Re:ZERO's Video Quality in UK/US discs Discussion

The french set is kinda bright. Can anyone compare those shots using a third, good source (Crunchyroll or japanese BD)?
 
Re:Zero Part 2 got delayed by FUNimation for the US release, from 18 September to 30 October.

It could be for various reasons, but I hope it means better PQ. If it does feature better video, then half of the show would look acceptable while half is unwatchable, unless they decide to re-encode it (which I highly doubt they will).

I wouldn't get my hopes up. This is FUNimation, the company who licenses and dubs everything they can for money rather than quality.
 
Professor Who said:
Re:Zero Part 2 got delayed by FUNimation for the US release, from 18 September to 30 October.

It could be for various reasons, but I hope it means better PQ. If it does feature better video, then half of the show would look acceptable while half is unwatchable, unless they decide to re-encode it (which I highly doubt they will).

I wouldn't get my hopes up. This is FUNimation, the company who licenses and dubs everything they can for money rather than quality.
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They did go back and redo S2 of code Geass to fix the mono audio, so it's not entirely out of the question.
 
I won't ever shut up about how bad Re:Zero looks. I found a lossless clip of the FUNimation Blu-ray. No additional compression whatsoever, just converted to MP4.

Here

It looks terrible!
 
I'm sure as you all know now, but Madman in Australia is releasing Re:Zero Part I in April, and on their forums, they said they were using a new master. I PM'd them on Twitter and they said the following:
We are using new masters that have improvements on the original US release.
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So yes, it's a different encode. I'd take an average encode with some minor (emphasis on minor) banding over FUNi's garbage.
 
Madman's release is a Funimation distribution title, so they're sourcing their master from Funimation. Which is to say, Funimation are fixing the discs, so don't expect a great encode, just a fixed one.
 
MOTHERF**KER!!! Part 2 of FUNi's Re:Zero isn't much better. It's not as bad as Part 1, but damn. I can spot some kind of banding in every frame.
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Surely they must be provided crap masters to work with, considering the backlash from part 1...
I just don't see how part 2 could be almost as bad when the Japanese Blu-rays are rather impressive.
 
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