Macross DYRL in 4K UHD with English Subtitles

[Bolt]

3 hours ago, sh9000 said:

Box art.

It's a great piece of art. But I don't really love the sad Claudia, dying Roy part. They're both more than that. Especially Fokker .

[Shawn]

Latest news

https://macross.jp/contents/843354

The region blocked video is just the trailer from a few months ago

 

[seti88]

Can't wait for this to be out...bought a 4K panasonic player just for this physical media release...

Do i get some brownie points huh BW?  C'mon....

[Powered Convoy]

Yeah, I've been very excited about this release for months now. Got my fiance to watch the original TV series and now we're waiting for the film. Granted she didn't like the extra episodes after the original ending (too much drama :D).

[Powered Convoy]

I'm also glad that 'Angel Paint' is on this and remastered. The Flashback 2012 DVD and Blu-ray are rough. 

[Shawn]

I am impatiently waiting for any sort of new trailer or new info on the release. For being the ultimate scan/restoration I thought they be hyping it up a bit more releasing more screenshots or something by now.

In the back of mind I am dreading an AI restoration and all grain removal. I'm sure it's not that but give me something new to make my $150 purchase more comfortable to swallow.

[jvmacross]

On 12/6/2024 at 2:22 PM, sh9000 said:

Box art.

Nice...looks like Mikimoto is still on his MtF-style phase

[Duke Togo]

12 hours ago, Shawn said:

In the back of mind I am dreading an AI restoration and all grain removal. I'm sure it's not that but give me something new to make my $150 purchase more comfortable to swallow.

As a 4K blu collector who has done this dance before, this really worries me.

[RDX17]

3 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Nice...looks like Mikimoto is still on his MtF-style phase

Not that there's much space left to add anything else, but I think it's a bit odd that the SDF-1 isn't part of the artwork. Granted, it's not really as much of a character in DYRL as it was in the series. Still looks nice though.

[jvmacross]

31 minutes ago, RDX17 said:

Not that there's much space left to add anything else, but I think it's a bit odd that the SDF-1 isn't part of the artwork. Granted, it's not really as much of a character in DYRL as it was in the series. Still looks nice though.

It would have been nice...but he's more of the Macross Character designer....at least he included  what is arguably the most iconic hero mech in the film...

[davidwhangchoi]

9 hours ago, Duke Togo said:

As a 4K blu collector who has done this dance before, this really worries me.

honestly i think it's just going to be an AI upscale. 

some scene will look sharper with probably some of those AI flaws like those ghost faces in the background. 

Edited December 21 by davidwhangchoi

[Shawn]

I can see how someone getting sold on a restoration service for multiple TV series, and missing something like that as annoying it can be, just because of the sheer volume of content to audit. Those Lucy background faces are horrific, but in the comments they say a replacement disc is an option, so I'm thankful they owned up to it.

DYRL is just 90m, someone better be monitoring that thing closely so they do not release anything close to that mess.
I personally do not want to see an AI upscale cleanup of the movie, I want to see what Miyatake and Kawamori and Itano and the rest actually drew, with the best available scanning technology. If some scenes are blurry they are blurry, thats life, I'm not sure I want to see an AI guess at what is there and try to redraw it. 
Just one month to go, give us some more teaser pics already.

[sketchley]

2 hours ago, davidwhangchoi said:

honestly i think it's just going to be an AI upscale. 

some scene will look sharper with probably some of those AI flaws like those ghost faces in the background. 

Yikes!

 

40 minutes ago, Shawn said:

I personally do not want to see an AI upscale cleanup of the movie, I want to see what Miyatake and Kawamori and Itano and the rest actually drew, with the best available scanning technology. If some scenes are blurry they are blurry, thats life, I'm not sure I want to see an AI guess at what is there and try to redraw it.

I fully agree!  Some things are also meant to be blurry out of artistic choice.  The Lucy clip is a good example—clearly depicting those background characters totally changes the focus of the shot from Ricardo onto them (nevermind how poorly it was done)!

Fixing animation errors (E.g. adding missing missiles, colour correcting Focker's VF-1S) is one thing, but changing the artist's focus by de-blurring?  That's a bridge too far!

Edited December 21 by sketchley

[seti88]

2 hours ago, sketchley said:

Yikes!

 

I fully agree!  Some things are also meant to be blurry out of artistic choice.  The Lucy clip is a good example—clearly depicting those background characters totally changes the focus of the shot from Ricardo onto them (nevermind how poorly it was done)!

Fixing animation errors (E.g. adding missing missiles, colour correcting Focker's VF-1S) is one thing, but changing the artist's focus by de-blurring?  That's a bridge too far!

2 hours ago, Shawn said:

I can see how someone getting sold on a restoration service for multiple TV series, and missing something like that as annoying it can be, just because of the sheer volume of content to audit. Those Lucy background faces are horrific, but in the comments they say a replacement disc is an option, so I'm thankful they owned up to it.

DYRL is just 90m, someone better be monitoring that thing closely so they do not release anything close to that mess.
I personally do not want to see an AI upscale cleanup of the movie, I want to see what Miyatake and Kawamori and Itano and the rest actually drew, with the best available scanning technology. If some scenes are blurry they are blurry, thats life, I'm not sure I want to see an AI guess at what is there and try to redraw it. 
Just one month to go, give us some more teaser pics already.

 👆 totally concur!! 

probably someone in management/marketing asking is it sharp? is it sharp? 

 

[lavinrac]

Really looking forward to getting this, I've bought many of the Japanese releases thus far since Laserdisc. With as many copies as I have, I'm actually hoping they do something (tasteful) about the blurry scenes.. I'm not talking about removing intentional blur.. but the blu ray versions have a number of scenes that are quite blurry- GHOSTING - like double image in some places, as any of you who own it know. 

Has anyone researched what caused that to happen? Is it something they could fix by rescanning from film if it exists?

Is there a way to remove the effect digitally without AI 'weirdness' ? I'm all for film grain and preserving the artists vision, but as a visual artist myself, I can't imagine anyone intended for the GHOSTING effect. Not sure if the technology to remove that is out there but I'd love to see it happen. 

I also like the idea, with all these new and 'controversial' technologies' of having a set include 2 versions.. uncleaned, and 'remastered' ..
For example I have the Star Trek original series blu ray, and they redid all the special effects, but there's both versions on the disc, and you can swap between them. this is really amazing because in most cases it enhances something, in a few it detracts.. but having the original there as well makes the experiment worthwhile and inoffensive. If Lucas had given us the original versions of Star Wars along with his 'specialized' versions it would've been a lot easier to swallow.  This is all probably way more than they plan to put into this, but its a shame, for such a monumental achievement, an example of the best ever of hand drawn anime. 

[ScrambledValkyrie]

On 12/25/2024 at 1:26 PM, lavinrac said:

Really looking forward to getting this, I've bought many of the Japanese releases thus far since Laserdisc. With as many copies as I have, I'm actually hoping they do something (tasteful) about the blurry scenes.. I'm not talking about removing intentional blur.. but the blu ray versions have a number of scenes that are quite blurry- GHOSTING - like double image in some places, as any of you who own it know. 

Has anyone researched what caused that to happen? Is it something they could fix by rescanning from film if it exists?

There were some shots that appear to have been photographed out of focus, which became more obvious with the jump from DVD to Blu-ray. Is this what you're referring to? No amount of film rescanning will help those, though there could be some AI tricks which could improve them.