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The Dynit circle jerk continues…
Here we have the best edition of Steins;Gate to date. The huge amount of banding has been reduced and detail that was lost on the JPBD has been retained and made visible by the better encoding done by mp3dom at Dynit. All I did for this torrent was mux and retime deanzel’s great release with the video from the ITBD so that you’re getting all the same amazing subtitles (+italian subs from the ITBD), but now with the best possible picture quality.
27 comparisons between the ITBD, JPBD, Beatrice-raws, Deanzel, AOmundson
As you might know, Steins;Gate has lots of very noticeable banding, which seems to be a result of how it was produced by the studio. (scroll down to post #1497 in that thread for mp3dom’s explanation). Because of that, every Bluray release of the series suffers from banding in varying degrees, with Dynit’s release being the best case scenario thus far. The banding is not all gone here, but I feel like this is the best we’re going to get. It is better than anything else available for sure.
The other big thing that stuck out to me was that the JPBD looks as though it has some filter or something applied that causes the lineart and other smaller elements to become smeared/smudged or to even disappear completely in dark areas. You can find this occurring in many of the comparisons. For example, check out the bottom right corner in comparison #4, where the lines have vanished on the JPBD, but are clearly visible on the ITBD. Or in #5, look at Mayuri’s hair on the left and you’ll again see that the lines are smeared on the JPBD compared to the ITBD, where they’re actually discernible.
If the file size is too much for you, I recommend you get deanzel’s or Beatrice’s release (even if they do unfortunately use the JPBD’s video) as a smaller alternative. 170 gigs for one show is a lot, but for people like me who literally don’t care and just want the best possible version, this is the best choice.
All tracks were retimed to match the ITBD.
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- hydes
Comments - 24
Ichunjo
Thanks
_Edge_
Thanks
Polarwindz
Thanks
ShadowVlican
dang! hope someone does a re-encode of this ITBD! i mean, storage is cheap, but it ain’t free!!
Simplistic
Well if you don’t need some of the extras you could always get, uh… every other encode?
Interruptor
Based tbh. You should give dynit’s Kill La Kill release a try. That is if you care about the show.
hydes (uploader)
@Interruptor, I watched all of KLK a few years back, but haven’t managed to finish it again since. Can’t get past the middle point for some reason… If I get the motivation to finish it and end up liking it enough, then I’ll probably get the Dynit BD.
Next are Dynit’s One Punch Man and Cowboy Bebop, should be ready and up in the coming days.
NodMan
170 Gigabytes of awesome, thank you.
hydes (uploader)
@Nodman, No problem ?
azd128
thanks for uploading these
Aryma
you can’t call this a Collection without Moozzi2 filter
scav
Some of the Japanese companies (Aniplex springs to mind) process the sources (low-pass filter in complex scenes to make compression easier, deband filter, etc.). The processing is not as refined as what you would see with Dynit, who try to avoid destruction of detail.
hydes (uploader)
@scav, Ohh I see, that’s good to know. Sad to see they would take these shortcuts. It’s fortunate that Dynit goes to the lengths they do…
Yfe
@hydes I hope that Italian dub audio will also be included in the release
zechs
glorious
Chilled
can people really tell the difference between these ! wow i know i have a good vision but was not able to tell any real difference, i can see that the noise is different from one release to another but to say that IT is superior it really is hard for me
Chilled
also i remember that dynit release used x264, i remember checking the mediainfo back when it was uplaoded to adc, but this one does not show x264 and its settings in mediainfo (episode 1)
scav
iirc older Dynit releases don’t show the x264 encoding library in mediainfo. I’m guessing this upload is from the original 6-disc release and not the 4-disc re-release.
tuturuu
can’t believe this post is from just two months ago
Mizz141
Nah, their just pinicky about everything
HachiRokuNiSanKyu
@ShadowVlican, I plan to encode this during the summer. Though, it’ll eventually be trumped by SCY’s release whenever he makes it.
HachiRokuNiSanKyu
Turns out encoding would need combining JPBD (which I can’t source) with ITBD to preserve the details in the JPBD, while using the ITBD to remove the artifacts. That’s a lot of work which I won’t and cannot do. This will remain the best release.
Gamec0re
I hope I would like this series.
Hinshitsu
Thank you for this awesome release