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.
I second that. But still, do want...
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.
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.
Cool. Thanks for the insight!
The quality different is huge. What the fuck. I thought this would be one of those sarcastic articles.
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-
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.
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.
"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...
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.
Facepalm in HD. Perfect.
Nagato Yuki and Co. waki exposure in HD...
Totally worth the price~
POWER OVERWHELMING
>POWER OVERWHELMING
OWER POVERWHELMING<
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.
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 $70. hehehehehehehe.
I'd buy it for 100 dollars. Why? Investment. Wait till' it has sold so fast there's a demand, then pawn it off to some otaku for more. Heh.
emry
22:25
k-on bluray came out for 100$ 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.
The Nanoha movie's $100 depending on where you buy it.
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 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!).
They use the same translations as the US Bandai releases for all episodes.
Also, they include the dub too.
If they were intelligent they'd sell a cheaper version without those worthless endless eight episodes, just my opinion.
: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.
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.
is it really worth to buy expensive Blue Ray for endless eight?
too expensive for endless eight
What I'm most curious about are those extras... Most of the time, with either fansubs or R1 DVDs, they just don't release all the awesome bonus stuff.
On another note... YAY!!! ENGLISH SUBTITLES!!!
This is the way to go Japan. Cut out the middle-man. Not to mention, I'm more likely to buy the BRs now that I know I have them direct from the source. Sometimes with the US BDs/DVDs, they do all sorts of funny edits. Case in point, the Eden of the East openings.
Cut out the middle man and that also means your country doesn't get any money though... not that even I care, lol.
Heh heh, I'm just waiting for the delivery.
But the price is cheap for the content imho.
The excitement in me was balanced out by the shock of the price, I'll still get!!!
can't wait that this beauty will arrive, just brought it this morning
I wish to someday hold and watch the Blu-Ray edition of Suzumiya Haruhi. But it is likely to be only just that, a wish.
I would buy it but the cost is more than an entire month's salary for me. :(
I'd forgotten about preordering this, instead making one for the Shoushitsu BD, but I went ahead and got this yesterday.
My poor wallet is hurting this week!
Damn, I just spent most of my pay today and than I see this. God damn.
Wow, it's ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS CHEAPER on Amazon.co.jp. That's a first.
Only Play-Asia could possibly be more overpriced Amazon.co.jp.
i ordered. please kill me now ~___~
English subtitles? Hooray!
I might have been interested in buying this if it didn't cost as much as a game console plus some games for it.
Demanding the Lost Nagato Panchira~
....Whoa, wait, ENGLISH SUBTITLES?!!
same as the earlier dvd releases had, though this one goes further with the English dub as well (not that anyone will be using it probably)according to the info at cdjapan, I have an urgent need to win the lottery to get this box, well that or a deal with the devil.
i would like to know if kyoani is actually drawing anime using vector or normal mode. if they actually use vector mode, this can mean we can get infinity resolution anime, assume if we get super high res tv, it will be awesome.
I doubt drawing pads have infinite resolution.
That's not how vector images work.
maybe not the pick up pad, but with software you could virtually have infinite resolution.
there are 2 kinds of graphic, one is raster(bitmap), once is vector.
to make it easy to understand. imagine a triangle, because triangle is a simplest shape.
to draw triangle using bitmap, u are actually drawing by pixels. and if u draw by pixel, your resolution of the triangle is limited by pixel(the square thingy you see when you zoom in).
to draw triangle using vector, u are drawing by describing a shape(mathematically speaking).
for example, draw a shape by using 3 lines, line 1 would be drawn from point a to point b, line 2 is drawn point b to c, and line 3 is point c to a.
you will end up with a triangle.
since you actually know how to draw this triangle(mathematically speaking), you can magnify 100x or 1,000,000x , it does not change what it physically looks like, so you have a unlimited resolution on this triangle.
*** the example above i gave is a very rough idea how vector graphics works, but a real vector graphics is more complicated than that, if you want to know more, i suggest wiki the word "vector graphics"
Hello, my name is Benoist. Me and my friend Dia have no clue at all what vector graphics is.
sure,kid : any FBI agent has access to such technology since 10 years... in the movies.
Next step, format supporting vector frame
It would require a huge amount of processing power. There's so much post processing and CGI in anime nowadays you'd need a gaming rig to render that stuff at full speed.
Vector video would be awesome, but vector graphics eat up a ton of CPU resources. That's why Flash movies get choppy during high detail scenes, especially if you've set it at max quality.
Vector art also takes longer to draw, since there's so much fine tuning required to get everything right. It's very easy to accidentally leave a sliver of blank space between two objects that can't be seen unless you zoom in about 6000%. Since animators are on a tight schedule, they wouldn't time to fix those errors, and we'd end up with QUALITY on a whole new level.
Vector + Frame. Zone of the Enders?