[2/19] Berryz 34th single : Otona na no yo! / 1 Oku 3 Senman Sou Diet Oukoku

[JonCC]

Again...

Amazon/CDJapan etc. really need to start uploading cover images where the color saturation isn't completely screwed up.
It's a huge problem (not just H!P releases).

[Celedam]

They don't precisely because they don't want to become the go-to source for album art. That could consume a huge amount of bandwidth over time.

[JonCC]

They don't precisely because they don't want to become the go-to source for album art.

People do it anyway. One need only to look at generasia and the H!P wiki to see that.

[Chatin]

Liking the covers. All of them are interesting, none of them are the worst they've had, and the Diet ones look great.

[Rm88]

I like them. Momo looks so great with both outfits I can't pick between future Momochi or regular Momochi.

[stam4o]

^I agree. Momoko, please get rid of the pigtails already. You sure can build one really mature image of yourself.

[boinsie]

Am I the only one that thinks Miya's hair is pretty dang adorable...?

[Bkfanatic]

I don't find Miyas hair that bad. I love the covers I'm having a hard time picking which one I should get, risako is slaying on all the covers and maasa looks great on the last diet cover.

[Zunu]

^ I've already gone on record as stating I adore Yabby's entire ensemble. That includes the hair, the crazy contacts, the whole nine. She is just flat gorgeous.

They don't precisely because they don't want to become the go-to source for album art.

Curious...is this from something you recall reading, or something you feel stands to reason on its face? Because Amazon Web Services have a redonkulous capacity, hosting something like 1.2 trillion objects (as of 2012), one percent of ALL consumer web traffic, hosting huge sites like reddit, Pinterest, and even serving up their competitor Netflix's back end applications. I doubt a few (million) album covers rehosted on blogs and fan pages would matter a jot to them.

My own guess is that they overcompress the images because they have determined that serving up blazingly fast low-bandwidth page renders trumps offering high-bandwidth product images in terms of what drives sales and retains customers. (In a sense, they have this in common with you. Meaning, I'm sure it hasn't escaped your attention that the entire site is free of bandwidth-sucking animated gifs or their flash equivalent.) For Amazon, with their razor thin margins and their proficient analysis of Big Data, even if a process proves to be a fraction of a percent more efficient in attracting/retaining customers over time, they will embrace it.

[Zunu]

And another thing about Miyabi. In Ltd A and C, her magenta dress not only stands out because of its brightness, but because it matches with the B in Berryz. Yeah, this is bleeding obvious, I know. But the reason I'm bringing it up is because it seems to me that a casual consumer would look at one of those covers and likely assume that she's the lead girl since the group name is coordinated to her image. Berryz management (not to mention the girls themselves) have to be aware that this is the impression conveyed by the covers, and yet they still went forward with it. What does that mean, I wonder.