Adult Swim announces Samurai Jack: The Complete Series - every episode has been remastered for BD - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE]Earlier this year, Adult Swim presented the fifth and final season of Genndy Tartakovsky’s much-loved, Emmy-winning animated series Samurai Jack. The show may be over, but it’s getting a fitting send-off with Samurai Jack: The Complete Series, a gorgeous box set that contains every episode and plenty of top-notch extras.[/QUOTE] [url]http://io9.gizmodo.com/samurai-jack-is-getting-the-awesome-extras-packed-comp-1798291030[/url] [t]http://i.imgur.com/FtRjHkU.jpg[/t] This is one of the most insane remasters I've seen, they actually found sources and redid it from scratch then actually upscaling it. [t]http://i.imgur.com/7wBHEod.jpg[/t]

I've never bought a dvd or blu-ray of a TV show in my entire life (much less a box set) but I'm extremely tempted to get this.

[QUOTE=LoLWaT?;52599250]Holy Fuck But if they had the sources why did they draw and paint the assets for the [sp]flashback sequences[/sp] from scratch for Season 5?[/QUOTE] Perhaps they didn't have them at the time.

Samurai Jack was, in my opinion, one of the absolute best shows Cartoon Network ever aired. Even with it's kid-friendly robo-gore, it managed to stay the intended course, introducing surprisingly complicated social and moral issues into the titular character's adventures, not to mention some unforgettable characters. Not even touching the subject of the art style and masterful worldcrafting, from crowded futuristic megacities to ancient battlegrounds and graveyards. If I recall, an adult-rated version should be coming soon on Adult Swim? Will watch... [video=youtube;bmkxsQnNujI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmkxsQnNujI[/video]

[QUOTE=just-a-boy;52599283] If I recall, an adult-rated version should be coming soon on Adult Swim? Will watch... [/QUOTE] Are you referring to Season 5? Because that ended. In like, May.

[QUOTE=just-a-boy;52599283] If I recall, an adult-rated version should be coming soon on Adult Swim? Will watch... [/QUOTE] 50 years has passed... Yet, I did not know that the new season of Samurai Jack already aired.

Holy Shit. The original's artstyle was hamstrung by the low resolution, this should prove amazing.

[QUOTE=TheKritter71;52599240] This is one of the most insane remasters I've seen, they actually found sources and redid it from scratch then actually upscaling it. [t]http://i.imgur.com/7wBHEod.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] It's extremely fortunate that Samurai Jack was still animated on cel rather than digital, in a time when most shows had already transitioned. If it hadn't, you'd get a filtered upscale at best. As long as it's animated on cel, you can go back to the masters and do a HD version of it. Any show that was mastered in digital is stuck in the resolution it was in at the time. There are lots of old TV series and movies that look beautiful once you scale them up and can really appreciate the details.

Well this is an immediate buy.

[B][U]BUT WILL THERE BE A REMASTERED SOUNDTRACK OUT? [/U][/B] Like seriously some of the music there was pretty great stuff. However, Since most of it wasn't really released as standalone, with a few key exceptions like the rave, a lot of it is muddled with sound effects or just non existent.

[QUOTE=Reds;52599404]Any show that was mastered in digital is stuck in the resolution it was in at the time.[/QUOTE] Only if they're rendered into raster graphics though. Flash uses vector graphics, so old animations can be easily upscaled if you still have the source file laying around.

[QUOTE=Reds;52599404]It's extremely fortunate that Samurai Jack was still animated on cel rather than digital, in a time when most shows had already transitioned. If it hadn't, you'd get a filtered upscale at best. As long as it's animated on cel, you can go back to the masters and do a HD version of it. Any show that was mastered in digital is stuck in the resolution it was in at the time. There are lots of old TV series and movies that look beautiful once you scale them up and can really appreciate the details.[/QUOTE] If it was done in flash old shows can still be scaled up.

Is it all regions? I can find it on US Amazon but not UK Amazon

[QUOTE=Reds;52599404]It's extremely fortunate that Samurai Jack was still animated on cel rather than digital, in a time when most shows had already transitioned. If it hadn't, you'd get a filtered upscale at best. As long as it's animated on cel, you can go back to the masters and do a HD version of it. Any show that was mastered in digital is stuck in the resolution it was in at the time. There are lots of old TV series and movies that look beautiful once you scale them up and can really appreciate the details.[/QUOTE] I'm not really familiar with how these are produced, but all serious animation software is vector-based, so if you have the original assets why can't you re-render at a higher resolution? I mean if all you have to work with is the render itself, you don't have the master, you have the final animation.

Sweet jesus, my wallet finds no rest.

That is one of the most expensive box sets, especially for a cartoon, that I can recall seeing. They beefed it up to truly be worth the value, but I would have liked it if there was like a $50 regular version. Why only have a diehard collectors version available? It's great that we get a box set at all, but I simply feel this one is in deluxe/collectors version territory. It is not uncommon for different tiers of the same movie/tv show to be released after all.

[QUOTE=catbarf;52599977]I'm not really familiar with how these are produced, but all serious animation software is vector-based, so if you have the original assets why can't you re-render at a higher resolution? I mean if all you have to work with is the render itself, you don't have the master, you have the final animation.[/QUOTE] Far from all serious animation software is vector-based. And even in cases where the character animation is vector the backgrounds usually aren't, so it isn't that simple

[QUOTE=NO ONE;52602845]That is one of the most expensive box sets, especially for a cartoon, that I can recall seeing. They beefed it up to truly be worth the value, but I would have liked it if there was like a $50 regular version. Why only have a diehard collectors version available? It's great that we get a box set at all, but I simply feel this one is in deluxe/collectors version territory. It is not uncommon for different tiers of the same movie/tv show to be released after all.[/QUOTE] This is how box sets are normally priced. Game of Thrones: The Complete Seasons 1-6 for DVD is 160-200. Blu ray is around 160-240. Even Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Complete Series is around 130.

But I already rewatched the whole series before s5 aired....

[QUOTE=TheKritter71;52599240] This is one of the most insane remasters I've seen, they actually found sources and redid it from scratch then actually upscaling it. [t]http://i.imgur.com/7wBHEod.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] What do you mean by "redid from scratch"? Looks to me they use the source material precisely

[url]https://www.amazon.com/Samurai-Jack-Complete-Box-Blu-ray/dp/B074XJ48WV[/url] Amazon page is up. 94.84 is the price without taxes