04-05-2011, 02:06 PM | #1 |
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Comics on XOOM
Hi all,
I'm not too active on these forums, though I do lurk often. Anyways, I just wanted to comment as I haven't seen too much on the subject of comics for the XOOM, mostly for the iPad. The XOOM is great for comics. Much better IMHO than the iPad because of the high resolution and aspect ratio. American comics are only a tad tall when fit to the width of the screen in portrait mode. And that is only the border/page number not actual content. When compared to the iPad, playing with X comics at the store, fit width for me was too much scrolling and fit height made some of the smaller text too small to read with the image compressed that much. I'm a bit stingy when it comes to reading digital comics, I read on a large hi-def display in two page mode to avoid scrolling as much as possible. Color comics with great art look beautiful on the screen. I am using Perfect Viewer, which seems to load pages faster that ACV and has a better control system in my opinion. I've only had it a few days and I am over all pleased with the device. It can lag at times but never for long enough to be annoying. The browser has been great and I love that it syncs with Chrome. I have the Wi-Fi only version by the way. Anyway, thanks for reading. |
04-05-2011, 05:31 PM | #2 | |
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congrats. on your Xoom, yeah the more I play with it the more I have come to realize it will take something remarkable to steer me away from making the purchase. |
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04-06-2011, 06:56 AM | #3 |
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Gratz for having a Xoom. My must have/don't have the money yet tablet.
Didn't think of it as a comic "browser" but i now see how this could prove very useful. Wonder how Samsung Tab 2 will be regarding comics..... |
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04-09-2011, 07:52 AM | #5 | |
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One of the reasons I bought an ipad 2 was because of the 4:3 aspect ratio. It is so much better to read in portrait mode. That is one area where the widescreen is not as good. |
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04-09-2011, 01:02 PM | #6 |
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Actually comics would be better in their native ratios which aren't usually 4:3 either, but since they aren't it is just personal opinion on how you want to compromise.
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04-15-2011, 12:27 PM | #7 | |
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[Edit] I should also add that small text (such as the footnotes in spawn) show up clearly on the Xoom when the iPad would require some zooming and panning. Last edited by watchbot; 04-15-2011 at 12:30 PM. Reason: adding content |
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04-15-2011, 05:56 PM | #8 | |
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You are correct though, that 16:9 is probably closer to the original aspect ratio, and the higher resolution is great too. Still, so far every comic that I've thrown at the ipad 2 has been a pleasure to read. |
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04-15-2011, 11:04 PM | #9 | |
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I also have a thing against iTunes and iOS in general. Though OSX is pretty cool. So that was a factor in choosing the XOOM. |
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04-18-2011, 07:14 AM | #10 |
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Wikipedia lists the standard US comic size as having an aspect ratio of 1.53, which is almost exactly between 1.33 (4:3) and 1.78 (16:9), so it does seem a bit of a toss-up which one is more suitable.
The figures actually surprised me, I'd intuitively felt that the 4:3 resolution 'felt right' for comics. The 4:3 resolution is significantly better for viewing double page spreads, which have an aspect ratio of 1.31, although whether they are actually readable or not depends heavily on the text sizes used in the comics, so may not actually be that important. |
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