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Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt DVD

Post by pan_dbgt01 » Mon Apr 30, 2012 11:46 am

Panty and Stocking is set to be released by Funimation in July this year.

Beware it's a 2 disc DVD........(I bought Rosario+Vampire)

Anywho just thought I'd let people know :p

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Re: Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt DVD

Post by oldwrench » Sun May 13, 2012 2:58 pm

Ya, you can pre order at rightstuf on a 40 percent off sale right now.
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Re: Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt DVD

Post by pan_dbgt01 » Mon May 14, 2012 1:02 am

oldwrench wrote:Ya, you can pre order at rightstuf on a 40 percent off sale right now.
I honeslty won't buy anything new from Funimation unless it's a Blu Ray. They cram way too many eps on to each disc. I see more interlacing than on my old DVDs.

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Post by NeoQuixotic » Wed May 16, 2012 7:28 pm

Most US DVD sets have cut the amount of discs by half. Now I at first thought this meant more compression used per episode to fit on the fewer discs. However, after looking at a lot of new and old discs I've discovered most DVDs fit each episode into a single 1 GB VOB file. There was the rare occasion that an episode was spanned on a 1 GB and 100-300 MB additional VOB. But there was also some that had each episode as low as 700 MB each. Now filesize doesn't necessarily equal video quality, but it can be a tipoff. It seems that older DVD releases were nearly all single layer discs and new releases are dual layer discs.

So the half amount of discs released now makes logical sense. Now I wouldn't be surprised if some releases get over compressed, but I wouldn't be too concerned. I just checked Funimation's Rosario+Vampire DVD and all it needed was force film. You're either processing your files wrong or using a crappy player to watch the DVDs. If maximum quality is your concern import the R2s or wait for the Blu-rays.
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Re: Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt DVD

Post by pan_dbgt01 » Tue May 22, 2012 12:23 pm

NeoQuixotic wrote:Most US DVD sets have cut the amount of discs by half. Now I at first thought this meant more compression used per episode to fit on the fewer discs. However, after looking at a lot of new and old discs I've discovered most DVDs fit each episode into a single 1 GB VOB file. There was the rare occasion that an episode was spanned on a 1 GB and 100-300 MB additional VOB. But there was also some that had each episode as low as 700 MB each. Now filesize doesn't necessarily equal video quality, but it can be a tipoff. It seems that older DVD releases were nearly all single layer discs and new releases are dual layer discs.

So the half amount of discs released now makes logical sense. Now I wouldn't be surprised if some releases get over compressed, but I wouldn't be too concerned. I just checked Funimation's Rosario+Vampire DVD and all it needed was force film. You're either processing your files wrong or using a crappy player to watch the DVDs. If maximum quality is your concern import the R2s or wait for the Blu-rays.
So is it my Blu Ray player that is the problem? I haven't tried to rip them yet. Also my old DVDs are single layered DVDs so they only hold 4.7 gigs.

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Re: Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt DVD

Post by NeoQuixotic » Tue May 22, 2012 7:10 pm

pan_dbgt01 wrote:So is it my Blu Ray player that is the problem? I haven't tried to rip them yet. Also my old DVDs are single layered DVDs so they only hold 4.7 gigs.
Your player/TV must not be doing IVTC and/or just trying to just straight deinterlace the frames. I know at least when watching DVDs on my PC using my Nvidia video card as the hardware decoder it honors pulldown flags and gives me a clean progressive image. What are the models of your player and TV? I just tried playing Rosario+Vampire and Heaven's Lost Property with a crappy 8 year old Memorex DVD player via composite and it looked surprisingly decent. I saw some slight jaggies on the combed areas of the frame, but very watchable considering it was a composite signal. I'm assuming my TVs internal video processor handled the IVTC and/or deinterlacing. I even threw a straight .VOB on a flash drive to my TV and it played back with no combed frames/interlacing. I'm guessing your player/TV are either set up wrong or just have poor video processing.
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Re: Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt DVD

Post by pan_dbgt01 » Fri May 25, 2012 2:54 am

NeoQuixotic wrote:
pan_dbgt01 wrote:So is it my Blu Ray player that is the problem? I haven't tried to rip them yet. Also my old DVDs are single layered DVDs so they only hold 4.7 gigs.
Your player/TV must not be doing IVTC and/or just trying to just straight deinterlace the frames. I know at least when watching DVDs on my PC using my Nvidia video card as the hardware decoder it honors pulldown flags and gives me a clean progressive image. What are the models of your player and TV? I just tried playing Rosario+Vampire and Heaven's Lost Property with a crappy 8 year old Memorex DVD player via composite and it looked surprisingly decent. I saw some slight jaggies on the combed areas of the frame, but very watchable considering it was a composite signal. I'm assuming my TVs internal video processor handled the IVTC and/or deinterlacing. I even threw a straight .VOB on a flash drive to my TV and it played back with no combed frames/interlacing. I'm guessing your player/TV are either set up wrong or just have poor video processing.
To be honest I never had as issue with any of my DVD players. It's probably all of the HD mumble jumble. We probably just have to play with the settings.

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