I'm just wondering why 99% percent of anime to download only comes in mkv. If I want to download it to a memory stick and watch it on my tv, hardly any devices support mkv format why cant people upload anime in AVI or MP4. Why do uploaders have a hard-on for MKV??

MKV is just a container format. It doesn't give you better quality (unless the encoder gave it a high level of quality in the first place). It does allow for several different features to be muxed into the same stream (srt files, VBR audio and VFR video). These are features that the aging AVI container doesn't have.

Bottom line is that AVI was created in the early '90s and technology has passed it up. MKV is now used because it can support a lot of features that AVI cannot. Hardware mfr's are slowly coming around to this.

If your TV can't read your memory stick's MKV files, you need a new TV (sorry). What you might try is playing your files through a DVD/Blu-Ray player or game console (PS3 is best at this). That's what most other people do. Or you can just transcode your files either from a streaming media player on your computer, or file converter software.

Don't give people BS info. Most TV's don't support .mkv's. Most still support avi and dvix/xvid.

MKV is definitely king of containers (at least IMO), and most releases in the MKV container still contain H.264 video and AAC audio. What this means is that you can simply re-mux it (no encoding) to an MP4 container, if that's what you prefer, and have the same end product without any quality loss.

If you would like help with this, send me a PM.

Hold up dude, reread that thread one more time.