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Sasuke's BDs finally getting ripped means we get to see this scene in HD

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Buttobi!! CPU OP

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What's Michael has a surprisingly good transfer for a 1985 LD. No frameblending!

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Kare Kano DVD (left) vs. LD (right) The LDs I bought are seemingly brand-new despite being listed as used. Unfortunately, that didn't stop them from being slightly rotted.

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Crime Crackers 2 cutscenes in-game (PlayStation 1) vs. an in-store promo tape (yahoo listing)

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Neon Genesis Evangelion Episode 16 1. GKIDS Blu-ray 2. Archives of Evangelion DVD Box 3. LaserDisc

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6 months

44 year old Space Battleship Yamato TV recording

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7 months

Won an auction for a bunch of Japanese TV recordings from the 80s. According to the description, most of them are movies or dramas.

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Watching off-air Betamax recordings from the 80s/90s. Many of the tapes are unlabeled, so it's often a total surprise.

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5 months

Crazy glow up

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5 months

New Domesday rip soon

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I got these Tokimeki Tonight tapes hoping they would have better audio quality than the modern releases of the show. The audio quality is indeed better... but totally different! All of the line deliveries are different, with some characters even being played by different actors!

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8 months

HQ clip from the Yoshinori Kanada episode of Zukkoke Knight. This series previously only had one Japanese release, a 1984 VHS with 2 episodes, but most of the series was recently added to Amazon Japan (albeit with the catch that 3 episodes are missing and 2 are corrupted.)

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4 months

Every home media release of Cobra has suffered from poor quality optical audio. These beta recordings of the original broadcast are a huge improvement!

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4 months

Received a very heavy package in the mail today with SVHS and Hi-Band Beta VCRs, 2 LDs, and a bunch of Beta TV recordings. The Beta recordings are almost all anime this time around (Space Adventure Cobra, Urusei Yatsura, Dirty Pair, etc.)

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10 months

Now on Nyaa: Making of Urusei Yatsura 4, a (very noisy) laserdisc captured with a Domesday Duplicator.

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7 months

Won an auction for a bunch of Japanese TV recordings from the 80s. According to the description, most of them are movies or dramas.

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Finally managed to obtain a tape I've been searching for for years! It's a 1982 Toei Animation TV special directed by Rintaro with character designs from Etsumi Haruki, the creator of Jarinko Chie. I plan to do a new capture once my VHS capture hardware is ready again.

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4 months

Received a very heavy package in the mail today with SVHS and Hi-Band Beta VCRs, 2 LDs, and a bunch of Beta TV recordings. The Beta recordings are almost all anime this time around (Space Adventure Cobra, Urusei Yatsura, Dirty Pair, etc.)

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4 months

M.D. Geist 1: Central Park Media DVD 2: Macross2012's LaserDisc rip 3: My LaserDisc rip

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3 months

Messing with cunet's denoiser. Very impressed with the results!

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3 months

Genma Taisen LD Initially picked this up for the lossless audio, only to find out the LD also has a different aspect ratio than the Blu-ray. The LD is 4:3 open matte while the Blu-ray is cropped to widescreen. Will do a proper scan when my scanner is up and running again.

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5 months

My new LDrip of the 1990 OVA Satsujin Kippu wa Heart-iro is now on nyaa. The old rip was an ancient xvid encode that desperately needed an upgrade.

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1 year

First capture with the new VHS setup is my Madou Monogatari promo tape, featuring a 2 minute anime and 1 minute of early gameplay. This tape really needed a better rip, since the current rip was captured over HDMI and at the wrong framerate. Will throw it on archive soon.

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I got these Tokimeki Tonight tapes hoping they would have better audio quality than the modern releases of the show. The audio quality is indeed better... but totally different! All of the line deliveries are different, with some characters even being played by different actors!

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9 months

Tetsuwan Birdy OVA 1. CPM R1 DVD 2. Emotion R2J DVD 3. Emotion LD The subtitles on CPM's DVD are actually dubtitles, by the way...

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3 months

3rd episode of Cleopatra D.C. includes the music and effects track. Not included on the DVD release.

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3 months

Mail day

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9 months

The Hana no Asuka Gumi OVA has languished with a subpar VHS transfer for years. Not for much longer...

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8 months

Creditless Miyuki OP from the Miyuki Forever LD

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1 year

Keio rip should be uploaded by tomorrow morning. I'm too lazy atm to make an encode, so I'll be posting the lossless video output from VHS-Decode as well as the raw RF.

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11 months

Got bamboozled: the Type C tape I thought contained an episode of the Okama Report OVA actually contained an hour long recording of the raw footage used for its brief live action segments. The majority of the footage isn't used anywhere in the OVA; expect a full upload soon.

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11 months

new rip of kino soon

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9 months

The Ideon: A Contact/Be Invoked LD insert booklet artwork

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5 months

How many laserdiscs came with bonus software discs? First I saw it with floppies with Sol Bianca, then recently a CD-ROM with the Jarinko Chie movie... now I'm curious.

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Project A-Ko 1. Discotek BD (Open Matte) 2. AT-X Broadcast 3. Bandai Channel I like the colors of AT-X and Bandai a lot more, but the compression...

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6 months

Interesting to see how these old Japanese TV broadcasts of shows and movies differ from their home media releases. While the LD and VHS releases of Penguin's Memory are cropped to 5:3, this 1989 broadcast uses a full frame transfer.

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Neat how vhs-decode sometimes allows you to see text that would normally be obscured in the VBI. Spider-Man's VHS has text in the corner saying "DELUXE90" along with the closed caption data throughout the entire movie.

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4 months

Shizukanaru Don: Yakuza Side Story Did a much-needed re-rip of this obscure TMS OVA based on a 108(!) volume manga. The only existing rip of this OVA was previously done by ARR and has super blown out video and audio in typical ARR fashion. See the difference for yourself:

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9 months

Mail day

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1 year

Scanned the only 2 genga I own, both from Call Me Tonight

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2 months

Manga Nihon Keizai Nyuumon OP, captured from the retail VHS release

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4 months

Just finished watching End Evang (Japa in theaters. Great film

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5 months

New Domesday rip soon

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8 months

Muteking's BD remaster looks nice, but it uses low quality optical audio. For NoraInuG's releases, I'll be syncing the high-quality audio from the SD releases to the new HD source. It's a great series, and I highly recommend checking it out!

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NoraInuG has just recently begun his English fansub for Tondemo Senshi Muteking: I'm only assisting with QC for now but I'll be tweeting out episodes here as they're released on Nyaa. I really want people to check this out, it's a fun show!

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11 months

Lumivision's USLD of the Lensman movie uses a radically different transfer from the JPLD— the colors are entirely different, and the USLD is open matte instead of widescreen like the JPLD. It's also dual-audio, but has no subtitles.

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1 year

Surface package

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4 months

Finally got a VCR with tappable Hi-Fi! I just wish Panasonic made these bars easier to reach...

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Mail day

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5 months

dumbass stole my chair

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3 months

Digging out my CX card again to mod it with a clock and audio inputs. I like using the Domesday Duplicator for tape formats, but the single RF input forces you to record audio and video separately and sync them manually. The mods will avoid both issues.

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2 years

Got an English LaserDisc of The Mystery of Mamo. The left audio channel contains the Streamline dub, and the right channel contains an M&E track. I don't believe an M&E track was included on any other release.

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1 year

Got the German Reporter Blues DVD set, which seems to be the only DVD release for the series. Unfortunately it only includes the German dub despite it being an Italian-Japanese coproduction, but the video quality is better than what's currently online.

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10 months

Hayao Miyazaki animation in Samurai Giants episode 1

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8 months

Clip from the compilation movie of the 1970s Huckleberry Finn anime. The TV series was never released on home media in Japan after its initial broadcast, which is why there's no Japanese rips. The compilation movie was given a limited VHS release but was never ripped— until now.

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11 months

new rip of kino soon

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1 year

Rip is up:

Keio Flying Squadron 2 Promo VHS : Victor Entertainment : Free...

Promotional VHS for Keio Flying Squadron 2 captured using a Sony SLV-779HF and a Domesday Duplicator, then decoded with VHS-Decode. The full name of the video...

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1 year

Keio Flying Squadron 2's intro in-game vs. how it looks on the promo VHS

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I have around 7 episodes, which I'll be posting raw on nyaa soon.

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Branching out into Beta ripping

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11 months

Paid ¥11 for this

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9 months

More mail

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7 months

lol, GKIDS accidently uploaded the DCP for My Neighbor Totoro in a press kit

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4 months

@toku_gami Yes

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9 months

Here's another title that never had its LD release ripped, Koiko no Mainichi. As with many Nippon Columbia LD releases at the time, it was released in limited quantities and didn't get a full release on LD. The side with the episode on it is strangely mislabeled as the dead side.

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1 year

Got my first industrial LD player, a Pioneer LD-V4400. Won't be sure if it's an improvement over my current player until I get it tapped.

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2 months

Disc Station Vol. 11 flyer scan

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9 months

Long overdue, the high quality laserdisc audio for Heavy Metal L-Gaim is now synced to it's 4th DVD, bringing the total number of episodes up to 24.

Heavy Metal L-GAIM LD audio : Emotion : Free Download, Borrow, and...

Digital audio from Heavy Metal L-Gaim Memorial Boxes Mark 1&2 (BELL-853&BELL-854) synced to the Japanese DVDs. The audio was captured and synced by me.

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7 months

Mail day, mostly dirt cheap tapes

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10 months

Screenshots from Zero Tester's HD remaster. This was released on DVD 5 years ago, but it wasn't available in full HD until it was added to Amazon Prime Japan earlier this month.

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11 months

Ozanari Dungeon CD cover. Going to start scanning a bunch of my old stuff now that I have a proper scanner.

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7 months

On a fishing trip with some relatives and my dad caught a shark

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1 year

More rips of game tapes; here's Harukaze Sentai V-Force, a 5 minute anime that was bundled with the game of the same name.

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6 months

I will post clip comparisons tomorrow and full rips later on.

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1 year

Tanaka Tatsuyuki animation on Yumemakura Baku Twilight Gekijou

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I wasn't expecting the LD release of Miyuki Forever to be any different than the DVD release content-wise. It's actually more than twice as long as the DVD, and it looks a lot better to boot!

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2 years

Last CDs of the year

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1 year

More mail

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You're not a REAL Kyojin no Hoshi fan unless you own the officially licensed pedometer

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Devil Hunter Yohko: Super Music Clip (live action segments) BD vs. LD Q-TEC went through the trouble of re-editing the animated segments of this for the BD with HD scans, but the live action segments were handled quite poorly, being poorly processed and decimated.

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1 year

Ordered in December, arrived today. Turns out Heavy Metal L-Gaim's LaserDisc audio is much, much better than the audio on the DVDs.

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@cabbusses I found out these tapes are just "recap" tapes, so they only cover part of the show. There are cases where a Japanese show does get an entire redub though, like with Marvelous Melmo

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Posting LD audio rips I forgot to post: Album/drama from a multi-audio Cream Lemon LD (G98F0237): M&E track from Cleopatra D.C.: Pandora's Box LD:

Cleopatra DC Pandora's Box LD.flac

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Mail day

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6 months

The most notable things I've come across are dramas without home releases or rips at all. But I need to save up for a new hard drive before I can rip and upload them...

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1 year

On the left is Bucchigiri's existing rip, and on the right is a new rip of the LD. Can you spot the difference?

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7 months

@MMcflies interaction bait

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2 years

Huge laserdisc package just arrived. I'd been waiting for this since September.

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1 year

tapped :)

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7 months

The reason I'm capturing this tape despite blu-rays existing is to test the abilities of vhs-decode: the mastering is excellent, and the SNR is very high.

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6 months

@KennyLauderdal3 @MMcflies Toho only ever released two volumes, so only 4 episodes are covered. Not sure what the audio on the original broadcast was like.

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@neogeo8man I own the DVD release of this, there's a 20 minute bonus video where Rintaro and Toshiyuki Honda talk about the making of it

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1 year

This is the first non-240p screenshot of Shakotan Boogie on the net! Just look at the quality difference with the awful old rip...

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@whisk_cor @farmerlychucks @SUPER7X_ @MangaMoguraRE 4th image lookin like

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1 year

v2 of a tape I previously ripped coming soon...

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1 year

Ripped my Ojisan Kaizou Kouza tape. I initially tried to rip the tape over a month ago, but my old VCR had too much trouble playing it. The best rip available online (left) was upscaled for some reason, so it's nice to have it at native res.

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