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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

icantfindaname posted:

I'm assuming there's no way to access a better quality master than that one?
FLCL was animated digitally, probably at standard definition, so no Blu-Ray release of it will look that good. It was then upscaled with Q-Tec for BD release, which is horrible.
The King Records release might look slightly better just due to being 2 BDs instead of 1 (probably higher bitrate), but it's out of print, was $150 at release, and is still a Q-Tec upscale.

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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
It's not just cropped, it also looks like poo poo. They did really heavy filtering to denoise and clean up the image and succeeded in destroying it.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

a kitten posted:

Anyone know if the upcoming release of Gatchaman:CROWDS has the redone final episode? There's a review on amazon's pre-order page claiming it does not, but I'm not sure where to look to try to confirm it.
It would be insane not to release it with 12DC. Since this is a Sentai Filmworks release and they're poo poo, I'm pretty sure it indeed doesn't include it. Rightstuf certainly doesn't list.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

Beef Waifu posted:

Rightstuf actually asked Sentai and it was confirmed it does not have the redone final episode.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/dai...-episode/.77784

Sentai posted:

That particular episode, what people call the 'OVA episode,' belongs to someone else, not the original licensor that we did business with to acquire the 12 episode series. I can't say with absolute certainty that we won't get it in the future, but for now it is exclusive to Japan.
(I've never seen anybody call it the OVA episode)
How can they license 12 episodes on BD but be unable to license the director's cut? I imported the Japanese set and the director's cut disc has the exact same copyright notices printed on it that all the others do.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
Was "Hey we're missing some footage send us another tape" somehow impossible?

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

Ineffiable posted:

But does gurren lagann actually have a bluray release in NA? All I found was just the movies.

I assume the UK set is region locked.
http://www.aniplexusa.com/gurrenlagannbd/
Plus the Japanese box set has English audio and subs and it's only $600

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

RMZXAnarchy posted:

The Japanese set has been discontinued for some time now.
Sure, but it's still in stock on Amazon JP and some other places.

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
The English sub track of the Japanese BD release of Princess Mononoke is definitely not closed captioning, so anyone who hates that I guess can just import it

Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.
http://www.evangelion.co.jp/ng.html
http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00SYD9OE8/

Evangelion Blu-ray Box up for preorder, releasing August. $350 from Amazon Japan, probably no subs.

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Malloc Voidstar
May 7, 2007

Fuck the cowboys. Unf. Fuck em hard.

Ineffiable posted:

Is the price difference in those disc densities actually significant? I mean I guess even at ten cents more, it really adds up over the whole production run.
From some quick checking, they're quite a bit more expensive. http://www.pacificdisc.com/PricingBluRay.html goes from $1.44/disc for BD25 to $2.55/disc for BD50.

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