Alternate TVH opening....on Australian home video

[Bad Robot]

At least The Voyage Home plays smoothly. Aussie anime DVDs, not so much.

 

[Lance]

The Voyage Home. There's this paintbrush backdrop that starts appearing in layers as the opening credits transition away from the actors into production staff. On the DVD it looks like a glob of jelly, and a lot of the blue seems washed out. This is one of the few instances in which the somewhat shoddy 2009 blu-ray actually improves on the earlier anamorphic DVD.

I guess I prefer NTSC just out of habit. But I'm also not very format-savvy. It was just blind luck that one of my older players, nearly halfway through its lifespan, turned out to have an all-region hack and be able to read PAL discs. However the pulldown sometimes gives it stuttering artifacts.

I've got a little device / convertor that allows hdmi to composite output, but also has the function of real time PAL to NTSC, or NTSC to PAL, conversion. I've found the former to the latter is mostly seamless as long as the output machine is running on 1080p, it just mutes the colours a little but otherwise accurately translates over, but NTSC to PAL is slightly choppier as it doesn't add the additional frames per second needed for the smoother PAL transfer.