The Anime Blu-ray Video Quality Thread

[cicada88]

Originally Posted by professorwho

They look pretty good. Essentially untouched 16mm prints with zero work done on them. Encoding is surprisingly good for 12 episodes per disc of very grainy content.

Caps are here.

Thanks a lot--checking now

[NLScavenger]

Originally Posted by Gumi

Does the LFE channel add a good oomph to mix?

There is a subtle amount of extra LFE "oomph" in the mix, but it does not feel a whole lot different from the 2.0 mix.

Originally Posted by professorwho

They look pretty good. Essentially untouched 16mm prints with zero work done on them. Encoding is surprisingly good for 12 episodes per disc of very grainy content.

Caps are here.

It has 6 to 7 episodes per disc. Each half of the first 21 episodes and the special is counted as an individual episode.

[professorwho]

Originally Posted by NLScavenger

It has 6 to 7 episodes per disc. Each half of the first 21 episodes and the special is counted as an individual episode.

That's just stupid and confusing.

[NormanicGrav]

Anyone checked Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai from either UK or Australia?

[sagadego]

anybody know the audio quality/ video quality of the Freedom OVA from badai visual 3 blu rays VS Discotek Media's 1 blu ray?

[Orame]

BDInfo

PLAYLIST REPORT:

Name:                   00002.MPLS
Length:                 2:04:46.479 (h:m:s.ms)
Size:                   96,136,998,912 bytes
Total Bitrate:          102.73 Mbps

VIDEO:

Codec                   Bitrate             Description    
-----                   -------             -----------    
MPEG-H HEVC Video       81225 kbps          2160p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / Main 10 @ Level 5.1 @ High / 10 bits / HDR10 / BT.2020

AUDIO:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description    
-----                           --------        -------         -----------    
Dolby TrueHD Audio              Japanese        10157 kbps      5.1 / 192 kHz /  9517 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz /   640 kbps / DN -31dB)
Dolby Digital Audio             Japanese        640 kbps        5.1 / 48 kHz /   640 kbps / DN -31dB
LPCM Audio                      Japanese        1536 kbps       2.0 / 48 kHz /  1536 kbps / 16-bit
Dolby TrueHD Audio              English         2309 kbps       5.1 / 48 kHz /  1669 kbps / 16-bit (AC3 Embedded: 5.1 / 48 kHz /   640 kbps / DN -31dB)

SUBTITLES:

Codec                           Language        Bitrate         Description    
-----                           --------        -------         -----------    
Presentation Graphics           English         27.640 kbps                    
Presentation Graphics           Japanese        24.497 kbps                    

FILES:

Name            Time In         Length          Size            Total Bitrate  
----            -------         ------          ----            -------------  
00003.M2TS      0:00:00.000     2:04:33.466     96,062,312,448  102,830        
00004.M2TS      2:04:33.466     0:00:13.013     74,686,464      45,915

[Logan Jones]

Whoa, am I reading that right? ENGLISH AUDIO?

Gotta love the fact that 4K BDs are region free.

[NLScavenger]

Screencaps that I found somewhere (had to compress them to jpeg with quality set to "100")

[Logan Jones]

Was this 4K release based on a scan from the OCN or an IP?

[NLScavenger]

Originally Posted by logan jones

was this 4k release based on a scan from the OCN or an IP?

ip

[Logan Jones]

Interesting.

Now I don't want to call it yet, but there definitely seems to me, (at least in the screenshots) that there is some mild DNR*. I hope I'm wrong, though.

Here's a clip from YT:

YouTube

Still, I'll bet the colors look amazing.

*EDIT: Now that I think about it, perhaps since it is 4K, the grain appears more subdued, but not wiped away. Since I don't have an HDR-capable monitor, I can't tell.

[professorwho]

With regards to the Hypersonic mix being 16-bit, the main presentation is 89 GB, when converting the bytes to GB, so it's close to the BD-100 limit. UHD allows up to 100,103,356,416 bytes (~93.22 GB), and Akira is 96,136,998,912 bytes, so it is dangerously close to hitting the limit on a disc. If they wanted a 24-bit Hypersonic, the video bitrate would have to be lowered into the 70s.

[Ogami_Itto]

Originally Posted by professorwho

Whisper of the Heart
Ghibli (JP) vs Disney vs Shout/GKids

Pardon my ignorance, but when you say "Ghibli JP", does that just refer to the Ghibli BDs being produced in Japan, or does include the ones from the U.K. as well?

The U.K. ones are listed as being produced by Ghibli.

Thanks!

[professorwho]

Originally Posted by Ogami_Itto

Pardon my ignorance, but when you say "Ghibli JP", does that just refer to the Ghibli BDs being produced in Japan, or does include the ones from the U.K. as well?

The U.K. ones are listed as being produced by Ghibli.

Thanks!

The UK BDs are not produced by Ghibli. They were done by Studio Canal. The "Ghibli JP" refers to the Ghibli BDs released in Japan by Ghibli.

[NLScavenger]

Mobile Suit Gundam Endless Waltz - Nozomi / Anime Limited BD

No BDInfo scan because of an error. I didn't rip the Operation Meteor OVA because it's a clipshow.

OVA


OVA audio
Japanese PCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
English PCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit

Bitrate OVA #1

AVG: 29948 kbps | MAX: 48714 kbps

Bitrate OVA #2

AVG: 29900 kbps | MAX: 49495 kbps

Bitrate OVA #3

AVG: 29959 kbps | MAX: 48124 kbps

Movie


Movie audio
Japanese PCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit (Dolby Surround)
English PCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
English PCM 5.1 / 48kHz / 4608 kbps / 16-bit

Bitrate

AVG: 28977 kbps | MAX: 52860 kbps

[Raye]

Since there's been some speculation about the upcoming quality of FUNi vs. AOA's release of Kimetsu no Yaiba, would anyone happen to know if AOA actually released something with subpar PQ?

[Jackson_H]

Originally Posted by Raye

Since there's been some speculation about the upcoming quality of FUNi vs. AOA's release of Kimetsu no Yaiba, would anyone happen to know if AOA actually released something with subpar PQ?

Can't confirm on PQ but FWIW there's been issues with Audio for some older releases

Sub fans won't care but if you're a fan of dubs there were a handful of releases with lower quality English audio

Sword Art Online season 1, Aldnoah.Zero, Fate/Zero and Blue Exorcist: The Movie all have lossy English audio

Eventually AoA stopped messing around and since then usually most releases that contain English audio are lossless LPCM or DTS-HD MA

Exception being is they release a domestic clone of a Japanese import

e.g. Fate/Zero Standard Edition still has lossy English audio but its bitrate is more than double than the English audio bitrate on the Limited Edition sets

[Mangaranga]

Originally Posted by Raye

Since there's been some speculation about the upcoming quality of FUNi vs. AOA's release of Kimetsu no Yaiba, would anyone happen to know if AOA actually released something with subpar PQ?

As far as I'm aware, no. 99% of their releases are authored in Japan using the exact same video encodes as the Japanese release.
There's three exceptions to this that I'm aware of anyway, those being:

Cells at Work (Uses a different video master without the Japanese info cards. No authoring credit.)
God Eater (Their only non Aniplex license. Apparently Justin authored this? Looks to have used Bandai's video though.)
Kill La Kill Volume 5 (Different encodes due to disc space constraints. Imagica credited with authoring like v1-5.)

Video wise they have a pretty much perfect track record, hence why they're liked so much here for that. As Jackson_H stated above though, their earlier releases up until 2015/2016 are wildly inconsistent when it comes to audio for English tracks, with anything from DD 192kbps/DD 640kbps and lossy DTS to 16/24bit PCM and DTS-HD audio. The only other title I can think to add to that list is the Madoka recap movies. The Australian authored counterparts of SAO Season 1, Aldnoah.Zero and Fate/Zero do have lossless 16bit PCM audio though if you're into that, albeit at the cost of awful video in the case of SAO and Fate/Zero.

[Mangaranga]

On another note, does anyone know if the later re-releases (Complete collection or Steelbook) of Clannad received a new encoding job?

[LexInHD]

Originally Posted by sagadego

anybody know the audio quality/ video quality of the Freedom OVA from badai visual 3 blu rays VS Discotek Media's 1 blu ray?

Bandai release = pretty much reference-grade apart from source-flaws

Discotek = no real complaints