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>>2073
That’s too bad but I respect your decision, just try to stay away from the more toxic threads on there

>>2249
This is a typical hard telecine/3:2 pulldown. The reason you're having issues is you need to run it through a detelecine filter to correctly get it back to 24fps with fields in proper order. You aren't seeing the top of one frame and the bottom of the next. You're seeing the fields changing every scan line during the 2 frames where multiple frames are combined in each set of 5 frames. This was done so the 24fps source material plays back at the correct speed for the 29.xxfps speed of NTSC video. This is just the typical film -> NTSC video telecine done on pretty much everything that was released on home video from the early VHS days up until today.

In fact, most modern BDs using these old sources for the upscale don't even bother doing the detelecine before they blow the frame up to 1080p+ and send it off to be pressed on the disc. There are so many shows where the BDs are not usable as a proper source because they didn't bother doing this. Then they did yet another telecine on top of the existing one for the BD release. Since BDs are still stuck with the old NTSC fame rate/standard and hard telecine is still being used for stupid reasons even though modern playback devices can do a soft telecine process where raw film (24fps) frame rate can be stored on disc and the player can do the telecine on the fly.

Long story short. You need to either use avisynth or vapoursynth with appropriate filters to get the frame rate back down to 24fps while pulling the out the correct fields for each frame. From what I see from that clip this LD is actually a decent telecine and not one of the really horrible ones where the pattern changes at every scene thus requiring manual flagging of individual frames instead of being able to do it automatically.

The Domesday would get rid of all the dot crawl and probably the wackiness happening with the colors as well. If not that's easy to deal with using proper filters. Which is most likely what was done with the BD release of this show. Since these studios are dumb and a bunch destroyed the original tapes years ago.

Very few studios are going back to the original tapes to 're-master' their stuff and release it as "HD". Most are doing a simple upscale using either LD, VHS or DVD sources. Since the average consumer knows nothing about video quality and is willing to pay for warmed over garbage.
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>>2255
Easier to show an image of the process than to describe it. This is what I mean by a telecine. You take 4 frames of film and spread it over 5 frames of NTSC video. Since a CRT alternated scan lines when you play back those 5 frames of video on a NTSC CRT it properly displays the 4 actual frames of film correctly and keeps the audio in-sync with the video track.

As for why we have this stupid problem in the first place. Way back in the black and white TV days the NTSC standard was created and 30fps was decided on as the rate of play back. I won't bore you with all the reasons for why it's different than 24fps film. I'll just leave it at that's how things are. Then later on when they added color to NTSC they slightly reduced the frame rate to 29.97fps. The 0.03fps is where the color signal lives.

When we moved over to LCD "HD" televisions we had a chance to do away with this dumb frame rate for good. But so many legacy sets were still in use and so much of the hardware in the industry was already using 29.97fps that it was decided to stick with it. So we're probably never getting anything else. On modern hardware it's possible to have true 30fps frame rate with color of course. This is usually used for things like CGI and credits. Which ends up being a huge pain because a lot of shows combine 24fps as 29.97fps with 3:2 pulldown telecine with full 30fps sections. Which requires either manually slowing down the 30fps sections, speeding up the 24fps sections by inserting duplicate frames or mixing frame rates together in the same container (aka VFR). Most people settled on slowing down the 30fps sections to 24fps. Hence why CGI portions look jerky in a lot of modern encodes. Then there are a bunch of raw providers that rip Japanese TV that just said fuck it and sped everything up to 60fps with duplicate frames everywhere to get around the same problem.

Sorry for encoder autism. This is a useless skill that I should have never learned in the first place. Since the vast majority of people can't tell the difference anyway and the industry certainly doesn't give a damn about doing things properly either. So it just led to a lot of frustration because now I nitpick every show I download, watch or buy. If you think things are bad in the disc world you haven't seen anything yet. Broadcast is so much worse.

>>2256
>I won't bore you with all the reasons for why it's different than 24fps film
Actually, I will bore you since I've posted so much already. The reason NTSC is 30fps/29.97fps is due to the fact that the grid in America ran at 60hz. The television gets its timing from the 60hz on the power grid. This is also why PAL regions run at 25fps instead of 30/29.97fps. Since their grid is 50hz.

So you see. The fps is half of the the hz the grid is running at. There are places like Japan where they have funky grid running at differ hertz in different places of the country. They get around the problem with converters and other methods. There are also various sub-standards like NTSC-U vs. NTSC-J. But in general the fps stays the same when you're in the same family and there are only slight differences in how they do things for broadcasting purposes.

Be thankful you're in NTSC land instead of PAL land. In PAL land instead of spreading the 24fps film source over more frames they just sped up the audio track. So everything from PAL world in the analog days was slightly sped up and the audio sounded wrong. But when it's all you know/can watch you don't really notice. The difference in the frame rate speeds is also why their video game consoles were clocked slightly slower than the Japan/American counterparts. Which I'm sure anyone that's played a PAL version of a game back to back against the NTSC has noticed. Games like Sonic for the Megadrive are particular painful in that respect.

Video is fun isn't it?

I'm sure this disc has probably been ripped before but it's still worth checking to see if anyone is requesting it. As you might have a better disc than whatever one they had to work with. Whenever you buy an LD you should check around to see if anyone is wanting to rip them. Since a lot of modern BDs/DVDs are horrible or the LDs have additional content that's either been lost or is a better master than what was available in other formats.

There is a big resurgence of people wanting to re-rip VHS and LDs at the moment because of the Domesday device and whatever the one for VHS is called. We can pull the RF signal off these now without analog conversion. Which allows us to pull much higher quality rips off the media. Pretty much everything needs to be re-ripped now before this old analog media is gone Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>2251
yes, the main problem is on their end. But that's why a domesday is still preferred, even if it wasn't a very good transfer so you can get the most crystal clear image of their bad transfer. I think all these old LD should be preserved just because, even if there's no real need for it.

>>2252

I typically use this deinterlacer for video game footage and it makes every frame clear, none of this blended frame shit, and it worked great on old VHS/Video8/Hi8 footage too. It also does look exactly this shit on my CRT, it was actively distracting.

>>2254

I did 30 FPS first and then 60 to make sure that the deinterlacer wasn't introducing any additional issues. If the deinterlacer was causing issues, any sort of 60 FPS video would be adding a bit of A->B blending, but that would be A clear, A-B bad, B clear. Here, it's A-AAB-AB-ABB-B; I think the graph at >>2256 explains my problem perfectly, that I'm getting BC-CD blending, and the deinterlacer is making it worse. I would have preferred them to just do A-B-C-D-D instead, but we get what we get.

>>2257

Hehe, I grew up in SECAM signal but PAL import land, I was lucky to get shit working in colour.

I still do have the original interlaced .mpg files though, busted aspect ratio and all (sadly don't have any proper lossless capture devices, I wanted to get that Micomsoft one back in the day, but no money then). If you want to try your hand with avisynth, you should, I definitely did not try to rip out the blended frames that way before trying to convert to MP4.

Episode 15: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ebRPk4tBnTrLhEemxHDHnVd21gNPtLkY/view?usp=drive_link
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And whoops there goes her clothes.

Other shows of the era have more subtle panty shots.

This is a late season adaption of an early chapter. I suspect if this was Studio Peirot and an early episode we'd see a behind shot of Sakura's ass.

>>2229
I prefer subtle to horny.

No, that was the Russians with Lev Atamanov’s 1957 classic, Snow Queen.

>>2219
Seems like people are excited, especially the voice cast. I finished watching the original not to long ago so I’m looking forward to this

I have not seen the remake yet.

I actually really liked the remake the first time around, my only complaint is Ukyo's new colour scheme

>>2068
Nagisa appears in two arcs dedicated to him in the manga.

>>2074
I’m guessing one of them was adapted in the ova, and if so it must’ve been very late in the manga, as in right before “Boy meets girl”

>>2076
Volume 33, along with the second Inaba arc and some fun one-shot stories.

>>2066
If you can work it into the story and get some nice gags, then fine. I can see a nice story setup where Shinobu keeps cancelling on them, so Ataru and Mendo get suspicious and start stalking her. They then misinterpret what they see, thinking something much more sinister is going on, the boys paranoia reaches a fever pitch, and they strike out to save Shinobu from the clutches of evil, then after hijinks, it turns out she's dating some random and nothing sinister.

Literally anything better than god damn Inaba. I don't think that tool ever once stood up for himself and let Shinobu walk all over him. Ataru and Mendo would have both called out her bullshit.

It's obviously mendo.

>>2213
Already have a Lum fashion thread:
https://wapchan.org/lum/res/1909.html

>>2215
But I wanna see her in a prison uniform. Its where she rightly belongs.

>>2200
Now I’m 146 episodes in and already finished the first movie, getting really close to the second one and ova series then it’s the specials and I’m all finished. Might as well check the manga afterwards even though I’m aware nothing really happens in the greater scale of things than new characters. Also is it me or has this board slowed down a lot?
>>2006
I honestly don’t blame her since akane is more flesh out than shinobu, but goddamn I do feel bad for ukyo since she’s so good to ranma

>>2205
>I honestly don’t blame her since akane is more flesh out than shinobu

Not at all, imagine preferring Akane to Shinobu.
Shinobu is funny, actually has a decent reason to be upset, and is not costantly blaming Ataru even if Ataru is a gooner, and she also gets more dynamic with the other female characters unlike Kane.
Mogs her easily

>>2206
Totally agree, I never did say that she wasn’t better, it’s probably because akane has main character status that I initially thought this was but yeah shinobu is more funny. Also for my honest thoughts now that I’m almost done, I like it and I think the characters are memorable (this anime was a pop cultural touchstone during the anime boom period back in the 90s after all) and megumi’s performance as ranma-chan is a highlight, however I’ve personally enjoyed UY more and I was expecting this anyway

Finished the television series, I enjoyed this but IMO I liked UY more, still regardless i liked how the cast was handled here being a bit more self contained so the various reoccurring side characters could show up more. Also I’ll now find those “I’ve finally found /a/“ posts much funnier in retrospect. Onto the ova series next

>>2209
Finished the OVA’s incense rumic world special, and the hilarious hot song contest. That’s two rumic series finished as a whole. Also took a look at the last chapters btw, I know it’s not what people expected but it is fitting overall, plus it’s a foregone conclusion they get together anyway. Between this and UY, I’m surprised I hadn’t watched or read either until recently, seriously anyone new to both CHECK THEM OUT! YOU. WILL. LOVE. THEM!

She was supposed to be a one-off villainess after all. Urusei Yatsura was supposed to be an episodic series where Ataru and Shinobu struggled with Ataru's curses for ghosts, aliens and his penchant for womanizing. Lum became such a fan favorite that Takahashi re-worked the whole series. This is like fundamental Urusei Yatsura knowledge.

Movie 5 has Lum look very old and mature (even though officially still 17).

>>2149
It's because she's past done with everyone's shit.

>>2155
>It's because she's past done with everyone's shit.
She's the one who messed everything up in the first place.

>>2210

Everyone else's problem now