Sly Marketing Is Probably Not The Best Way To Sell A Product But I Guess It Works When Your Audience Is Retarded
A while ago, one of my fellow soldiers in the war against the industry had a chance to talk to Sly, from Madman Entertainment, about their upcoming Bluray releases. After our numerous points about them screwing over the video in DVD releases by standards conversion and a few other things, Sly made several assurances that the BD releases would have the video unchanged from the Japanese masters, including the lack of English typesetting. The company reps have mentioned this to quite a few people as I understand it.
The other day, Madman announced the title Claymore as one of it’s upcoming BD releases. I know a lot of people would think that video being unchanged by a shitty licensing and localising company is a good thing, and it SHOULD be, except that not all Japanese video is perfect either. I would like to see Madman releasing Utawarerumono as a BD title, with it’s terribly delicious 1080i MPEG2. Except I wouldn’t. The Claymore BD in Japan is a known upscale, and a terrible one at that. We’ll see how Madman shoot themselves in the foot this time.
On the side, to clear up some confusion, I do not have anything against Sly. He’s a nice guy and has always been courteous when ever I have spoken to him, although apparently he thinks I’m a dick, which is somewhat understandable. I only have a problem with the company he works for. Just sayin’.
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I’d rather liek to see what they’d do with Mushi-shi. So obviously upscaled it’s not even funny. At least the high bitrate makes it a still better source to work with than the DVD.