Comments on: Haruhi Suzumiya – Ep 9

By: kanoe

kanoe — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 09:04:03 +0000

I downloaded this episode from the direct download, and also from the torrent… both stop playing at 30 seconds in and either just crash VLC or restart at 26 seconds and don’t show the subtitles… my VLC is up-to-date… tried on both my mac and my PC. None of the other episodes do this, but I don’t seem to see anyone else having this problem? Am I just retarded? lol…

By: fagbot

fagbot — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:46:45 +0000

What he means by quality cap is, they intentionally degrade the quality to LOWER than that of DVD for the broadcast versions.

You will notice that even on the 720p rips they are full of color bleeding and dot-crawl, these artifacts are intentionally introduced to promote sales of the DVDs and/or Blu-Rays afterward, which are mastered from a high quality source.

That said, Kadokawa actually use their “broadcast quality” masters for sending to foreign publishers (something about reverse importing or some other shit) so the quality on English releases is worse.

Resolution is not the only factor here, sometimes allow your eyes to tell you what looks better rather than the dimensions of the image file. The HD broadcast of Haruhi is only HD in a very loose sense of the word.

Aren’t the “additional scenes” in these re-runs all in the DVD recut of the episodes? So far I’m not spotting any differences between the DVD recut and this re-run, but I could just be missing them, I guess,

By: lol-kun

lol-kun — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:19:16 +0000

yap, corrected…

I came from the past lol

By: DaVince

DaVince — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:54:36 +0000

I think you mean “DVD resolutions aren’t better”. There’s an official cap on DVD resolutions, and it’s lower than any HD resolution after all.

By: ImperialX

ImperialX — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:56:57 +0000

lol-kun : the producers intentionally put a lower quality on the season 2 episodes most likely for the DVD versions…

Don't you mean Blu-Ray? DVD resolutions aren't necessarily that much better.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:27:12 +0000

How’s 10 and 11 coming?

By: lol-kun

lol-kun — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:15:59 +0000

the producers intentionally put a lower quality on the season 2 episodes most likely for the DVD versions…

By: lighto13

lighto13 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:53:30 +0000

umm i just wanted to point out a problem with the translation
in ep 8 during the new ED, Tomare.
i think u translated it as “its our birthday” when they said
“wasureta ka na”, which means “have u forgotten.”
im pretty sure this is the correct translation so i just wanted to point out.

By: Sidoen

Sidoen — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:37:02 +0000

I wasn’t sure about d/ling your product at first, the strange habits of the producers and the methods they use to release their series threw me. Silly me to assume that a 26 episode showing of a 14 episode series would show first one, then the other seasons(or repeat in worst case).

I downloaded your ep9 and 8 as the group I was waiting on took to long. I was surprised by the image, I have seen only low quality resolutions until now and was rather pleasently surprised.

I am now going back and getting the rest of your work this season, if nothing else I will have a superior copy of Season 1 whilst getting a fien copy of season 2 in the package.

Thanks for your work.

By: mszynisz

mszynisz — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:40:32 +0000

Hm, I’ve got the finals, too. x(
Thanks for the Episode 9: Mysterique Sign!! ^^