Photon, the Idiot Adventures
Created/Updated 2001-01-14
- Catalog Number : USMD 1880
- Manufacturer : US Manga
- Series : Photon
- Printing Date : N/A
- Region : All
- Price : N/A
- Play Time : 180 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 : N/A
- Audio4 : N/A
- Audio5 : N/A
- Subtitle1 : English
- Subtitle2 : N/A
- Subtitle3 : N/A
- Subtitle4 : N/A
- Subtitle5 : N/A
Animephile Rating: F (2.0)
- Video Scan Type : interlaced-OVA (-3.5) -
dTV does okay with this DVD. It was obviously shot as 24fps, but
the DVD has so much compression problems, dTV loses sync quite often. One
could almost use manual pulldown for this DVD.
- Aspect Handling : standard (-0.0)
- Compression : -2.0 -
Static scenes just won't stay static. It's very noisy overall.
- Video Separation : -0.5 -
It's pretty darn good in this respect.
- Scene Transition : -0.0
- Calibration : -1.0 -
Contrast is compressed into mid-region little bit, meaning, no true black nor
any true white. It's a shame since I know that this series has very high
quality production. I originally saw it off of Japanese LD with Sony VPL1270Q
7" CRT projector.
- Other : -1.0 -
What is UP with all those unskippable useless, ugly Manga logos?
Comments:
It's cheap, alright. All 6 OVA episodes on one DVD. It's an ALL-Region, DVD
to boot! I'd guess this would be a popular reverse-import item, especially
since there aren't any R2 DVDs for this... yet. Then again, it's cheaply
made. See the image below.
Image is made up of little section from 8 consecutive frames. It was
compressed as lossless PNG file to show the effects properly. Ideally, all of
the images should be identical. I know that's impossibly since this is not
computer generated, but it should still be fairly close. Despite the static
nature of the scene, it keeps changing. Maybe this isn't the best example,
but you should be able to see it. It may not be noticeable on a little TV,
but this kind of irregularity is very noticeable when projected with a digital
projector.
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