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First Stage Blu-ray BOX set to release in Feb 2014| BOZZ | Posted: Nov 5 2013, 09:31 PM | ||
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| Nomake Wan | Posted: Nov 6 2013, 07:34 PM |
ShiMACHaze Group: Advanced Members Posts: 19,542 Member No.: 5,394 Joined: Feb 5th 2005 Location: Drydock | What Chris doesn't bother to mention is that Amazon also lists information that says all the Anime were remastered in-house with some new proprietary remastering equipment Avex is quite proud of. Now there's still the question of what source they went with to start the remaster, but at least it confirms they've put some effort into the blurays. |
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| geokilla | Posted: Mar 15 2014, 08:50 PM |
IDW Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 72 Member No.: 25,650 Joined: Aug 2nd 2007 Location: North York, Ontario | May I ask where the blu-ray box set for first stage is? Looking for HD Initial D! |
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| Nomake Wan | Posted: Mar 15 2014, 11:25 PM | ||
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On Amazon Japan, amongst plenty of other online stores. Go buy it. | ||
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| Seri | Posted: Mar 17 2014, 11:54 AM |
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| kyonpalm | Posted: Mar 17 2014, 04:20 PM | ||
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None that I'm aware of. They won't look any more improved than the other sequences, anyway. | ||
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| Nomake Wan | Posted: Mar 17 2014, 10:46 PM | ||
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This. They didn't magically find the original CG work and rescale it. They didn't re-render everything. They simply took whatever master composite they had access to and upscaled it. | ||
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| hackgrid | Posted: Apr 9 2014, 07:56 AM |
IDW God Member Group: Members Posts: 151 Member No.: 16,046 Joined: Feb 19th 2006 Location: Update Profile | No rips yet? Strange  |
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| hackgrid | Posted: Apr 20 2014, 11:38 PM |
IDW God Member Group: Members Posts: 151 Member No.: 16,046 Joined: Feb 19th 2006 Location: Update Profile | This was released the day before yesterday :-) [YYDM-11FANS][Initial_D_First_Stage][BDRIP][1-26][960x720][X264-10bit_AAC][MP4] |
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| kyonpalm | Posted: Apr 21 2014, 01:16 PM | ||
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>MP4  Why. | ||
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| BOZZ | Posted: Apr 21 2014, 03:57 PM | ||
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Damn, that must be the smallest size for a full season of anything in Blu Ray... wow... I can just imagine what the quality must be like... | ||
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| Seri | Posted: Apr 22 2014, 08:01 PM |
Quirks and Features of IDW Group: FORUM MODERATOR Posts: 1,891 Member No.: 40,610 Joined: Feb 21st 2013 Location: Showroom | So, all the music Funi used to replace the missing music is still in, among other things. Looks like the masters really were lost/destroyed. The CG is really good looking, in my opinion, though. This post has been edited by Miura Seri on Apr 22 2014, 08:03 PM |
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| kyonpalm | Posted: Apr 23 2014, 11:58 AM | ||
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If you think filters are good, maybe.  Image size reduced, original size: 1280 x 720. Click here to view the image in its original dimension. | ||
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| Seri | Posted: Apr 23 2014, 02:29 PM |
Quirks and Features of IDW Group: FORUM MODERATOR Posts: 1,891 Member No.: 40,610 Joined: Feb 21st 2013 Location: Showroom | I meant the cars.  Image size reduced, original size: 960 x 720. Click here to view the image in its original dimension. |
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| kyonpalm | Posted: Apr 29 2014, 05:32 PM |
Professional Amateur Group: ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 10,568 Member No.: 30,882 Joined: Oct 16th 2008 Location: Laniakea | Here's a comparison of CG and cel shots from the TokyoPop DVD (left) and the remastered Blu-ray (right):  Image size reduced, original size: unknown. Click here to view the image in its original dimension. Despite not having been sourced from the masters, the Blu-ray does look visibly better in the non-CG scenes. The CG scenes' improvements are negligible. |
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| Nomake Wan | Posted: Apr 29 2014, 07:59 PM |
ShiMACHaze Group: Advanced Members Posts: 19,542 Member No.: 5,394 Joined: Feb 5th 2005 Location: Drydock | I would say it's marginally better. It's more like the warpsharp tool being abused to its limit, something that some fansub groups or AMV creators will do with subpar source material. It creates a similar edge artifact to what's seen both here and in, for instance, the blurays for All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku. Disappointing. I really hope that they do a proper job of the other stages but after seeing this complete waste of effort after the joke that was Fifth Stage I'm not holding my breath. |
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| alex1287 | Posted: May 1 2014, 12:10 PM |
OVER 9000! Group: Members Posts: 233 Member No.: 38,532 Joined: Apr 14th 2012 Location: Poland | Second Stage BDRIP is now  It looks nice  http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=547363  Image size reduced, original size: 960 x 720. Click here to view the image in its original dimension.  Image size reduced, original size: 960 x 720. Click here to view the image in its original dimension.  Image size reduced, original size: 960 x 720. Click here to view the image in its original dimension. |
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| Nomake Wan | Posted: May 1 2014, 07:58 PM |
ShiMACHaze Group: Advanced Members Posts: 19,542 Member No.: 5,394 Joined: Feb 5th 2005 Location: Drydock | Just wanna reiterate now that I've had a chance to look at them myself that the BDs for First Stage...  Image size reduced, original size: 960 x 720. Click here to view the image in its original dimension. ...are horrendously upscaled crap...  Image size reduced, original size: 960 x 720. Click here to view the image in its original dimension. ...with artifacts from incorrect de-telecining. Whoever did the conversion from DVD -> BD was a n00b at video encoding. I can make the DVDs look better than this, jeez.  |
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| Lebon14 | Posted: May 1 2014, 11:20 PM |
🎧 Group: Advanced Members Posts: 6,594 Member No.: 18,005 Joined: May 25th 2006 Location: Canada | ^ HOLY SHIT. That is some horrendous quality. Disgusting! |
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| K1RZA | Posted: May 2 2014, 04:57 AM |
IDW Prime Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 518 Member No.: 26,168 Joined: Aug 23rd 2007 Location: Russia |  First Stage, classic anime, why? |
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| alex1287 | Posted: May 2 2014, 06:07 AM |
OVER 9000! Group: Members Posts: 233 Member No.: 38,532 Joined: Apr 14th 2012 Location: Poland | And why people convert to MP4 not MKV or AVI, my samsung smart tv not opened this  Second Stage in HD look better but have small blur. First Stage my favorite have more blur  Dragon Ball is older than Initial D , and looks better in HD. They made no effort with remaster. Maybe 3rd,4th,Extra and Battle It will look nice |
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| Nomake Wan | Posted: May 2 2014, 07:20 AM | ||
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Those are containers. If you take an MP4 file and drop it into MKVmerge, voila! It's MKV! MAGIC! No one converts HD content to AVI unless they're retarded. You can't (properly) contain AVC streams in an AVI container. The reason your smart TV cannot play these files is not because of what container they're using, it's because whoever encoded them used 10-bit h.264 to do so. You will have to reencode to an 8-bit format in order to view them on your TV.....which has nothing to do with what container they're in. THE MORE YOU KNOW. | ||
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| alex1287 | Posted: May 2 2014, 07:39 AM |
OVER 9000! Group: Members Posts: 233 Member No.: 38,532 Joined: Apr 14th 2012 Location: Poland | I always know must be in MKV not AVI but thank you for info  We are waiting for rest Initial D BDrip's |
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