I refuse to label ANY madman title as being fantastic let alone watchable. Having jerky motion is not a good thing and I don’t see why I should pay for an inferior product when a free BETTER alternative exists.

Picture this, you’re a company with 50 titles or so a month, many requiring these changes. It all adds up and takes a lot of work. Factor in having to pay for it (time is money in a company) will your title make enough money back to cover the extra cost of speeding the video up? Will you even be able to do it? (some masters can be really dodgy, but it’s all that can be obtained)

Look at some madman titles, and they will be fantastic (or great, Hellsing OVA is a good example, as is Code Geass) but then some lower budget titles are unforunately not given as loving treatment.

It sucks from an encoding point of view, but sometimes there’s not a whole lot that can be done.

People really need to get off their horses some times.

as for fansubs once you start changing aspect aspect ratios don’t be surprised if you get a hit in frame rates…

Nothing in film has a 30FPS frame rate, to do 30fps from 24fps you have to telescene the image for ntsc transfer, the problem when converting ntsc-pal they forgot to remove an half image which creates the telescene in 1st place this is why ntsc-pal conversions always look shithouse..

even if they ship things to blueray I doubt that will fix the ntsc-pal thing so much because you still have the hertz feq cycle of the mains power to contend with which cycles at 50 hertz…

people please don’t use Wiki as a technical document, while things may have truth in it there is also alot of hearsay and is usually quoted out of the context it was really intended for, given the prime examples in the previous statements and I think what you say has merit, in the context you give it however is wrong, in relation to conversion rates between ntsc-pal…

I think while Siren listens to you they only do so to shut you up, because they are only in it for the money and don’t give a flyhing fuck what the public say’s..

while you have technical merit in some cases, given the state of the hentai releases they did I very much doubt Siren is going to be doing ntsc-pal conversions with the new anime releases i’ll surprised if we get a pal r4 release from them…

Actually given the state anime industry as a whole in Australia internationally we must be seen as the biggest joke in a commercial sense…

Both Siren and Madman need to dice their dead weight soon if they don’t they will cripple the industy given all the issues with anime on dvd both companies had in the past, they need to do something fast cause both are going to go bust, I’m waiting for the day somebody files a class action lawsuit against them due the shoddy dvd’s they have made…

Every once in a while, I would go to the library and borrow myself some newly released Madman DVD, hoping that they finally learned something… Each time, I ended up more dissapointed than before.

Heh, the shittiness of Madman DVDs was what actually taught me how to encode. There was a time in the past when I liked Madman DVDs. At that time, I was also like “get video, stick into AutoGK, click button, woot, I mastered video encoding!!!” (yeah, laugh all you like, whatever)… Then, at some point later in time, I decided to analyse and compare my encodes a bit with other people’s… “Why is this shit blurrier than what I download?” “Why all the blending when the downloaded one is clean?” “Why does mine look so much worse when the file size is the same?”… And everything began from then onward…

Actually, I sort of miss those days in the past when I look at stuff, however bad, and would think “that’s an awesome fight” rather than “that’s a goddamn upsize, cut down on the fucking denoise and warpsharp, look at your video before you decimate – this shit is true 29.970 not telecined 23.976, and your x264 settings really fail” (refer to Chihiro’s Sekirei).

http://http//sirenvisual.com.au/News/200905/131.php

lol