Kong Chang
Screenwriter
- Joined
- Dec 17, 1998
- Messages
- 1,632
Ken,
What I am really afraid is that they will utilize 5 episodes on a single layer disc, which will lower the video bitrate to an unbearable 4Mbps average for mpeg2 compression. It's just awful. The reason I like Japan is because most of the anime DVDs made and compressed in Japan, the video bitrate average around 9.2Mbps (8.6 ~ 9.6 VBR). You can't get this type of average bitrate putting 5 episodes on a disc, with two or three languages and whatever extras on there. Something has to give. Because when the bitrate is low, and the anime starts panning quickly, the quality starts looking like a VCD or SVCD, and that ain't good either. And a good thing with Japanese is that with 3 or 4 episodes per volume, they will most likely use dual layered discs to allow max video bitrate, and most likely choose linear pcm (uncompressed audio) for many of their anime.
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Brian,
You can own a nice cheap Sampo, for roughly $150, which is region-hackable by remote (and MV hackable as well, not that this is important anyway). It's affordable and you can watch anything in NTSC or PAL and in any region.
What I am really afraid is that they will utilize 5 episodes on a single layer disc, which will lower the video bitrate to an unbearable 4Mbps average for mpeg2 compression. It's just awful. The reason I like Japan is because most of the anime DVDs made and compressed in Japan, the video bitrate average around 9.2Mbps (8.6 ~ 9.6 VBR). You can't get this type of average bitrate putting 5 episodes on a disc, with two or three languages and whatever extras on there. Something has to give. Because when the bitrate is low, and the anime starts panning quickly, the quality starts looking like a VCD or SVCD, and that ain't good either. And a good thing with Japanese is that with 3 or 4 episodes per volume, they will most likely use dual layered discs to allow max video bitrate, and most likely choose linear pcm (uncompressed audio) for many of their anime.
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Brian,
You can own a nice cheap Sampo, for roughly $150, which is region-hackable by remote (and MV hackable as well, not that this is important anyway). It's affordable and you can watch anything in NTSC or PAL and in any region.