Rebuild 1.01 DVD Quality

Eva 04 · Sandalphon Joined: 13 Jun 2009

So,for the people that do own the 1.01 DVD.How is it?Is it pretty good?Is the darkness problem I've heard that bad?Is it bad enough to make you want to turn it off or is it bearable?Thanks for answering.

**The Eva Monkey** · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:21 am Post subject:

I thought it was a bit contrasty. I was more concerned about the graininess. It almost looked like they took their master from a film print, rather than from a digital master.

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konfunoodle · Lilith Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Age: 24

I liked it and found it bearable. the dark scenes are not terrible, but if you have a blue ray player then you minus well get 1.11 to get the better exp.

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Otakon 08 Ikari · Donor Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Location: Pittsburgh PA

It was great, people will sit and nit-pick everything. Go buy it, its bloody 20 bucks.

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Eva 04 · Sandalphon Joined: 13 Jun 2009

That's what I'm gonna do.I wasnt looking for people's opinion's on wheither or not I should get this.I just wanted to see what people thought and if the darkness made it unbearable.I'm getting this because I've been waiting for this to get english dubbed.But,speaking of 1.11.Is that gonna be like a blueray only DVD?Or will it be available in both regular and Blueray?

Hatsumi92 · Shamshel Joined: 13 Nov 2009 Gender: Female

I didn't notice any quality problems myself, I know the contrast issue is there, but until i checked this forum i had no idea there being a problem with it.

Seriously it's not noticeable.

But buy both 1.01 and 1.11 if you want to. I sure am.

NAveryW · Insect Politician Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Age: 23

I initially didn't have a problem with 1.01, but after watching 1.11 I do find that the difference is quite noticeable and I personally would never go back. I'm waiting until 1.11 comes out on Blu-Ray to buy it... but if you want to buy 1.01 I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

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Hatsumi92 · Shamshel Joined: 13 Nov 2009 Gender: Female

Well of course after i get 1.11 i doubt i'll ever watch 1.01 again due to 1.11 being obviously superior.

**The Eva Monkey** · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 1:45 pm Post subject:

Otakon 08 Ikari wrote:

It was great, people will sit and nit-pick everything. Go buy it, its bloody 20 bucks.

I paid $24.95. I haven't spent that much on a single DVD for myself in years.

But it's Eva, so I don't care. I'll buy the BluRay too.

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Evangelion · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:00 pm Post subject:

The Eva Monkey wrote:

Otakon 08 Ikari wrote:

It was great, people will sit and nit-pick everything. Go buy it, its bloody 20 bucks.

I paid $24.95. I haven't spent that much on a single DVD for myself in years.

But it's Eva, so I don't care. I'll buy the BluRay too.

^Pretty much this. I have 1.01 and I plan to buy the bluray once it's released.

**The Eva Monkey** · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 4:05 pm Post subject:

Anybody here feel the slipcase is totally useless, but can't bring themselves to throw it away, nor can they allow it to become scratched or damaged?

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Electric Sachiel · Lilin Joined: 27 Nov 2008 Location: Toronto

The Eva Monkey wrote:

Anybody here feel the slipcase is totally useless, but can't bring themselves to throw it away, nor can they allow it to become scratched or damaged?

Well it is nice smooth and shiny isnt it? And often times we do associate "shiny" things to being valuable. So no wonder you dont want to throw out the slip case! You have my approval!

Funimation did the same thing with their Full Metal Panic the second raid dvd releases. And I concur, although quite useless, i still intend on keeping all those shiny slip cases for each dvd volume.

Pcnerdjack14 · Adam Joined: 04 Nov 2009 Location: Arizona

I had a bit of problems with the colors, but 1.01 still looks pretty good.

I keep the slip cases for that reason, they're shinny.

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GasmaskAvenger · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:33 pm Post subject:

when I watched it on my TV, it was pretty dark (Quality-wise), but when I showed it to my bro & sis when I went up, it wasn't as dark on my bro's TV

i'm still getting 1.11, regardless

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**Sailor Star Dust** · Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2009 11:29 pm Post subject:

The Eva Monkey wrote:

Anybody here feel the slipcase is totally useless, but can't bring themselves to throw it away, nor can they allow it to become scratched or damaged?

*Raises hand*

Watching it right now and no problems so far. Subs comments: Love how they kept Boy/Girl as well as "Miss Misato" and "Ayanami", but it's weird how Shinji's catchpharse is cut to "I mustn't run".

The "away" makes the saying, darn it!

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**Sailor Star Dust** · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:05 pm Post subject:

Question about something: Do you think there was added brightness to the 1.01 Funi DVD? It seemed somewhat lighter than from what I remember of the 1.01 Japanese rip from sometime back. There was some kind of contrast and lightness going on, because Shinji at least looked tan.

For reference, here's a scene of him from my Japanese 1.01 rip (from the Japanese release):

EDIT: From Logan's non-calibrated TV:

I can't rip DVDs on my computer, if somebody could rip the same image of him from the Funimation DVD for comparison purposes, that'd be great.

...Yeeeah, his coloring seemed different in the Funi release.

I don't necessarily mind the change that the scenes were brighter compared to the Japanese release, it's just somewhat...odd that was changed to begin with, that's all.

EDIT(true)2: Although both images may look the same here, I noticed a huge difference in image quality/brightness comparing my 1.11 Funimation DVD to the Japanese release, at any rate.

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Electric Sachiel · Lilin Joined: 27 Nov 2008 Location: Toronto

Sailor Star Dust wrote:

...Yeeeah, his coloring seemed different in the Funi release.

I don't necessarily mind the change that the scenes were brighter compared to the Japanese release, it's just somewhat...odd that was changed to begin with, that's all.

Some members around here have speculated that Funimation wanted to avoid many of the complaints and issues raised by the "darkness issue" by changing the contrast levels in 1.01 themselves. Hence why it might look brighter and less dark than the japanese release.

Not sure how true that is though.....

**Sailor Star Dust** · Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject:

For those who don't see my end notes above:

Although both images I linked to may look the same, I noticed a huge difference in image quality/brightness comparing my 1.01 Funimation DVD (played on my TV) to the Japanese release (played on my computer), at any rate.

There is something different about Shinji's skin tone (among other things; the final scene of Shinji and Rei in her plug is no where near as dark as I remember it being with the original Japanese 1.01 release) in Funi 1.01, but yeah, it's possible Funimation took it upon themselves to fix it to avoid any complaints.

That'd be awesome if somebody could do their own image comparisons just so we can know if the problems were rectified by Funimation or not.

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Gendo'sPapa · Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:19 am Post subject:

While I predominantly watch movies blown up large off a projector in glorious high-def, once Apple is finally able to play BluRays on their computers I will make the full switch.