{"id":6800,"date":"2012-02-15T23:13:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T04:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=6800"},"modified":"2012-02-15T23:13:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T04:13:02","slug":"a-screenful-of-madoka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-screenful-of-madoka\/","title":{"rendered":"A screenful of Madoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Madoka's dream 1\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-00.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-00-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Madoka&#039;s dream 1\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6801\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crunchyroll began streaming <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/puella-magi-madoka-magica\" target=\"_blank\">Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica<\/a><\/em><\/strong> today, so I watched the first episode during lunch. I was curious to see how it looked at 1080. I took several screencaps; click on them to see them full-size. They look nice, but they&#8217;re not razor-sharp. I would guess that the video was upscaled from 720. (The monitor screen is 1920 x 1200, hence the letterboxing. (The images from Madoka&#8217;s dream were letterboxed to begin with.))<\/p>\n<p>More screencaps below the fold.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Madoka's dream 2\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-01-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Madoka&#039;s dream 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6802\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Homura\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-03-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Homura\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6803\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Butterflies\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-06-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Butterflies\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6804\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Moustaches\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-04-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Moustaches\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6805\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Witch's domain\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-05-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Witch&#039;s domain\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6806\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Surrounded\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/madoka01-07-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Surrounded\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6807\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"Twice as creepy\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kyuubei-pair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/kyuubei-pair-391x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Twice as creepy\" width=\"391\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6814\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The upper image is from a 720 fansub, enlarged to 1080. The lower is from the Crunchyroll&#8217;s 1080 stream. I didn&#8217;t do any image manipulation beyond changing the resolution of the former. Which screencap is crisper?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crunchyroll began streaming Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica today, so I watched the first episode during lunch. I was curious to see how it looked at 1080. I took several screencaps; click on them to see them full-size. They look nice, but they&#8217;re not razor-sharp. I would guess that the video was upscaled from 720. (The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/a-screenful-of-madoka\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A screenful of Madoka&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-6800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-art-and-screen-captures","tag-mahou-shoujo-madoka-magica"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1LG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}