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| Video | 1080p High Definition 16:9 | |
| Audio | Dolby TrueHD English 5.1 Dolby Digital Japanese 2.0 |
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| Subtitle | English | |
| Rating | TV MA | |
| Running Time | 275Â minutes | |
| Released By: FUNimation Entertainment | ||
| Release Date:Â March 10, 2009 | ||
| Review Date: June 24, 2009 | ||
| Reviewed By: Rommel Salandanan | ||
You have not seen “Shigurui: Death Frenzy” until you’ve seen it in High-Definition Rating:  |
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Anime Network Online now expanding their high-definition content. The content will be at 720p H.264 encoded. HD contents are only availalbe to Premiur Membership subscribers. (more…)
Accroding to an article in AV Watch Impress, Blood The Last Vampire Blu-ray, released on May 27, 2009, is using Imagica’s technology to rid of the phenomenon of “banding” effect which happens when the film is encoded in 8-bit from a higher bit rate. It happens particularly in anime and CG. Apparently HD-MAPS is a technique for putting subtle gradients and a little bit of grain in so that the lines between the bands don’t stand out as much. They don’t just put the whole thing in soft focus, it determines where the edges should be, somehow makes an “exception” for the characters, and only applies it to the background. It can also discriminate between colors, so it can, say, smooth out the gradation on a blue sky and leave the white clouds as is. It’s double-checked by humans as it goes.
SOURCE: AV WATCH IMPRESS
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| Video | 1080p High Definition 16:9 | |
| Audio | Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English with Japanese Music Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English with U.S Music Original Japanese |
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| Subtitle | English | |
| Rating | PG-PG | |
| Running Time | 115Â minutes | |
| Released By: FUNimation Entertainment | ||
| Release Date:Â September 16, 2008 | ||
| Review Date: June 18, 2009 | ||
| Reviewed By: Scott Campbell | ||
You have not seen “Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might / Lord Slug Double Feature” until you’ve seen it in High-Definition Rating:  |
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Bandai Entertainment sent out an official press release for tomorrow’s scheduled release of Sword of the Stranger (more…)
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| Video | 1080p High Definition 16:9 | |
| Audio | English / Japanese Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English / Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 |
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| Subtitle | English | |
| Rating | PG-13 | |
| Running Time | 88 minutes | |
| Released By: FUNimation Entertainment | ||
| Release Date:Â January 27, 2009 | ||
| Review Date:Â June 11, 2009 | ||
| Reviewed By: Scott Campbell | ||
| You have not seen “One Piece Movie: The Desert Princess and the Pirates Adventures in Alabasta” until you’ve seen it in High-Definition Rating: |
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Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone Blu-ray sold 49 thousand copies for its first week of sale (May 25 - 31). Not only did it reach #1 in the Blu-Ray rankings for 6/8, but it also set a record for the highest initial sales for a Blu-Ray Disc. The Dark Knight had been in the top spot with 29,000, and Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (which went on sale in April of this Year) had reached 27,000, but this disc outpaced those two by over 20,000.
SOURCE: animeanime.jp
Yet another anime on Blu-ray was announced, and this time around, is Souten Kouro. The first volume is scheduled for release in Japan on August 21, and it will hold the first three episodes. Specifications as follows: Stereo / Linear PCM and 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen 1080p High Definition. Extras will include Non-credit Opening and Ending, and a 24 - page booklet.
SOURCE: animeanime.jp
Behind here due to the long weekend off (Memorial Day Weekend), but Bandai Visual announced the Blu-ray box sets of Gundam ZZ. The first box will be release in Japan on September 25, and the second box set will be on November 25, 2009. Both boxset will be in 1080p, but the first box set will include a “Prelude ZZ” episode that’s in 1080i.
SOURCE: Bandai Visual Digital Beat
After the recent announcement of Devil May Cry Blu-ray in Japan, and the North American Blu-ray version appearing in Amazon.com and citing FUNimation as the distributor, we ask FUNimation a couple of question about the domesctic release of DMC BD; would be using the same authoring from Japanese but only to include the English audio, and when it will it be release?
Our friends at FUNimation gave us these answer:
This will be the FUNimation audio mix, in both Japanese and English.
The release date is “late summer.”
Release Date August 25 - according to Right Stuf International
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