KIVA 16 is out!
Okay, is it just me, or did the video in this ep appear to be a bit more choppy/pixelated than their usual releases? Regular scenes looked fine, but the fight scenes looked like it was from a YouTube FLV video for some reason.
I'm wondering if they got their RAW for this one from a different source than usual? I also noticed that the font used for the clock in the upper-left corner was different.
BIG EDIT:
Okay, I'm pretty much convinced that the choppy video in TV-N's Kiva 16 that I mentioned is likely because the RAW that they used is not from the same source that they usually use. I'm thinking that their usual source didn't UL Kiva 16 so they had to go with another RAW which probably wasn't as good/high quailty, which lead to the choppiness in the video. I DL'ed the
Order of Zeronos version of Kiva 16 for comparison's sake, and you can definitely see that the font used for the clock is different, which is a definite sign that there are multiple sources/providers for the RAW eps (probably from different parts of Japan).
TV-Nihon's Kiva 16 -
Order of Zeronos Kiva 16 -
Another indicator that TVN had to use a different source for their RAW this time is that normally, their releases of Kamen Rider eps don't have the clock at all! (admittedly I didn't realize this until I checked)
Their (TVN's) releases of Super-Sentai eps DO have a clock, but the font used for it is consistently the same and easily recognizable (at least to me it was).
I wonder if this has to do with the arrests that were made a couple of weeks ago? Apparently a couple of big uploaders on Winny were busted by Japanese police, apparently because they're now following up on their declaration from a few months ago to crack down on online piracy there.