Iketeru Futari
Created/Updated 2001-07-06
- Catalog Number : PILA-1496
- Manufacturer : Pioneer, TBS Video
- Series : Iketeru Futari
- Printing Date : 1999-04-02
- Region : N/A
- Price : Y7,800
- Play Time : 112 minutes
- Number of Discs : 1
- Number of Sides per Disc : 2
- Number of Layers (side1) : N/A
- Number of Layers (side2) : N/A
- Audio1 : Japanese Linear PCM 2ch
- Audio2 : N/A
- Audio3 : N/A
- Audio4 : N/A
- Audio5 : N/A
- Subtitle1 : N/A
- Subtitle2 : N/A
- Subtitle3 : N/A
- Subtitle4 : N/A
- Subtitle5 : N/A
Animephile Rating: A (9.5)
- Video Scan Type : progressive (-0.0) -
It's impossible to put progressive video onto an LD directly, so obviously,
it's not really progressive, but I didn't want to take points off. It doesn't
mean anything for LDs anyway. dScaler does fantastic job of detecting correct
3:2 pulldown, though.
- Aspect Handling : standard (-0.0)
- Compression : -0.0 -
Compression used by CLV LD is not lossy.
- Video Separation : -0.5 -
This is purely dependent on the LD-player's or TV's comb filter. LD stores
digitally encoded analog composite video. There's no getting around that.
- Scene Transition : -0.0
- Calibration : -0.0
Comments:
Looking at this, I realized that whatever they did to create the DVD wasn't
good enough. I have one of the best LD-players sold for consumer use (Pioneer
Elite), but it's still a consumer product. And it gives me better saturation
and less scan-lines. Granted, it "appears" to have bit more noise, but
dScaler thinks otherwise as it syncs better to the LD's output than to DVD's
output. Maybe my external DVD player is at fault. I'm not sure.
Putting aside image quality comparisons for a moment, art-work on the LD is
spectacular. One of the great things about LD is that there's room for great
art-work since it's so big. It is inconvenient, though.
I used dScaler to capture these images since it'd be unfair to use WinDVD just
for the DVD. Both were played through the same external player and captured
through SVideo port of a BT878 chipset card. LD version has more noise, but
it has better color-saturation (surprise!) and less scan-lines. When actually
watching the show, I find the LD version more pleasing to my eyes. I don't
know. Analog has its benefits.
Content-wise, LD has nothing more than the DVD. The reason why LD has longer
play time is because LD version has OP-sequence for each episode whereas DVD
only does OP-sequence before the first episode.
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