The Anime Blu-ray Video Quality Thread

[Hamdan]

Thanks guys for the quick reply, currently I am thinking of getting the original series of Gundam but I have been looking for the limited box that should house both of the sets which got released exclusively in the Anime Limited UK website, I have searched on ebay but did not find it.

Anyways I'll keep looking, and thanks again!

[Naiera]

I have that limited box for sale It comes with the first set of discs, of course.

[Hamdan]

Oh really, I will DM you then

[E_I]

Any screens of Rightstuf’s Utena release?

[NLScavenger]

Well that's strange. I thought that every AL Gundam releases shared video encodes with Nozomi, but I'm starting to think that's not always the case. Gundam ZZ episode 1 is presented in 1080p 23.976fps instead of 1080i 29.97fps like the US/JP Blu-ray. Stutters like crazy. Episode 1 is a fugly clipshow made on tape, so not a big loss.

Anyhoo,
Screenshots Anime Limited Gundam ZZ (Episode 2&7)

Compared with AL's Zeta Gundam, the video bitrate has taken a hit. ZZ episode sizes hover around 4.30 GB, of which 3.70 GB is dedicated to the video. Zeta allocated around 4.20 GB of 5.10 GB to video. AL Gundam ZZ targets an average bitrate of 21999 kbps on all episodes versus the ~24999 kbps of Zeta.


Episode 2


Also redid the screenshots of Anime Limited Zeta Gundam because of that brightness issue I had with AvsPmod: https://imgbox.com/g/kPhjIYs4yV

[Lambadelta]

Well someone on one of my discord servers posted a couple of screenshots from the UK release of Your Name, which is disc sharing with Madman.

The release seems to be pretty poor PQ, and Audio wise apparently (I don't own either release to confirm the audio)

Here is a screenshot comparison for one of the high motion scenes where it shows the worse of it, but similar issues can be spotted in scenes with little motion.

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/121912

I hope someone who owns the release will be able to do a better in-depth look into the release, but found this a bit worrying

[NLScavenger]

Kill it with fire!

[pikagreg]

Hoping the US one looks a little better though though we will see

[Naiera]

Originally Posted by Lambadelta

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/121912

That's ridiculous. I don't believe it.

[SnowWarren]

If this is true, then it wouldn't be the first time disc using Madman's discs has bitten Anime Limited in the backside.

Remember the Durarara incident.

[Lambadelta]

Originally Posted by SnowWarren

If this is true, then it wouldn't be the first time disc using Madman's discs has bitten Anime Limited in the backside.

Remember the Durarara incident.

Wasn't Durarara Siren Visual?

[SnowWarren]

Originally Posted by Lambadelta

Wasn't Durarara Siren Visual?

Good point. You're right.

[Naiera]

What is the DRRR incident?

[Lambadelta]

Originally Posted by Naiera

What is the DRRR incident?

I'm guessing its referring to the issues with the original DRRR CE

Originally Posted by AllTheAnime

WHAT WERE THE PROBLEMS WITH THE ORIGINAL DISCS?
The issues that cropped up with the original discs primarily concerned the subtitles. If you were watching in Japanese with subtitles, at times there will have been timing issues and placement problems. If you were watching with the English dub, no sign/song subtitles would appear at all.

[Naiera]

Oh, that. Yes, that was bad for dub folk, but aside from that, the release was of Japanese quality, and that was quite awesome

[SnowWarren]

Originally Posted by Naiera

Oh, that. Yes, that was bad for dub folk, but aside from that, the release was of Japanese quality, and that was quite awesome

But Anime Limited had to pay to reauthor the discs themselves and issue free replacements.

[mp3dom]

Originally Posted by Lambadelta

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/121912

Is this "plausible"?
It would be quite surprising to see they've failed to do the most important release of the year.

[Yuripa]

It seem's that the Authoring was not done by AL, but by Madman, so... yeah knowing Madman QuAliTy in authoring I think it's plausible.
Also someone else on the UK forum checked his disc and confirmed that, that comparaison was "somewhat" true, at least there's a strong compression.

Had a look at the check disc...

Dual layer, 42.2 GB used. Now I don't know about brightness, as I haven't seen any other version to compare. So I went to that scene, played it through... then I got close up to the TV and played it through... then I pressed pause and frame advanced through the scene... which is when I noticed that the compression is evident. I haven't yet seen the rest of the film to comment, but if you're watching it on a TV at 10 feet, then it's probably good enough to watch. If you're watching it on a laptop screen at 12 inches, your mileage may vary. But that single frame makes it look a lot worse than it actually is.

[Lambadelta]

Andrew from AL has chimed in at AUKN about the concerns with Your Name.

https://forums.animeuknews.net/threa...43#post-472642

[Yuripa]

Nothing is going to change just now though or in the foreseeable future on this one folks too

Well, if nothing change, if think it's safe to say that their release will be one of the worst releases in term of video quality in the world, maybe the worst.