The Anime Blu-ray Video Quality Thread

[NLScavenger]

I don't think you can take a 4K screenshot with HDR, but you should be able to snip out a 1 or 2 second clip with MKVToolNix. Not sure if the mods would be happy if those clips are shared here.

[BlackCondor93]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to say this, but recently, I got Madman's BD release of Sailor Moon SuperS: The Movie, and unlike the other 2 movies, where the entire subtitles are optional during playback, for the SuperS Movie, only the main translation is optional during playback, as the signs track is either locked or hardsubbed.

As I was testing the disc, when I had the full translated subtitles on, I pressed fast forward, and later, rewind, and the main translation disappeared, which you would expect from softsubs, but the songs/signs are still there, and on the feature of my LG player where you can shift subtitles up and down, you can't do that to the signs track, so it seems that they could be hardsubbed, but I could be wrong as the songs/signs have the same font as the main translation.

[Yuripa]

Sound Euphonium from @anime Ltd (UK/FR)
This one is a french authoring, (the authoring house was "Charbon bleu" aka the same for the Re-zero mess)
Some noticable banding + compression artifacts, but nothing like "Re-zero level".
The subtitles are locked (French/English) no dub.

the average bitrate is around 25 Mbps, with multiple spike over 35 and few over 50 Mbps.
Nothing to report for the audio side, the DTS HD-MA track are pretty good and get the job done.

I don't have the US release to compare to the UK release, but this release is ok for the asked price.
Wish the PQ was a little better for the video side.

Bitrate graph :


Screengrabs : https://imgur.com/a/0viEcGQ
Mediainfo : https://pastebin.com/qNrsUzZi

[professorwho]

Originally Posted by Brady Hartel

Candid photo of @worldofcrap authoring a Blu-ray.

Originally Posted by Sylwahan

Is he top or bottom?

Originally Posted by Kevin Sopko

Neither. Kurumi is the coding, Kyosuke is his PC. He's the grandpa in the background vaguely amused about how this happened.

Source

[chronoclast]

I checked out the SD-BD for Human Crossing. As Slerch mentioned in this thread before, it suffers from the same interlace/ghosting problem as Votoms and it's basically unwatchable. I got through the first episode and gave up due to how distracting the constant ghosting and interlace artifacts are. Screenshots can't really get across how just outright bad it looks in motion.

Sentai really should've recalled all of these botched SD-BDs, it's that bad.

[Pyoko]

Originally Posted by slerch666

It's not a huge issue, just need to spend time ripping part of the movie, etc. Not sure how to capture it with HDR enabled and if you don't have an HDR capable display, no idea what it would look like.

I can do this weekend or early next week I think.

You can do screenshots converted to SDR with MPC-HC and madVR or unconverted without the latter. MPC-HC doesn't seem to read UHD playlists so you have to open the .m2ts streams directly. In madVR settings under the display device there's an HDR section. Select "tone map HDR using pixel shaders" and set the peak nit target, between 120 and 200 is usually OK, which will convert it to SDR and make it look decent on regular displays.

For me madVR always seems to convert screenshots to SDR so if you want to capture the unconverted HDR you need to disable madVR in the MPC-HC Output settings and use EVR instead. The screenshots will look very dull and flat on a regular monitor, but if viewed on an HDR display forced into HDR mode they'll look like they should.

[dannphou]

Anyone know how the US BluRay of Mirai compares to the JP version?

[kevers7290]

Does anyone have a comparison/analysis of the 4K UHD release of Ghost in the Shell 95' to the Blu-ray? Bonus points for Innocence.

[professorwho]

Originally Posted by kevers7290

Does anyone have a comparison/analysis of the 4K UHD release of Ghost in the Shell 95' to the Blu-ray? Bonus points for Innocence.

'95: Anchor Bay BD vs JP UHD

Innocence: Manga UK BD vs JP UHD

My preference:

JP 2017 Remastered BD for '95; JP Absolute Edition for Innocence

[Nostalgic Twilight]

I received Nozomi's Maquia BD release today. Unlike Shout's disc, the subtitles are not burned directly into the picture with two separate video streams. However, they are locked when the Japanese track is selected. I, unfortunately, don't have the Shout BD to create screenshot comparisons and don't know what the timestamps are on the existing ones to do so.

Bitrate analysis:



Screenshot gallery: https://imgur.com/a/nloCqoz

[professorwho]

What's the audio like in terms of codecs and bitrates?

[Nostalgic Twilight]

English DTS-HD 5.1 16 bit @1.7Mbps
Japanese DTS-HD 5.1 16 bit @1.5Mbps
Japanese DTS-HD 2.0 24 bit @1.5Mbps

[professorwho]

Huh. Nozomi actually using DTS-HD MA instead of PCM? Interesting...

[professorwho]

Just for comparison, the JP BD is:

Video:
35.518 mbps AVG Bitrate
57.475 mbps MAX Bitrate

Audio:
Japanese LPCM 2.0 24-bit 2304 kbps (2.3 mbps)
Japanese Dolby TrueHD 5.1 24-bit 3341 kbps (3.3 mbps)

[kevers7290]

Originally Posted by professorwho

'95: Anchor Bay BD vs JP UHD

Innocence: Manga UK BD vs JP UHD

My preference:

JP 2017 Remastered BD for '95; JP Absolute Edition for Innocence

Oh man, what happened to all the grain in the UHD? Looks like some pretty aggressive DNR.

[professorwho]

Originally Posted by kevers7290

Oh man, what happened to all the grain in the UHD? Looks like some pretty aggressive DNR.

A certain company called Q-Tec handled BOTH UHDs.

While I'm thrilled at those insanely high bitrates, the DNR on BOTH is beyond insane.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by kevers7290

Oh man, what happened to all the grain in the UHD? Looks like some pretty aggressive DNR.

Eh, it’s still better than what TMS is cranking out for UHDs.

[professorwho]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

Eh, it’s still better than what TMS is cranking out for UHDs.

Probably because Oshii supervised the transfers on both, whereas Dezaki is dead and couldn't for Cobra and Ashita no Joe 2.

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by professorwho

Probably because Oshii supervised the transfers on both, whereas Dezaki is dead and couldn't for Cobra and Ashita no Joe 2.

Even if Dezaki was still alive Cobra and Joe would probably still look like shite. Cel/traditional animation is just in an awful spot right now for UHD.

[professorwho]

Originally Posted by cfx

Until I see some example otherwise, I'm going to just take it as assumed fact that any anime UHD is going to be shit.

There are some exceptions:
Your Name
Mary and the Witch's Flower
Gundam Char's Counterattack
Cundam F91
Gundam Thunderbolt

And that's about it...