Ghibli Blu-ray Preview

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ayase

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Asian Blu-ray Guide has posted 100 preview screencaps of Studio Ghibli films in HD (albeit in 1080i) which were included on the Japanese "Joe Hisaishi in Budokan" Blu-ray disc.

This makes me very happy. It will also, in time, make me very poor.



Additional: Nobody cares? Seriously? "Twilight Star Hit By Taxi" has a better views to replies ratio than this...
 
Well since Ayase is desperate for a reply...

Mhm.

Looks interesting. Maybe this'll give me a reason to watch some more Ghibli stuff?
 
Kiki looks kinda poor beyond what can be accounted for by interlacing, hopefully that'll be sorted by the time the disc comes out. The others are looking good though, no excessive DNR to be found here. ::cough:: Disney ::cough::
 
I don't think we'll upgrade any of ours (except possibly Laputa as my husband has a deep seated obsession with that movie). Will be nice to get them on blu-ray going forwards though.

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I can only think of a couple of titles I'd be happy to see in High Definition. I can get all the enjoyment I want from an episodic 90s OVA through standard definitions alone.

Then again, industry standards need to move on. I just hope existing titles don't become lost as a result.
 
I would get mononoke and I'd possibly get whisper of the heart.
Nothing else really matter for me at least to make me upgrade my existing ghibli collection.
 
If I owned Blu-Ray this would be brilliant news. Unfortunately, as it stands, i'll have to continue watching my Ghibli in regular definition.
 
Zin5ki said:
I can only think of a couple of titles I'd be happy to see in High Definition. I can get all the enjoyment I want from an episodic 90s OVA through standard definitions alone.
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Agreed. Most TV anime just doesn't have enough detail to benefit much from the higher resolution (in my opinion, of course) and my upscaling DVD player makes my discs look a bit nicer than before. But I'd certainly look to replace some of my anime films, Ghibli included.

What I'd like to know is whether it's worth investing in a Blu-Ray player when my TV is only capable of 720p. Will it offer enough over upscaled DVDs?
 
I invested in a PS3 several months before I got my HDTV, mainly so I could buy blu-ray versions of upcoming films I wanted instead of DVD's (the price gap became so small it felt like I was buying VHS tapes every time I bought a DVD. Four times the quality for sometimes as little as £2-£3 more... I had to act.)

I'd say you might as well, although 720p isn't as big a leap in quality as 1080p at least blu-rays aren't interlaced like all standard definition DVD's. You stand to benefit further down the line next time you replace your TV too. If I remember rightly, you were holding out for a multi-region player weren't you? There are a few available now - none that cheap mind.
 
You see, the thing about anime on Blu-ray is that it primarily benefits in different ways to live action movies. Large chunks of color upscale much better than most other things, making the image appear a lot cleaner at high resolutions, and the superior color reproduction you get with high-def video makes things look "alive" in a way they weren't before. Obviously not every single Blu-ray release is going to look like something from the future, but I think people would be surprised how much better it can be. People say "oh, I've seen high-def anime, nothing to get excited about" and it turns out it's just a 720p conversion jobby that they downloaded - Blu-ray is lightyears ahead of this sort of thing.
 
The 720p Blu-Ray rips of BGC are quite sexy. It may very well be that I'm trying to justify not spending huge amounts of cash upgrading my collection (in some cases for the second time). If I had a player I would certainly buy new anime on Blu-Ray if available.

Yeah, ayase, ideally I'd like a region-free player. I have my eye on one but I'm waiting for it to drop below £300, whereupon I'll think of another excuse not to buy it ^_^;
 
Having seen high def anime in the past i was quite suprised.

I checked out the HD verson mostly for lol's expecting it to fail and not be noticeable at all, i was wrong. very, very, very, very wrong.

I can't put it into words beyond it simply looking cleaner, clearer and better.
 
fabricatedlunatic said:
The 720p Blu-Ray rips of BGC are quite sexy. It may very well be that I'm trying to justify not spending huge amounts of cash upgrading my collection (in some cases for the second time). If I had a player I would certainly buy new anime on Blu-Ray if available.
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Sorry, yes, good rips from a proper HD source (ie. an actual Blu-ray release) would show the quality (even more so for stuff in 1080p), I was talking about people who think that stuff that is upscaled for TV broadcast and then released as fansubs is representative of high-def anime.
 
Sleeping Beauty had me sold on the whole animated feature to Blu-Ray thing, but then animation worldwide didn't really drag itself back to that visual level until... probably about the time that cels were abandoned outright...

I'll probably end up getting all the Ghibli releases on Blu-Ray (giving the hand-me-downs to my sisters kids :p), but only the completist in me is sold on anything before Princess Mononoke, especially Nausicaa which won't look any better for the sharper lines.
 
Yeah, at first I was just buying *anything* that appeared on Blu-ray because it was so appealing, but there's enough stuff coming out now where I feel I can ignore stuff if I don't really want it.
 
kupocake said:
Sleeping Beauty had me sold on the whole animated feature to Blu-Ray thing, but then animation worldwide didn't really drag itself back to that visual level until... probably about the time that cels were abandoned outright...
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The backgrounds on Sleeping Beauty look stunning but what happened to the cell layer? Sometimes it looks like someone loaded it up in MS Paint and used the fill bucket. And don't get me started on the practice of scouring off film grain... 50's animation shouldn't look like it was shaded yesterday on computer (which, thanks to digital noise reduction, it basically has been now). This is one of the reasons I'm glad to see the Ghibli films retaining their original look.
 
With any luck the actual BDs will be in p/24, the fact the Joe Hisaishi BD clips are in i really doesn't indicate anything. (not that there is a difference between i/50 and p/25....)

The gunbuster BD was awful, but that was due to a very VERY poor cine conversion.
 
Yeah, I didn't for one minute imagine the final releases would be in 1080i, but Kiki still looks a little poor interlacing aside...
 
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