Star Blazers Remastered (complete - HiQ)

STAR BLAZERS™ REMASTERED
The Complete Archive - HiQ version

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Despite the legal notices you see in these videos, this is NOT a Voyager
production, nor is it done by anyone affiliated with them. This is
strictly a fan-based, non-profit effort, done by fans for fans.

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This is a revised "proof-of-concept" production for a remastered version
of the first two seasons of STAR BLAZERS™. This project was three years
in the making, striving to make the most out of the existing English audio
track while at the same time restoring or reconstructing as many lost or
alternate scenes as possible. Not all of this material can be
reincorporated due to the lack of suitable dubbed audio. There are also
certain audio issues that we could not correct due to lack of access to
high-quality source recordings.

Each episode was digitally remastered using the Tohokushinsa DVD box set
import prints. Audio is courtesy of the various Kidmark and Voyager home
video (VHS/DVD) releases. The original Japanese audio was used for
restoration of selected scenes where dialog was not present or not an
issue. In addition, several restored and new scenes, as well as teasers
for many Comet Empire episodes. have been created especially for this
project. All BGMs courtesy of the official Yamato CD soundtrack box set.

The project was officially completed with the release of the final Comet
Empire episodes on 1 May 2008. We will not be doing the Bolar Wars, as
that has already been digitally remastered by Voyager itself.

We hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed producing it.

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These prints comprise an all-new (and hopefully final) remix taken
directly from our archived MPEG editing masters. These have been
deliberately oversampled at 720x540 resolution, using XviD compression
at a constant 2500 kbps, for your own reauthoring pleasure. XviD was
chosen because it's a good codec we're pretty sure everybody has by now.
Makes for a bigger file than before, but we hope you'll appreciate the
freedom it gives you for your own efforts. We can't do anything about
the audio quality, as noted before, due to source limitations. This is
particularly true in the Comet Empire episodes, where the audio quality
often jumps noticeably whenever we switch from the old English audio to
the Japanese source (for restored scenes) and then back again. We also
removed as many of the rendering line artifacts (oops!) that we could
find from the Comet Empire episodes. The fault was in our software
(Pinnacle Studio) and not the original prints.

We did not oversample any of the extras or divergences (deleted scenes).
They remain, for the most part, in our original project resolutions
(usually 720x480) and compressions (XviD or MPEG2).

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STAR BLAZERS™ is a registered trademark of Voyager Entertainment.
Original production copyright