エãƒã‚«ãƒ¯ wrote...
I have a question about
Wife Swap Diaries. I realize it is from an older low res source, but the upscaled 1080p version you currently have up has a lot of blurring. I know older anime sources such as this are not the best in terms of clarity, but this is noticeably more so than any of the other older series you currently have up.
I'm wondering if the blurriness/lack of line clarity/ghosting is an issue inherent in the source video or if it may be due, at least in part, to some encoder settings?
It is 100% the source. I do filtering for every title in an effort to improve the presentation quality, especially for older titles where the masters are SD, but some of the sources are just really not very good. In case of Wife Swap Diaries, the master is simply incredibly blurry, and there isn't really much that can be done about it beyond what I've already done.
ditama wrote...
If I'm not mistaken, Wife Swap Diaries and House of 5 Lusts are the only anime releases so far that haven't had a BluRay release, so my assumption is that they're both upscaled for 720p and 1080p.
Most of the currently licensed Kitty Media catalog that we have access to is SD material. Some of the masters are quite nice and make for pretty decent looking HD video with filtering, while others are less than optimal... as a rule of thumb, you could say that the older the title, the worse it's going to look. That really applies to anime in general, and doubly so with hentai anime (anime mastering has a very long history of spotty and flawed work).