Thread:0Kimiko0/@comment-28651072-20171108172020/@comment-31119526-20171118090507

- The first three seasons of PreCure were made for SD TV broadcast with part-analog/part-digital technology. Older anime (up to mid/late 1990s) which were made all-analog can be scanned again in HD for a BD release. That's pretty expensive to do and not all anime have the original materials still available, so only the most popular old anime get BD releases. Newer anime (from about 2010 on) are made all-digital/HD, so BD is their natural format. In between are a period where a mix of analog and digital was used, and a period where mostly digital, but not yet HD was used. The analog part could be scanned in HD, but the digital part, since it was never intended to be shown on more than SD (480p) TVs (and blurry CRT screens at that) can only be upscaled with usually pretty crappy results. Since the two parts can't really be separated, those anime rarely get BD releases because they just wouldn't look any better than what your player already produces on its own. The latter half of the 2000s was mostly digital, but not yet full HD. Those anime can only be upscaled too, which usually doesn't look very good, at least rarely better than what your player already does. That's why you often see people complain that some anime BD release is "only an upscale". Since the first three seasons of PreCure are from the part-digital/part-analog period (e.g. you can see some CG effects, but most of it is hand-drawn), there's no way to magically make them HD. Since they were made for TV, it's quite possible even the analog cels aren't available anymore and only the combined analog/digital form that we know exists. You can tell some elements were made digitally but in SD resolution by looking closely at the Max Heart movies for example. Parts of the opening look quite pixelly/blocky. They only had those parts in SD resolution and didn't bother making new versions for the movies, so they've remained SD forever, even though the rest of the movie was made for theater display and therefore in an analog form that can be converted to HD quite nicely. ''Yes! 5'' was when Toei started to adapt to higher resolution / wide-screen TVs. If you look at the BD release of that season, you can see the backgrounds were made in analog and therefore come out nicely in HD (you can see brush strokes for example), but a lot of the foreground objects were made for blurry CRT TVs where pixelation didn't matter and those look quite blocky in HD.

- I don't know. Maybe someone messed up and because those releases are so ancient no one has bothered to correct the mistake? All of those things are long out of print after all. Did you look for the DVD box sets? Those were released a few years later I think, so they might be there.

- I don't think VHS releases will have anything more than the DVDs. VHS was a very bothersome and cramped format by today's standards. The DVDs likely had more room for extras, and the semi-interactive quiz thing for example was only possible on DVD. You seem very obsessed with those old VHS releases. They're out of print, no one has the hardware to play them anymore, and they were crappy quality to begin with, which has only deteriorated over the years. I can understand wanting to give complete info on the wiki, but VHS tapes aren't really worth all that effort.