American releases' video quality

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Postby Zarxrax » Fri Nov 08, 2002 5:06 pm

Wyverex.CYPHER: Just a second here, I'll rip you some scenes from the dvd and let you judge for yourself. Check your private message box in a little while.
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Postby Zarxrax » Fri Nov 08, 2002 5:32 pm

Ok, I've sent you the clips.

I wanna take back what I said earlier about the BA ova's looking decent. Now that I look at them again, I think they are worse than the TV series even. They aren't HORRIBLE by any means, they just aren't good. Just didn't wanna mislead anyone on that.
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Postby Wyverex » Sat Nov 09, 2002 2:57 am

Thanks a lot Zarxrax ^_^.
I wanted the OAV cause I can't get 8 DVD for the TV series and I'd prefer to have something complete... but I'm seriously hesitating, now that I've seen the video quality of BA OAV...

(Concerning BAV, I guess I can avoid the bad interlacing problem?)

If someone could do the same and send me a part of one Jin-Roh american release's VOB, would be great :D.
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Postby Declan_Vee » Sat Nov 09, 2002 9:36 am

Well to add to the confusion. My Region 4 PAL Lain DVDs are pretty clean. Although they were released late 2001, so there may have been some remastering done.
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Postby ErMaC » Sun Nov 10, 2002 4:47 am

It's less likely a remastering and more likely better compression technology and experience in mastering DVDs. Just like any technology, to exploit its full potential can take some work getting used to. Back in the early days the strategy for high quality was "Take an encoder and throw the maximum bitrate at it". Now professional authoring houses use various pre-filtering techniques like edge-enhancement and in some cases scene-by-scene tweaking to make encodes look their best.
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Postby OhMyBelldandy009 » Tue Nov 12, 2002 10:43 am

American DVD releases are the same quality as the japanese, usually. I'd use them for editing, because there aren't subtitles, or, you might be able to rip the japanese version without subtitles, I don't really know, though. But, as far as quality goes, American DVDs are the same as the Japanese.

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