Can't get a response on /a/, so I think /m/ is more appropriate. For anime produced in SD, 35mm, or 16mm(?) film - basically 480p, is there any series worth seeing from a Blu-Ray release? From what I gathered, R1 releases have the worst encodes/upscaling while your best chance is to wait for a R3/R2 mux.
>>15512762
Any series that wasn't produced directly by the west for Bluray release. Most Gundam releases are fine because all the BDs were handled in Japan other relases like Wolf's Rain are terrible because Funimation made the BDs and Japan didn't.
>>15512762
>For anime produced in SD, 35mm, or 16mm(?) film - basically 480p, is there any series worth seeing from a Blu-Ray release?
Analog film doesn't work like that. Nadia was 35mm so it did look better than 16mm Evangelion, but the Eva BDs are still unbeluevably gorgeous.
Your answer is "yes," and it's almost all anime BDs.
Also what >>15512784 said, Funimation's BDs are consistently garbage.
>>15512762
>For anime produced in SD, 35mm, or 16mm(?) film - basically 480p
Is this bait
At least with any anime shown in a 4:3, BD released in japan is going to be vastly superior to anything out there as there's very little encoding. Thus the BDMV file is huge, enough to have astronomical prices compared to the rest of the world. So you're actually better off waiting for fan muxes when it comes to BluRays. However sometimes BluRay releases are just upscales of their previous DVD release (i think on the top of my R.O.D raws were like that) instead of the source material, so sometimes you could be better off with a DVD.