Anyone who's encoded Full Metal Panic knows that every R1 DVD is problematic. I'm gonna make this as short as possible, but here's the list of problems for each series:
FMP S1: Shitty production; the entire show is produced with crazy interlacing errors, VFR, and even 60i pans. This presumably effects ALL DVDs in every region if the show is like this to begin with.
FMP Fumoffu: The production is fairly clean here, with some VFR, but no where near the level of field corruption as seen in Season 1. The problem here is that the Region 1 DVDs are sourced from some composite bullshit master. Why I don't know, especially since ADV had component masters for the first season...
FMP TSR: This season incorporates a lot more VFR (actually, many still shots are 30p, which ingeniously makes it possible to decimate, but also progressive), but that's not the problem, since it's all fixable... The problem only afflicts the R1 DVDs, and that problem is shitty encoding. I just recently got a hold of a TSR DVD, and Jesus Christ. The episode itself is decent at best, but the OP is just ridiculous. Checking the bitrate on the OP (which Funimation thinks requires an alternate angle for an english version, thus wasting disc space), it seems that the average bitrate is around 3.4mbits; the whole OP clocks in at 57MB. Pathetic.
Just for fuck's sake, let me show you the latest atrocity in FMP's life on the DVD format.



I request Funimation reauthor these discs (and apparently a good deal of their discs since I've heard similar encoding issues on their other DVDs) with proper encoding. It is 2007, and we should not have shit like this anymore...
Monday, August 27, 2007
Is Full Metal Panic destined to have shitty DVDs?
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