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Anime Relations: Binbougami ga!

h.265
" H.265/HEVC is said to improve video quality, double the data compression ratio compared to H.264/AVC, and can support resolutions up to 7680 × 4320 "
More info... (Google)

Anime not related. (lol)

Anime Relations: Prism Ark, Shinryaku! Ika Musume, SOS TV Walpurgis Night Fever, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Sengoku Basara Movie: The Last Party, Nekogami Yaoyorozu, Ikoku Meiro no Croisée The Animation, Gintama', Nichijou

Last line-up of fallback playlist: anitemp (28/07/2011)
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Last played: 03/11/2011

T.M.Revolution - [Sengoku Basara Movie ~The Last Party~ OP & ED Single - FLAGS #01] FLAGS
T.M.Revolution - [Sengoku Basara Movie ~The Last Party~ OP & ED Single - FLAGS #02] The party must go on
serial TV drama - [Tougenkyou Alien #01] Tougenkyou Alien
Tomatsu Haruka - [Oh My God #01] Oh My God
Kanemoto Hisako - [Shinryaku! Ika Musume Image Song Single 2 - Iika Iika wa Ii de Geso! #03] Kihon wa Natsu, Shinryaku no Natsu ~Nama Shibori Lemon Fuumi~
Youmou to Ohana - [Ikoku Meiro no Croisée OP & ED Single - Sekai wa Odoru yo, Kimi to #01] Sekai wa Odoru yo, Kimi to.
Toyama Nao - [Ikoku Meiro no Croisée OP & ED Single - Sekai wa Odoru yo, Kimi to #02] Koko Kara Hajimaru Monogatari
Konno Hiromi, Furuya Shizuka & Shiraishi Minoru - [Nichijou Web Radio Theme Song Single - Shinonome Kenkyuusho no, Kyou mo Heiwa Desu #01] Shinonome Kenkyuusho no, Kyou mo Heiwa Desu
TeddyLoid feat. Mariya Ise aka Stocking - [Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt - The WORST ALBUM #01] Milky Way
momo-I - [Yuuen no Amulet #02] Opera Fantasia
Kaneda Tomoko - [Warunai Fever #01] Warunai Fever

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This is a new upcoming perhaps-to-be standard that fansubbers are possibly moving towards soon. (Some already had a headstart)

The thing is the actual lack of support in most of stable releases.

This leads to few or more problems which are the color conversion fail, artifaction, banding, garbling etc. which can't be avoided because the proper decoders and filters are not yet in use.
They exist only in the nightly builds and subversions of the players and components and the support is already added to atleast FFDSHOW. FFMPEG, libavcodec etc. which are core components that can eventually spread the support nearly everywhere, but these changes have yet to reach the common end-user.

Even the no-so-old CCCP is already "outdated" and you need the more recent Beta builds.

SMPlayer / MPlayer users can temporarily switch to fresh nightlies of mplayer2 fork.

Same goes for the obvious FFDSHOW which is normally more used as an SVN build anyway.

VLC nightlies are reported to have the support and according to some info VLC might actually be one of the first mainstream players to have the support in a stable release. Too bad it's still VLC...

Stand-alone MPC-HC status i'm not aware of, but i assume that they'll get there along with updating ffmpeg, libavcodec etc. base components like most others would. Whenever the next stable release is, it's likely to have it.

10bit encoding shortly:
+better colors
+better quality
+stronger compression (smaller file)
-increased performance requirements for both encoding and decoding(!)
-hardware and renderer support may be limited for some time
-not yet supported by stable releases of media players / software (inaccurate decoding)

Currently some fansubbers will support both 10bit and "normal" 8bit encodes separately. and hopefully most will keep the 10bit tag visible so people won't flood them with comments about bad quality files or that they can respond to those quicker when people do.

If this proves good enough for everyday use, wide support may still take some years even...
And it's more than likely that there will remain a majority of 8bit encodes for quite some time. (it's a commercial standard while 10bit encoding is still more of a professional authoring standard)