Gatchaman (Battle of the Planets) Collection Oct 29

[mar3o]

Originally Posted by reason108

Well, I had received mine a while back and have posted some comments but at that time not too many people were posting because they had not got them yet. I would assume the conversation will pick up some once others get their set. But, people tend not to have much to say when things have been done right.

However, I feel that there are some minor issues and 1 or 2 bigger issues with this box set.

My Complaints/Concerns:

1) The outer box that the blu rays are housed in doesn`t convince me that it will hold up for for the long run. It is not built like the previous dvd`s boxes were. But, hey, at least it is thicker than a slipcover.

2) This set is missing some of the extras from the previous dvd box set. Mostly the manga stuff and the Japanese voice actors profiles, etc.

3) The extras disc content is stretched. Its obvious but not too exaggerated. But, I did mention that it was obvious, right?().

4) Does not contain all of Alex Ross`s artwork from the previous dvd box set. It would have been nice to have it in a booklet but there is an book for sale. But, that means that you have to spend more money. Nice!


Otherwise, there is improved pq as one would expect with perhaps more accurate colors. Though I think it might be too cleaned up; too nice looking. But, I always remember the show looking very gritty. Now, it is a lot prettier.
Overall, I would give it an 4/5. Had it included all of the extras and artwork and had non stretched extras then I could see giving it 5/5. But, besides what it does offer, the best thing about it is the amount of shelf space that I am saving. But, instead of selling my older dvd box sets like I originally intended to do, I have to store them so that I can have the extras and bonus content the way it should be.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this. I'm curious - have you been able to fix the stretched extras by switching aspect ratios in either your blu-ray player or your tv directly? My Samsung tv allows me to switch instantly between 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios which is quite useful at times. But how effective it is would depend on how they stretched it. If they did a full stretch from 4:3 to 16:9, then by setting my tv to 4:3 it would "squish" it right back down to 4:3 with the proper black bars. But if they did something weird with the stretching then setting my tv to 4:3 wouldn't fix it completely because it would still wind up with an odd aspect ratio even set to 4:3. I'm curious to find out if the stretching can at least be corrected easily.

Also, do you find the color to be pale or faded at all? My one thought on the image quality of the screenshots on this site's review is that while it looks quite nice with accurate colors, it does look a bit less saturated than I was expecting. Maybe that's how it really was and we're used to seeing the colors over-saturated in "Battle of the Planets"?