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Hey, Answerman! [2010-04-16]

Sure, but summertime Japan also has 85% humidity. My one trip to Japan was in August (because that was when the World Science Fiction Convention was held in Yokohama) and I was dripping with sweat. I foolishly was carrying my passport around in my pocket, and it got kind of soggy.

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And finally, as a guy living in Arizona, you'll get no pity from me if you can't handle 95-degree heat,

Sure, but summertime Japan also has 85% humidity. My one trip to Japan was in August (because that was when the World Science Fiction Convention was held in Yokohama) and I was dripping with sweat. I foolishly was carrying my passport around in my pocket, and it got kind of soggy.

On the plus side, this probably contributes to the extremely short skirts some of the Japanese girls and women wear.

Brian, thank you for the brief run-down of the varying quality of anime on BD. I am disappointed that a reputable company like Funimation would upscale a standard definition title to HD and then sell it as a Blu-Ray.

This is completely redundant, because BD players (including PS3) will upscale your DVDs to HD automatically. Even some regular DVD players will do this.

I will be scrutinizing the ANN reviews before laying down cash for any future BD releases.

For the Flake of the Week, I have to say Gunbuster (Top o Nerae! Gunbuster). The ditz part excludes Strain. I think Brian knew what it was but wants people to play the guessing game with this for fun.

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...you can guarantee that anything put out by Bandai Visual will look utterly damn amazing (Wings of Honneamise, Akira) and will make your HDTV shudder with paroxysms of videographical delight

Yeah no kidding. BV's blu-rays are always of the highest quality,even in terms of simple packaging, but the prices are WAY too high. I wish Funimation would put the same amount of effort into their blu-rays: I wouldn't mind paying a little more for them.

purplepolecat wrote:

Brian, thank you for the brief run-down of the varying quality of anime on BD. I am disappointed that a reputable company like Funimation would upscale a standard definition title to HD and then sell it as a Blu-Ray. This is completely redundant, because BD players (including PS3) will upscale your DVDs to HD automatically. Even some regular DVD players will do this. I will be scrutinizing the ANN reviews before laying down cash for any future BD releases.

There are advantages to upscaled Blu-rays though. An upscale on a Blu-ray disc should look better than a DVD upscaled in real time by a player for a couple reasons.

1.) Blu-ray discs have a lot more room on the disc which means there are far fewer compression artifacts, macroblocking, etc.

2.) They can use filters to make it look better. Those can cause problems though if they aren't used correctly. That's the problem Funimation have had with their upscales, they've excessively filtered them which caused them to have detail blurred out and to just look like crap overall. Too much filtering does more harm than good.

Another advantage all Blu-rays, upscaled or not, have is lossless audio. That's a major improvement over DVD's compressed audio.

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And finally, as a guy living in Arizona, you'll get no pity from me if you can't handle 95-degree heat,

Sure, but summertime Japan also has 85% humidity. My one trip to Japan was in August (because that was when the World Science Fiction Convention was held in Yokohama) and I was dripping with sweat. .

I am disappointed that a reputable company like Funimation would upscale a standard definition title to HD and then sell it as a Blu-Ray.

This is completely redundant, because BD players (including PS3) will upscale your DVDs to HD automatically. Even some regular DVD players will do this.

here-and-faraway wrote:

Quote: I think the anime the person seek in the flake of the week is Gunbuster. That's exactly what I thought too.

It's cool

(thus the birth of a meme)

Sounds like a normal August in my part of the Midwest. I can remember a stretch of a little over a week last year where the temp was around 100 and humidity was between 90-100%, nothing like breaking into a hardcore sweat just walking to the mailbox. So no pity from me either.

I think the anime the person seek in the flake of the week is Gunbuster.

Something meant to be viewed at SD resolution should be viewed at SD resolution.