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nobahn
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YEA! Another FOSS user! (Although I will be the 1st to admit that that I know nothing about FreeBSD and am not particularly adept at Linux.) |
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Zin5ki
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You are not alone there, nobahn! My fondness of Linux has resulted in me never having used a Blu-ray before, and given the proprietary state of its decryption system, the media industry seems quite intent on keeping things this way... |
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Mangaranga
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When was the last time you bought a Sentai Blu-ray? I'll be the first to say that absolutely all of their Blu-rays until around very late 2014 are utter crap, but at that point they actually got someone who knows what they're doing on the job. There's a select few titles which I've heard look a bit rough due to contrast differences and bad source material (JP BDs look better than R1, but aren't always perfect by any means), but their output is FAR better than it ever was in the past. Even their re-releases of certain titles have received new encodes - e.g. the HOTD CEand Persona 4. Another thing to note here is that even when Sentai use two discs for a sub only show, their encoding is still done at sub 20mbps and is either just under or over the 47gb limit of a BD50. Shirobako Part 2? It would've fit on a single disc. It's funny how people complain about single disc releases when they've still been getting the same quality for the most part... I'm not a fan of single disc releases by any means as I'd much rather have beautiful bloated 40mbps encodes like Japanese/Aniplex USA releases provide, but it goes to show how far having a good encoder goes when it comes to disc authoring. Even though they use a lot more space than Sentai, Funi are all over the place when it comes to quality, and anything Subatomic Digital does for Viz looks like trash regardless of the number of discs. |
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Shiroi Hane
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I will admit that I looked at the article question and the picture and immediately though "..it depends on the size of the boobs". |
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Polycell
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yuna49
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That's what virtual machines are good for. I have a Windows VM in my Linux sessions, and a Linux VM in my much less frequent Windows sessions. In my case I prefer Microsoft Access over any other SQL front end. It plays nicely with PostgreSQL using ODBC over a remote connection. So I keep a Windows VM around to run Access and do my taxes. |
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ultimatemegax
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Here's what is either in my collection or that I can personally verify (Hyouka Bd-Box) as seeing: K-On! (S1) BD-Box: 3 dual layer discs (each w/4 episodes and 2/3 (disc 3 only) commentary tracks) 1 single layer disc (2 episodes with 2 audio commentary tracks plus bonus video content) K-On!! (s2) BD-Box: 5 dual layer discs (1-4: 6 episodes each with 2/3 (disc 4 only) commentary tracks; disc 5: 3 episodes plus bonus video content) Hyouka BD singles/volumes: 12 single layer discs with 2 episodes (except ep 11.5 OVA) each Hyouka BD-Box: 4 dual layer discs with 6 episodes (discs 1-3) or 5 episodes w/bonus video content (disc 4) Kanon BD-Box: 5 dual layer discs with 5 episodes each (disc 5 had 4 plus bonus video content) Haruhi 2010 BD-Box: 8 dual layer discs. Discs 1, 3, 5 have 6 episodes on them, discs 2 & 4 have 5 episodes each on them, discs 6-8 are bonus video discs with at least 120 minutes of video content on each. Haruhi 2014 BD-Box: 2 dual layer discs + 1 single layer disc. Disc 1 has episodes 1-5 and bonus video content, disc 2 has episodes 6-9, disc 3 has episodes 10-14 Hanasaku Iroha singles: 3/2 episodes volumes with bonus video content & 2 commentary tracks, single layers Chuunibyou singles: 2 episode volumes w/bonus video content, single layers Tamako singles: 2 episode volumes w/bonus video content, single layers Sound! Euphonium singles: 2 episode volumes w/bonus video content, single layers JP singles come on single layer BDs; it's only the boxes (of which Gargantia had 3 of) that pack episodes onto double layer discs. |
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relyat08
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Maybe I didn't look closely enough, but I'm pretty certain OPM and Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, which I just checked this morning, were dual layer. But, in any event, I guess I was off by quite a bit. I will blame the lighting in my room for not being able to clearly see the layer markings, or something like that... |
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leafy sea dragon
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I'll back you up on that one. I've been to plenty of people's homes or other places where they have an SD setup to an HD TV and they don't know they're watching in SD. A casual observer might be able to see the difference, but only if they're looking for it and they know what to look for. (I'd compare it to non-musicians not seeing the difference between a trumpet and a cornet, or non-bug-enthusiasts between any two species of fleas, until pointed out that they're different.)
Me, how much I care about video quality depends on how much I spent on it. I have a set of 5 DVDs that contain a collective 300 cartoon shorts, for instance. The quality's not very good, but I paid US$5 for it, so I really don't care. (In hindsight, I'm not really sure if it's bootlegged or not, but I got it at a Wal•Mart clearance bin.) But thanks for the clarification. I know from compressing artwork how solid, flat colors seem to be much easier on a computer and the filesizes than something meant to look traditional, and I figured the same principle must be going on for video compression. |
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0nsen
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If you're not watching anime in arm length of an 75 inch 4K TV you're doing it wrong anyway.
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Covnam
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Hmm, only 4-5 times more then a DVD? I would think there'd be more SD on BD when it comes to longer series then. Even if the final disc cost were similar, you'd think the smaller packaging would be a financial benefit as well.
I wonder if companies would be worried that buyers would expect it to be in HD just because it's on BD and would complain when they start watching... Personally if it's never going to be re-done with a proper HD master, I wouldn't mind longer shows (anime or not) being put out on only a few BDs compared to dozens of DVDs. |
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writerpatrick
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Much of the time it has to do with the size of screen you're watching it on. There's not a lot of difference between 1080 and 720 if you're looking at a 24 inch screen a few feet away. But when you get into 42 inch screens the difference becomes much more apparent. Of course the reason people get BluRay is that they want the higher resolution.
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M. Northstar
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I know from Justin's previous articles that the subtitles function on Bluray isn't very forgiving of creativity, but couldn't you have one opening and ending animation, with the credits as separate overlays for each episode? |
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