[Official Message] A CLIP BOX 1998-2011 on DVD & Blu-ray (1. January 2012)

[Didz-19]

i wish i can gat the limited edition~~

[Partino]

preordered~ :3 ... who needs an iphone 4S if you can have our queen in HD?!

[A-TeensFan]

I preordered on Amazon as it's my wish that she re-released Clip Box in BR (read Five BR thread). But for 300$ it'd better have:
- An awesome box design
- A photobook included. I don't want lyric sleeves like the old Clip Box. Please a a photobook or artworks...
- All videos are with optional Ayu and/or director's commentary so we would know her PVs better.
- I know a lot of videos on this release will be HD-upscaled (like heavy-CGI-using videos like Forgiveness, Starting,...) or videos that don't have good source (like filmed on tape or SD digital formats...) but Avex pls remastered the videos that were filmed on good quality film so this BR release would be in its perfect sense.
- Please leave 4:3 videos as they are. don't zoom, don't crop them. 16:9 videos which weren't filmed in anamorphic you can crop but please don't crop native 4:3 videos.

[Tony G]

Originally Posted by Yukitora

^The widescreen versions of Seinfeld, on the other hand, are zoomed up in order to achieve the 16:9 frame, thus losing both information and sacrificing quality. Lets hope avex doesn't do that to ayu's PV. Btw, neither Seinfeld nor Friends has been released on blu-ray.

My mistake, they have not been released on blu-ray but they HAVE been remastered into HD. These HD versions are in syndication all over the world for channels who have the right to show them. I have seen them myself (for both shows).

And I know, for at least Friends, the images are not zoomed or cropped. As I explained previously, the source of the footage is not a 4:3 video but a 35mm film. The film was then cropped to 4:3 as was the norm at the time. However, the source film is not 4:3, its actually widescreen like in motion pictures (where this film is used) with enough information to create a HD picture. So the film is re-scanned and remastered, using the wider aspect ratio available and thus making a 16:9 version.

I'm sure this is the same thing that Seinfeld did - look this up on google, there are pages on information on this topic and the shows HD versions.

The whole point is, this could have happened with many of Ayu's earlier clips. They have been filmed on a source where a HD and/or widescreen version could be created. They wouldn't be releasing a blu-ray unless they had something like this up their sleeve for the majority of her PVs.

If her 4:3 videos are just that - with no source to create a HD version - they will be left as is, for sure. No right minded studio or company would crop a 4:3 video to fit widescreen because you can do that yourself on a blu-ray player.

[yukito]

Originally Posted by Tony G

And I know, for at least Friends, the images are not zoomed or cropped. As I explained previously, the source of the footage is not a 4:3 video but a 35mm film. The film was then cropped to 4:3 as was the norm at the time. However, the source film is not 4:3, its actually widescreen like in motion pictures (where this film is used) with enough information to create a HD picture. So the film is re-scanned and remastered, using the wider aspect ratio available and thus making a 16:9 version.

Yeah you are right, but for some of the shots the image had to be zoomed because it appeared stuff that wasn't supposed. Anyways, Friends do look good, there was some color correction which does look much better then any DVD release.
As for ayu, I still think we will have everything in the same aspect ratios, no point on changing what is already good.

[owlflight]

If I do order this, I'll try and remember to use the CDJapan link here on AHS. I forgot last time when I ordered FIVE. Right now, just trying to find the money to pay for this.

[Tom Punks]

Originally Posted by truehappiness

Imagine a TV-CM with a small clip of all 100 PVs, lol.

lol I wish they would just for the lol factor.

Edit: WAIT WHAT? She has 100 PVs now???

[yukito]

Mwahahhaha, I bet the CM will be something like that, starting on poker face and then fast forwarding through her entire videography, something like:
hamasaki ayumi, then a little bit of poker face then fast forward till her last clip then 1sec of silence and then the guy, A CLIP BOX... coming soon... AVEX TRAX. Ta-dah.

[RayJason]

Originally Posted by Tom Punks

Edit: WAIT WHAT? She has 100 PVs now???

I know right !!!

[isthisLOL?]

Originally Posted by RayJason

I know right !!!

Not including videos that are simply long CMs and remixes it's in the 90s I think, not quite 100.
According to this list: http://secsecae.multiply.com/journal/item/10 it's 87 PVs + the FIVE PVs + the trilogy, so 95(96 including Dream ON).

[douggn]

basically blowing my ayu budget for half a year in one hit for this but who care, all her PV's in one nice box with the CM's to boot. I hope other PV's mean the special DUTY PV from her CR game thing but other than that, basically only Blossom has 2 PV's, not much different and Dearest which has a Acoustic ver. PV

[RayJason]

Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

Not including videos that are simply long CMs and remixes it's in the 90s I think, not quite 100.
According to this list: http://secsecae.multiply.com/journal/item/10 it's 87 PVs + the FIVE PVs + the trilogy, so 95(96 including Dream ON).

Thanks for pointing that out! I really believed that she'd made 100 pv's. 87 + FIVE's PV's and the others = still an very very very impressive number! :O

[truehappiness]

Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

Not including videos that are simply long CMs and remixes it's in the 90s I think, not quite 100.
According to this list: http://secsecae.multiply.com/journal/item/10 it's 87 PVs + the FIVE PVs + the trilogy, so 95(96 including Dream ON).

Don't they count the CMs that they usually count for A/H/etc. as 'PVs'/video clips though?

[Aderianu]

Originally Posted by isthisLOL?

Not including videos that are simply long CMs and remixes it's in the 90s I think, not quite 100.
According to this list: http://secsecae.multiply.com/journal/item/10 it's 87 PVs + the FIVE PVs + the trilogy, so 95(96 including Dream ON).

1 ・poker face
2 ・YOU
3 ・Trust
4 ・For My Dear...
5 ・Depend on you
6 ・WHATEVER
7 ・LOVE ～Destiny～
8 ・TO BE
9 ・Boys & Girls
10 ・A [TV-CM]
11 ・appears
12 ・kanariya
13 ・Fly high
14 ・vogue
15 ・Far away
16 ・SEASONS
17 ・SURREAL
18 ・AUDIENCE [TV-CM]
19 ・M
20 ・evolution
21 ・NEVER EVER [promotional clip]
22 ・Endless sorrow
23 ・UNITE! [TV-CM]
24 ・Dearest
25 ・Daybreak
26 ・Free & Easy
27 ・H [TV-CM]
28 ・Voyage
29 ・ourselves
30 ・Greatful days
31 ・HANABI ～episode II～
32 ・forgiveness
33 ・No way to say
34 ・Moments
35 ・INSPIRE
36 ・CAROLS
37 ・STEP you
38 ・is this LOVE?
39 ・fairyland
40 ・HEAVEN
41 ・Bold & Delicious (single version)
42 ・Pride
43 ・Startin'
44 ・Born To Be...
45 ・BLUE BIRD
46 ・距愛 ～Distance Love～ (glitter / fated) ＜short film＞
47 ・talkin' 2 myself
48 ・decision
49 ・Mirrorcle World
50 ・Days
51 ・GREEN
52 ・Rule
53 ・Sparkle
54 ・Sunrise ～LOVE is ALL～
55 ・Sunset ～LOVE is ALL～
56 ・You were...
57 ・BALLAD
58 ・MOON
59 ・blossom (single ver.)
60 ・crossroad
61 ・Virgin Road
62 ・Last angel
63 ・Sweet Season
64 ・Dearest (Acoustic Piano version)
65 ・Connected
66 ・Real me
67 ・RAINBOW
68 ・ANGELS' SONG
69 ・Because of You
70 ・GAME
71 ・About You
72 ・walking proud
73 ・Humming 7/4
74 ・my name's WOMEN
75 ・alterna
76 ・Bold & Delicious -SIDE STORY- (album version)
77 ・rainy day
78 ・Ladies Night
79 ・Beautiful Fighters
80 ・JEWEL
81 ・1 LOVE
82 ・momentum
83 ・part of Me
84 ・Together When...
85 ・Marionette
86 ・(don't) Leave me alone
87 ・NEXT LEVEL
88 ・Curtain call
89 ・Sexy little things
90 ・Microphone
91 ・Don't look back
92 ・Lady Dynamite
93 ・blossom (-director's cut-)
94 ・Love song
95 ・do it again
96 ・progress
97 ・ANother song feat. URATA NAOYA
98 ・Why... feat. JUNO
99 ・beloved
100 ・BRILLANTE

[Foyuki]

>o< must have BDs

[yukito]

I was just thinking about something. On the first tracklist we got to see, the PVs for the singles where by chronological order and then the album PVs followed after, I seriously hope it will be all in the right order, because it will suck big time to have stuff like this. On the Complete Clip Box it was all arranged by order let's hope for the same here.

[truehappiness]

I think it's probably preliminary since the release date isn't for another few months.

I'd be surprised if it was were not chronological.

[yukito]

^ I hope that is the case, I'd be rather disappointed if that wasn't the case, but let's just wait and see.

[ayumisrael]

I kind of hope they would put original pvs and different/cut versions on somewhere else or afterwards or something. xD

[yukito]

Originally Posted by ayumisrael

I kind of hope they would put original pvs and different/cut versions on somewhere else or afterwards or something. xD

I agree with you completely. Hopefully it will be like that. Where do you think the CMs will be? All put together like avex did with Do As Infinity for the Boxset?
People that don't know they put since the first single the 15 and 30 sec for singles, albums, dvds, lives and compilations.