Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - Page 3 - Blu-ray Forum

hempo22 · 10-26-2010, 06:57 PM

Steve46 · 10-26-2010, 08:19 PM

I'm very pleased with the quality of the UK Blu-ray. The source material has its limitations, but they did a good job. It looks and sounds about as good as it could. It will be interesting to see whether Disney tops it.

marcoooliveira · 10-26-2010, 09:29 PM

hempo22 thank you so much for posting the image. Looks good anyway... but it could be so much better..

Will buy when a price drop appear.

tuxqi · 10-26-2010, 09:43 PM

I just stored the ponyo slip elsewhere, so the case would match the nausicaä one.

DaveSimonH · 10-27-2010, 12:01 AM

Shame it doesn't have a slip, would have been nice to have all the numbering line up, but its not going to put me off buying it (eventually).

Dubstar · 08-12-2011, 04:23 AM

the fact that this edition retains the commentary track (in subbed English of course) and the opening minus the English language credits - makes this superior over the US Disney release.

wesslan · 08-12-2011, 07:16 AM

I've seen comparisons on Laputa jp vs uk but haven't seen any on Nausicaä with jp vs us vs uk vs hk. Someone said US is a closer match to jp than UK in terms on PQ and others say hk is pretty much a duplicate of jp disc just some other audiotracks/subs. Have the UK myself and would have bought the jp if I could afford it. Bitrates is pretty different at least on PQ:

US BD50 DTS-HD 2.0 24bit 2110 kbps, AVC 24100 kbps
UK BD50 LPCM 2.0 24bit 1536 kbps, AVC 31170 kbps
JP BD50 LPCM 2.0 24bit 2304 kbps, AVC 39548 kbps
HK same as JP?

Pyoko · 08-12-2011, 01:45 PM

US Nausicaa is virtually indistinguishable from the JP disc. HK disc looks similar to the JP/US but has slightly worse compression with more visible artifacts at times. The UK/AU disc is DNR'd.

drnknmstr · 12-20-2012, 04:39 PM

Personally i don't like optimum's transfer because of heavy dnr and some artificial sharpening. The image at times is very blurry but contours on the other hand are too defined. It just hurts eyes. My friend's disney version looks a whole lot better in my opinion and is available at a reasonable price. If you are wealthy though jp is probably the way to go.

10-26-2010, 06:57 PM	#41
hempo22 Active Member Top contributor Member since:Jan 2010 Location:Sweden

10-26-2010, 08:19 PM	#42
Steve46 Blu-ray Ninja Member since:Jan 2009 Location:Oshawa, ON 4K collection:156 Blu-ray collection:1040 Blu-ray reviews: 79 Trading Score:16	I'm very pleased with the quality of the UK Blu-ray. The source material has its limitations, but they did a good job. It looks and sounds about as good as it could. It will be interesting to see whether Disney tops it.

10-26-2010, 09:29 PM	#43
marcoooliveira Member Member since:Oct 2010 Blu-ray collection:897	hempo22 thank you so much for posting the image. Looks good anyway... but it could be so much better.. Will buy when a price drop appear.

10-26-2010, 09:43 PM	#44
tuxqi Expert Member Top contributor Member since:Sep 2009 Blu-ray collection:54 Blu-ray reviews: 4 Trading Score:4	I just stored the ponyo slip elsewhere, so the case would match the nausicaä one.

10-27-2010, 12:01 AM	#45
DaveSimonH Blu-ray Ninja Top contributor Member since:Sep 2009 Location:Scotland, UK Home Theater Gallery:23 4K collection:8 Blu-ray collection:2032 DVD collection:981 Digital collection:111 Trading Score:3	Shame it doesn't have a slip, would have been nice to have all the numbering line up, but its not going to put me off buying it (eventually).

08-12-2011, 04:23 AM	#46
Dubstar Blu-ray Prince Top contributor Member since:Jun 2008 Location:down at Fraggle Rock Home Theater Gallery:1 4K collection:201 Blu-ray collection:1953 DVD collection:304 MA collection:4 Digital collection:33 Trading Score:29	the fact that this edition retains the commentary track (in subbed English of course) and the opening minus the English language credits - makes this superior over the US Disney release.

08-12-2011, 07:16 AM	#47
wesslan Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Feb 2010 Location:Sweden Blu-ray reviews:1	I've seen comparisons on Laputa jp vs uk but haven't seen any on Nausicaä with jp vs us vs uk vs hk. Someone said US is a closer match to jp than UK in terms on PQ and others say hk is pretty much a duplicate of jp disc just some other audiotracks/subs. Have the UK myself and would have bought the jp if I could afford it. Bitrates is pretty different at least on PQ: US BD50 DTS-HD 2.0 24bit 2110 kbps, AVC 24100 kbps UK BD50 LPCM 2.0 24bit 1536 kbps, AVC 31170 kbps JP BD50 LPCM 2.0 24bit 2304 kbps, AVC 39548 kbps HK same as JP?

08-12-2011, 01:45 PM	#48
Pyoko Blu-ray Guru Top contributor Member since:Apr 2008 4K collection:151 Blu-ray collection:722	US Nausicaa is virtually indistinguishable from the JP disc. HK disc looks similar to the JP/US but has slightly worse compression with more visible artifacts at times. The UK/AU disc is DNR'd.

12-20-2012, 04:39 PM	#49
drnknmstr New Member Member since:Jul 2012 Blu-ray collection:148	Personally i don't like optimum's transfer because of heavy dnr and some artificial sharpening. The image at times is very blurry but contours on the other hand are too defined. It just hurts eyes. My friend's disney version looks a whole lot better in my opinion and is available at a reasonable price. If you are wealthy though jp is probably the way to go.

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