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Any of the Macross movies or OVA's or anything basically available for Blu Ray in Europe? Getting a PS3 for Christmas and I'd love to have something Macross to play on it. As it is I've already made up a Blu Ray wishlist on Amazon.co.uk and added Wings of Honnemaise, Evangelion 1.11, Gundam Unicorn episode 1 and Nausicaa. More recommendations for pretty poo poo to blow my socks off always welcome. I'll have to check out the other thread for recommendations on non-anime stuff too.
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Plorkyeran posted:Normally upscaling stuff doesn't actively make it look worse than it already did, but naturally the anime industry can never miss a chance to do as terrible a job as possible. The latest example is the (massively overpriced) Haruhi BD box set, which was almost artistic in its destruction of the video: DVD BD I feel blind even with my glasses on because I'm honestly not seeing any difference between the DVD and Blu Ray version. What am I missing that's so awful?
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Dec 3, 2010 08:11
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Infinitum posted:Don't take this the wrong way, but you seriously can't tell the difference? The Haruhi DVD image looks pretty swirly to me too and I was only comparing those two images and not the Haruhi Blu Ray to any other Blu Ray since that was what was provided for comparison. Of course the Nausicaa one looks much sharper, but it looks like the Haruhi image that the poster provider was always meant to be somewhat odd and artistic looking and the upscale just made that more obvious.
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Dec 3, 2010 08:30
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So I finally got around to starting watching the Ghibli DVDs I bought several months back and have so far watched Howl's Moving Castle and Whisper of the Heart, both of which I loved. Now I want them on Blu Ray though, because some of the visuals in them were stunning. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Ponyo are the only Blu Rays currently available in Europe however, and I can't see any other titles listed for release on Blu-ray.com so are they just not doing any more over here or what? Also, plans to release Karas here were scapped which makes me sad. Would have loved to buy that. Are blu ray players for pcs generally reliable and region-free? There are so few anime released in this region that I think I might be better served buying one of them and piping it over to my HD tv than waiting around and relying solely on my PS3.
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Jan 30, 2011 03:40
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Infinitum posted:The Ghibli BRDs are region free. So I could play them in Europe? Do they come with English subs, unlikely as it sounds?
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Feb 2, 2011 00:11
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Nate RFB posted:Rurouni Kenshin...Filler arcs designed to keep the ball rolling while the manga got further along, but back fired by being so massively terribly it got the series canceled. Wait a second...how bad can those episodes have been to say it got the series cancelled considering the regular filler quality of Naruto/Bleach? This reminds me I need to watch read Kenshin someday. It's one of those seminal shounen things I never got around to. Along with Hunter X Hunter, Saint Seiya, Dragonball and Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventures. Nor have I ever finished Fist of the North Star. I'm a bad manga fan  Guess I can start Kenshin with the blurays though. Any excuse is a good one really.
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Apr 29, 2011 22:32
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DamnGlitch posted:Also no one seems to like Turn A at sunrise/bandai so there is that too. Apparently it's been getting progressively more popular in a cult way over the years, so maybe one day there'll be an English blu-ray. Maybe in like 20 years, when whatever the successor to blu-ray is is making the rounds. I live in hope 
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Jul 24, 2012 15:12
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DamnGlitch posted:I personally would be very surprised if we get a physical successor to Bluray. Keep in mind I'm going of /m/'s word on this, so take it with an entire barge of salt. I just can't be bothered hunting through Japanese sites to try and verify it.
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Jul 24, 2012 15:53
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I enjoyed most of Tenchi Universe, but I remember 16 or 17 year old me found the ending awful. It builds up to a big fight, then has Tenchi and the king or whatever stare at each other before dreaming about some trees and then the king gives up. I might try and find the original OVAs again at some point though, haven't seen 'em since Cartoon Network and I do remember enjoying those. Cabbits are cute, Ryoka and Washu were pretty cool and I like the mechanized tree things the princess used as bodyguards while the hand-generated lightsabers looked sweet and they had at least one or two decent fights without over-staying their welcome.
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Dec 1, 2012 20:38
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Sakurazuka posted:At £25 per set, it still costs less than I paid for the DVD's back in the day. I don't even object to the price, I'm just annoyed they'll be in two boxes instead of one. I know it's a really minor thing, but still...
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