I understand how those of you not in the US feel about this policy, but keep in mind, I’m based in the US and so that’s the market I’m paying attention to. As soon as that changes, the encodes will not be needed and we’ll pull them. As in the past, these are only being done because we can’t get them in the same quality here in the US with dub and subs. I’ll also warn now that since I have gotten DMCA takedowns on Gundam in the past, there is a possibility that I’ll have to remove the release post for this movie at some future point. I’ll be getting GitS 2, but, well, Funi, so that one’s gonna likely stay a private encode.
All of this is almost certain to apply to future UHD encodes I’d like to do, including the upcoming releases of CCA, F91, and Ghost in the Shell. There’s a LOT of technical bullshit behind this UHD encode, and I’ve detailed that in a UHD+HDR post in the navbar. Because Nozomi/RightStuf have stated they have no intention of supporting UHD BD at this time, I decided it was time to un-retire. While some discs are now on ADC, I personally purchased the 4K release of Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer and got the decryption key produced so I could dump the disc. But several months ago, a method to decrypt 4K BDs was discovered, and I happened to have the right kind of BDXL drive to decrypt discs.
Plus, other than using an HDCP stripper and HDMI capture card, there was no good way to get the 4K material. But, that release had the dub and subs, and since UHD BDs are region-free, there was no problem with importing it. “OZC, you dumbass, there have been 4K Gundam discs for over a year, with Thunderbolt December Sky!” Yes, you’re right.
The toku encoding takes about 75% less time than the anime work too, so my focus has been there for the past two years.Īnyway, despite all that, my passion for Gundam hasn’t died, but thanks to RightStuf’s fantastic support of Gundam on BD, I no longer saw a need to spend time on encoding releases like G Gundam or even my favorite, Gundam X, when they were likely to get a BD within a year or so of their Japanese release. Thanks to some job opportunities that pay better than encoding anime (which doesn’t pay at all), my time has been better spent on that. In all honesty, that drive hasn’t been fully sparked again yet either, but I do still intend to finish those projects at some point, but don’t ask me when. Sure, there was stuff that I wanted to do, like finishing the 3rd Mobile Suit Gundam film’s dub cut, finally finishing Digimon Adventure, and getting back to recutting SEED, but the drive to actually do any of that was gone. The short version to explain my absence is simple: I lost any interest in encoding anime whatsoever and just couldn’t be bothered anymore. Long time, no see (unless you’re also a toku fan, in which case, you know I’m still around).
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