Anyway, my main point is that in the USA, anime doesn't have the prestige that live action movies have.
It is my experience that anime is also mostly reserved for kids (and geeks) in Japan and the prestige lies with American and French movies, select Japanese live-action flicks and Miyazaki's anime. Sure, everyone in Japan reads comics - but when it comes to the theatre or the video store, it's mostly just kids lining up for Pokemon or Doraemon etc.. and teenage boys/awkward adults flipping through Evangelion or porn.
So a lot of people are upset that Hollywood is going to take a popular anime series and turn it into a live action series. My beef (if I cared about DragonBall in the first place) would be with the fact that it is being turned into a live action franchise period - because whether you have Hollywood throwing money and square-jawed blonde dudes at it or Japan throwing washed-up Gamen-rider stars at it, the result would probably be disappointing. What's the last good 'clean' live-action hero movie produced in Japan? There are some good comic->film translations, but they're mostly on the darker side of the spectrum with Uzumaki or (shudder) Ichi the Killer.
Ideally someone would convince Takeshi Miike or Shinya Tsukamoto to direct a quirky subversive interpretation of it, but naturally that would be unhealthy for the kid fans of DragonBall and would only stay in theatres for a couple of days anyway.
CPCC may waive the levy on sales to...... music and advertising industries.
So does that mean I can declare myself an independent label and buy CDs without the levy?
What sort of qualifications would I need to have the levy waived - a proven track record of CD releases? If so, start-up labels, in addition to competing with existing powerful labels' advertising money, would also in the process of starting up subsidize those very labels they are competing with?
i have an ancient transformers song up at mutagene.net. it's quite dated, the melody has nothing to do with the transformers, but you might enjoy it for the cheesy Omnicron/Megatron/Starscream interplay anyway. sorry it's an mp3, but it was made in 1996/7...
Any sort of quantization is lossy, so I would expect that as new DVD/... audio standards are introduced, it would make more sense to use lossy compression on signals with higher bandwidths and higher initial bit depths then to just stick with a lossless PCM -- in the end you might get the same bitrate, but the lossy 96/24 would have more headroom in perceptually important frequency bands and would ultimately sound better than the lossless 44.1/16 stream. So which would you choose?
You probably only listened to a couple of remixes (if even that many), because there are certainly a lot of different genres represented by the arrangments on vgmix.com and overclocked remix.
Just the same, I too feel that often the original cannot be improved upon - with the limitations of the original machine adding a unique character to the mix. That's why the arrangements are interesting, I think, because many of them eschew any attempt to improve upon the original and instead just meander off in another direction or bring the original melody in to a whole new genre. If you search those arrangements out, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Too bad none of the technical papers are online to read for the details; if the audio were centered at 60kHz, as is sort of implied, I would think we could expect the range to actually be from 50kHz-70kHz -- or is it instead from 60-80kHz? Or double sideband from 40-80kHz?
multi lingual theatres - the sideband supression is good, but just the same a three degree cone projected from a sufficient distance would be liable to cause interference between seats. bilingual movies is an interesting idea, but i would think that bilingual via headphones would be much easier to implement (and a lot cheaper for theatre owners than having 80+ beam units for each seat (with lower sound quality than people are used to)).
spot sound cancellation - the time required for the propagation of the sound from a remote 'audio spotlight' would probably make canccellation impossible unless the signal was highly correlated and could be accurately predicted. an interesting idea, though, if it could be implemented...
i really like the other ideas. that haunted house one - i wonder if that's like the sega joypolis implementation?
Is all the energy converted to the audible range or do we get weird things going on elsewhere in the spectrum? Will dogs bark and birds flee?
Sounds like fun technology. I remember reading about it a while back, but had no idea it was being implemented in commercial projects. Portable mp3 players/discman seems like a better car solution to me, but some of the other applications are intriguing. Time to get myself to Tokyo.
The artist probably modeled her on his girlfriend, wife or daughter - i can't imagine any other reason why the same woman appears in almost all the sketches.
I saw Metropolis on opening day and the theatre was half empty - and the film was only in theatres for around a month after that.
Metropolis was a bit of a letdown. The art direction was mostly just ugly for the first 45 minutes of the movie, and the animation quality was inconsistent from character to character and scene to scene. The use of computer animation made for some beautiful backgrounds, but they were often completely incongruous with ugly hand drawn foregrounds. The last 30 minutes were wonderful, though, and it was worth seeing for that alone.
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err, i guess that's just a typo, but it should be girl = shoujo (shougyo would mean small fish).
Anyway, my main point is that in the USA, anime doesn't have the prestige that live action movies have.
It is my experience that anime is also mostly reserved for kids (and geeks) in Japan and the prestige lies with American and French movies, select Japanese live-action flicks and Miyazaki's anime. Sure, everyone in Japan reads comics - but when it comes to the theatre or the video store, it's mostly just kids lining up for Pokemon or Doraemon etc.. and teenage boys/awkward adults flipping through Evangelion or porn.
So a lot of people are upset that Hollywood is going to take a popular anime series and turn it into a live action series. My beef (if I cared about DragonBall in the first place) would be with the fact that it is being turned into a live action franchise period - because whether you have Hollywood throwing money and square-jawed blonde dudes at it or Japan throwing washed-up Gamen-rider stars at it, the result would probably be disappointing. What's the last good 'clean' live-action hero movie produced in Japan? There are some good comic->film translations, but they're mostly on the darker side of the spectrum with Uzumaki or (shudder) Ichi the Killer.
Ideally someone would convince Takeshi Miike or Shinya Tsukamoto to direct a quirky subversive interpretation of it, but naturally that would be unhealthy for the kid fans of DragonBall and would only stay in theatres for a couple of days anyway.
CPCC may waive the levy on sales to ...... music and advertising industries.
So does that mean I can declare myself an independent label and buy CDs without the levy?
What sort of qualifications would I need to have the levy waived - a proven track record of CD releases? If so, start-up labels, in addition to competing with existing powerful labels' advertising money, would also in the process of starting up subsidize those very labels they are competing with?
Sick.
i have an ancient transformers song up at mutagene.net. it's quite dated, the melody has nothing to do with the transformers, but you might enjoy it for the cheesy Omnicron/Megatron/Starscream interplay anyway. sorry it's an mp3, but it was made in 1996/7...
Any sort of quantization is lossy, so I would expect that as new DVD/... audio standards are introduced, it would make more sense to use lossy compression on signals with higher bandwidths and higher initial bit depths then to just stick with a lossless PCM -- in the end you might get the same bitrate, but the lossy 96/24 would have more headroom in perceptually important frequency bands and would ultimately sound better than the lossless 44.1/16 stream. So which would you choose?
You probably only listened to a couple of remixes (if even that many), because there are certainly a lot of different genres represented by the arrangments on vgmix.com and overclocked remix.
Just the same, I too feel that often the original cannot be improved upon - with the limitations of the original machine adding a unique character to the mix. That's why the arrangements are interesting, I think, because many of them eschew any attempt to improve upon the original and instead just meander off in another direction or bring the original melody in to a whole new genre. If you search those arrangements out, I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Too bad none of the technical papers are online to read for the details; if the audio were centered at 60kHz, as is sort of implied, I would think we could expect the range to actually be from 50kHz-70kHz -- or is it instead from 60-80kHz? Or double sideband from 40-80kHz?
multi lingual theatres - the sideband supression is good, but just the same a three degree cone projected from a sufficient distance would be liable to cause interference between seats. bilingual movies is an interesting idea, but i would think that bilingual via headphones would be much easier to implement (and a lot cheaper for theatre owners than having 80+ beam units for each seat (with lower sound quality than people are used to)).
spot sound cancellation - the time required for the propagation of the sound from a remote 'audio spotlight' would probably make canccellation impossible unless the signal was highly correlated and could be accurately predicted. an interesting idea, though, if it could be implemented...
i really like the other ideas. that haunted house one - i wonder if that's like the sega joypolis implementation?
Is all the energy converted to the audible range or do we get weird things going on elsewhere in the spectrum? Will dogs bark and birds flee?
Sounds like fun technology. I remember reading about it a while back, but had no idea it was being implemented in commercial projects. Portable mp3 players/discman seems like a better car solution to me, but some of the other applications are intriguing. Time to get myself to Tokyo.
The artist probably modeled her on his girlfriend, wife or daughter - i can't imagine any other reason why the same woman appears in almost all the sketches.
I saw Metropolis on opening day and the theatre was half empty - and the film was only in theatres for around a month after that.
Metropolis was a bit of a letdown. The art direction was mostly just ugly for the first 45 minutes of the movie, and the animation quality was inconsistent from character to character and scene to scene. The use of computer animation made for some beautiful backgrounds, but they were often completely incongruous with ugly hand drawn foregrounds. The last 30 minutes were wonderful, though, and it was worth seeing for that alone.