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LOL aint that the truth! I can't believe how dark the OVA transfer is. Luckily there are numerous brightness settings I can fiddle with on my HTPC. Here's the thing....how do you guys know FOR SURE the Manga OVAs aren't a direct VHS rip? I mean, where exactly is the video source from? I'm not saying the quality is bad, but it isn't quite a crisp as say, Ninja Scroll or Tenchi Muyo. What if Manga's VHS master was a bit better and they ripped the OVAs from that? I wouldn't put it past them. I'm with kyatsu. I'm getting the Japanese OVAs as well and giving the finger to mangle. Thanks for the heads up R3 is what country, Asia? Link to where I can order it?

Do you know if it's encoded in progressive scan?

Yeah, they really REALLY need to remaster and re-release this on dvd with a proper transfer and a 5.1 DD Japanese track. The OVAs as well...

Watched Mac+ and then Ghost in the Shell 1 the movie. Hurin....DYRL may have interlace problems of its own, but I can tell you that interlaced sourced dvds in general do not match well with HTPCs period! They simply don't like them. Mac+(OVAs) had pretty pathetic interlacing, as did(much to my surprise) GitS the movie. WTF??? I thought GitS was film released in theaters!!! How come it's interlaced??? And why was it running at 30fps using Zoom Player, as opposed to 24fps like a standard film should run? The hell did Manga do to this film? Man...anyway I popped in GitS II: Innocence for only like 5 minutes and thankfully it appears be encoded in progressive. What a relief! I'm going to get an HDMI switcher, so that I can switch between my standalone player(for anime) and my HTPC(for films). Make no mistake however....HTPC blows away any progressive live action film with a good transfer. Colladeral looks absolutely STUNNING on my HTPC for example.

I would also like to known if there is ANY version of Macross Plus on dvd that is encoded in progressive scan? I'm talking whether it's the movie, OVA, region 1, region 2, etc....any proscan at all ANYwhere?

Hey guys. Well I just watched my favorite film of all time on my BenQ 8720 1280x720p DLP front projector. Macross DYRL official import R2 verison. What a religious experience. Nothing like seeing the big battle at the end on 110" screen. Although the overall experience watching the film was sublime, I was slightly annoyed by the picture quality suffering from interlace "lines" and "jaggies" on my HTPC. I read Hurin's review before watching the film and pretty much blew off his comments regarding the interlacing issue being a problem. Well unfortunately Hurin was right....I can confirm that this dvd has major interlace problems when played on my HTPC using Zoom Player and FFDshow even with Avisynth's Limitsharpen codec enabled. Even checking the "deinterlace" box and trying all the various filters did not help and in some cases make the picture worse! The funny thing about it is, I used to watch this film all the time on my 7yr old Toshiba 3109 DVD player(which is NOT pro-scan by the way) with my 7yr old 65" Toshiba CRT RPTV via component and the picture was almost flawless. Anyway I took the disc out from my HTPC and popped it in my Oppo dvd player. Although the Oppo upconverts dvds and is said to be one of the best bang for the buck stand-alone players out there, the PQ on this particular film did not quite hold up to how I remember it on my Toshiba 65" RPTV/3109 DVD player combo via component. Don't get me wrong it still looks pretty much outstanding in other areas like colors and contrast, but the image tended to be overly soft in certain parts of the film and that was quite annoying when you're expecting to see the finer details on characters, Valkaries, etc. It seems the newer players now a days are not good at upscaling interlaced material and what ends up happening is that the dvd player tries to deinterlace and upscale an interlaced dvd but the result is a picture that suffers a bit from occasional horizontal lines, slight jaggies and a bit of softness in some scenes. I so wish Bandai/Emotion would've encoded this dvd in progressive scan. No doubt it would've made a WORLD of difference in the overall PQ. Oh well, here's to hoping they re-release it in either Blue-Ray and HD-DVD I'm going to watch Flashback 2012 now and see if it suffers from the same interlace problems.... Someone please tell Macross Plus OVA is encoded in progressive!? All connections are through HDMI by the way...

Thanks Graham. .....whoah! 7700 yen, yikes LOL

Hurin....did you try using Zoom Player coupled with FFDShow/DScaler/Avisynth and tweaking them?

Hello. Can anyone give me a link to a good import online shop that I can order the import R2 version of Macross Plus the Movie? I already own Manga's version but the picture quality leaves a lot to be desired and I hear the Japanese version is superior in image clarity and sound.

Yes she's been remarried.... ....to me!! I was joking

Wow I wonder if this whole mess will EVER be over? Guess wanting a US release of DYRL and M7 are still wishful thinking?

Not single anymore. She's been remarried.

Love them all. Some more than others: 1)DYRL: 10/10...Love it with a PASSION! 2)Macross: 10/10....See #1 3)TV Series: 8/10....love it but it's gotten just slightly old to me now 4)Flashback 2012: 10/10 LOve it with a passion! 5)Macross 7: 8/10 screw the haters! This is highly underrated and I think I like it slightly better than the original TV series now. 6)Macross Zero: Dunno, haven't seen it yet 7)Macross II: 6/10. It's OK, but gets good marks for the ridiculously beautiful songs sang by Ms. Hiroko Kasahara. 8)Macross 20th Anniversary Special dvd: 10/10....this goes without saying

no Tony Oliver no sale.

Exceptional impressions John's TV. Not quite up to par with KLee's, but almost up there my man...I give them a B+ Now.... Regarding the streaming soundtrack thing: You mention that if ya stream from your PC it causes the online lag bug. But what about streaming music from a standalone USB Hard Drive? Will that work, and not cause the online bug? Please let me know. Regarding custom soundtrack using the RR 2 OST. Interesting. I've never quite gotten into any of RR's music. I've always made it a point to turn down a racing game's BGM, and listen to my own tunes. Doesn't make either you or me a non-RR fan, just means that people's music tastes are subjective. I personally plan on playing RR6 to the folliwing CDs: ......and so on and so on. Nothing against RR's past soundtracks....I'm sure they're good, but these are the albums that get my blood pumping, and thus, increases my skill The buck doesn't stop there however....I am going to take these albums, and re-rip them while adding in the voice samples from the Rage Racer announcer chick. I have all the voice samples from her in wav files. So for example I will over dub her Rage Racer voice phrases so that you will hear her say something like "Excellent cornering!" during the breakdown of Enjoy the Silence from Depeche Mode for example. Or she'll say "They're closin' in fast!" during the last part of Personal Jesus. I just need to find a program that will make this kind of overdubbing/editing easy to do, while maintaining the quality of the song and without any degradation. Any recommendations?

DCHARLIE.....I am in your debt. I humbly thank you for taking the time to answer my questions to the best of your knowledge man...it's really appreciated Hopefully more time spent with the game will allow you to discover whether or not the Rage Racer chick is one of the unlockable announcers. We'll have to wait and see That being said....WHERE THE HELL IS KLEE? He's seemingly dissapeared from the boards! Anyone got a visual on KLee?????????????????? AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DC....go read *THIS* thread....there are a LOT of peeps experiencing the same thing! I suspect this is a result of a glitch or string of bad code and that a unspecified amount of bad RR6 copies was shipped out. I am VERY discouraged to hear this!!! I sincerely hope Namco acknowledges this dilema and posts a d/l patch ASAP! I am buying my copy around Christmas and do NOT want the online portion all screwed up! If this problem isnt rectified soon there's gonna be hell to pay. Online Ridge Racer is THE MAIN REASON I'M EXCITED ABOUT THE GAME!!!!!!

LOL @ Roadblasters !!

it's just you, tard.

NEW SCREENS OF SEX AND JOY! Only one person in this whole world can post a reply that will compare and proudly represent the WhipWhip... since he committed suicide out of excitement over RR6. So here I go... I had doubts about Ridge Racer 6... seeing the first batch of pics and what not... I never saw the look... After seeing this screen shots and seeing some of the original car models and the old school paint jobs on said cars and the amazing redone tracks from previous Ridges... and seeing the amazing ammount of details in the cars and the courses... and seeing it all... just all of it... No... just no... Anything I can say on these message boards simply cannot do justice to the amount of excitement I have inside my body now for this game... just waiting to explode. Words, expressions and opinions... ONLINE... simply cannot and WILL NOT suffice the rage I feel towards this game. Because I cannot express myself fully online... I also doubt I will not be able to express myself in person, in real life either. To fully express my rage towards this game would require myself to dwelve deep into the astral planes... connect with every living thing on the face of the planet and collectively slap EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU ON THIS PLANET upside the head... then I would hold up my middle finger, grab my crotch and yell "In your face bitch!" and that would get sent telepathically to EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU ON THIS PLANET. So until I can discover the hidden abillities within me... take this instead for the road... Ridge Racer 6. Best Game Ever Made Waiting for it to come out on PS3? You sicken me! Disgusting. Absolutly revolting. To see this now and force yourself to wait because of personal bias towards one system... which we all know comes from the root of all your problems in life... that stems off into everything else in your life thus creating a hectic, chaotic mess of a farted up FAKE life. So if you are like this and need the help to come back to your senses, to put your feet back down on the ground... don't hesitate to punch yourself really hard in the stomach. That, or you could simply do yourself in. I'd enjoy both, really! So that settles it. You want to wait for this game to come out a year or two later? You must be farting crazy... either that or your mom and dad rape you, you have no friends, you have ADD, you are constantly misinformed, reality escapes you, you dream about being Japanese, you dislike yourself, your one and only gf will forever be online, you're a farting happy person... a loser... a farting peice of poo with no farting life and no farting skills in life to make said life a better life even with said skillless abillities such as being a dick and a fart face and a completely, utterley, useless farting failure the likes of which I have never seen before. Disgraceful! This game will...... ******************WILL****************** ******************WILL****************** ******************WILL****************** ******************WILL****************** .....be the greatest videogame ever crafted by the Gods of this earth. That is not speculation gentlemen, that is a ***************F-A-C-T*************** WHIP WHIP MOTHER fartERS!!!!! "FX THE MOVIE: WHEN NIGGAZ TAKE OVER", STARRING ISAMU. SHO-NUFF, BISHOPTL, BLACKACE, NEPTUNEZ, AND MORPHIX IS COMING TO A THEATER NEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No way man, Tony Oliver friggin rocks! If you don't believe me watch Gungrave. That man has very good range. How could you picture anyone else playing the English Hikaru?

Hurin. Words cannot describe how strongly I agree with you on this. You took the words *RIGHT* out of my mouth!! Upon watching SDF Macross for the first time, I too, was expecting her to sing "Do You Remember Love", only to be greeted by "My Boyfriend Is A Pilot" yet again! Hopefully they will put DYRL in during that scene.

LMAO I'm sure she will do an exceptional job. Good for you Mari. Oh and I personally think they should bring Tony Oliver back for the Hikaru dub. He's a fantastic VA(see Gungrave).

LMAO I'm sure she will do an exceptional job. Good for you Mari. Oh and I personally think they should bring Tony Oliver back for the Hikaru dub. He's a fantastic VA(see Gungrave).

From *Team Sexduke* WOOOO!!! TEN PLAYER RACES AND A TRACK EDITOR AND DRIFTING PHYSICS EDITOR!!!!! SHO NUFF AND TETSUOXB HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THESE DEVELOPTMENTS??????? WILL YOU CEASE DEVELOPTMENT OF YOUR OWN RACING PROJECTS????