The Anime Blu-ray Video Quality Thread

[omarchafa]

Yuru Camp Movie

Video
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I couldn't spot any banding especially the dark scenes. Looks pretty flawless to me.

[NLScavenger]

This doesn't have English subs btw. The subs in the screenshot are external or muxed in.

[omarchafa]

I saw the 4K UHD Disc of Yuru Camp Movie today. I watched a couple of chapters and switch between both versions of the movies instantly.

Using the Panasonic UB820 with Dolby Vision enabled on my Sony A90J OLED, the UHD Disc is definitely the superior version in every way. The HDR was very well tamed and stayed within the 100 nit range just like the Violet Evergarden Movie (JP version). However the Dolby Vision Dark mode is way too dark! How dark? Darker than my Plasma TV. Dolby Vision Bright mode looks the best, not too bright and not too dark. So no boosted contrasts or highlights or anything that looks unnatural.

Unlike the Violet Evergarden Movie, this HDR presentation did not suffer from faded, low contrast, flat, or muted colors. It looks just as colorful as the standard BD version with a very minor contrast boost. This is by far the best HDR presentation I've seen so far in an anime movie.

As for the upscaling, no edge enhancement, no DNR, or some weird post processing filters. The lines look sharper and cleaner. Any imperfections presented on the standard BD disc is all but gone. Just like the Violet Evergarden Movie, this is a fine upscale with an excellent encode.

Overall, this is what anime on 4K HDR should look like. TOHO should take note on how it's done, and I hope they give us a proper Suzume 4K UHD release.

[Total Procall]

Does anyone know if the bluray of the original berserk is good? I was looking to pick it up and noticed no region A version and the japanese release is quite old.

[SpazeBlue]

Originally Posted by Total Procall

Does anyone know if the bluray of the original berserk is good? I was looking to pick it up and noticed no region A version and the japanese release is quite old.

It's very good: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...ostcount=28165

[Gowho]

Originally Posted by SpazeBlue

It's very good: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...ostcount=28165

That's the Japanese set, the UK/Australian release is not the same.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...2#post13353412

This was back when Madman was producing discs with incorrect gamma levels up until I believe their botched release of Your Name.

[SpazeBlue]

Originally Posted by Gowho

That's the Japanese set, the UK/Australian release is not the same.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...2#post13353412

This was back when Madman was producing discs with incorrect gamma levels up until I believe their botched release of Your Name.

Interesting. Thanks for the correction. Both look like big improvements over the DVDs.

[Total Procall]

Originally Posted by Gowho

That's the Japanese set, the UK/Australian release is not the same.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...2#post13353412

This was back when Madman was producing discs with incorrect gamma levels up until I believe their botched release of Your Name.

Thanks for the warning. I'll avoid then as i hate raised blacks/gamma.

[pikagreg]

Yeah I figure it isn't perfect but the old box of war DVD set is expensive and this thing was like $42 shipped for a nice package of a series that isn't licensed here.

[TThomas]

Has anyone screenshots from Discoteks Kenichi Sets?
And do they feature creditless OP/ED?
Does it have interlacing issues like the trailers posted by TMS?

[dubudavid]

I don't have shots, but I worked on them so I can answer your other questions.
Yes, they have the creditless OP/EDs on them, and the show itself is deinterlaced on our discs.

[SpaceBlackKnight]

Wasn't Kenichi one of the TMS productions around the 2006/7 period that had the first few eps 4:3 SD and switched to 1080p widescreen for the rest? I know Detective Conan went widescreen around 2003 but wasn't native HD until 2006.

[BoopityBoop]

Originally Posted by SpaceBlackKnight

Wasn't Kenichi one of the TMS productions around the 2006/7 period that had the first few eps 4:3 SD and switched to 1080p widescreen for the rest? I know Detective Conan went widescreen around 2003 but wasn't native HD until 2006.

No, Kenichi was 4:3 SD through its entire run. D.Gray-man, which started airing at the same time, lasted until 2008 and was 16:9 SD throughout. I'm not aware of any HD TMS productions around this time period.

[SpaceBlackKnight]

Originally Posted by BoopityBoop

No, Kenichi was 4:3 SD through its entire run. D.Gray-man, which started airing at the same time, lasted until 2008 and was 16:9 SD throughout. I'm not aware of any HD TMS productions around this time period.

I know for sure Detective Conan eps went widescreen around 2003 but wasn't native HD until June 2006 (the digipaint movies of this period were HD and widescreen). Toei upgraded One Piece to HD (960p) around the 2003-4 eps but weren't widescreen until around 2005.

[Gowho]

Originally Posted by SpaceBlackKnight

Toei upgraded One Piece to HD (960p) around the 2003-4 eps but weren't widescreen until around 2005.

One Piece didn't go widescreen until episode 207 in 2004 but the Japanese DVDs continued in fullscreen until episode 229 released in 2007.

The Japanese SDBDs was the first time Japan got 207-228 in 16:9 on video.

[NLScavenger]

Love Live! Superstar!! - Bandai Namco BD



Like other Japanese Love Live! BDs authored by Sony PCL who did a good job with the video on this one.

The BD uses the Crunchyroll English translation. Because NHK E had 2 day exclusivity, I watched the series with the Japanese Closed Captions track when it aired, so I wasn't familiar with the quality of the English subs. I took a quick glance at some scenes and songs, and imo the English subs seems a bit too literal/stiff.

Some, but not all, of Tang Keke's Chinese lines are (incompletely) translated, when you're not supposed to understand her (unless you happen to speak Mandarin). In fact, the BD doesn't have Japanese subtitles and the lines were also not translated in the NHK E Closed Captions.

Translator also seemed to have failed to notice the double meaning of "hareruya" in the song title "mirai yohou hareruya!"

[Show spoiler]BD subtitles


Team ONIBE fansub

Not saying that the subs are bad, since they do seem to be serviceable, but they definitely could have been better.

BDInfo

Disc Title: Love Live! Superstar!! 1
Disc Label: BDROM
Disc Size: 45,195,555,970 bytes
Protection: AACS
Playlist: 00001.MPLS
Size: 15,412,580,352 bytes
Length: 0:47:38.188
Total Bitrate: 43.14 Mbps
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 38800 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio: Japanese / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz /  2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitle: English / 112.860 kbps

Bitrate Episode 01

[BigOnAnime]

It seems Michelle Tymon translated Love Live! Superstar!!.
https://gshock99.carrd.co/#work

[SpazeBlue]

Finally getting around to doing a post for K (Maquia one coming soon). Images taken with MPV.

First, some caps. There's a bit of banding, but there's quite a bit of aliasing too, and not just in the 3DCGI scenes where I'd expect. Would be interesting to see if the JPBD improves on that or not.



As seems to be the usual with VIZ, (at least from what I've seen of theirs,) all episodes are encoded as one video on the discs. Plus, once again, there's no Signs/Songs track. But that's okay. While you're missing the music subs, the signs are taken care of, because for whatever reason, whatever signs they did bother subbing are burnt into the video.



Another oddity is the opening scene of the first episode (after the title scene). It takes place in America, and the Japanese track has them speaking English. I guess when they released it, they hardcoded Japanese subs for the scene, and VIZ didn't get a clean master, because it remains on the disc.



It also happens when they speak the occasional German. (yay, more burnt-in subs)



The Japanese credits are swapped out for English ones, but I guess that's pretty common.

[Dino-Killer 912]

A question about an older title: Is there any Western Blu-ray release of Sword of the Stranger that has closing credits in original Japanese? I bought the UK release only to learned that there was a version with all the text replaced with English.

[Mangaranga]

Originally Posted by Dino-Killer 912

A question about an older title: Is there any Western Blu-ray release of Sword of the Stranger that has closing credits in original Japanese? I bought the UK release only to learned that there was a version with all the text replaced with English.

The UK BD is a worse encode of the Funimation master, so you got completely mugged off m8. Iirc it's even worse than the old Beez/Bandai BDs.
For original credits, the Beez BD has them, and I assume the Italian BD release would also?