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Lost Universe
Love Hina

Lost Universe Volume 4

Vendor: ADV Films

DVD Authoring: ?

Problem 1: On the 3rd episode (on the disc) when Millie and Kain are running -- time showing on my player 54:36. Millie is talking but no subs on the screen.

Workaround: none

Discs Affected: all (volume 4)

Players Affected: all?

Severity: 1

Recalled: no

Last Updated: 2001/3/17

Musicman reported this in the AoD Glitch forum. I think I noticed it but it apparently not enough to think twice.

Love Hina

Vendor: Bandai / Production I.G.

DVD Authoring: ?

Problem 1: Some people are complaining about the sound quality of the Japanese opening and also the sound quality of the dub. The music and effects for the dub are also mixed at different levels. A Bandai rep claims that the mixing level differences were creative differences and not defects.
Even discounting that, to my ear, the English dub audio seems to be a lot of "peaking" or "clipping", a situation where the recorded signal approaches or exceeds the recording medium's inherent limits somewhere in the recording process. Once recorded, it likely cannot be fixed without re-recording it. This effect might sound like a muddling or as if played through a broken speaker. Playing with a finger lightly touching a speaker cone might come close to reproducing the same effect with normal recordings. The main audio on the Japanese track seems to be mostly unaffected, although some seem to complain that the opening music is scratchy compared to the Japanese release.

Workaround: none?

Discs Affected: all?

Players Affected: all?

Severity: 3?

Problem 2: The subtitles have scattered holes and extra dots. I found that letters such as 'l' and 'H' had black dots breaking up the yellow body. a lower case 'l' next to an 'i' looked almost like a double 'i', and it's not an analog smearing or distortion. I've watched parts on two different displays and two vastly different DVD players and found the same results.
I made screen captures of a few instances, click the link to see the picture. Note that some pictures are up to 115kB in size and may take a bit to load.
Look for a hole in an 'e', 'p' and 'g' here.
In fact, every double 'e' combination I saw had a gaping hole in the lower part second 'e':
"feel" on ep 1, 0:22, opening
"feel" on ep 1, 0:31, opening
"feelings" on ep 1, 0:42, opening
"free" 0:54, opening
Episode 1, 0 minutes, 52 seconds.
Episode 1, 0 minutes, 56 seconds.
Look for stray black in the capital 'I' and stray yellow dots around and between letters near some of the 'r's and 'e's here.
Every capital 'H' that I remember seeing looks like the one in here.
At 17:18 is a kicker, "lie" looks like "iie".
Test equipment: Pioneer DVL-700 s-video out, Panasonic RP-56 DVD players s-video and component out, Sony Wega 27" KV-27FV16 using interlaced component and svideo in, NEC MT1040 XGA LCD projector to a 16 foot (200") diagonal screen using s-video, interlaced component and progressive component, MMAC "Osprey 100" Bt8x8 based PCI video capture card, using s-video. The captured frames are of somewhat lower quality than the images on my other video screens.
And all of these shots are from the first opening and parts of the first episode. I think I made my point sufficiently, but this list is NOT exhaustive and there are many other places I noticed these sameproblems.

Workaround: none

Discs Affected: TV series volumes 1 & 2, fixed for all other LH DVDs.

Players Affected: all?

Severity: 3

Problem 3: The extras on Love Hina Again have been giving people problems. Intervideo WinDVD might fail in returning to the menu after playing "creditless OP 1"

Workaround: ?

Discs Affected: Love Hina Again DVDs

Players Affected: DVD-333, Intervideo WinDVD

Severity: ?

Recalled: no

Last Updated: 2002/3/8