Tales of Phantasia, Tales of Symphonia OVAs to be released on Blu-ray...

[Cless]

...in Japan.

http://www.watch.impress....ocs/20080508/frontier.htm

Appears ToP will simply be SD source upconverted. Pretty lame, I mean... I would have assumed it was mastered in HD to begin with. It's not THAT old. Well, hopefully the upconversion is at least far superior to anything that could be done even with the best of the best upconverting DVD players, or even PC filters.

Apparently ToS was mastered natively in HD, so it will be a proper release.

Guess I should be glad I skipped out on the Symphonia OVA DVDs. Perhaps, I'll grab the BR set someday. Right now, the USD -> JPY exchange rate is a really bad joke.

[throughhim413]

I've never understood HD anime.  HD CG and live-action?  Sure.  But HD anime just doesn't make sense to me somehow.  ToP sounds like a particular waste, but at least ToS will have that additional shine.  I must be behind the times with HD.  I've never really understood why DVDs weren't good enough.  *Shrugs*

[Cless]

Well, I dunno if this matters much, but the preview I saw of The Simpsons movie in 1080p over HDMI looked very very crisp, detailed, vibrant, and virtually free of artifacting. It totally blew the pants off of what I've seen of upconverted DVD animation.

[Kajitani-Eizan]

doesn't make sense? it looks better, just like with CG and live action.