| __Sources__ | |
|---|---|
| Video | HiFi |
| Audio Track 1 | [[BLOAT]][1] (Japanese 5.1 FLAC 16-bit) |
| Audio Track 2 | [[Dogway]][2] (English 5.1 AC-3 448kb/s) |
| Subtitle Track 1 | English [[Dogway]][2] (jpn) |
| Subtitle Track 2 | Signs [[Dogway]][2] (eng) |
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**Notes:**
Here are Hifi's original notes for their release:
```
Source: Perfect.Blue.1997.GBR.BluRay.Remux.1080p.AVC.DTS-HD.MA.5.1-BMF + Perfect.Blue.1997.JPN.BluRay.Remux.1080p.AVC.TrueHD.5.1-decibeL
Note: Left, right and top margin all have issues on GBR. FillMargins + BalanceBorders did a bad job at masking it. JPN source has similar issues on left/right but not as severe,
furthermore, the top 8px of GBR has severe blurring resulting from an older x264 bug (GBR Blu-ray was x264 encoded) JPN was used as overlay for all three margins, see script below.
Source does not compress very well but with the fixes made I think it overall looks better than any of the two sources used.
Many thanks to saturn and hyvh for Avisynth help!
```
Dogway's subs are based on THORA (not 100% sure). There aren't any better English audio sources as well.
[Video Comparison][4] | [MediaInfo][3]
![](https://files.catbox.moe/8cvydv.jpg)
[1]:https://nyaa.iss.one/view/1183287
[2]:https://nyaa.iss.one/view/682134
[3]:https://pastebin.com/KM1fYvgk
[4]:https://slow.pics/c/vc3gcTeE
I'm on the fence about it as I have a weathering with you release ready to but on nyaa but I'd like there to be some sort of sign ts, I'll give it another look and think about it
here's a comparison I've found, to my eyes the 2013 BD looks better.
https://slow.pics/c/daXaiGbi
edit: and here is my comparison of Dogway and HiFi https://slow.pics/c/pIQMJPm6
i disagree on both points, dogway is color corrected, but it seems to have changed all the wrong things ([https://slow.pics/c/66b9lucq](https://slow.pics/c/66b9lucq), mostly the red), and it's denoised, which seems to be a popular choice, but i prefer it left intact. new BD has horrendous lineart and i think a denoised encode of the old BD would still look better even if you don't like the noise
I mean yes, in this specific instance the red is a little bit too bright, but is still a massive improvement over everything else. I'll take it over a whitened curtain on the entire video.
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