The Anime Blu-ray Video Quality Thread - Page 175 - Blu-ray Forum

slerch666 · 03-27-2019, 10:02 PM

I guess the only regret I have is how much I paid for the set. The price you pay to help dub something (just to get the show on BD... not because you want the dub... lol )

BigOnAnime · 03-29-2019, 09:27 AM

Some more hissatsu comparisons/caps I should have posted here years ago. Also there's one I didn't know about until a while after he did it, that being for Dear Brother. Lastly, I really, really need to update that index linked in my signature, it's been over two years.....

Dear Brother

Quote:

Originally Posted by hissatsu

https://fandompost.vbulletin.net/for...644#post594644

Denpa Teki na Kanojo
Text was unfortunately not archived nor the thread.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WTK

via Mania.com forums

Quote:

Originally Posted by hissatsu

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30
31 | 32 | 33 | 34

https://fandompost.vbulletin.net/for...559#post163559

Ga-Rei-Zero (Japanese Release)
He made a comparison to the US release in the second post here, but the Internet Archive never archived that thread, though it wouldn't matter anyway as the person used ImageShack so those images are long gone.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hissatsu

Knowing this was an upscale, after seeing the screenshots and confirming that it wasn't DNR'd to get rid of the digital grain and didn't have the EE of the R2DVD, I ordered this when amazon.co.jp had it for 30% off for a short while. After watching some of it, I'm pleased. Aside from the obvious improvement in scenes where there's a lot of movement (very visible in the 6th shot), and lack of EE compared to the DVD, there is (somewhat surprisingly) a visibly higher level of detail in many shots with no motion at all (4th, 5th, 8th). Considering the list price for his is only a bit bit more than half the list for all the DVDs + the Garei-Zero - THE LIVE concert DVD (which is included on BD in HD), I think it's a pretty reasonably priced. Kadokawa must have been a bit drunk.

01 R2DVD | BD
02 R2DVD | BD
03 R2DVD | BD
04 R2DVD | BD
05 R2DVD | BD
06 R2DVD | BD
07 R2DVD | BD
08 R2DVD | BD
09 R2DVD | BD

I think this is how the Samurai Champloo upscale should have turned out. For an upscale of a SD show with large amounts of digital grain added, turning up the DNR to scrub the image, and EE to make it "HD" is not a good thing. Of course many of the reviews of the Ga-rei Zero BD box on amazon.co.jp are scathing. It wasn't "remastered," it's worse than the DVDs, etc. Luckily these idiots seem to not have made much difference in the end, because it sold pretty well.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110519...0&postcount=14

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Originally Posted by hissatsu

Quote:

Originally Posted by kakugo

There's also THIS lovely interlacing error. No clue if the JP release is the same way or not, but if I found this within the first 5 minutes, who knows how many are actually on the 12 episode series.

I think I have an explanation for that aliasing, but it doesn't make much sense to do it:

Same scene on JP BD

That scene is towards the end of a quick fade from white. The thing is on the JP BD, the fade is already over maybe 1/2 a second before that moment. I can't imagine any other way of doing that than by adding their own slightly longer fade over the other one. But... that makes no sense at all. I can't imagine any reason for it. Yet the aliasing screwup and brightness difference is there...

As for the other screenshots (Compare to TheGreenMan's screenshots):

JPBD 01
JPBD 02
JPBD 03
JPBD 04
JPBD 05
JPBD 06
JPBD 07
JPBD 08

Looks like they did some warpsharp style sharpening to them. That and the cropping and there is definitely some noise reduction. It's nowhere near as bad as their early efforts (cough... Champloo... cough...), but it would be better if they left well enough alone. Oh well, at least it doesn't leave me with the dilemma of having a more expensive set with lesser video quality but better extras. No temptation to buy this now. Thanks Funi!

https://web.archive.org/web/20110519...&postcount=140

Mazinkaizer SKL

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Originally Posted by hissatsu

Well, I enjoyed this quite a bit. Nicely animated. There's a sub floating around based on the DVD that was released a month early at a screening event in December; the BD is a substantial improvement over that. Looking forward to the remaining two episodes.

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 |
12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 |

https://web.archive.org/web/20110519...6&postcount=17

Moyashimon

Quote:

Originally Posted by WTK

Screenshots via old forum

Quote:

Originally Posted by hissatsu

01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05
06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10
11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15

https://fandompost.vbulletin.net/for...208#post139208

Ninja Scroll
Kinda redundant at this point, I know, this is the JP DVD vs. the JP Blu-ray.

Quote:

Originally Posted by WTK

via Mania.com forums

Quote:

Originally Posted by hissatsu

https://fandompost.vbulletin.net/for...123#post212123

Occult Academy (Japanese Singles)

Quote:

Originally Posted by hissatsu

Got my copy of the first volume early in the morning. The packaging is surprisingly nice in that the slipcase is chipboard instead of the usual cardboard. Satin finish but Maya and Bunmei/Fumiaki/Loser are glossy and embossed. No real point in taking pictures/scans since the effect wouldn't show up. Screenshots - the last 4 are from the LOVE MACHINE music video - it's mostly footage from the series, but there are some amusing new bits. I think each volume will include a cover of a song that was a hit in 1999 in Japan. Video on the BD, full version on the included CD.

Screenshot 01
Screenshot 02
Screenshot 03
Screenshot 04
Screenshot 05
Screenshot 06
Screenshot 07
Screenshot 08
Screenshot 09
Screenshot 10
Screenshot 11
Screenshot 12
Screenshot 13
Screenshot 14
Screenshot 15
Screenshot 16
Screenshot 17

https://web.archive.org/web/20110519...01&postcount=4

Re: Cutie Honey

Quote:

Originally Posted by WTK

via Mania.com forums

Quote:

Originally Posted by hissatsu

This release appears to have turned out pretty well. I don't have the original R2J DVD release to compare with, so DVD screenshots are from a high bitrate h264 rip. If anyone has the original R2J DVD release from which to post screenshots, feel free, though differences should be minimal. I do remember reading that the original DVD release was not particularly good looking. Of course the BD release is an upscale, but it is a definite improvement.

(DVD rip screenshots bicubic resized to 1920x1080)

01 R2DVDRIP | BD
02 R2DVDRIP | BD
03 R2DVDRIP | BD
04 R2DVDRIP | BD
05 R2DVDRIP | BD
06 R2DVDRIP | BD
07 R2DVDRIP | BD
08 R2DVDRIP | BD
09 R2DVDRIP | BD
10 R2DVDRIP | BD
11 R2DVDRIP | BD
12 R2DVDRIP | BD
13 R2DVDRIP | BD
14 R2DVDRIP | BD

https://fandompost.vbulletin.net/for...770#post357770

The Place Promised In Our Early Days

Quote:

Originally Posted by hissatsu

Both look quite good (and similar quality), probably somewhere around 720p level of detail. Far better than the DVDs, especially the R1s. I remember the ADV 5cm DVD didn't compare very favorably even to the R2. It was nice auctioning it off for 4 or 5 times what I paid for it. I still have the Place DVD lying around, mainly because it's not worth trying to sell.

01 R1DVD | BD
02 R1DVD | BD
03 R1DVD | BD
04 R1DVD | BD
05 R1DVD | BD
06 R1DVD | BD
07 R1DVD | BD
08 R1DVD | BD
09 R1DVD | BD

https://web.archive.org/web/20110519...59&postcount=3

The Fandom Post ones are now a pain to embed too, ugh. When you try to quote, you don't get any inside quotes thanks to the vBulletin software change. Well, it could be worse, THIS was a pain to embed. Anyway, I've finally got nearly everything he did embedded here except for a few more I'll get later.

professorwho · 03-31-2019, 11:46 PM

Does anyone here have the Manga UK BD of Paprika and can produce caps? (Hopefully comparing to these?)

Thanks

Naiera · 04-01-2019, 01:53 AM

I have it, but I don't see why it wouldn't be the exact same encode

professorwho · 04-01-2019, 01:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Naiera

I have it, but I don't see why it wouldn't be the exact same encode

It’s not, actually. Sony is MPEG-2 with windowboxing and 16-bit TrueHD audio, Manga UK is MPEG-4 with 24-bit DTS-HD MA with a slightly higher video Bitrate (Sony: 26 mbps; Manga: 28 mbps). I’m hoping they can eliminate the windowboxing on their disc.

Naiera · 04-01-2019, 02:00 AM

I totally lied to you. I just looked it up in My Movies and saw I had the UK release, but it's not the new MANGA UK release

slerch666 · 04-01-2019, 01:31 PM

Yamibo from Media Blasters/Anime Works. FINALLY released.

Encoded as 1080i (thankfully they didn't try some crappy convert to 1080p and ruin it... I can live w/ 1080i even if it isn't perfect).

Funny story. Anyone that may or may not have followed Yamibo. MB licensed this in... 2013? 2016 rolls along, they announce a disc, put up preorders (which I did) and... then it disappeared. Fast forward to about a month or so ago and the preorder popped back up... so I did... again. And it finally showed up in the mail the other day. 16 years after its original Japanese release (I have the JP DVDs) and 6 years after being licensed.

The other funny part of the story? I looked at the date on the files that were pressed to disc...2016. That means this show has been done and ready to release for at least 2.5 years or so (original street date was Oct 2016 if memory serves).

Slightly annoyed they did MPG for the encode but they put it on 2 BD50s so they gave it plenty of breating room. In motion it looks good to me.

I captured some images, one which is showing the interlaced content. In proper playback though, I don't see this which is good.

Each episode is just under 5.5 GB.

Screen Shots:

[Show spoiler]

The interlaced shot I took... looks fine in motion

[Show spoiler]

DiscInfo:

[Show spoiler]

Code:

                                                                                                                Total   Video                                             
Title                                                           Codec   Length  Movie Size      Disc Size       Bitrate Bitrate Main Audio Track                          Secondary Audio Track
-----                                                           ------  ------- --------------  --------------  ------- ------- ------------------                        ---------------------
00001.MPLS                                                      MPEG-2  0:23:52 0               38,263,629,608  0.00    0.00    LPCM 2.0 1536Kbps (48kHz/16-bit)

Code:

DISC INFO:

Disc Label:     Yamibo BR Disc 1
Disc Size:      38,263,629,608 bytes
Protection:     AACS
BDInfo:         0.7.5.5

PLAYLIST REPORT:

Name:                   00001.MPLS
Length:                 0:23:52.898 (h:m:s.ms)
Size:                   0 bytes
Total Bitrate:          0.00 Mbps

VIDEO:

Codec                   Bitrate             Description     
-----                   -------             -----------     
MPEG-2 Video            0 kbps              1080i / 29.970 fps

AUDIO:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
LPCM Audio                      English         1536 kbps       2.0 / 48 kHz /  1536 kbps / 16-bit

SUBTITLES:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
Presentation Graphics           English         0.000 kbps                      
Presentation Graphics           English         0.000 kbps                      

FILES:

Name            Time In         Length          Size            Total Bitrate   
----            -------         ------          ----            -------------   
00001.M2TS      0:00:00.000     0:23:52.898     0               0               

CHAPTERS:

Number          Time In         Length          Avg Video Rate  Max 1-Sec Rate  Max 1-Sec Time  Max 5-Sec Rate  Max 5-Sec Time  Max 10Sec Rate  Max 10Sec Time  Avg Frame Size  Max Frame Size  Max Frame Time  
------          -------         ------          --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  --------------  
1               0:00:00.000     0:02:07.327     0 kbps          0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 bytes         0 bytes         00:00:00.000    
2               0:02:07.327     0:06:09.168     0 kbps          0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 bytes         0 bytes         00:00:00.000    
3               0:08:16.496     0:03:49.429     0 kbps          0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 bytes         0 bytes         00:00:00.000    
4               0:12:05.925     0:04:23.863     0 kbps          0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 bytes         0 bytes         00:00:00.000    
5               0:16:29.788     0:07:23.109     0 kbps          0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 kbps          00:00:00.000    0 bytes         0 bytes         00:00:00.000    

STREAM DIAGNOSTICS:

File            PID             Type            Codec           Language                Seconds                 Bitrate                 Bytes           Packets         
----            ---             ----            -----           --------                --------------          --------------          -------------   -----           
00001.M2TS      4113 (0x1011)   0x02            MPEG-2                                  0                       0                       0               0               
00001.M2TS      4352 (0x1100)   0x80            LPCM            eng (English)           0                       0                       0               0               
00001.M2TS      4608 (0x1200)   0x90            PGS             eng (English)           0                       0                       0               0               
00001.M2TS      4609 (0x1201)   0x90            PGS             eng (English)           0                       0                       0               0

Naiera · 04-01-2019, 02:41 PM

Unfortunately, MPEG-2 has obligatory edge enhancement. Not saying you can't make a decent disc with it, but it has some serious issues.

slerch666 · 04-01-2019, 02:47 PM

Well it is digital anime and it was done in 480i and so by definition it isn't going to look amazing anyway. It looks fine though, especially compared to the DVDs that had a few minor compression issues that this does not.

So it's the best it's ever looked. And probably the best it will ever look I guess.

EDIT - there IS a Japanese edition. It's 2 discs and a CD. I'm going to assume that it's possible they used whatever they got from JP and added subs. Not sure though as I don't have the JP BDs and won't be buying them at this point.

slerch666 · 04-01-2019, 08:51 PM

I am really sad.

Devilman Lady deserved the royal treatment (in my book). What it got was... wow. And not in a good way. Though it really isn't TERRIBLE...

This show was done on film. No question there. Yet here it is, presented in... 1080i. Why? I assume they couldn't go back to the original elements but that's just me giving the benefit of the doubt. My bigger assumption is... lazy.

The first thing that concerned me and had I realized just what CD Japan was indicating when it said:

Layers single-sided/single-layered

I probably would have skipped this release...

OK, that's a total lie. I love Devilman Lady. I would have done exactly what I did... order from Amazon Japan to get the discount. lol

Another thing that bothers me is they crammed 13 episodes on a disc. Two discs for the entire series. This is impressive since we rarely see anything at this scale in North American releases (some Discotek releases come to mind and they look fine so BUT they are dual layer so...)

At first I wondered how they heck they pulled this off.

Well... funny thing. The opening is encoded exactly one time on the disc. And the saddest part? It's definitely from a composite source. Dot crawl like you wouldn't believe around all of the text in the sequence. Sigh. The opening theme is simply awesome however (fun fact, I own the OST for the show).

The other way they cram so much in... the EYE CATCH is encoded ONE TIME as well. lol WT Heck!?

And since they did the opening and eye catch one time, guess what else they did one time? If you guessed the ending credits, you would be the WINNAR!!

Man. If you want a lesson on how to try to cram as much on a single layer disc as possible, these guys have it to a science.

And despite this wall of text you are reading, other than it being 1080i, it still retains a film look and the detail all seems to be intact and compression artefacts are pretty much nonexistent (no, really). I really don't understand it but hey, who am I to say they did a terrible job?

The only other thing I want to comment on is audio quality. Crammed as much video on the disc as possible but instead of using a compressed or lossless format they used... LPCM? Wow.

The other piece about the audio is I don't think they did anything to it. I think they just "scanned" it in, lightly verified volume level matched reference and... done. There are some pops here and there, etc. I don't mind this so much since it's at least the original audio and it sounds fine. Just slightly disappointed they didn't try to remove noise, etc. Benefit of the doubt says they tried and it would ruin it. The pessimist in me says no, they just recorded it to digital as is and boom. Mostly likely it's the latter.

We'll start with the Screenshot Comparison:

THINGS TO NOTE:
The DVD is framed slightly differently than the BD
The BD images were cropped from the 1080p image
DVD images were upscaled with Affinity Photo using bicubic upscale
DVD images resized to 1440x1080 to match the BD image size

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/133209

BitRate Info:

Screen Shots of just BD:

BD Info (truncated report because there were so many files I hit the forum limit on characters in a post... a thing I never knew existed lol ):

[Show spoiler]

Code:

                                                                                                                Total   Video                                             
Title                                                           Codec   Length  Movie Size      Disc Size       Bitrate Bitrate Main Audio Track                          Secondary Audio Track
-----                                                           ------  ------- --------------  --------------  ------- ------- ------------------                        ---------------------
00000.MPLS                                                      AVC     5:19:06 0               23,412,917,492  0.00    0.00    LPCM 2.0 1536Kbps (48kHz/16-bit)

Code:

DISC INFO:

Disc Label:     BFTD_0295_1
Disc Size:      23,412,917,492 bytes
Protection:     AACS
BDInfo:         0.7.5.5

PLAYLIST REPORT:

Name:                   00000.MPLS
Length:                 5:19:06.660 (h:m:s.ms)
Size:                   0 bytes
Total Bitrate:          0.00 Mbps

VIDEO:

Codec                   Bitrate             Description     
-----                   -------             -----------     
MPEG-4 AVC Video        0 kbps              1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1

AUDIO:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description     
-----                           --------        -------         -----------     
LPCM Audio                      Japanese        1536 kbps       2.0 / 48 kHz /  1536 kbps / 16-bit

FILES:

Name            Time In         Length          Size            Total Bitrate   
----            -------         ------          ----            -------------   
00000.M2TS      0:00:00.000     0:00:59.959     0               0               
00001.M2TS      0:00:59.959     0:00:10.009     0               0               
00002.M2TS      0:01:09.969     0:11:04.163     0               0               
00003.M2TS      0:12:14.133     0:09:42.481     0               0               
00004.M2TS      0:21:56.615     0:02:20.440     0               0               
00005.M2TS      0:24:17.055     0:00:15.014     0               0               
00006.M2TS      0:24:32.070     0:01:00.060     0               0               
00007.M2TS      0:25:32.130     0:00:10.009     0               0               
00008.M2TS      0:25:42.140     0:09:37.810     0               0               
00009.M2TS      0:35:19.951     0:11:07.500     0               0               
00010.M2TS      0:46:27.451     0:02:20.640     0               0               
00011.M2TS      0:48:48.091     0:00:15.014     0               0               
00012.M2TS      0:49:03.106     0:01:00.060     0               0               
00013.M2TS      0:50:03.166     0:00:10.009     0               0               
00014.M2TS      0:50:13.176     0:09:28.067     0               0               
00015.M2TS      0:59:41.244     0:11:19.512     0               0               
00016.M2TS      1:11:00.756     0:02:20.640     0               0               
00017.M2TS      1:13:21.396     0:00:15.014     0               0

Think that covers all the info you folks generally look for.

I am unhappy it didn't get the royal treatment but I am VERY surprised it actually looks... fine.

slerch666 · 04-01-2019, 09:02 PM

Will look at Kare Kano tomorrow. My dog is looking at me saying "feed me now, you lazy bum!"

professorwho · 04-01-2019, 09:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slerch666

Will look at Kare Kano tomorrow. My dog is looking at me saying "feed me now, you lazy bum!"

BigOnAnime · 04-01-2019, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slerch666

Will look at Kare Kano tomorrow. My dog is looking at me saying "feed me now, you lazy bum!"

Can you provide DVD comparisons at all? I have a feeling I'll probably still prefer the DVDs because I absolutely cannot stand smeared line art which is what nearly all Q-TEC upscales do.

NLScavenger · 04-01-2019, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slerch666

[Show spoiler]

Nice lego set. I can see which bricks were used.

slerch666 · 04-01-2019, 09:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BigOnAnime

Can you provide DVD comparisons at all? I have a feeling I'll probably still prefer the DVDs because I absolutely cannot stand smeared line art which is what nearly all Q-TEC upscales do.

Hey BigOnAnime

I plan on doing something similar for KareKano as I did for Devilman Lady. If you are OK with comparing shots I crop from BD to 1440x1080 and do bicubic upscale on the DVD (unconstrained since 480 doesn't get to 1080 cleanly) to get it to 1440x1080 then I should be doing that tomorrow sometime.

Unless I can't sleep tonight which is... unlikely.

Gorgon · 04-01-2019, 11:12 PM

^^ Very much appreciate all the info my friend slerch666 (though I only comprehend some of it..

).

This does look like a release I'll search for though.
Love all the Devilman related shows!

Dailyan · 04-01-2019, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slerch666

[Show spoiler]

Man, I can count every individual dot on the edges.

professorwho · 04-01-2019, 11:38 PM

I mean, the OP and ED are very clearly upscaled while the rest is HD Native, but very very heavily compressed.

FeelsBDMan · 04-01-2019, 11:48 PM

For anyone curious the Madman Maquia release is a carbon copy of the Shout encode. I wasn't looking for banding or anything so can't comment on the PQ but the movie itself is ridiculously good-looking, those backgrounds are beautiful.

professorwho · 04-01-2019, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FeelsBDMan

For anyone curious the Madman Maquia release is a carbon copy of the Shout encode.

Then the UK release should be the same as well.

04-01-2019, 08:51 PM	#3490
slerch666 Active Member Member since:Oct 2016 4K collection:31 Blu-ray collection:1408 DVD collection:1379	I am really sad. Devilman Lady deserved the royal treatment (in my book). What it got was... wow. And not in a good way. Though it really isn't TERRIBLE... This show was done on film. No question there. Yet here it is, presented in... 1080i. Why? I assume they couldn't go back to the original elements but that's just me giving the benefit of the doubt. My bigger assumption is... lazy. The first thing that concerned me and had I realized just what CD Japan was indicating when it said: Layers single-sided/single-layered I probably would have skipped this release... OK, that's a total lie. I love Devilman Lady. I would have done exactly what I did... order from Amazon Japan to get the discount. lol Another thing that bothers me is they crammed 13 episodes on a disc. Two discs for the entire series. This is impressive since we rarely see anything at this scale in North American releases (some Discotek releases come to mind and they look fine so BUT they are dual layer so...) At first I wondered how they heck they pulled this off. Well... funny thing. The opening is encoded exactly one time on the disc. And the saddest part? It's definitely from a composite source. Dot crawl like you wouldn't believe around all of the text in the sequence. Sigh. The opening theme is simply awesome however (fun fact, I own the OST for the show). The other way they cram so much in... the EYE CATCH is encoded ONE TIME as well. lol WT Heck!? And since they did the opening and eye catch one time, guess what else they did one time? If you guessed the ending credits, you would be the WINNAR!! Man. If you want a lesson on how to try to cram as much on a single layer disc as possible, these guys have it to a science. And despite this wall of text you are reading, other than it being 1080i, it still retains a film look and the detail all seems to be intact and compression artefacts are pretty much nonexistent (no, really). I really don't understand it but hey, who am I to say they did a terrible job? The only other thing I want to comment on is audio quality. Crammed as much video on the disc as possible but instead of using a compressed or lossless format they used... LPCM? Wow. The other piece about the audio is I don't think they did anything to it. I think they just "scanned" it in, lightly verified volume level matched reference and... done. There are some pops here and there, etc. I don't mind this so much since it's at least the original audio and it sounds fine. Just slightly disappointed they didn't try to remove noise, etc. Benefit of the doubt says they tried and it would ruin it. The pessimist in me says no, they just recorded it to digital as is and boom. Mostly likely it's the latter. We'll start with the Screenshot Comparison: THINGS TO NOTE: The DVD is framed slightly differently than the BD The BD images were cropped from the 1080p image DVD images were upscaled with Affinity Photo using bicubic upscale DVD images resized to 1440x1080 to match the BD image size http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/133209 BitRate Info: Screen Shots of just BD: BD Info (truncated report because there were so many files I hit the forum limit on characters in a post... a thing I never knew existed lol ): [Show spoiler] Think that covers all the info you folks generally look for. I am unhappy it didn't get the royal treatment but I am VERY surprised it actually looks... fine.

03-27-2019, 10:02 PM	#3481
slerch666 Active Member Member since:Oct 2016 4K collection:31 Blu-ray collection:1408 DVD collection:1379	I guess the only regret I have is how much I paid for the set. The price you pay to help dub something (just to get the show on BD... not because you want the dub... lol )

03-31-2019, 11:46 PM	#3483
professorwho Blu-ray Champion Top contributor Member since:Apr 2017 4K collection:229 Blu-ray collection:982 Blu-ray reviews: 64 Trading Score:7	Does anyone here have the Manga UK BD of Paprika and can produce caps? (Hopefully comparing to these?) Thanks

04-01-2019, 01:53 AM	#3484
Naiera Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Jun 2012 Location:Denmark Home Theater Gallery:2 Trading Score:25	I have it, but I don't see why it wouldn't be the exact same encode

04-01-2019, 02:00 AM	#3486
Naiera Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Jun 2012 Location:Denmark Home Theater Gallery:2 Trading Score:25	I totally lied to you. I just looked it up in My Movies and saw I had the UK release, but it's not the new MANGA UK release

04-01-2019, 02:41 PM	#3488
Naiera Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Jun 2012 Location:Denmark Home Theater Gallery:2 Trading Score:25	Unfortunately, MPEG-2 has obligatory edge enhancement. Not saying you can't make a decent disc with it, but it has some serious issues.

04-01-2019, 02:47 PM	#3489
slerch666 Active Member Member since:Oct 2016 4K collection:31 Blu-ray collection:1408 DVD collection:1379	Well it is digital anime and it was done in 480i and so by definition it isn't going to look amazing anyway. It looks fine though, especially compared to the DVDs that had a few minor compression issues that this does not. So it's the best it's ever looked. And probably the best it will ever look I guess. EDIT - there IS a Japanese edition. It's 2 discs and a CD. I'm going to assume that it's possible they used whatever they got from JP and added subs. Not sure though as I don't have the JP BDs and won't be buying them at this point.

04-01-2019, 09:02 PM	#3491
slerch666 Active Member Member since:Oct 2016 4K collection:31 Blu-ray collection:1408 DVD collection:1379	Will look at Kare Kano tomorrow. My dog is looking at me saying "feed me now, you lazy bum!"

04-01-2019, 11:12 PM	#3496
Gorgon Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jun 2015 Location:Great White North Trading Score:32	^^ Very much appreciate all the info my friend slerch666 (though I only comprehend some of it.. ). This does look like a release I'll search for though. Love all the Devilman related shows!

04-01-2019, 11:38 PM	#3498
professorwho Blu-ray Champion Top contributor Member since:Apr 2017 4K collection:229 Blu-ray collection:982 Blu-ray reviews: 64 Trading Score:7	I mean, the OP and ED are very clearly upscaled while the rest is HD Native, but very very heavily compressed.

04-01-2019, 11:48 PM	#3499
FeelsBDMan Member Member since:Feb 2017	For anyone curious the Madman Maquia release is a carbon copy of the Shout encode. I wasn't looking for banding or anything so can't comment on the PQ but the movie itself is ridiculously good-looking, those backgrounds are beautiful.

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