Pokemon Home Media Comparison Cheatsheet

pokemon_home_media_comparison_cheatsheet.md

Notes

• Seasons and Episode Orders are following TMDB's Order
• Banned and flashback episodes are not counted towards episode numbers
• VHS releases are not listed at all here as they have all since been trumped by DVD's or better
• See here for information on how the Bitrate Scoring works

Legend

Season	Releases
Season 1 - Indigo League	9
Season 2 - Adventures in the Orange Islands	5
Season 3 - The Johto Journeys	4
Season 4 - Johto League Champions	4
Season 5 - Master Quest	3
Season 6 - Advanced	2
Season 7 - Advanced Challenge	2
Season 8 - Advanced Battle	2
Season 9 - Battle Frontier	2
Season 10 - Diamond and Pearl	2
Season 11 - Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension	2
Season 12 - Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles	2
Season 13 - Diamond and Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors	2
Season 14 - Black & White	2
Season 15 - Black & White: Rival Destinies	1
Season 16 - Black & White: Adventures in Unova	1
Season 17 - XY	2
Season 18 - XY: Kalos Quest	2
Season 19 - XYZ	2
Season 20 - Sun & Moon	2
Season 21 - Sun & Moon: Ultra Adventures	1

Recommended Purchases

Season 1 - Indigo League

Banned Episodes: 3/82

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release Barcode	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		VIZ	Standard/Champion's Edition BluRay (2017)
		MangaUK
		BHE AU	All of: and part of:
		BHE AU	Season 1 Blu-ray Collection (2017)
		MAGNA
		VIZ	Singles 1-25 (1998-2001)
		VIZ	Parts 1-3 (2006-2008)
		VIZ	Volumes 1-3 (2013-2014)
		VIZ	The Complete Collection (2014)

• Single Release 21 (PIKA-21DVD) and the Part 3 Release contains the banned episode Holiday Hi-Jynx

Season 2 - Adventures in the Orange Islands

Banned Episodes: 2/36

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		BHE AU	All of: and part of:
		VIZ
		MAGNA
		VIZ	Adventures On The Orange Islands 1-3 (DPMOR01 - DPMOR03) (2002-2003)
		VIZ	Adventures On The Orange Islands Boxset (2008)

• All three VIZ releases are apparently exactly the same according to Bulbapedia but the 2015 release The Complete Collection excludes the 2 banned episodes, will need further analysis on that statement
• VIZ's releases before 2015's The Complete Collection contains both banned episodes

Season 3 - The Johto Journeys

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		BHE AU
		MAGNA	S03 Super Wallet (2007)
		VIZ	The Johto Journeys Volumes 39-51 (2001-2002)
		VIZ	The Johto Journeys - The Complete Collection (2015)

Season 4 - Johto League Champions

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		BHE AU
		MAGNA	S04 Super Wallet (2007)
		VIZ	S04 Singles (2002-2004)
		VIZ	S04 Collection (2016)

Season 5 - Master Quest

Banned Episodes: 1/65

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		MAGNA	S05 Super Wallet (2007)
		VIZ
		BHE AU
		Finnkino	Finnkino Releases

• BHE AU (9318500053893) is a re-packaged and slightly re-authored re-release of MAGNA (9315842033415), it was slightly re-authored to compress a few episodes to fit into the slightly smaller overall space when going from 14xDVD5 to 6xDVD9.
• Finnkino Releases only has finnish audio and absolutely no subtitles or chapters, video is the english dub with no edits.

Season 6 - Advanced

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		BHE AU
		MAGNA	S06 Super Wallet (2007)

Season 7 - Advanced Challenge

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		MAGNA	S07 Super Wallet (2008)
		BHE AU

Season 8 - Advanced Battle

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		BHE AU
		MAGNA	S08 Super Wallet (2007)

Season 9 - Battle Frontier

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		BHE AU
		MAGNA	S09 Super Wallet (2007)

Season 10 - Diamond and Pearl

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		VIZ
		BHE AU

• BHE AU (9318500053947) is noticably blurrier than VIZ (782009245926)

Season 11 - Diamond and Pearl: Battle Dimension

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		VIZ	S11 Vols. 1-6 (2009)
		BHE AU

Season 12 - Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		Amazon	Pokemon.S12.MiXED.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-PRAGMA
		BHE AU

Season 13 - Diamond and Pearl: Sinnoh League Victors

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		Amazon	Pokemon.S13.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-PRAGMA
		BHE AU

Season 14 - Black & White

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		Amazon	Pokemon.S14.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-PRAGMA
		BHE AU

Season 15 - Black & White: Rival Destinies

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		BHE AU

Season 16 - Black & White: Adventures in Unova

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		BHE AU

Season 17 - XY

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		Studio Hamburg Enterprises
		BHE AU

Season 18 - XY: Kalos Quest

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		Studio Hamburg Enterprises
		BHE AU	S18 (2016)

Season 19 - XYZ

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		Studio Hamburg Enterprises
		BHE AU	S19 (2017)

Season 20 - Sun & Moon

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		Polyband	Polyband Verbünde dich mit Pikachu (2019)
		BHE AU	S20 (2018)

Season 21 - Sun & Moon: Ultra Adventures

Region	Bitrate Score	Publisher	Release	Episodes	Format	Scan-Type
		VIZ

Recommended Purchases

• BeyondHomeEntertainment Australia's Season 1-20: Ultra Collection is a great purchase if you want to get a ton of season's in bulk to kickstart your collection. As of right now, some of it's DVD's are trumping competitor releases too so it's a great buy in terms of quality. All the DVD's inside are also sold seperately too.

Scripts

Bitrate Scoring System (python)

from pymediainfo import MediaInfo  # pip install pymediainfo
import glob

files = glob.glob("*.mkv")
b = 0
for file in files:
    b = b + [x for x in MediaInfo.parse(file).tracks if x.track_type == "Video"][0].bit_rate
average = (b / len(files)) / 1000
print(f"{b} bytes / {len(files)} files / 1000 = {average} kb/s average")
print(f"Score: {int((average/9800.00)*100)}%")

• The closer the score is to 100%, the closer it is to DVD-Video's MAX Video Bitrate of 9,800 kbps, a score greater than 100% would be gotten from a superior source, e.g. Blu-Ray.
• A score below 40% is considered bad