Haruhi Never Looked So Good – DVD vs Blu-ray
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Nov 26, 2010 19:27 JST
- Tags: Blu-ray, Comparison, DVD, DVD Extras, Haruhi, Kyoto Animation
Haruhi fans are in awe of the image quality on offer in the just released limited edition Blu-ray box set edition of the series.
The comparison (in lossless png – it will obviously be necessary to view these images in full size to see just how overpowering the difference in image quality is):
The set consists of the entire 28 episode series on 5 discs, running to 650 minutes, and a further 430 minutes of extras on an additional 3 discs. English subtitles are included on the discs.
The set is available now, and seems to be proving popular in spite of its high price – it is Amazon’s 2nd best selling BD, beaten out only by the power of Nanoha.
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Way too high for my wallet. What the fuck. Those are some fantastic quality improvements though.
Seriously though. I think they would sell much more if they would just price these discs at rates comparable to American television season releases. I'm not business major though, so prove me wrong.
-shrug-
its hard to explain what buying anime in japan will do to you if anyone ever finds out.
many people, you employer included may actually be more understanding of you if you raped a kid, were caught on video, and the kid died in the hospital from internal bleeding, than if you have any anime product.
that said, per disc of k-on was 100$ right?
for the content you get, its relitivly cheap, considering they remastered everything, and to tis extent,
This statement is wrong in so many ways.
Just buying anime, in and of itself is not likely to get noticed.
Buying certain types might get noticed if anyone actually cares.
As for your statement about rape being more forgivable, that just brings up stereotypes that kind of piss me off.
As for prices, I haven't seen anything here for $100 a disk. :P Most I ever saw was about $70. hehehehehehehe.
The Nanoha movie's $100 depending on where you buy it.
I'd buy it for 100 dollars. Why? Investment. Wait till' it has sold so fast there's a demand, then pawn it off to some otaku for more. Heh.
emry
22:25
k-on bluray came out for 100$ per disc for 2 episodes each.
and besides, its funny how people still think thats a stereotype, that you are completely fucked socially if you are found to watch anime after a certain age.
Facepalm in HD. Perfect.
Nagato Yuki and Co. waki exposure in HD...
Totally worth the price~
POWER OVERWHELMING
>POWER OVERWHELMING
OWER POVERWHELMING<
I imagine the prices are so high because the anime fans will still buy it anyway, and everyone else wouldn't buy it even at a lower price.
It's called price elasticity of demand. It's a valid pricing strategy.
A bunch of cheapskate Americans who can barely keep "niche" shows like Futurama and Firefly in production have no business criticising a business model which sustains an entire animation industry on the backs of a few hundred thousand consumers at best.
Artefact, the shit is too high of a price regardless of how you swing it.
It is a strategy called exploitation.
If you go to Japan, normal people don't give a crap about anime. This is nothing more than another way to get stupid peoples money.
"This is nothing more than another way to get stupid peoples money."
It's been going on around the world since money was invented, friend...
It's just how you make it work in the end that counts~
Anon 04:26, who are normal people, when it all comes around? I am not saying that only otaku`s are, but surely there`s more of dangerous sorts running free, or spending their money on stupid things. New car every year, weapons, drugs...
I don't think you can compare Japan and America like that. Here, the broadcaster typically shoulders the entire cost of a show, and usually reaps nothing from the DVD/iTunes/Bluray sales. In other words, in America ratings are the ONLY thing that matters. If a show does not perform well enough, it will be canned. It doesn't matter how much money the DVDs make.
P.S. your example fails hard. Firefly had excellent DVD sales, enough to get a movie made, which, like the show itself, barely anyone watched.
Yeah, there's no "sunday market" for anime goods and pop culture in Japan anymore. People either will buy it or they won't.
For stuff like this, you milk what you can and cut and run when the interest dips for something else.
The quality different is huge. What the fuck. I thought this would be one of those sarcastic articles.
I second that. But still, do want...
is it really worth to buy expensive Blue Ray for endless eight?
too expensive for endless eight
No plans on buying this but I Agree... These things are financial nightmares.
In any case can't wait to see the bluray rip of the OP. That is one sweet quality bump.
I wonder if it's an actual quality improvement, but rather, putting the original source into true high definition screen resolution.
Because the actual art doesn't seem to have been changed at all. Kind of like what some older 80's and 90's movies were filmed in very high resolution onto film but were crammed into very small screen resolution for VCRs and then we saw the benefit of them being released on DVDs. And nowadays, we see them re-encoded into high def format and they actually look sharper.
Having worked in a production studio once, as I see it apparently that's what's going on. See, when studios work on video files they tend to be done at a very high resolution unless they're vector. This ensures the highest quality of master copy should they expect to release said works in better definiton than what the initial release allows at only a certain extent of quality, among other reasons.
Cool. Thanks for the insight!
Sorry, but you're wrong in this case. And probably, in many cases in the anime industry. Haruhi is an upscale, however they completely re-did the OP and/or ED, which is why they look so good.
Even FMA: Brotherhood is sourced at "only" 540p, despite being broadcast in HD.
I find myself curious about the subtitle accuracy. I wonder if they got them from their American counterpart to guarantee higher quality in the translations.
Either way, I'd be willing to spend perhaps 200 on this with all the extras if they were localized and everything. I'd prefer less of course, but that's as high as I'd be able to go for this based on its popularity and quality and the like.
If the American branch were to release this, they'd be very intelligent if they were to get the English voice actors in to do their version of the extras and go for that amount. More is better in that regard.
And if it had outtakes... well... they can have my first born. I'm a whore for outtakes (thank you, Berserk!).
If they were intelligent they'd sell a cheaper version without those worthless endless eight episodes, just my opinion.
They use the same translations as the US Bandai releases for all episodes.
Also, they include the dub too.
for $455 i rather either to wait for a US release of the blueray ver. or stick to the dvds and put them in an upscale dvd player.
:O THE CHARACTER THAT YURIPPE LOOKS LIKE <3
Haruhi copied Yurippe am confirmed :P
@Anon 4:57
What you said was blatantly stupid, correcting you would just be a waste of time and energy.
Huge difference in quality but also in price, 350€/450$ is a lot. I'm not even considering buying at that price...
It's high quality Desho Desho?
Yay, if I buy this, I can torture my brother with Endless Eight in HD.
Nice, Endless Eight in HD.
Imma go sleep and wake up 2weeks ago again now kthx.
The advertising slogan will be-
"It looks so good you'll want to watch the same episode 8 times- and now you can!"
"... -and now you can, FOREVER!" *fixed
Sounds like the punishment for the producers in the afterlife.
Let me get this straight, so png files don't mess with the quality of a picture but jpeg does?
Less compression for PNG, results in an image bigger in size but of better quality.
Yes, that how it work
Yes. Gotta hate those dead pixels!
Yup. Jpeg files sometimes get those annoying dead pixels. PNG FTW!
jpeg is a lossy compression format, so u lose some details on the image.
png on the other hand. kept 100% of the information on the image, so you get as good as the bmp, except it is much smaller than bmp.
its like mp3 and flac.
but lets be 100% honest, png for a color image is almost never necessary, unless its a vector, in that case its actually a higher quality image, and smaller file size than the equivilant jpg.
now that said, with jpeg, and people who konw how to use it, its the difference between a 200kb file, and a 2+mb png, and visually they are within 95% the same of each other,
Then you start editing. This is Internet, right? Everything goes downhill with JPEGs.
>its like mp3 and flac.
No it isn't. The difference between png and jpg is often easily visible, even in kinds of image that are well-suited to jpg compression. You don't need a $10,000 monitor and 20/1 vision to see it.
Never mind that the large blocks of the same colour mean that png can losslessly compress anime screenshots quite well...
The difference between JPEG and PNG is more visible with anime because of the sharp lines. If it were a normal TV show or movie it wouldn't really matter.
shoganai
02:42
you don't need 10000$ headphones to hear the difference between flac and mp3 either, you need a well recorded song.
Tenno Seremel
22:21
i believe its common knowledge not to edit an edit of an edit. but i give people to much credit allot of the time.
Anonymous
11:11
not exactly. like i said, its about 95% the same, you will notice a difference, but it has far more to do with how the anime was recorded and how well it was screenshotted than anything else. let me give an example.
you go a tv anime broadcast, sd, hd, and make the screenshots, just the errors that pop up in broadcasting alone are more noticeable than a well done jpeg. and than you have to consider if the anime is just an upscale hd, or if its actually an hd, im finding allot of hd anime isn't shown in hd, im assuming its the new marketing ploy.
but if you have a bluray, that is easily more noticeable than the non.
here as an experiment i saved the png of the last image, and in paint, not photoshop, just paint, saved it as a jpg, and between the two i cant tell the difference, however one file is 2330kb, and the other is 131kb
the only merit to having a png is if you use it constantly in editing, or if you know how to manipulate a png and can compress the image to a lesser size than a jpeg, which with manga, you can easily do.
-facepalm-
png is better for images with solid colors or with pixels with similar colors.
PNG format is a lossless compression and encodes pixels according to what is around it, which is why a picture with solid-color shapes is better made with png than with JPEG.
JPEG is a lossy compression well suited for photographs.
also if you can't tell the difference with the macro-blocking when viewed at 100% scale that JPEG introduces, especially with a very clear image source or vector-sourced images *facepalm*
@alidan
That's why I said "This is Internet". No one will check it. Then 10 edits/peoples later it looks horrible.
Besides, PNG allows you to edit any time, if you have only JPEG you are out of luck. Or you save both JPEG and PNG which is kinda redundant.
Yup~ but at the cost of bigger file sizes.
Yup.
.jpg compression takes averages of some areas of an image and just saves "close tp this" to save space. It's referred to as "lossy" compression. If you save a complex image as .jpg with the compression at maximum, then open it back up and zoom in, you'll see grainy "artifacts" surrounding areas with high contrast like solid lines.
The concept is sort of like the way .mp3 files compress sound by "trimming" the bits the average person's hearing won't be able to detect anyways. In both cases, re-re-re-encoding the same data at maximum compression can turn it into nothing but static.
For images, .png compression doesn'r throw data away, so tge files might end up bigger, but they are always sharper and better quality. The audio equivalent of .jpg vs .png is .mp3 vs .flac files.
RAW FTW