my aussie bootleg issue

[madbunny]

Hey, I just clicked on the Amazon international and picked Australia.
mistake = user error.

Are you sure you didn't click on Austria?

*repeats process*

*goes to hide under rock*

[)v(ajin Koji]

Lol, there there. You are a Madbuny after all.

[DemonSpawn]

That should also take out any PAL issues that buying from american sources would have.

Wait, is Australia PAL or NTSC?

And there's always other American stores, such as Animenation or Robert's Anime Corner Store. Not sure if they ship to Australia (plus shipping would be a bitch), but they're worth a look.

[Zarxrax]

Australia uses crappy PAL. All the more reason to buy from America.

[madbunny]

Australia uses crappy PAL. All the more reason to buy from America.

Just a thought here: isn't PAL a higher resolution than NTSC?
I've never compared anime from 720x480 to 720x576, but it stands to reason that if he fixes the frame rate, then the final output would be a slightly sharper version of the same material than using less detailed ntsc source material. More pixel information = greater clarity, right? Japan uses region 2 right? Therefore, we with the NTSC are getting the resized version.

Am I way off base here, or is it just one of those differences that is impossible to detect anyway?

On a related note, isn't Japan switching over to an HD format for broadcasts? Meaning that the footage is soon to be further complicated by new dimensions (that would be I'm guessing either 1920x1080 or some variant right?)

[Zarxrax]

Just a thought here: isn't PAL a higher resolution than NTSC?
I've never compared anime from 720x480 to 720x576, but it stands to reason that if he fixes the frame rate, then the final output would be a slightly sharper version of the same material than using less detailed ntsc source material. More pixel information = greater clarity, right? Japan uses region 2 right? Therefore, we with the NTSC are getting the resized version.

Am I way off base here, or is it just one of those differences that is impossible to detect anyway?

On a related note, isn't Japan switching over to an HD format for broadcasts? Meaning that the footage is soon to be further complicated by new dimensions (that would be I'm guessing either 1920x1080 or some variant right?)

Japan is NTSC as well. PAL users get the resized version, which adds nothing since it typically comes from the Japanese source. Also its normally extremely difficult or impossible to restore the framerate properly in PAL releases, so you get an extremely shitty video quality full of blends.

Japan is indeed doing HDTV broadcasts, but this has no effect on DVD, untill an HD-DVD standard is released.

[elka]

I would say that the best response would be to buy a region free DVD player and get US release DVDs. That's what I'm doing (only for Japanese DVDs that haven't been released here..)

[Arandia]

well, though i can't really respond to madbunny, i agree with the comment earlier that buying from america is best (unless of course you want the original from japan). The only problem i have is with prices in my stores. Apparently no one here buys anime, or everyone does, but the prices can be insane. The last three i bought were $30 each. they were like...one and a half hours. Maybe I'm just being crap and hating to loose my money. Places like 'dicsountanimedvd' are crap cause half the time thye don't dend it and half the time theprice reducion is only like two dollars. but wtf, Sry yall but my head hurts and i think i just wrote alota crap:p seeyas.
(must find work! must earn money! must by rest of Mars series(manga))

[bum]

Japan is NTSC as well. PAL users get the resized version, which adds nothing since it typically comes from the Japanese source. Also its normally extremely difficult or impossible to restore the framerate properly in PAL releases, so you get an extremely shitty video quality full of blends.
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ah shut the fuck up if you dont know what your talking about. ive spent over a $1000 on PAL anime dvd's and i havent seen the slightest picture error or any of that crap that NTSC people allways talk about when bitching about how crap PAL is

[Zarxrax]

*cough*



And I had to show you the visual difference between IVTC and deinterlacing. I wonder if you even learned anything from that, let alone spotted the obvious quality differences.