Tv setting for Anime & Best video quality Anime DVDs?

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Neferpitou

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With most advice for setting up TV picture (contrast,brightness, etc) is based for live action material can the picture be improved more so for animation than live action material or do both the require the same kinda of settings? I noticed already it seem better to keep the sharpness down to avoid jagged edges which appear commonly on Anime DVD's.

Also what are the best video quality Anime DVDs you have witness, the ones with best transfer and encoded quality. I don't mind if Region 1,2 or 4 as long as they have some form English translation on the disc.
 
Though your first question is something I cannot answer, the best video quality I've seen on an anime DVD is on Funimation's release of Air. The video was consistently fluid and the detail of the image was, considering the medium, consummate.
Perhaps other series of a younger or comparable age in Funi's catalogue are of similar transfer standards.
 
It's all very dependent on your TV whether you would want to tinker with anything. I have a Toshiba 42z3030, and use the color setting "Warm" for movies, but "Natural" for anime, apart from that I leave the settings the same.
 
Use lower frequency for less jaggy edges. I prefer slight blur to edges of objects looking like chainsaws. Also, make sure your DVD player is set to PAL output. Having an NTSC output for a R2 DVD creates some really awful jaggy edges. Oddly enough, since older TVs don't sharpen images well, you get less jaggy edges too compared to LCD/HD TVs.
 
I have spent days, literally days messing with my Bravia *Scoff, Scoff* TV's settings and stuff...I'm never satisfied. But most stuff is about half way at the moment with contrast up at about 90/100.

As for best quality DVD...probably the recent R1 Yu Yu Hakusho sets, although most anime DVDs aren't great. :/

EDIT: This post increased me to "Straw Hat Pirate"??? I hate One Piece...
 
I am not sure about the best image quality from a particular anime DVD.

As for setting things up it may be worth while picking up a calibration disc. I spent ages doing this with my projector, but then still adjusted a bit by eye as I did not quite like the image it produced I have to turn the red down a fair bit compared to the green and the blue as it over saturates. The main advice I find is not to have the sharpness, brightness and contrast up too high. My projector lets me set several preferences including pre-sets so I have been known to switch between them for anime, films, tv series and games consoles to get the best picture for me. Often one colour or something else seems exaggerated switching between anime and live action so most will set things somewhere they are comfortable for everything rather than get the best image for what they watch most.
 
Just thinking about it again recently, it seems a lot harder to adjust a TV for animation than live action. As with live action you are aiming for a more realistic image that compares as close as possible to the world you can see around you. While with animation you have little basic to go on and aim for. I guess its better to try and hide the video errors that are present on quite a few anime DVDs through the settings.

Being playing around recently with the TV colour setting option, which are "cold" "normal" & "warm" and noticed certain shows work better with different colour options. A series like "Ah My Goddess" seem to look better with the "warm" option as it makes the series look a bit more alive and a nice feel to the animation. While a series like "Hellsing" seem to work better "cold" option as it gives it darker and gloomy feel to the piece.
 
Dave said:
Being playing around recently with the TV colour setting option, which are "cold" "normal" & "warm" and noticed certain shows work better with different colour options. A series like "Ah My Goddess" seem to look better with the "warm" option as it makes the series look a bit more alive and a nice feel to the animation. While a series like "Hellsing" seem to work better "cold" option as it gives it darker and gloomy feel to the piece.
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I think that is down to the colour palettes used in each show. Anime is quite unnatural in its colours so I can see how it is difficult to get a setup that is good for all shows.
 
Dracos said:
Dave said:
Being playing around recently with the TV colour setting option, which are "cold" "normal" & "warm" and noticed certain shows work better with different colour options. A series like "Ah My Goddess" seem to look better with the "warm" option as it makes the series look a bit more alive and a nice feel to the animation. While a series like "Hellsing" seem to work better "cold" option as it gives it darker and gloomy feel to the piece.
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I think that is down to the colour palettes used in each show. Anime is quite unnatural in its colours so I can see how it is difficult to get a setup that is good for all shows.
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Indeed, it seems best way to quickly improve show is by just changing the colour setting option to warm,cold, etc. Otherwise you would have set up the picture from scratch for each show as the great variety of video encoding quality and the colour palettes used.

I brought up all these question recently as I just recently brought 36 inch crt TV and was looking for the best anime DVD transfers to watch on it. As a poor transfer would stand out a lot more on screen of that size.

So far it seem the the Optimum Release of Studio Ghibi films (especially howl moving castle) have a very good transfers quality. The Place Promised in Our Early Days by ADV UK also seem to be flawless along with another adv title Le Chevalier D'Eon which also very high quality.

If anyone who already got Manga edtion of patlabor and not sure about picking up the Beez edition. Do so they as the video quality is leaps and bound better than Manga editions.
 
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