet or preferably larger) only thing for me. But when for example I’m in my bike workshop and want to watch some bike maintenance video, I’ll watch that on my phone.
I don’t really like watching video on my phone, so I’ll pretty much always go for the nearest bigger screen unless there’s no option to do that.
I honestly think most of the time I would just not watch the video rather than watch on my phone
Big screen. I want to actually be able to see the details in the media I’m watching.
Also, I want to be able to put my phone down and not have to hold it the entire time I’m trying to watch a show or something.
The inconveniences of watching things on a phone far outweigh the inconvenience of just getting up to watch on the PC or TV.
Big screen for me. For some reason I hate watching videos on my phone. Maybe because I’m tired of being glued to it.
Depends what it is. I’m perfectly happy watching an animation spectacle with good music (say, KPop Demon Hunters) or a drama (say, Steve Jobs) on my 6.9" ~1440p iPhone screen, especially with AirPods. The iPhone 16 Pro Max is loud enough for anyone to hear, but it’s not exactly clear. Hence the AirPods.
Now if I want to watch Interstellar, I’m gonna watch that on the 55" 4K TV, especially the beautiful scenes. The drama, the parts in the house or on the ship or whatever? Doesn’t really matter. But the big space scenes, or the planet with the waves? Big screen all the way.
The only issue I have with the phone screen is holding it. I’d rather watch on my MacBook. 15" screen, great sound even without headphones, so it’s almost big enough for watching movies on (but for epic shots, I still like watching them on the TV).
Big screen. When my tablet was new I watched a couple of things in bed, and then immediately went back to big screen.
I also live in a small place that I rent, the couch and TV is right outside my bedroom so it feels silly not to just go out there.
I watch stuff on my laptop in bed all the time. It’s the main reason I opt for a laptop over a desktop/tower PC.
I actually have a gaming laptop I got for fairly cheap as a desktop replacement and a separate thinkpad that works as the screen beside my bed when not out and about.
Big screen. Small screens are only for short clips on sites, posts or a show I’ve seen 100x on repeat until I fall asleep
I use the big TV for stuff I watch with family, little screen is fine for just me.
I like watching stuff on my smartwatch.
This is one of the reasons I also have an iPad. That and reading ebooks. I mainly don’t like watching on the phone because I have to either hold it up the whole time, or I wind up hunched over and hurting my back.
Depends on the content.
Is it a shitty generic isekai anime where the same plot gets recycled again and again? I watch on my phone on some shitty streaming site.
Is it an above average show that I know it’s going to be good? I will download the highest quality I can find and wait as long as I need to watch it on my best screen.
Ofc half the times I start bring watching on streaming and then turns out the show is actually good and I jump to mkv midway.
What I cannot do independently of content is watching with any tiny bit of noise whatsoever in the apartment.
Someone talking on another room, or using the kitchen or a TV or a radio, or just walking, will completely kill my immersion, I need absolute silence to watch things.
I travel a lot, so I have a bunch of stuff downloaded onto my laptop. And a lot of that stuff I have mirrored onto my phone. And on top of that I have additional stuff loaded onto a tiny USB C drive that I can plug into both for when I want to store stuff for later loading onto my phone.
I often find myself watching an ep on my phone in an airport lounge, and doing the next ep on my laptop on the plane.
Generally, I’m not that picky in terms of screen size, I usually go for the biggest screen conveniently available. And my laptop has the additional benefit of allowing me to use my Roland headset.
EDIT: Splelign is hrad.
