I agree with the reviewer who wished for a better master; this one is sub-par. That being said, as a professional in the video display manufacturing industry, I must disagree that it "doesn't look much better than the DVD". On a quality display, it does look significantly better than the DVD version. There is quite a lot more detail and depth than on DVD. My biggest gripe is that Bandai is continuing a very unwise trend carrying over from their LaserDisc edition of "Royal Space Force"...shadow-boxing the anamorphic print so that narrow black bars appear on the left and right of the frame, even on wide-screen displays. The original reasoning for this may have been to compensate for video displays' usual overscan, but many widescreen displays today have minimal or no overscan (such as the Pioneer 1080p PDPs), so being forced to watch a film with shadowboxing is very distracting and irritating.
Product Details
| Catalog No. | BCXA-5 |
|---|---|
| JAN/ISBN | 4934569350053 |
| Product Type | Blu-ray |
| TV Standard | NTSC |
| Number of Discs | 2 |
| Label/Distributor | BANDAI NAMCO Arts Inc. |
| Running Time | 170minutes |
|---|---|
| Original Release Year | 1995 |
| Region | free |
| Subtitles | English Japanese |
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GHOST IN THE SHELL/攻殻機動隊 [Blu-ray+DVD] / アニメ
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I know this is an old title, but couldn't they have found a better Master to use to make the blu-ray version? It wasn't that much better than the DVD version. Let's hope future Anime titles look better than this on blu-ray.
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