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Anthony
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| Since early in 2006, Media Link has started
the slow process of releasing The Gransazers
show on DVD in Hong Kong. Now I didn't have much
hope for their releases, given the region's normal
reputation for Japanese titles, but figured that
for the price it was at least worth checking out
one of them. Unfortunately, my assumptions were
dead on, as the disc features very poor video
quality due to compression and absolutely no extras,
which completely overshadows the decent audio
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| My first reaction upon seeing the video track
on this disc was simply "wow, that's compressed."
Suffice to say, Media Link didn't go through much
effort in placing these three episodes on the
disc, as each features a great deal of digital
inconsistencies due to their transfer process.
In fact, all three look blurred and feature a
ton of artifacting (pixilation). The brightness
and saturation also appear to be set too high,
causing for details to be lost, especially on
lighter elements such as lab coats. On the plus
side, at least the source appears to be devoid
of much damage, while it's also hard to mess up
the show's original full screen aspect ratio.
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| This DVD has two different audio tracks on
it, including the original Japanese and one that
is dubbed into Cantonese. In terms of quality,
both are about the same, as sound effects and
other shared audio effects sound identical across
the two tracks. All of the dialogue is audible,
and there are no inconsistencies to speak of either.
The speaker distinction is on the weak side, sadly,
despite both being presented in stereo; however,
given the made for TV nature there probably wasn't
much to be done with this.
The audio presentation is accompanied by, removable,
Chinese subtitles. |
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| The disc doesn't even have chapters, just
a way to select each episode from the menu, so
there isn't much to talk about here.
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Bottom
line, even as a budget title this would be hard
to suggest, especially for those not fluent in
Japanese or Chinese. It's a shame that the only
legitimate way to own the series is through these
DVDs or the expensive region 2 releases by Toho.
So for the time being most are better off just
waiting and hoping that another company comes
along with more acceptable DVDs for the show. |
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