So I wanted to wait until I was preparing Episode 3 to mention these, but there are a few things I needed to mention with regard to the Big O releases.

Release Plans: I'm trying out something new that, if successful, will probably form my new releases plans going forward. I'm treating February as "The 28 Days of Big O in 26 Days", which is to say that I plan to release one episode per day for the majority of the month. Because of the way I've done this, I've built up a buffer of about 5-6 episodes ahead of what has been released. This will let me keep a steady release schedule without feeling too pressured to get stuff out, and leaving me time to fix mistakes if I spot a problem before release. If this works out, the plan going forward will be to alternate months for releases, using the "off" months to step away from releases to do other stuff, as well as give me prep time for whatever the next series will be. Planetes will be exempt from this as I intend to finish that as soon as Big O is done, and may end up releasing simultaneously with the last episodes of Big O. After that, I'll look at how I want to proceed. This will probably get more detail in a new post once Big O and Planetes are finished/clone to finishing.

720p Releases: These will be releasing via torrent only due to the current plan to discontinue DDLs. I'll be encoding these directly from the source instead of the re-encodes of the 1080p versions. What that means is that they will take anywhere from a few days to a week before I get them released as I have to use my work PC to encode them, and then bring them home to assemble into the episodes. So 720p versions will be coming, there will jut be a slight delay on them so please be patient.

iOS HD Releases UPDATED: ssj2_goha is currently working on these and is trying to get them out within a day or so of release of the 1080p versions. These ARE re-encodes of the 1080p versions, but they are offered in 720p, so for those of you who want 720p versions sooner, these are an option. UPDATE - The concerns we had about the variable frame rates were confirmed not to be an issue, so the releases for iOS are all good. Also, ssj2 will be moving at the end of the month, but since I'm working ahead, he should be able to have the iOS encodes done and posted even while driving across the country.

OP Credits: This is the one that, depending on your perspective, you will either be happy with, be pissed about, or for most people, you simply won't care. As a fan of Big O since it's original airing, I've always watched Big O with the original OP that ripped off Queen's "Flash Gordon" theme song. In 2007, for the Japanese rebroadcast, a new OP theme was created along with new visuals. I personally can't stand the new OP, which is unfortunately what the BD release used. Because of this, I made the decision to upscale the DVD OP for these releases. I wanted to be upfront about the fact that I did this, since it's not something I would normally do.

Audio Replacement: One part of this only affects one episode (Episode 7), and it is related to the above point. Episode 7 used the OP theme as the soundtrack to part of the mecha battle, and as such, was replaced with the new OP theme in 2007. As I said before, I don't care for the new OP, so this episode will have audio sourced from the R1 DVDs. Because the BDs include the dub audio, I will be doing a FLAC Pack, which will use the unedited audio, so it will feature the 2007 OP theme. I tried to edit the DVD audio into the lossless audio from the BD, but the audio levels made it too difficult to normalize to the audio that came before and after.

FLAC Pack: Due to the loss of MegaUpload and the extra space our current seedbox provider offers over our old host, I've decided that FLAC Packs will still continue, but only as 1-2 sets per series, depending on the series length. These packs will be released when the series is complete as a batch torrent. With regard to Big O, due to the OP replacement, I'll patch in the audio for the old OP, which won't be lossless given that it's sourced from the R1 DVDs, but it's that or no OP music at all.

Season 2 Audio: Big O Season 2 has a 5.1 mix for the dub audio, which will become the primary track when we get to Episode 14, but the surround mix was not put on the BD release for whatever reason. The stereo audio will still be included and will obviously be what is included in the FLAC Pack.

I'll edit in additional information if anything comes to mind, because I can swear I'm forgetting something.

OZC

Since I know what it is that you are forgetting, I will help you out. -ahem- The internet owes me five bucks. -Qriist