Not dirt.
Well, I found a solution to my deinterlacing problem with the Kiddy Grade DVDs. Setting deinterlacing to “Motion adaptive” in the ATI control panel (I’ve got an X1950XT with Avivo) allows much better playback with Windows Media Player 10. In fact, it looks fantastic in comparison to anything I can get Media Player Classic to spit out.
I don’t like using Windows Media Player, but in this case, I’ll put up with it. 
Edit: As Shiroi Hane kindly pointed out in the comments, it appears that the source is interlaced, and it’s been run through deinterlacing for the original R2 DVDs and FUNimation’s R1 release, but not Madman’s R4 DVDs.
So flicking through the Kiddy Grade 2 thread on the AnimeSuki forums made me realise that I was going to have no bloody idea what was going on when KG2 eventually comes out. I thought I may as well re-watch the original series, since I’ve got it on DVD and all.
Of course, being the anime whore that I am, I’d downloaded and watched the whole series via fansubs probably 12 or 18 months before it was available in Australia. But I enjoyed it, so I bought the DVD set when it came out. But since I’d already seen the series, I flicked through a few of the extras, then the DVDs went on the shelf. Continue reading ‘Why FUNimation should be shot. Twice. With an elephant gun.’
Well, I wanted to see what Windows Home Server was like, and also took the opportunity to test whether or not my Vista desktop got faster network speeds reading from a WHS server as opposed to a Linux Samba server. Now as I said in my last post, read speeds were about 5-6Mb/s when copying from my Samba server to a Vista client. Surely I thought Microsoft’s own server OS would absolutely trample Samba in the mud.
Anyone want to take a guess at the speeds I got between my WHS test box and Vista? Same configuration, gigabit network all round, etc…. Continue reading ‘Windows Vista: Fucking with Windows Home Server?’
My fileserver of choice for a while now has been a Gentoo Linux box as I’ve posted previously. It’s been working like a charm with Windows XP, I can’t complain at all about the transfer speeds.
However, Microsoft have changed pretty much everything in Windows Vista, and for no apparent reason than for the hell of it. One of the changes is SMB2, a new version of the Windows File Sharing protocol which, although not adding any improvements past changing the integer count from 16 to 32-bits, is apparently a huge improvement. If you believe Microsoft PR. Continue reading ‘Windows Vista: Fucking with Samba?’
Anyone who knows me well enough will know that Gainax’s recent track record does not sit well with me. Kono Minikuku no Utsukushii Sekai (This Ugly and Beautiful World) left a bitter taste in my mouth when the series took a turn for the worse about half to two thirds of the way into the series.
Gurren Lagann looked like an improvement. Konomini was a rather serious show, but TTGL is more of a comedy. I thought, they did so well with FLCL and what I saw of Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, so how could they possibly screw up another comedy?
Arr, there be Spoilers in the next paragraph.
It’s happened earlier than I thought, but with the removal of a certain character from the series and the entry of Nia, who I can’t stand, I can see this series heading for only one inevitable ending:
Anyway, bitching about Gainax’s failures at plot aside, there is still one reason this show isn’t quite in the bin yet. 
This one took a while, and was pretty tricky in places, but I’m happy with it.
More KG2? Why not. Here’s the Pedobear-bait of the series, the new Lumiereish character if you will: Ascule.
In my last post, I promised Kiddy Grade 2 traces. Obviously the first had to be of Eclair.
Edit: I now feel rather silly, as someone on 4chan pointed out, this is actually the new lead character, Que-Feuilles. I don’t think anyone could blame me for mistaking her for Eclair with a new appearance though from not having read anything on the series. Will update the watermark and filenames when I get home.
Edit 2: Watermark and filenames updated.
