What seems to be needed to improve video quality of some home video discs? Equally dividing a 12 ep show with two BDs for less compression?(example: disc 1 eps 1-6, disc 2 eps 7-12, instead of 9 eps on one disc)
(Edited because I had issues with typing mistakes on the day this was originally answered)
The big problem with NA authors, even Sevakis, is that the masters they're working from have to be converted onto their systems to work with. They run into the issue of differing levels of black between Japan and North America (IREs). The standards are different where a level of 0 in one is brighter than the level of 0 in another. This means that the video is brighter after being converted in any North American anime environment. That introduces higher probabilities of banding and image blur compared to the Japanese sets.
The lack of conversions for Pony Canyon and Aniplex means their BDs look a lot better than the NA-authored sets. Their issues are more on the encoding side of things. Tossing bitrate at something doesn't necessarily mean it's going to look nicer; it could be wasted space. I've seen video from Pony through IMAGICA that had banding in dark scenes or through color transitions and that was at 30-40 MBps bitrate. It's all about your encoder and your editing studio.
The big problem with NA authors, even Sevakis, is that the masters they're working from have to be converted onto their systems to work with. They run into the issue of differing levels of black between Japan and North America (IREs). The standards are different where a level of 0 in one is brighter than the level of 0 in another. This means that the video is brighter after being converted in any North American anime environment. That introduces higher probabilities of banding and image blur compared to the Japanese sets.
The lack of conversions for Pony Canyon and Aniplex means their BDs look a lot better than the NA-authored sets. Their issues are more on the encoding side of things. Tossing bitrate at something doesn't necessarily mean it's going to look nicer; it could be wasted space. I've seen video from Pony through IMAGICA that had banding in dark scenes or through color transitions and that was at 30-40 MBps bitrate. It's all about your encoder and your editing studio.
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