[peter the llama]

Originally Posted by TheFluff

anyone using PAL DVD's as source for any anime rip other than a very high-budget properly mastered movie should die in a fire

Oh, because they're usually converted from hard telecined NTSC... like the copy of Castle of Cagliostro I've seen. Right. Too bad that's the rule, not the exception. Most of my experience is with 24fps movies, where the PAL DVD is usually the best source. (sped up by 25/24, but much more vertical resolution than the NTSC DVD. Of course, most releases throw it all away by scaling to square pixels at <= 720 pixels wide.)

Originally Posted by jfs

And FYI, 1024x576 is a quite popular resolution for Japanese TV cappers to release their raws at

Thanks, now I have some idea how fansubbed anime releases happen.
But you say someone's upscaling somewhere? Grrrr. (j/k).