K-ON! DVD vs Blu-ray One-Shot Comparison

The obvious is revealed. HD>SD. Let us go bark up another tree.

Here's the real question: Did they fix the fucking hands?

I want to see her ass crack in high definition

LOL!
The ignorant comments on this article is OVER 9000!!

Anime on Blueray is responsible for over 1/3 of all Blueray sales in Japan, for those of you who are convinced it's a failed medium.Direct download isn't going to take off for a LONG time, i.e. when FASTER than we have now broadband is available to at least 80% of the WORLD'S population either free or extremely cheaply.Until then Blueray IS the HiDef successor to DVD like it or not.By the beginning of 2010 we're going to see $99 players on all store shelves and the movie media will likely sell for the prices new DVD movies sell for now.Just don't expect them to sell for cheaper than current DVD movies go for new because that'll never happen.Studios like Disney are already starting the changeover.Disney is releasing the Blueray version of SnowWhite(that co,mes with the DVD version as a bonus in one of the skus that'll be available but WILL NOT be available in single DVD version until some time after the Blueray and Blueray/DVD version has been released.If you think you can stop them from doing things like this, thingk again because they wouldn't be doing it if they already hadn't known it would be more profitable for them to do so.

Fail, its 1920x1080

The difference is MUCH BIGGER in reality.
You`re right it`s impossible to compare with shitty JPEGs.

I kinda like it blurry. Only problem is the random rainbows. Idk, something about the sharper one just isn't right for me.

Is that really DVD-vs Blu-Ray?
I mean, the left screenshot looks like taken from TV cap to me. I don't have DVD by my side, but I don't believe a DVD would be so fucked up like this, and I've never seen a recent DVD with so heavy rainbowing.

I'm surprised how so many people can't tell the difference between Blu-Ray and DVD quality. One's at 1080p and the other is at 480p. >__>
I have a few movies in both formats and I can easily tell the difference apart in my TV.

I, the Blu-Ray Disc, am your Disc.

You shall not have any discs besides me.

its obvious, there is gonna be a big difference, but if you want HD you dont need blu ray

Iwant BIG & BOUNCY

Um, that's how anime is sold in Japan; two episodes. And the otaku are paying for it. Might as well try to profit on those who have better than 20/20 vision.

the resolution is over 9000x

I came in Mio's hat..

I came.

OH SHI-

Here right eye. A Penis

can't unsee

Mio's gonna have my baby...

Nothing wrong with the blu-ray data format. Technology that allows me to archive 20-odd GB of data on a single disc is good stuff.

The corresponding media standard? Good if you can afford it, and you'd sooner want to invest in a good TV than BD players and media in the first place. I've seen some DVDs upscaled onto a nice 37" television that actually still managed to look pretty clear, but on a small standard definition TV the added cost of a player and the media really isn't worth it unless you're planning on buying a good HDTV in the future.

I can certainly see the difference on said 37" TV -- I'll make no claims to the contrary -- but I don't think it really makes that much difference for a cartoon show, which doesn't have as many colors on screen at a time compared to some live-action film (I see only like 5-6 distinct ones in that picture). The added detail and reduced blurring of colors isn't *ever* going to be too jaw-dropping.

But yeah, all you sillies should note it has nothing to do with the compression of the video or the quality of the raws, or at least very little. If your TV is of a comparable resolution to the DVD itself you won't notice ANY difference. Otherwise, you might, but I make no guarantees that you'd care.

Wow, blu ray looks sharper than DVD! Who would have thought, huh?

Not a large enough difference..

Did the quality get worst in the dvd or something? Cause I have all the episodes that it does not look that bad.

Its a lie!!!!!

2D is better on blu-ray ^_^

DVD is also encoded in a lossy compression format (so is Blu-ray, but a much more efficient one). It's not just a case of resolution, but of compression. The BD has up to five times the breathing room. The real gain here is the lack of artifacting.

awesome difference

Common!... All of we know that KyoAni will put the better version for BD and the worst version for TV.

OMG, both pics are photoshopped!
What will the world come to?

I still own a ton of VHS myself, but the visual difference between BD and DVD is usually more noticeable than DVD from VHS. It does depend on viewing factors of course, but BD wins just from usual lack of EE and Mpeg artifacting. The DVD here exhibits the usual signs of bad mpeg mastering. Though it's biggest problem is that so many are used to HD video, too many studios are smearing on the DVNR.

If you don't have an HD system, then buy your DVDs and let the ones that do have their BDs. Simple as that.

Haven't seen a seven foot monitor yet (wouldn't mind though).

Even the biggest plasmas are still pokey little things you stick in a corner somewher, but, if you want immersion means going big means projectors.

If you want to get it right move up to your screen such that the left edge of the screen is just in the left side of your right eye's field of vision and the right edge of the screen is just on the right edge of your left eye's field of vision.

This means your field of vision is just full any bigger screen (or closer viewing distance) means you have to go search around the screen for the action (this is touted as a feature of IMAX) but I found it detracts from effortless immersion.

Also this means being much closer to the plasma/LCD/CR screen than normally reccommended viewing distances (no sweat for a projector) and the faults in the image really stand out, high definition is uncompromising you get to view the faults in (in)glorious detail as well.

Of course there's a difference -_-

Holy fucking win, Mio oh so lovely.

Don't forget the quality of your upscaler makes a big difference.

I have a REALTA DVD upscaling chipset going out through a 720P projector to a 84" screen and (after you adjust for the inherently defective HDMI standard) at a viewing distance of 10 feet pixellation is just out of 20/20 vision and the picture is bloody good!

So far I have yet to find a single blu ray demo set up properly in a shop to actually make a fair comparison, so far, all I can honestly say is a properly set up 720P upscaled image shits on the crap blu ray set ups in shops (hardly fair but WTF).

As all electronics innovations tend to $0.00 across time more and more mass market price DVD players will incorporate what are now high end upscaling chipsets it will be increasingly evident that Blues Ray's biggest competition is DVD upscaled.

And yes the quality of the DVD transfer does matter.

And once you get to the higher resolutions everything in the chain must be right or you loose the edge (slightly out of focus? stupidly irrelevant "sharpness" turned up as default setting etc. etc.)

But, get it all straight and it is good, very good.

PS. if you are stumped as to what is "wrong" with the HDMI colours, try getting hold of the colour tuning filters and start tinkering with the "tone" adjustment.

NB. both tone and sharpness are utterly irrellevant in the digital age and actually programmed into the modern machines to ape crappy old cold war era NTSC CRT performance.

To hell with Disney and their stolen unoriginal shit! It`s crap in whatever resolution. Not mention the end of humanity: no mothers or fathers exist in Disney university.
BluRay is ok though.