[FirestarterCL]

I noticed a news posting about this over at AnimeonDVD;

The basic specs are listed below. There's been no mention of what audio and subtitle tracks will be included, nor anything related to the extras.

Release Date: 11/21/2008
Price: 21000 Yen
Runtime: 333 Minutes (Note: the R1 Remastered DVD set had a runtime of 453 minutes)
Audio: Dolby TrueHD (Stereo)
Video: AVC (4:3 1080P)
Discs: 2X BD50 (Dual-Layer)

..and here's the link to Bandai Visual's information page on this release just in case anyone can pull some additional information from there.

So, what do you guys think?

Is it great to see BGC is one of the first "classic" anime series to be released on a hi-def format? Or maybe you see no benefit to BGC being released on this format? Let's hear it.

[kin37ik]

this is great news for fans of the BGC series, although it's bad news for people who dont have a blu-ray player

[Chimasterwang]

Might look better if you just watched the remastered DVDs on a smaller TV XD

[Lynk Former]

quote]"So, what do you guys think?[/quote]
It's no big deal since it's inevitable for every anime to be rereleased on Bluray.

[wbd]

While it's always nice to see older series receive attention, I'm not convinced that Blu-Ray will make a big difference for the series. It wasn't designed for high-definition viewing, so all we may end up seeing are more of the little errors that get missed in SD, like paint screw-ups, photocopy errors and little bits of dust trapped on the camera lens.

[Lynk Former]

@ wbd: exactly.

[FirestarterCL]

*Gah, my post didn't go though... curse you, crappy work internet!*

I checked the thread about this release over at AOD and there was another little piece of information. This release is apparently a new remaster made from a new film print... so it's possible some stuff will be cleaned up...

...however, I do agree with what you're sayin wbd. I don't think there's alot of improvement to be made with a blu-ray release. The best point I can think of is that the video will be in native resolution on a 1080p TV, so it won't be upscaled. Of course, you already brought up the negative to this, every imperfection and mistake will also be showin in all it's 1080p glory.


For now though, I'm going to wait until I see some comparison shots between this and the DVD release(s). It's possible, though unlikely, that this will be a great improvement over the previous DVD releases.

Even if it isn't, I may end up buying this set when/if it reaches the US anyways. Since I never bought the remastered DVD set, this will make a great substitute as long as it has some nice extras and sells at a decent pricepoint. If it looks bad at full resolution, I can always force it to display 480p so it'll play just like a nice progressive DVD.

[Lynk Former]

@ Firestarter: We've already gone through this with Dragonball Z... it doesn't make any difference at all. Though, in the Bluray Broly double pack, the colours and textures became too flat and oversaturated... which isn't a good thing. The reason for that was because of the remastering process itself. FUNimation would like you to believe they put a lot of effort into the process, but in reality they just fed it through a computer and came back when it was done.

The only improvement will be that it's in a larger resolution... but I guess that's good enough for most people since "bigger is better" or whatever...