Oricon reports sales of the first volume of Macross F in Blu-ray have topped 35,000 since its release in late July, making it the 1# selling Blu-ray disc in Japan for 2008.
Sales of series receiving simultaneous DVD and Blu-ray releases such as Code Geass, Macross F and Gundam 00 have been difficult to accurately track, as Oricon (the main Japanese tracker of statistics on CDs, DVDs, etc.) has not yet begun releasing timely charts of Blu-ray sales as they do for DVDs…
Macross F’s impressive sales bode well for the future of anime releases on Blu-ray to accelerate in pace, especially as anime has been the most successful genre of Blu-ray in terms of sales for 2008.
Only premiere titles such as Gundam and Macross have been receiving simultaneous Blu-ray/DVD releases (Strike Witches is notable for its lack of a Blu-ray version), but this should eventually change as more and more anime releases convert to the new format.
Some notable new Blu-ray releases include older anime classics, such as the Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer movie, and a special edition of the 1995 Ghost in The Shell movie entitled Ghost in The Shell 2.0.
Comparison of Blu-ray (left) and Terrestrial Digital (right) versions. Personally, I can’t see any difference, but I assume some people can?
Via Oricon.
Find me png screenshots of both, and I can reliably tell you if there’s a difference. Doing quality comparisons with jpg doesn’t quite work in this case.
But yes, the BD version does look a bit better. An action scene would’ve been better for comparing
does anyone know where i could find the full version of the image of ranka lee? im guessing it was made by tony taka(which i could be wrong)
I linked the “Macross F” link in the first paragraph to the pool for the doujin in the Channel, but it seems not be properly inserted into the pool…
http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/show/108/
The reason you haven’t seen Eva 1.01 on Blu-Ray is due to Gainax themselves not committing to the format as of yet.
This was confirmed on the Studio Khara page when the 1.01 release was first announced and released.
Interesting, thanks for that.
As people have already mentioned, a shrunken JPEG is useless for comparing broadcast HD with BD.
That aside, probably a lot of people are satisfied with their recordings off HDTV, despite the compression noise. It’s more a matter of, if you ARE going to buy a disc version for whatever reason, you want it to be at least as good as the TV broadcast, which DVD is not.
they should do a complete BD of Lum Urusei Yatsura TV series.It’s one of the classic comedy series ever.
Yeah, the difference will hardly be noticeable on a downscaled image…
But this is not a good still frame for comparison anyway, not enough high-frequency detail. Out of all scenes in the three ep1 versions, the difference in quality is most noticeable when Sheryl’s Galaxy Liner passes through the Frontier Fleet around 1:10, that was truly jaw-dropping O_O