HDTV Heaven vs. SDTV Hell? Detective Conan vs. Haruhi Suzumiya

 
So 4/4/2009 NTV in Japan rebroadcasted the first episode ( ジェットコースター殺人事件 Jet coaster murder case/Big Shrink) of Detective Conan (Case Closed), according to hdanime’s screenshot and comment, it appears to be HDTV, not some SDTV upconversion.

The introduction is 16:9 upconversion shown some aliasing stuff:








The opening and ending are completely redone with footages from the earlier episodes (mostly scenes from openings and endings of episodes 1~200). New songs are used during opening and ending.



The main feature is broadcasted in HD, black bars are added to maintain original 4:3 aspect ratio. (I made some comparison shots with my old FUNimation disc. The video quality is presumably the same as the R2J DVDs since I made some comparisons between the R1 and R2J’s episode 6, and they seem to have very subtle difference.)

HDTV:



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DVD:



HDTV:


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DVD:

The second digital mastered episode will be coming next week.
Image from HDTVrip, cropped and scaled to 960*720:

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Next up is starting from 4/1/2009, a new Japanese language digital station starts broadcasting in my area. As to hold the viewer’s attention, the station starts broadcasting The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱 in its original order one episode a day for fourteen days. No, this is not the 28 episode rumor been spreading online these days.
The broadcasting is in original Japanese language with English subtitles.

The actual video quality is really bad since the TV station has 8 sub-channels. The bitrate of the video is only 1.6Mbps with mpeg2 compression… The subtitle is straight from R1 Bandai DVD.
DTV:
 
DVD:

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The only thing good is that there’s no commercials…
Here is the spec of this specific program:
General
Complete name                    : O:\TV\haruhi 3.mpg
Format                           : MPEG-PS
File size                        : 284 MiB
Duration                         : 24mn 6s
Overall bit rate                 : 1 646 Kbps
Video
ID                               : 224 (0xE0)
Format                           : MPEG Video
Format version                   : Version 2
Format profile                   : Main@Main
Format settings, Matrix          : Default
Duration                         : 24mn 6s
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 1 404 Kbps
Nominal bit rate                 : 15.0 Mbps
Width                            : 640 pixels
Height                           : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 4/3
Frame rate                       : 29.970 fps
Colorimetry                      : 4:2:0
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.152
Audio
ID                               : 128 (0x80)
Format                           : AC-3
Format/Info                      : Audio Coding 3
Duration                         : 24mn 5s
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Channel positions                : L R
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz