Project PAPO Review

[Chris Beveridge]

Early peek, it's going live on my site tomorrow via news page but can be accessed now.

Review

Released By: GDH K.K.
MSRP: 7,140
Running time: 67 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Resolution: 720p
Encoded With: MPEG-2
Release Date: 11/03/2006
Review Date: 11/09/2006
Date Announced: 09/07/2006
Region: A - N. America, S. America, East Asia

[WriteSimply]

Will not be buying this as a blind buy. But interesting nevertheless. Thanks Chris!


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[SDK]

That's awesome review! Thanks, I'd be buying it if there were english subs

[Deciazulado]

Great review and exclusive!

Originally Posted by Chris Beveridge

The other advantage is that it has very little dialogue, with maybe four or five lines total, and most of the text in the show is in English. I had no problem figuring out this show in the slightest and it turned into a very enjoyable experience since it was so easily accessible.

Maybe someone could translate those 5 lines and then we'd have them as an insert in the BD cover as reference while we watch

Originally Posted by Chris Beveridge

Originally distributed through shockwave.com in 2000 as a webisode animation series, the transfer for this series is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.78:1. It is encoded with MPEG-2 and has a resolution of 720p that was upscaled to 1080

Any idea of the framerate Chris? 24, 30, 60

[Chris Beveridge]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

Maybe someone could translate those 5 lines and then we'd have them as an insert in the BD cover as reference while we watch

Any idea of the framerate Chris? 24, 30, 60

The couple of lines are basically "hello" and "goodbye." Honestly, subtitles will not change the enjoyment of this at all. It's essentially a silent movie in regards to dialogue.

As for framerate, no clue; since the Panny and the Samsung don't display that info, I've got no way of telling (no PC based player yet either, waiting for a new Dell system next year).

[Deciazulado]

Well to find video frame rates I use this easy "trick" (I use it mostly to determine frame rates on music videos to decide which version (PAL or NTSC DVD) I should buy to get the original transfer instead of a standards converted one) when I can't easily tell by looking at it: I put the player in still and I still/step checking for repeats. If it has a 3:2 pattern it's 24fps edited into 60i video, if it has 4:5 repeats, it's 25fps into 60i (or sometimes 30p), if there's no repeats it's usually 24fps, 25fps, or 30fps, and I just count the frames while keeping an eye on the seconds counter (I've even found for instance some Joan Jett videos shot at 20fps with 3 frame repeats using this technique!) (I assume they saved film in the shoot or it made video editing easier!). If it's shot at 60i or 50i that's usually easy to tell cus it has this "live" look on it. Works great for OVAs too!