Now and Then, Here and There, Discord and Doom
Created/Updated 2002-05-27
- Catalog Number : USMD-2122
- Manufacturer : US Manga
- Series : Ima Sokoni Iru Boku
- Printing Date : N/A
- Region : All
- Price : N/A
- Play Time : 125 minutes
- Number of Discs : 1
- Number of Sides per Disc : 1
- Number of Layers (side1) : 2
- Number of Layers (side2) : N/A
- Audio1 : English Dolby Digital 2ch
- Audio2 : Japanese Dolby Digital 2ch
- Audio3 : English Dolby Digital 5.1ch
- Audio4 : N/A
- Audio5 : N/A
- Subtitle1 : English
- Subtitle2 : N/A
- Subtitle3 : N/A
- Subtitle4 : N/A
- Subtitle5 : N/A
Animephile Rating: F (5.0)
- Video Scan Type : interlaced-TV (-2.5)
- Aspect Handling : standard (-0.0)
- Compression : -1.5 -
During dark static or mostly static scenes, colors keep changing in
steps. It appears that each key-frame starts off at slightly
different gain. It can be very annoying if your display is calibrated
to see details in dark scenes. I am going to call this "temporal
banding."
- Video Separation : -0.5 -
Newly added overlays (credits and such) have bad rainbowing, but that's not
all that important. Otherwise, it's similar to R2.
- Scene Transition : -0.0
- Calibration : -0.5 -
I thought R2 didn't have deep enough blacks. Well, now that I've seen this,
I think R2 had good blacks. They're close enough, I guess.
Comments:
First of all, this one does not suffer from the right column
reflection issue of R2 disc-1. That's good.
I don't know why I wrote "R1" on the images since they're All-Region DVDs.
Image1: Don't be fooled by what appears to be more compression artifacts in R2
area. R2 is sharper and therefore more JPEG artifacts show up. There is more
film-grain in R2, which is a good thing. R2 also uses more of the available
chroma range.
Image2: They must've piped the video through some aweful equipment to add the
English voice actor/actress credits. I didn't even have to draw a
line to distinguish the images.
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