SAO The Movie shows significant quality improvement over the previous releases in two aspects: the native resolution is in Full-HD rather than the Half-HD upscaled, and the texture details are much more comprehensive. Overall from the pespective of image quality, this is well expected as a first-tier movie blu-ray. We simply fix some slight aliasing and banding issues before encoding. Since the movie features rich details, sharp edges and a lot of high-motion scenes, it naturally requires a higher bit-rate to keep up the transparent encoding quality.