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Zin5ki
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One imagines this will dampen the prospects of a more modestly-priced disc release. This being so, let us hope the third and fourth episode are eventually released for streaming in the same fashion as the first two.
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SilverTalon01
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Anime isn't like film. If it wasn't actually made in 4k, there isn't really much gain in them upscaling it on their end. Not to say they won't do it... |
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jdnation
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Yeah, if only there was some kind of PlayStation product that allowed us and Japanese consumers to access such content... some kind of premium version that would be perfect for 4K adopters... Sadly there isn't... 
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Nyren
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JoeOfTomorrow
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No doubt it looks good but those jazz tunes make me cringe and therefore I couldn't finish it. I'm not a fan of jazz music and there aren't many tunes in that genre I like, but what is played in the movie is not among what passes for me. I just hope this is an indication of other Gundams getting 4K releases.. |
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IanC
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Sure wish our 4K was an actual 4K TV. Only supports 4K at 30hz, what's the point of that?
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Wrangler
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CRAP! I won't be able buy this thing because it's on this stupidly rare player format.
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Ouran High School Dropout
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And if you use a receiver as a passthrough for audio, I think you'll need to replace it too. Also, is this from a native 4K master? |
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jymmy
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So it is a 4K TV then. And "what's the point" is a question you need to ask yourself. Most movies and TV shows are 24fps or 30fps. If you were looking to play PC games on it, then, yes, it would be a poor investment. What do you want to use it for? With my most recent upgrade, I went for a 4K TV with HDMI 2.0, so it can display native 60Hz, but I run it at 24Hz because everything I watch on it is anime or some movies, 99% of which are 24fps anyway, so it's in its native framerate. (Also, my PC has just about the lowest-end graphics card with HDMI 2.0 anyway, so it tends to lag when I use a high-quality video renderer (madVR) in exclusive fullscreen mode at 60Hz anyway. I'll upgrade it some day, but for now my setup fully meets my needs since there's no >30Hz content I want to play on 4K.) |
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DangerMouse
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Awesome! It'll be good to finally have a 4K anime disc.
Also looks like it'll have 4K HDR test clips of a few others.
The good news is that some of the players fortunately have a second audio-out HDMI port for getting around an old receiver while still getting HD audio. |
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AnimeLordLuis
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Well this might be the beginning of OVA's and quite possibly Anime films made in 4K Ultra HD however it will only happen if there are enough people interested in 4K.
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MrBonk
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Pointless, probably upscaled. (If native 4k, that's nice. But the vast majority of anime will never be even close)Probably still DNR'd on the ones that were originally on film.
Just imagine the extra price premium Surnise is gonna heckle out of this. Or if they released series on UHDBD Very few of the existing Gundam Film Scans actually look like they'd be worth a 4k release.Even then, HDR is pretty pointless, because this is animation and you don't need HDR to be able to reproduce the color palette they actually used when making the shows. Making it even more oversaturated and adding artificial luminosity just seems wrong. HDR, while a worthwhile upgrade.(just not for anime that have already been made). HDR should've been a 1080p TV Upgrade, because that's the real difference maker of 2k to 4kHDR. It's HDR, not the resolution. (And HDR is still in it's infancy, there isn't one singular gold standard that everyone produces content in or that every TV uses. And then for games, there's the additional extra processing latency. Just what we need. Even more input lag! Thankfully not all HDR sets add a significant amount) 4k is useless for anything not made or scanned in 4k and even if consoles could render at native 4k without CBR. 4k still needs good Anti Aliasing, and consoles have that almost never. (Meanwhile PS4p could provide 1080p with good AA finally and CBR with upscaling to 4k will have even more artifacts) The inudstry, content and consoles are not anywhere near 4k ready. Upscaling in current commercial products(TVs,BDPs) and in processes used for anime releases are not good. It's already bad enough when a lot of Anime BD's are horribly upscaled as is to 2k resolution. This is all really the fault of the desperate TV industry. Consumer CRTs were around for decades before they started adding digital features to them. And since CRTs weren't fixed resolution, scaling was nary an issue. Some sets could resolve detail from a higher line count. But nothing like the money grubbing crap that is being pushed today. (Ironically enough Sony doesn't even want to give UHDBD a bigger chance at success with the omission from PS4p) You can't even buy a high quality 1080p TV set anymore. It's all been relegated to budget models. Imagine if you could buy a high quality 1080p set that supported HDR and accepted 4kHDR signals(And downsampled them, which wouldn't lose you any picture quality. It'd actually increase it). You could get 1080pHDR gaming, and 4kHDR video content. Honestly the best of both worlds. It's not an impossible thing either, they could make it happen if they really wanted. |
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AnimeAddict2014
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what do you know..
there's 4K anime after all.. i'm guessing this is "upscaled" 4K here.. unless the original show was in native 4K to begin with.. |
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