Found a new anime site
Well, they have Urusei Yatsura at 1080. it's a digital copy, SO MUCH CLEANER THAN THE VHS RIP I WATCHED FOR LIKE 90 EPISODES
Look at this HD Lum
@Ocean22 That doesn't look like a Full HD scan from 35mm film. For reference, here's a Full HD frame from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, shot on 35mm film.
https://snabeltann.no/media/7K2YC4JgoWhELQxmRjI
@thor Well it's cel animation too, and from 1981, so it's not exactly movie quality
@thor For old TV anime though, this may be the best quality I've ever found honestly
@thor The early 80's usually look something like this heheh
@Ocean22 Yeah, but you have to distinguish between a telecine (conversion of film to video) done in the 1980s to video tape, since digitised, which would look something like that, and a more recent straight-to-digital telecine done from the original film.
@Ocean22 See, I'm always extremely curious when I see that level of image quality. It's not quite Full HD, but it's not SD either, and I wonder what the source could be. 16mm film, or maybe some sort of high resolution professional video format from the 1990s...
@Ocean22 By "that level" I mean the Urusei Yatsura one.
@thor The first thing I thought was lazerdisk or something, but I think it's actually because they got a 1080p home video release in Japan
@Ocean22 You know, it actually looks like a Hi-Vision recording: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sub-Nyquist_sampling_encoding
@thor Dammmy that may be it
@thor WOULD YOU LOOK AT THA%T
@Ocean22 They made a Hi-Vision remaster for LaserDisc it seems (yes, Japan had HD Laserdisc). That must be the source for the BluRay master. There is footage of the 1994 Olympics in Norway shot in Hi-Vision, together with some demo footage of a day in Tokyo in the 1992 on YouTube somewhere. It's weird seeing HDTV from the 90s.
@Ocean22 You know you're a nerd when you can go "This was transferred from Hi-Vision/MUSE, an outdated short-lived video format that no one has heard of outside of Japan. I know because I can tell from the pixels."
@thor That is a true super power
@lain @Ocean22 Oh, and there's a subtlety here: Japan likes, or at least liked, to call regular 1080p "Hi-Vision" instead of "HD", and they are currently recycling the name for 4K, it seems. So you have to make sure they're Hi-Vision/Muse disks. If they're Laserdiscs from the 90s, they definitely are. If they're BluRay, they definitely aren't.
@Ocean22 This definitely looks like a higher-resolution source than video tape was used.
@thor It's a remaster OwO
@thor
That is what I mean though uguu..