Entertainment during travel
In a couple of months I will hopefully graduate. As I am writing this, I am doing a research internship about Augmented Reality at a company in Einhoven. Having said internship means I have to travel daily by bus and train, getting up at 5.30 in the morning, arriving at 8.30. At the end of the day I leave at about 17.00 and get home at 19.00. Long days, with fairly often 30 min, up to 2 hour delays due to either technical malfunctions, or even suicide train jumpers. So yeah, I spend a lot of time waiting to get to my destination.
Years ago I would print out chapters from fanfiction websites or read a regaluar book to pass the time. Eventually the prints became over 900 bookmarks on smartphone. Nowadays I can download the fic from Archive of our Own as a PDF or show the entire fic on one webpage, no longer requiring internet during my travels. Reading said fics on my 7 inch tablet is a joy, being just the right size to hold is nicely in one hand. But videos were an iffy situation. I only have a limited data bundle on my phone and my tablet only has wifi. I could upgrade but that would be silly for just watching videos. I rather not use the public wifi of the train, being a paranoid IT person. So Youtube and Netflix were out of the question. I could watch pre-downloaded stuff on my laptop, but train seats tend to be fairly small so my 17 inch laptop is too bulky.
But recently I discovered the wonders of offline Netflix. On the app version of Netflix you can download the episodes in advance, staying available for 48 hours to view offline. As a result I have started watching Voltron: Legendary Defender during my train trips. Why Voltron? I felt like watching something anime-ish and not too heavy subject wise. Space battles with robot lions? Sign me up! it's a bit of a shame it only has English (and Dutch *shudder*) dubs, but I suppose the voice acting isn't too bad. I don't think has a Japanese version, seeing as it's an American animated web television series produced by DreamWorks Animation and the animation is anime-influenced, rather than being an actual anime. And each episode is about 24 minutes, allowing me to watch several a day. Unlike the 50-90 minutes of other tv-shows I tend to watch.
As for other tv series, finished Sherlock and Teen Wolf a while ago. It had its ups and downs, but since I am writing this post during some mental downtime at my internship, I have to keep it short for now =P
~*~Maru~*~
Years ago I would print out chapters from fanfiction websites or read a regaluar book to pass the time. Eventually the prints became over 900 bookmarks on smartphone. Nowadays I can download the fic from Archive of our Own as a PDF or show the entire fic on one webpage, no longer requiring internet during my travels. Reading said fics on my 7 inch tablet is a joy, being just the right size to hold is nicely in one hand. But videos were an iffy situation. I only have a limited data bundle on my phone and my tablet only has wifi. I could upgrade but that would be silly for just watching videos. I rather not use the public wifi of the train, being a paranoid IT person. So Youtube and Netflix were out of the question. I could watch pre-downloaded stuff on my laptop, but train seats tend to be fairly small so my 17 inch laptop is too bulky.
But recently I discovered the wonders of offline Netflix. On the app version of Netflix you can download the episodes in advance, staying available for 48 hours to view offline. As a result I have started watching Voltron: Legendary Defender during my train trips. Why Voltron? I felt like watching something anime-ish and not too heavy subject wise. Space battles with robot lions? Sign me up! it's a bit of a shame it only has English (and Dutch *shudder*) dubs, but I suppose the voice acting isn't too bad. I don't think has a Japanese version, seeing as it's an American animated web television series produced by DreamWorks Animation and the animation is anime-influenced, rather than being an actual anime. And each episode is about 24 minutes, allowing me to watch several a day. Unlike the 50-90 minutes of other tv-shows I tend to watch.
As for other tv series, finished Sherlock and Teen Wolf a while ago. It had its ups and downs, but since I am writing this post during some mental downtime at my internship, I have to keep it short for now =P
~*~Maru~*~