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NEWS: Funimation Offers A Certain Magical Index II & Movie on Home Video

Yes, it's such a huge loss when a 540p JC Staff series goes down a whole 60 horizontal pixels to DVD resolution.

majutsu season 2 is not an upscale
I do not know why you are saying this
it aired in 2010 and 2011

shana season 2 was done in wide screen but aired in 2007/2008
that might be questionable resolution quality

however, you seem to be implying that watching a video in a little 480p box is the only compromise
you are forgetting that DVDs have craptastic interlacing
if I took a crayola marker and scribbled on you face, would that be ok?

so why would you shrink a video, de-face it with interlacing lines (which any modern TV has no need for even using interlacing) and then claim the quality is 'almost' the same

it is not the same and majutsu 2 on DVD would absolutely be an inferior product

Is there any place or some way that I can easily learn what resolutions are used for what show? I think it would be pretty interesting to know what was used for the shows that I like and would help me in this sort of situation (choosing DVD vs BD).

Yes, it's such a huge loss when a 540p JC Staff series goes down a whole 60 horizontal pixels to DVD resolution.

Also, when it comes to Railgun I and Index I+II, I really don't think BD is a worthwhile investment for FUNi - the series were animated far below 720p and the BDs for those seasons were subpar upscales anyways (Similar to Shana I+II BD releases, a series also animated by JC Staff around the same time).

I only say this because after seeing seeing the DVDs (at 480p) on a 46-inch TV, and then seeing what the BDs looks like on the same screen, I could not see a discernible difference. If the DVD is mastered well (like the majority of FUNi DVD releases), they will look almost the exact same as an upscale will on a big screen. Taking into account the built-in upscaler on BD players, most players can upscale very close to the same quality as a "pre-done" upscale.

dan297na wrote:

I hope they go with bluray, because I am done buying DVDs for modern series.

Yes, it's such a huge loss when a 540p JC Staff series goes down a whole 60 horizontal pixels to DVD resolution.

It should also be understood that Index and Railgun were license carry overs from the Geneon USA closure caused by many issues and the Geneon-Universal merger in Japan. The only reason it took so long for us to get them was due to that merger - hence why extras and such that did not exist when the license was originally made with Geneon USA were not included with FUNi's release.

What exactly is "540p"? Is it qHD (960*540; 518,400 pixels)? Is it another term for 1080i (1920*540; 1036800 pixels)? Those are some serious differences....?

The same was said about Bleach when they moved to HD broadcasts. It turns out, like most titles, it uses mixed asset or different digital cell/layer production resolution, but nonetheless the maximum resolution used for Bleach is actually..... wait for it, 1080p for backgrounds. This was relayed through CR through an official rep (TV Tokyo / Studio Pierrot)

Let's try a test, with another old J.C. Staff title: Twin Angel TV. Here, there is concrete proof from behind the scenes footage interview about the resolution they used for production. But without looking it up, do you still think it's 540p? 720p?

Sorry Funimation, you've done me wrong. I still pay you, but seriously, you need to do a replacement on Railgun (Sissy is unforgivable) and need to release Index on BD.

This 540p myth keeps on being perpetrated, without any proof whatsoever. You absolutely cannot determine original resolution post-production. It's simply impossible.

The same was said about Bleach when they moved to HD broadcasts. It turns out, like most titles, it uses mixed asset or different digital cell/layer production resolution, but nonetheless the maximum resolution used for Bleach is actually..... wait for it, 1080p for backgrounds.

Let's try a test, with another old J.C. Staff title: Twin Angel TV. Here, there is concrete proof from behind the scenes footage interview about the resolution they used for production. But without looking it up, do you still think it's 540p? 720p?

Some shows being 540p doesn't mean all still are. I believe the Nyaruko sequel and Henneko were determined to be 1080p.

Nayu wrote:

Sorry Funimation, you've done me wrong. I still pay you, but seriously, you need to do a replacement on Railgun (Sissy is unforgivable) and need to release Index on BD.

Okay, language expert, how should they have handled Kuroko calling Mikoto "Onee-sama"?