The Anime Blu-ray Video Quality Thread

[Zero-sama]

What's the Morbito blu ray release that has the best video quality and it's the overall better release, the one by Media Blasters, Viz or Sentai?

[BigOnAnime]

Originally Posted by Zero-sama

What's the Morbito blu ray release that has the best video quality and it's the overall better release, the one by Media Blasters, Viz or Sentai?

Sentai, easily despite certain issues due to them not opting to keep it 1080i. The Media Blasters release is one of the worst Blu-rays ever made as seen below.

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

That should cover a good amount of them. Now to figure out what ones I haven't posted here before... Some are already on the index. Will post more later, and also Sensuifu dropped some more caps on Fandom Post, will post those later as well. Going to take a bit of a break after this before I flood the thread more to help videophiles.

Anyway, here's a special Moribito post. Posted about it briefly before, but I thought I'd make comparing easier.

Posts where these caps came from below. There is no equivalent VIZ shot for the 4th comparison, it wasn't provided.
1 MB | VIZ | JP
2 MB | VIZ | JP
3 MB | VIZ | JP
4 MB | JP
5 MB | VIZ | JP
6 MB | VIZ | JP
7 MB | VIZ | JP

[Show spoiler]

http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/...l=1#post136336

http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/...l=1#post267740

Oh and did you know Media Blasters tried to defend their monstrocity of a Blu-ray release when it first came out?

[Show spoiler]

http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/...ll=1#post25210

http://www.fandompost.com/oldforums/...ll=1#post25461

As for the Sentai release...

Originally Posted by chronoclast

I've started watching Sentai's Moribito BDs and I'll give my take. I don't have a BD drive so this is simply my observation and opinion.

Moribito was produced with a mixed frame rate, the large majority of it is 24fps with some scenes having 30fps portions. Sentai chose for their release to deinterlace it to 1080p/24 and drop frames. This results in choppiness during the 30fps portions. Videophiles will notice it but it's not unwatchable by any means. In contrast, Viz for their BD blended the frames resulting in ghosting during those same scenes which IMO is more distracting.

Compression is at Sentai's typical standard being solid and noticeably better than Viz's BDs. The Viz discs are not compressed well, I recall there being artifacts around the text in the OP for an example. Sentai's discs are much cleaner with the only thing I've seen really is some minor banding which looks source inherit.

The audio is also a clear upgrade as Sentai's BDs have the native 5.1 audio tracks that Viz's were missing. The show's sound design makes strong use of the surround and LFE channels.

You can find screenshots of Sentai's release in the site review below.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Morib...6/#Screenshots

[Zero-sama]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Sentai, easily despite certain issues due to them not opting to keep it 1080i. The Media Blasters release is one of the worst Blu-rays ever made as seen below.As for the Sentai release...You can find screenshots of Sentai's release in the site review below.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Morib...6/#Screenshots

appreciate the help. Saw that Sentai had a sale the other day and Morbito was super cheap, but it was sold out. Sentai's release is the one to go with then, thanks!

[Total Procall]

Anyone checked out the Berserk Discotek release? If so does it fix the gamma issue from the old uk blu-ray?

[Mangaranga]

It doesn't suffer from the gamma bug.

[nyaa]

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Sentai, easily despite certain issues due to them not opting to keep it 1080i. The Media Blasters release is one of the worst Blu-rays ever made as seen below.As for the Sentai release...You can find screenshots of Sentai's release in the site review below.
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Morib...6/#Screenshots

Gotta say I strongly disagree with you as I have the original MB set, the video looks great to me but then I don't advance it frame by frame going over it with a magnifying glass looking for defects.

[BigOnAnime]

Originally Posted by nyaa

Gotta say I strongly disagree with you as I have the original MB set, the video looks great to me but then I don't advance it frame by frame going over it with a magnifying glass looking for defects.

The Media Blasters release was criticized for being plagued with artifacting, which people could easily see in motion, it wasn't something they saw only when looking at stuff frame by frame close up. They found it quite distracting. Here's two of the most egregious examples, does this look good to you?
http://acacallis.com/moribito/moribi...facting_05.png
http://acacallis.com/moribito/moribi...facting_06.png

If you've ever watched Sentai's Penguindrum Blu-rays during the transformation sequences, those suffer from similar problems. The artifacting is very distracting in motion.

[CrashOveride95]

YouTube-ass encode lmao, doesn't take any magnifying glass or any of that to see it

[Total Procall]

Originally Posted by nyaa

Gotta say I strongly disagree with you as I have the original MB set, the video looks great to me but then I don't advance it frame by frame going over it with a magnifying glass looking for defects.

Looks great to me>haven't looked closely>but still strongly disagree!!!

You are exactly the target market for "Vivid mode" on TV's.

[Naiera]

Originally Posted by nyaa

gotta say i strongly disagree with you as i have the original mb set, the video looks great to me but then i don't advance it frame by frame going over it with a magnifying glass looking for defects.

lol

[MiaLeeSakura]

Anyone here know how the Monogatari 2nd season box set compares to the singles? 12 discs > 6 discs wondering if difference is noticeable enough for the amount of space all the singles take ahaha. Ik most of the sets are like 6 eps spread over 2 discs tho so likely the differences are negligible if any. Filling up the AoA shelf is very much a possible prospect now that I finished all the singles ahaha

If I run out of room they'll def be the first to go long as the boxset pq isn't too much a compromise from the singles

[SpaceDandy]

Little things from Twitter:
- Kare Kano (Selecta Vision) - 1080i (specs said 1080p), seem to have correct gamma, dubs use audio ripped from the DVD, which is very lame considering a lossless master exists.
- Dynit vs VIZ Bleach comparison (screenshots are cropped, suggesting piracy. Don't be like this kid and support the good work of Dynit)

[BoopityBoop]

Originally Posted by MiaLeeSakura

Anyone here know how the Monogatari 2nd season box set compares to the singles? 12 discs > 6 discs wondering if difference is noticeable enough for the amount of space all the singles take ahaha.

It's using 6 BD-50s as opposed to 12 BD-25s so the quality should be basically the same. I'm not sure if it directly re-uses the encodes for the singles, but I wouldn't be surprised if it does.

[namxob645]

I picked up the blu-ray for Tanaka-kun Is Always Listless and just wanted to drop a heads-up that there's a minor issue with track selection. On an Amazon review, someone said the second disc doesn't have Japanese audio w/ subtitles, because they weren't able to switch to it in the menus.

Thankfully that's not actually the case, instead the UI is just derpy. Rather than clicking the language you want to switch to as expected (like how the first disc works), instead you have to click the currently enabled track (English by default) to switch to the other language. I haven't done a complete re-watch of it, but skipping around episodes everything seemed okay otherwise.

[NLScavenger]

Somebody added Suzume comparisons to slow.pics
https://slow.pics/c/tP4FonMo FRA vs JPN
https://slow.pics/c/1qg8r95K JPN vs USA

The US/UK and French release appear to share the same lowpass filtered encode. If my eyes aren't deceiving me, it also seems like CR fixed the chroma location issue that's in their releases since 2014. Now they gotta fix all the other issues.

Here's the BDInfo of the US disc:

Playlist: 00008.MPLS
Size: 39,119,849,472 bytes
Length: 2:01:25.278
Total Bitrate: 42.96 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 34999 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / Dolby TrueHD Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz /  1563 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz /   448 kbps / DN -31dB)
Audio: Japanese / Dolby TrueHD Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz /  1668 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz /   448 kbps / DN -28dB)
Subtitle: English / 41.478 kbps
Subtitle: English / 4.329 kbps

[rayeknor]

What release for the Cowboy Bebop movie on bluray is considered the best looking, is it still the Italian/UK release?

[professorwho]

It’s still the Italian Dynit Blu-ray, but it’s an older, dated master from an ancient scan with automated dirt removal impacting the line art at points. Sony really needs to do a UHD at this point. Would be a massive improvement.

[Mangaranga]

Originally Posted by rayeknor

What release for the Cowboy Bebop movie on bluray is considered the best looking, is it still the Italian/UK release?

I never really looked into the US/UK releases video quality wise, but I'd strongly advise avoiding the UK BD as the audio is not only lossy, but the mixing is f'd. If you want to hear it for yourself, there's a link to some clips here.

[SpaceDandy]

Originally Posted by NLScavenger

Somebody added Suzume comparisons to slow.pics
https://slow.pics/c/tP4FonMo FRA vs JPN
https://slow.pics/c/1qg8r95K JPN vs USA

Oof, there's quite some ringing.

[peppapigstan]

Originally Posted by professorwho

It’s still the Italian Dynit Blu-ray, but it’s an older, dated master from an ancient scan with automated dirt removal impacting the line art at points. Sony really needs to do a UHD at this point. Would be a massive improvement.

hoping Sony does the UHD and not Bandai