The Anime Blu-ray Video Quality Thread

[Mangaranga]

Originally Posted by AnimeCollectorSoap

Would you happen to know anything about their Psycho Pass Sinners of the System Movies BDs? Are they any good?
Didn't know Roujin Z had a release by them, going to look into buying it, such a good film.

If you're referring to the Kaze release of Psycho Pass SS, then it's shite with I-Frame pulsing and poor compression. I can very much recommend the UK BD on the other hand, as it's more or less identical to the Japanese BD release 99% of the time.

https://slow.pics/c/IWCy6Mgu

Ignore comparison 6. JP BD is encoded at an average of 34-35mbps whereas the UK BD averages just under 23mbps.

[SpaceDandy]

You're talking about the Kazé German Blu-Ray…? I've never seen any review of it. Do note that Kazé Germany has literally nothing to do with Kazé France and do not share the same staff nor pipelines. They are entirely separate business, just linked to a mother company.

In France, it was released by Kana Home Video (and authored by Citel or a related laboratory) - 26 mbps mean bitrate

with a good video quality according to Vick

And it is much cheaper than the UK release.

[NLScavenger]

Steamboy

JP BD / DE BD (twitter compressed jpegs) / AU BD


Not the same frame, but you get the idea


JP BD and DE BD are based on the digital intermediate, but DE BD seems to have been regraded for some reason. DE BD has English dub/sub, and both the original cut and shorter international cut. Extras are on a DVD.

Sony provided Umbrella AU and Manga UK with an ancient film-out transfer that was created by IMAGICA for "overseas use"

Mangaranga's screenshot of Manga UK BD leader:

[The Collector FX]

Originally Posted by NLScavenger

Steamboy

JP BD and DE BD are based on the digital intermediate, but DE BD seems to have been regraded for some reason. DE BD has English dub/sub, and both the original cut and shorter international cut. Extras are on a DVD.

Sony provided Umbrella AU and Manga UK with an ancient film-out transfer that was created by IMAGICA for "overseas use"

Mangaranga's screenshot of Manga UK BD leader:

Steamboy wasn't even released in the U.S. on blu ray so the Manga UK release is about the only hi-def option for us English speaking folk.

[NLScavenger]

Originally Posted by The Collector FX

Steamboy wasn't even released in the U.S. on blu ray so the Manga UK release is about the only hi-def option for us English speaking folk.

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DE BD has English dub/sub

[AreaFive]

Originally Posted by The Collector FX

Steamboy wasn't even released in the U.S. on blu ray so the Manga UK release is about the only hi-def option for us English speaking folk.

Australia's Umbrella Entertainment has an English friendly, region free blu as well. I have it and it was definitely enjoyable.

[sagadego]

not video but Viz screwed up the Inu-yasha movie blu audio for Japanese badly it's not a proper 5.1 mix it's just a stereo track played through all channels dub is proper 5.1 mix tho'

i'm the only i guess reporting this error, Damn it! i would've never bought this a few years ago if i've know this :/

[AreaFive]

Do the pros of Weathering With You's 4K release (increased resolution, HDR) outweigh its reported issues (some harsh edge enhancement)? The blu-ray is stunning. It's hard to imagine it looking much better.

[SpazeBlue]

Reviews for Yona of the Dawn: Complete Series and Seraph of the End: Season One are up.

[Prince_7]

Originally Posted by AreaFive

Do the pros of Weathering With You's 4K release (increased resolution, HDR) outweigh its reported issues (some harsh edge enhancement)? The blu-ray is stunning. It's hard to imagine it looking much better.

It depends. Your Name 4K only increased the luminance of some highlights and is overall really faithful to the original presentation of the movie with a very similar luminance graph.

Weathering With You 4K is not like that. The conversion was done by Imagica rather than Q-tec and is really transformative of the movie. It gets REALLY bright throughout the entire film rather than keeping the same luminance levels as the SDR presentation.

It makes for an eye popping experience but unlike Your Name 4K, it's not what the movie is supposed to look like. It's not small enhancements to the picture, it's a completly different one instead.
Add to that the issue with the US/UK/FR disc (a color shift caused by DCI-P3 metadata rather than BT.2020) and you get your answer based on what you want out of it.

Do you want a faithful presentation that improves on some areas of the movie to give it more pop like Your Name 4K ? Then no.
Do you want a different interpretation of the movie's grading that goes all out for that impressive bright look ? Then yes it's worth it, even with the US disc issue.

[AreaFive]

Originally Posted by Prince_7

[Show spoiler]It depends. Your Name 4K only increased the luminance of some highlights and is overall really faithful to the original presentation of the movie with a very similar luminance graph.

Weathering With You 4K is not like that. The conversion was done by Imagica rather than Q-tec and is really transformative of the movie. It gets REALLY bright throughout the entire film rather than keeping the same luminance levels as the SDR presentation.

It makes for an eye popping experience but unlike Your Name 4K, it's not what the movie is supposed to look like. It's not small enhancements to the picture, it's a completly different one instead.
Add to that the issue with the US/UK/FR disc (a color shift caused by DCI-P3 metadata rather than BT.2020) and you get your answer based on what you want out of it.

Do you want a faithful presentation that improves on some areas of the movie to give it more pop like Your Name 4K ? Then no.
Do you want a different interpretation of the movie's grading that goes all out for that impressive bright look ? Then yes it's worth it, even with the US disc issue.

Thank you, much appreciated.

[NLScavenger]

Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine - Discotek Media + Anime Limited UK BD / VAP BD / Funimation BD

Didn't feel like taking a lot of screenshots because I'm a bit tired. From what I've seen there's not much of a difference between the Discotek / AL UK BD and the VAP BD. They look virtually the same in motion. The Funimation BD has the 0.88 gamma bug that they've had until 2015.

Discotek Media + Anime Limited UK BD


VAP BD


Funimation BD


Anime Limited UK BDInfo episode 01

Disc Title: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine - Disc 1
Disc Label: LUPIN III FUJIKO D1
Disc Size: 46,057,704,304 bytes
Protection: AACS
Playlist: Episode 01
Size: 5,541,217,152 bytes
Length: 0:23:06.385
Total Bitrate: 31.98 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24992 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz /  2487 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz /  1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /   950 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz /   256 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio: Japanese / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /  1536 kbps / 16-bit
Subtitle: English / 3.787 kbps
Subtitle: English / 34.534 kbps

VAP BD episode 01 bitrate

AVG: 31491 kbps

Funimation BD episode 01 bitrate

AVG: 21518 kbps

[Mangaranga]

Originally Posted by NLScavenger

The Funimation BD has the 0.88 gamma bug that they've had until 2015.

I've been wondering for a while now, is there any way to compensate for this during playback in MPC/MPV? With content encoded in the wrong colour space you can force the correct output in both, so I was wondering if there was something similar for the gamma issue.

[NLScavenger]

Originally Posted by Mangaranga

I've been wondering for a while now, is there any way to compensate for this during playback in MPC/MPV? With content encoded in the wrong colour space you can force the correct output in both, so I was wondering if there was something similar for the gamma issue.

Write an AviSynth or VapourSynth script and feed it to MPC

https://www.animemusicvideos.org/for...c.php?t=111837

[NLScavenger]

Originally Posted by NLScavenger

There is a fair amount of grain on the UK/JP BD, but the grain texture is not very conspicuous mainly because the original camera negative got scanned. Most remasters of Sunrise productions are from grainier interpositives.

It would not be surprising if Funimation's compression smooshed out some of the grain.

https://slow.pics/c/f5uefnNb

Outlaw Star JP/UK BD encode isn't perfect, but it's far superior to the US BD.

US BD Episode 01 bitrate

Average bitrate: 22999 kbps

JP/UK BD Episode 01 bitrate

Average bitrate: 31061 kbps

[NLScavenger]

Giant Robo THE ANIMATION - Discotek Media US BD vs Media Factory JP BD

There isn't much of a difference between the two. Probably my favorite of all the Discotek Media releases.

Comparison

Discotek Media BD


Media Factory BD


Discotek Media BD OVA 1 bitrate

Disc Title: Giant Robo - Disc 1
Disc Label: GIANT ROBO DISC 1
Disc Size: 46,958,274,500 bytes
Protection: AACS
Playlist: OVA 1
Size: 13,731,198,336 bytes
Length: 0:55:51.014
Total Bitrate: 32.78 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 24914 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz /  2004 kbps / 16-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz /  1509 kbps / 16-bit)
Audio: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /  1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio: English / Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /   448 kbps / DN -27dB
Audio: Japanese / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /  1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio: Japanese / Dolby Digital Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /   128 kbps / DN -31dB
Subtitle: English / 0.171 kbps
Subtitle: English / 0.174 kbps
Subtitle: English / 27.308 kbps
Subtitle: English / 38.250 kbps

Media Factory BD OVA 1 bitrate

Average bitrate: 35997 kbps
16-bit PCM 2.0ch Japanese track and 2x 2.0ch 448 kbps AC3 tracks for English dub and audio commentary.

[pielover74]

Is there an updated list on anime quality between UK and US aniplex titles by any chance?

[InvitationToHades]

I'd also like to know as well. Also how is the the ITA BD's on Inuyasha compared to the the SPA and US releases?

[professorwho]

Someone privately shared with me some screencaps of it (IT Dynit Inuyasha) over a month ago and they didn't look too hot (has many artifacts from what looks like a poor IVTC), but since I could never confirm if they were correctly taken, I never shared them, as I don't want to post incorrect screencaps for obvious reasons.

[mp3dom]

As far as I know, IVTC problems are on the 1st OP only (for obvious reasons) with some jerky movements but both gamma and colorimetry should be right. Everything else *should* be right.