Well, this took quite a bit of time to do. I thought widescreens would be fun, so we’ll be doing them. Here are some specifications on these releases:
1. All episodes will go through an addition edit pass, TLC pass, and QC pass before going into widescreen format
2. All episodes will have karaoke for the opening and the ending. Insert songs will not be translated, unless the song is the only thing going on (In other words, if Kotoha sings a 5 minute solo, we’ll TL it. If someone is singing in the background, we will not.)
3. All episodes will be encoded from a .m2ts which has been appearing on Perfect Dark these past four weeks. If the .m2ts stops disappearing, we will try to get a .ts. If we cannot, we will drop widescreens.
4. BS-i is not a good station, so this looks awful at 1280X720. All releases will be 704X400.
These are high quality releases and should replace our 4:3 releases when they come out, unless you’re THAT big of a fan of black and white.
h.264: Widescreen h.264
XviD: Widescreen XviD
Edit by Demonchild: DDL service will be provided. I keep calling this show Yozakura Quarter. Just so you know. 
H.263 (ha) will be up as soon as I get it downed. Also, if a download becomes inactive, it will be deleted if its release post goes off the front page.
November 17th, 2008 at 4:50 am
at last, chihiro is willing to release a widescreen of yozakura…
yey…
thanks a lot…
a lot thanks…
a thanks lot…
lotta thanks…
November 17th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Cool!
I have been waiting for this, especially since the raws from BS-i was so awful..
Thx guys
November 17th, 2008 at 5:52 am
I wasn’t planning on watching this series yet, but since your doing the WS releases I’ll be sure to check it out.
November 17th, 2008 at 6:22 am
well, you’re right about bs-i, but 480p should look better than 400p, or you should encode it to 576p like Eclipse’s ws Clannad releases, which are from bs-i too, i think it’s a better choice than 400p, it isn’t THAT bad.
November 17th, 2008 at 6:29 am
If this series was meant to be in Black and White it would have been produced in it and if it were I don’t think I would be alone in saying I wouldn’t watch it. I’m glad to see Chihiro is going to do the wide screen version..
November 17th, 2008 at 6:45 am
W-I-D-E Screen = <3
Chihiro = <3
Thanks once again, much love for the hard work!
November 17th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Please upload sekirei ep1 and 2 to adrive.com
your currently DDL not working at all!
November 17th, 2008 at 9:36 am
If anyone really wants to watch it in black and white, it’s easy enough to just set the color saturation to zero in FFDShow’s video decoder settings, under Picture properties.
November 17th, 2008 at 11:20 am
does anyone wad the 3rd specification means?
not that i care u alrdy had me at the 1st spec x)
November 17th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I love widescreen, but I am not so picky as to stop watching a 4:3 version. Though I am happy to finally see it in widescreen. Thank you for your hard work
November 17th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
So is the widescreen version better, then? Do you get more picture with it (i.e. extra bits stuck on the sides of the previous releases), or less (i.e. the previousr releases minus bits from the top and bottom)?
I’ll take whichever version has the most picture (and preferably, the highest dimensions).
November 17th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
The widescreen has more. The 4:3 is a crop of the 16:9 done by TBS.
The dimensions are about the same, since this has 84 more pixels in width, yet 80 less in height.
November 17th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
WS is helping of Awesome with extra Awesome Sauce!
Sorry they’re such a total headache for you to produce.
November 18th, 2008 at 1:12 am
WS = Love. WS = Future. WS = Awesome.
November 18th, 2008 at 7:22 am
Wohoo~!
Finally, just what I was waiting for! Wide SCREEN! And Karaoke effects!!!! Perfect! Screw those 4:3 crops!!!!