Wed 7 Dec 2011
Out! Conan Blu-1080p! EP-#1
Posted by suzaku under Releases
[18] Comments
You’ll have a blue Christmas with Conan!
Yes that is correct, we said we would do it, and we are! Here is the first re-release of Future Boy Conan in blu-ray! This version is encoded in 1080P 10bit h264 .mkv. The audio, however is till mono. Right now, there is no plans for a 8bit version, but if there is enough of a demand for it, we will release in it.
So we start…
July 2008. Mankind was faced with the thread of extinction. An ultra-magnetic weapon, far more devastating than any nuclear weapon known, had destroyed half the world in a single instant. The earth’s crust was rocked by massive movements, the earth was thrown off its axis, and the five continents were torn completely apart and sank deep below the sea…
The attempt by a number of people to flee to outer space failed. But one of the spaceships narrowly escaped destruction and crash landed on a small island which had miraculously survived the devastation. The crew members of the spaceship settled there, as if they were seeds sown on the island.
After years, a boy was born. He was a new life in the desert, a ray of light in the darkness of the annihilated earth… And there this story begins.
Enjoy! Suzaku =^-^=
Meow baby!
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Conan#1 h264 10bit
Size: 988,456,185 bytes
CRC: 6cb576da
MD5: c90b8bdcefa4257d1bef1fdb0d3c8218
And the 8bit 720p version! (we will dual release from now on!)
Size: 304,919,623 bytes
CRC: 06588fc2
MD5: f6791a1544c0a4ba11e0de48ba048bc0
As usual, get it from the bots in our IRC channel, #live-evil @irc.rizon.net or grab it off BitTorrent.
Will there be a 720p? 1080p doesn’t seem to make much sense for something that old. Despite better than the old masters, this is still not even close to “HD”…
Anyway, thanks for remembering this true classic! ^_^
that’s the res of the blu ray discs (w/o) the borders on the sides.
http://catalina.blog.so-net.ne.jp/_images/blog/_f5b/catalina/CONAN_BD-SS-4×3-5.jpg
Keep in mind that movies this old were made on film and essentially have unlimited resolution. It was only in the period during the early to mid 2000s preceeding HD digital animation that shows looked relatively bad. The movies made on cels could be upscaled which is why shows like Future Boy Conan look great!
Ah, that’s why Yamato and Gundam looked good in HD.. although the drawing was a bit ropey in those so this looks way better.
Thanks guys 😀
Great ,i will watch it when you complete the show since i haven’t seen it before .Thanks
Thanks a lot for doing this in BD quality.
Watching a show which is supposed to be set 30 years into the future but is now already 3 years in the past is kinda funny ^^
Wow!!! FBC has just been released in Blu-ray format in Japan for the first time (25-Nov-2011). I didn’t expect you will get it so fast. What a pleasant surprise! (^_^)
Now, also Heidi is coming to blu-ray format in Japan for the first time on 22-Dec-2011. I hope someone would sub this pre-Ghibli Takahata/Miyazaki classic.
It was my intent all along that if Conan ever came out on BD, that we would re-release it!
And so as soon as the word came out that it would be, we ordered it as soon as we could! 🙂
Even before we could: I pre-ordered and it was shipped some hours before the official release date ;D
720p should be your 8-bit release, like a SD version to the 10-Bit 1080p IMO. Up to the group though if they release 1080p instead, this is just my 2 cents.
Good idea, Bro 😀
The new restoration is fantastic, probably the best HD transfer of a TV anime of any age. I only wish the Blu-ray set had had English subtitles.
I was thinking of watching this over Christmas but guess I’ll wait. Any idea on how fast you will be rolling out the 1080p versions?
Well, apart from encoding, all the eps have to be retimed and QCed, so fast but not THAT fast.
good job LE. really appreciate it, hope the next episodes will be released soon 😀
OH
MY
GOD
I was about to suggest a 720p 8-bit version, though without much hope that it would be accepted. Then I saw you were already doing it. Brilliant!
Thank you so much, this is definitely a keeper. Classic rules.
Thank you sooo much! Conan is great!