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Postby Mr Pilkington » Thu Jan 16, 2003 1:58 am

RichLather wrote:I swear, there must be a 10 to 1 ratio for these things; Escaflowne bootleg sets go for $30-$45 while legit sets are going for $160 (although I got vol.1 tonight for $10.50). And you're completely out of luck at this point in time for legit Gundam 08th MS Team DVDs on eBay.



If it's Escaflowne you're looking for i know a source that has the Officals for $80 (preregion code). There is one set left and it's mine. Muhuahahahaha!!!
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Postby the Black Monarch » Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:01 am

Speaking of Escaflowne, is it any good? I've heard it compared to Evangelion.
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Postby Knowname » Thu Jan 16, 2003 3:12 am

the Black Monarch wrote:Speaking of Escaflowne, is it any good? I've heard it compared to Evangelion.


I dun like it... no it's average but compaired to Eva... (and just about every other 'A' title, Ranma, Macross, M+...) and the Movie dub sucks, the Movie sub is awesome though ;-p the dub is booooring specially in the begining.
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Postby Wykith » Thu Jan 16, 2003 2:47 pm

the Black Monarch wrote:Speaking of Escaflowne, is it any good? I've heard it compared to Evangelion.


No, no comparison. The movie rocks and the series is like watching rocks.
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Postby paizuri » Thu Jan 16, 2003 4:11 pm

Mr Pilkington wrote:If it's Escaflowne you're looking for i know a source that has the Officals for $80 (preregion code). There is one set left and it's mine. Muhuahahahaha!!!


Official pre-region code DVDs? Interesting...
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Thu Jan 16, 2003 5:16 pm

LOL.

Bootlegs, definitly.

There are no "preregion coded" DVDs. It's either Regions 1-6 or a Region 0 (Region Free/Bootleg) disk.
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Postby tacooe » Thu Jan 16, 2003 5:31 pm

I love bootleg DVD's, I don't know what I'd do without them. You can by 3 or 4 whole bootleg series for the price of 1 legit and it gets delivered faster.
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Postby RichLather » Thu Jan 16, 2003 6:04 pm

But it's like getting a William Chow fansub--there's quick release time, but the quality usually sucks.
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Postby FATTY_VM » Thu Jan 16, 2003 7:14 pm

not to promote bootlegging but i just bought this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... egory=2290

both subbed and dubbed? for 1 \ or 1\4 the price of it either or anywhere else .. mor eif bought seperately ... seriously .. how much does it cost to creat a dvd .. cents?? .. i can see price for animations .. voice actors .. subbers ... etc. etc .. but im not paying 20+ for a dvd with 3 episodes on it. i find those prices ridiculous.
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Postby RichLather » Thu Jan 16, 2003 7:46 pm

Yes, but what you've got has 26 episodes crammed onto 3 DVDs.

Putting all the legal issues aside, that's between 6 and 7 episodes per disc. You've got a lot more compression to deal with, so less quality.
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Postby CaTaClYsM » Thu Jan 16, 2003 7:55 pm

I wish that they would start making DVD in at least MPEG 2. But what I really would this rocked is if they ecoded them in XVID with OGG audio. :wink:
think of how much better a 2000 bitrate XVID encode would be to a 2000 bitrate MPEG 1.
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Thu Jan 16, 2003 8:33 pm

Umm, DVD is MPEG-2, moron.

It's 720x480 res at an 8Mbit MAX bitrate, 23.976fps/25fps/29.97fps

VCDs are MPEG-1, SVCDs and DVDs are MPEG-2.
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Postby lupe121283 » Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:07 pm

So what's wrong with bootleg copies? Well, moraly speaking it is wrong. Anime is still anime, no? I don't care for the quality of the anime, as long as they didn't edited the good parts out, or thought that some parts were too confusing so they "fix" it? That's the only time it should be wrong. Oh yeah, when you see cheap price anime, then they are bootleg. I got all three Slayers season for only $90 on DVD. I don't really care about the issue of bootleg. Whose getting hurt? America? Japan?
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Postby the Black Monarch » Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:09 pm

RichLather wrote:Putting all the legal issues aside, that's between 6 and 7 episodes per disc. You've got a lot more compression to deal with, so less quality.


Actually, the DVDs for Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda have like five episodes each, so that would be about ten episodes of anime, and yet they look perfect and even have room for extra features on every disc. Buffy, however, only has 4 episodes per disc, and looks grainier than the beach. Apparently, DVD quality depends more on what the settings are (bitrate curve, special processing, blah blah) than on the number of episodes per disc.
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Postby CaTaClYsM » Thu Jan 16, 2003 11:13 pm

I agree that the skill of the people doing the encoding can have a HUGE effect on the quality of the video
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