UK Anime Distributor Anime Limited Discussion Thread

I'd still buy DVD if it was the better option. Some NTSC DVDs are encoded progressively, and Blu-ray players can play them back at 24p. But, 24p SD on a Blu-ray disc isn't an option, they have to be encoded as interlaced. Some Aniplex DVDs look as good as Blu-ray given the bit rates they used to encode at. I remember choosing to buy the DVDs of A Life On Mars over the Blu-rays as the DVDs were at the correct UK TV broadcast 25fps frame rate, and it's a music heavy show. The Blu-rays had longer runtimes and pitch correction at 24fps

I think the last DVD I bought was Trigun Collection, or Manga's Last Exile Collection a year or so ago, as well as a couple of Deep Space Nine season boxsets, for dying disc reasons in previous purchases of the same, and just an urge to double dip on Trigun. I've gotten to that point where I buy spares of my favourite shows just in case.

I'm 99% Blu-ray now though, although I have bought UHDs like AL's Millennium Actress,. Violet Evergarden, as well as The Abyss and True Lies, as the combos were the only way to get the Blu-rays, and I also wanted the Collector's Editions of the anime. And I do have been sent a few UHD review discs by mistake, a couple of which tempt me to upgrade to 4k to watch.
 
Dai said:
While I like SDBD for saving on space vs DVDs, it does create a single point of failure for an entire series. With DVDs, especially the old single releases from the 00s, having one disc become unreadable means losing three or four episodes. With SDBD you could lose 50.
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While that's true, conversely, it also makes it dramatically more likely you won't be able to watch the whole show. 12 discs (for a 50 episode show on DVD) means a 12 times greater chance one or more discs will fail, and then you still don't have the whole show.

The way I see it, if the show matters that much to you, buy 2 copies of the SD BD and you'll both have a backup and it'll still take way less space. Plus, as long as a disc works, you're certain to have the entire show, instead of having a piecemeal of episodes.
 
Just Passing Through said:
I'm 99% Blu-ray now though, although I have bought UHDs like AL's Millennium Actress,. Violet Evergarden, as well as The Abyss and True Lies, as the combos were the only way to get the Blu-rays, and I also wanted the Collector's Editions of the anime. And I do have been sent a few UHD review discs by mistake, a couple of which tempt me to upgrade to 4k to watch.
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Ah yes, Violet Evergarden. The movie CE set being only offered as a UHD combo pack was the thing that got me to stop buying anime collector's editions entirely, unless they contain video content not available otherwise. I was never big on CEs anyway, but I was buying them for all of VE because the series set has the extra stuff on the discs, and then I got the CE of Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll since I had started with CEs. Then the movie was only the UHD set for the CE and I was upset especially with how much more it cost becuase of it, so I waited and only bought the standard, and replaced my CE of Eternity and the Auto Memory Doll with the standard edition since there was no longer any point to having that CE for me either.

I've bought a few combo packs for non-anime where it's the only way to get a blu-ray that I want, but it irritates me, and I sell, give away, or throw the UHDs in the trash. I have the Macross Do You Remember Love UHD set on preorder because it's probably the only way I can get a subtitled blu-ray of the movie. That one irritates me because it also looks like it's been hit with AI tools.
 
Just Passing Through said:
I'd still buy DVD if it was the better option. Some NTSC DVDs are encoded progressively, and Blu-ray players can play them back at 24p. But, 24p SD on a Blu-ray disc isn't an option, they have to be encoded as interlaced.
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Progressive DVDs are in an interlaced container with soft-pulldown flags. SD on BD can also be encoded like that (e.g. Mrs. Pepperpot SDBD).
 
Kite said:
And no doubt they didn't send a reminder email saying it will renew automatically on "Date Y" and to give an easy way to cancel as is required by law (I think)?
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No reminder unfortunately. However, we did figure out that you can still cancel via the new website:

If you go to your order history page and click "manage memberships" on the right-hand side, in there, you can cancel. You can also click on transactions for a payment history. I've had to make a note in my diary for when it's going to renew.

But an automated reminder of some sort would be nice.

On a slightly unrelated note; has anyone ever received their "annual magazine" for being an Anime Unlimited member? I'm guessing this is something they used to do, then stopped doing and failed to update their website.

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BrokenPhoenix said:
No reminder unfortunately. However, we did figure out that you can still cancel via the new website:

If you go to your order history page and click "manage memberships" on the right-hand side, in there, you can cancel. You can also click on transactions for a payment history. I've had to make a note in my diary for when it's going to renew.

But an automated reminder of some sort would be nice.

On a slightly unrelated note; has anyone ever received their "annual magazine" for being an Anime Unlimited member? I'm guessing this is something they used to do, then stopped doing and failed to update their website.

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The magazine is just the Scotland love anime magazine, once a year (I think around Febuary)
But too long ago to rememeber if we had one in 2024 (I think I did but kinda just a guess), certainly had ones for previous years though
 
SkwigglesWorth said:
The magazine is just the Scotland love anime magazine, once a year (I think around Febuary)
But too long ago to rememeber if we had one in 2024 (I think I did but kinda just a guess), certainly had ones for previous years though
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Ah okay. Well I signed up Jan 2024, and never received one. I guess we'll see if we get one this year or not.
 
SkwigglesWorth said:
The magazine is just the Scotland love anime magazine, once a year (I think around Febuary)
But too long ago to rememeber if we had one in 2024 (I think I did but kinda just a guess), certainly had ones for previous years though
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@BrokenPhoenix as well. There wasn’t a magazine for SLA this year due to the price of printing having increased too much, we were encouraged to speak out about it if we do want it to return so hopefully it will be back this year but obviously nothing confirmed there.
 
cfx said:
I'm fine with DVD or SDBD for things that will never be HD. I object to AI upscaling out of principle; a big part of the appeal of anime is the fact that people drew it and put their artistry into it. The results of AI upscaling, in my view, are no longer those artists' original work but a usually inferior facsimile of it. I can accept it to restore previously cut scenes or other such things where bits of an original are no longer available, but I don't think it should ever be used for an entire work.
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I've done some ai upscales of old dvd anime & series that aren't out on Blu-ray.

A lot of early stuff is fairly awful when you're not using a player that tidies it up and I don't think the artists original vision involved interlacing, jitters, ghosting or compression artifacts that plague a lot of older dvds.

It's time consuming & requires a few passes... 3 is the base for me with the first pass tuned for deinterlacing & fixing frame pacing/ghosting with no upscale then upscaling with a focus on compression artifacting.

I then watch the result to see if there's any big issues anywhere, timestamp them, redo those parts manually & cut in if need be.

I'm not doing it to a professional standard but even then there's clear improvements.
A lot of people try to recover detail that was never really there, over-sharpen & DNR it like mad.
Less is more when upscaling.
 
kevers7290 said:
Anyone else still waiting for their Xmas order to ship? Raise your hand! 🤪
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No movement on my last outstanding one from 7th
What surprised me is that they actually posted an order on the 23rd that I placed on the 20th / last day. So again, not seeing the logic in the process.

If I could add a sub-query; has anyone had anything sent out since they got back this year (2nd+)?
 
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I've a stuck parcel from AL too. It left the UK on the 19th of December and still hasn't appeared in An Posts system for customs payment. Will be chasing it up with them next week if there's still no movement.
 
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