Bandai Releases Specs for Anime

Bandai Visual Japan has released some specs for their highly anticipated anime releases which are slated to come to Japan later this year. All the titles will be released on BD-50 and encoded using AVC MPEG-4, despite Bandai's previous announcement of their strong partnership with Microsoft (and their VC-1 codec). Another surprise is that most titles include an English secondary track and English subtitles, so they are very import friendly to the US. Click on 'Read More...' to see the spec breakout for each title.

Akira (July 27th)

• BD-50 & DVD
• 1080p (AVC)
• PCM (Japanese) and DD 5.1 (English/Japanese)
• Subtitles: English

Patlabor (July 27th)

• BD-50 & DVD
• 1080p (AVC)
• PCM (Japanese), TrueHD (Japanese), and DD 5.1 (English)
• Subtitles: English

The Wings of Honneamise (July 27th)

• BD-50 & DVD
• 1080p (AVC)
• PCM (Japanese), TrueHD (Japanese), and DD 5.1 (English)
• Subtitles: English

Ghost in the Shell (August 24th)

• BD-50 & DVD
• 1080p (AVC)
• PCM (Japanese) and DD 5.1 (English/Japanese)
• Subtitles: English

Patlabor 2 (August 24th)

• BD-50 & DVD
• 1080p (AVC)
• PCM (Japanese), TrueHD (Japanese), and DD 5.1 (English)
• Subtitles: English

Steamboy (August 24th)

• BD-50 & DVD
• 1080p (AVC)
• PCM (Japanese) and TrueHD (Japanese)