What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

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DECULTURE! Do you remember the time... we had to wait 30 years for a new release of Macross: Do You Remember Love in English?

The good news is it's a solid translation. If anything it clarified a couple of important lines of dialogue that were poorly worded in Kiseki's VHS release. Visually the colours really pop, even on the BD. I don't have a 4K TV, so I can't comment on the UHD. For audio, the surround mix sounded impressively weighty through headphones.

The rest of the visual presentation is likely to be divisive though. There's almost no sign of film grain, so there has presumably been some heavy-handed noise reduction. Some shots also look blurred or oddly smeary in places, but I can't tell if that's an artefact of noise reduction, intentional soft focus from the souce, or depth of field caused by the rostrum the cells were filmed on. Most of the movie looks great; it's just that the issues can be distracting in places. As I say though, I don't know how much of that is native to the film itself rather than the new master.

That said, this is likely the best the movie will ever look, and it's obviously an incomparably massive upgrade over the ancient VHS release.
 
Got a new High Sierra bag in the post today. Not exactly the most glamorous get but it's important for work and I have brought so many pins at conventions that it's nice to have something to stick them on.
 
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