Naruto Shippuden Set 2 (BD) [Blu-ray]

It was a Christmas gift for my grandson..the set came through just fine ..no damage ..my grandson loves Narato

I'm excited that the Shippuden series is coming to Blu-ray. I can't wait to own the whole series. It's a pretty straightforward product. It's Naruto Shippuden on Blu-ray! No bells or whistles. If you are a fan then get it! My box set did not come damaged. Even if it did, it would not have changed the rating as the condition of the packaging has nothing to do with the actual product itself.

Super happy to have this. It covers the ending of the first season the entire second season the first 2 episodes of the third. Unlike the first set were the dvd design was orange this set is red orange. The picture ratio dose change on the 54th episode going from 4x3 to 16x9.

Way better than the dvd version and has more episodes per set than the dvd version

Great sound and picture.

This is a wonderful collection it makes me so happy that Naruto shippuden is coming out on bluray, but sadly the case came crushed, happily all the Blu-ray’s work I just need to get a replacement case in the future.

The first 53 episodes of Naruto Shippuden are authored in 4:3 SD, with episode 54 marking the beginning of the 16:9 era, but authoring remained SD. Despite being a seemingly decent upscale on the surface, there is a CRIPPLING flaw that once seen, cannot be unseen. The video frame rate is wrong on MANY episodes. Now, that's a bold claim, but I'll try to keep this straight forward . This, as well as volumes 1 - 5, are encoded at a constant frame rate of 29.97 FPS; however, the majority of Naruto, as well as Naruto Shippuden are drawn, and composited at 24 FPS (or 23.976 FPS if you prefer consistency with NTSC standards). That said, there are a sizable number of episodes exported at NTSC "video rate" (which in this case is 29.97 FPS). In the US, the first episode of Naruto Shippuden to be composited in HD, was episode 154, making every episode on this volume an upscale, which is acceptable, seeing as no HD source actually exists, but because this was upscaled, they had to contend with interlacing on the source material. Now, I cannot be 100% confident on this, but it is likely that DigiBeta was still being used to store the final broadcast masters, which were likely used as the base source for this set. The first problem comes with how the interlaced video was handled. Before we jump in to de-interlacing, lets consider the frame rate of an NTSC broadcast. If you have a constant 29.97 FPS broadcast, how do you handle the transmission of something like a movie, or animation, done at 23.976 FPS? The answer is telecine! Now, what is telecine you might ask? First, consider that 23.976/29.97 = 4/5, we somehow need to "stretch" 4 frames to occupy the duration of 5. In an interlaced signal, a frame is split up in to two fields (odd and even). If we use A B C and D to represent four frames, each of those frames would have two separate fields, and it is through these fields where the trickery happens. We simply transmit A1-A2, A1-B2, B1-C2, C1-C2, D1-D2 This creates a 3:2 pulldown pattern, which is repeated of course for every 4 film frames. As illustrated above, the 3:2 pulldown pattern allows us to "stretch" four frames to occupy the duration of five. Because this pattern is predictable, a process called inverse telecine (often abbreviated as IVTC) can be performed that RESTORES the original progressive frames. If proper IVTC had been used, the frame rate on episodes done at film rate would report as 23.976 FPS. To give an example of a series that was handled properly for its Blu Ray release, we have to turn to Bleach. Right out of the gate, the very first disc is encoded as progressive 23.976 FPS, thereby eliminating the stuttering caused by cadence mismatches. Getting back to this Naruto Shippuden volume, the footage is properly upscaled, but in order to upscale something correctly, you must address interlacing; so, what did they do here? Unfortunately, these frames appear to be de-interlaced, which raises a simple question. What is de-interlacing, and how does it differ from IVTC? Firstly, these terms are often used interchangeably, they are not, and SHOULD not be falsely equated. Unlike IVTC, de-interlacing attempts to interpolate (or "guess") what should've been on missing horizontal lines to create a progressive frame. This process is inherently DESTRUCTIVE, as the original frames, or even fields, are no longer present on the disc. Because this process was already done, it is near impossible to recover the pulldown pattern needed to restore the original frame rate (be it 3:2 or 2:3). As a result, the original frame rate of episodes done at 23.976 FPS cannot be recovered, and what we are left with is a stuttering mess. The smoking gun for this problem, is the appearance of a rhythmic stuttering, or otherwise predictable pauses that follow a consistent pattern. If (for example), you notice camera pans suddenly hitch a lot, and at a constant interval, you're probably looking at a frame rate mismatch. The only thing I can say this set gets right, is overall picture quality, as the DVD version is a hot mess due to the limitations of MPEG-2 causing excessive Mosquito noise, and dot crawl. Fortunately, the problems plaguing the DVD release are not a problem here, but the benefits of those fixes are hard to appreciate due to the frame rate being completely wrong on many episodes. This is honestly disappointing, as this series deserves a proper master. If my assessment of this volume is inaccurate, please let me know. All that said, episodes done at 29.97 FPS look excellent, and were handled correctly. For those episodes, this set provides the best viewing experience.

Great quality and condition

The case and discs therein were in primo condition.