>Which reminds me:
>
>I have the OVA on DVD in the American and Japanese sets. The American
>(Ultimate Edition) looked better, at least on my Mac. More artifacts on
>the Japanese set.

There's a reason for this. Apple's DVD sucks on interlaced DVDs 
(which is most anime DVDs).

The R1 Tenchi OAV set is fully progressive--to some that know better 
than I do, it would appear that it is straight from a film source and 
has never gone through a composite editing process (which has been 
known to damage video quality with DVDs). R1 Tenchi has some MPEG-2 
compression problems, though (they did cram 13 OAV eps on to 2 DVDs).

R2 Tenchi, IIRC, is interlaced, but is compressed better.

Bottom line? R2 Tenchi will show interlacing artifacts 
(combing/zipper effects) through out the show through Apple's DVD 
player (if you have retail Radeon card and turn on Adaptive 
Deinterlacing, you will get noise, but the interlacing artifacts will 
be minimized). R1 Tenchi will show MPEG-2 artifacts (including 
macro-blocking) every now and then, but no interlacing artifacts.
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