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Postby Mr Pilkington » Fri Jan 17, 2003 12:46 am

NicholasDWolfwood wrote:LOL.

Bootlegs, definitly.

There are no "preregion coded" DVDs. It's either Regions 1-6 or a Region 0 (Region Free/Bootleg) disk.



In correct. Region codes were brought about arround '97-98 (not sure the exact year.) Proior to that all DVD's were playable on all players. I mean jebus people, how long have you been on the DVD sceen?
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Postby NicholasDWolfwood » Fri Jan 17, 2003 12:55 am

DVDs came out in what, 99? I don't remember DVDs being out when I was in Kindergarten. (Kindergarten = '97)
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Postby Knowname » Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:00 am

Mr Pilkington wrote:
NicholasDWolfwood wrote:LOL.

Bootlegs, definitly.

There are no "preregion coded" DVDs. It's either Regions 1-6 or a Region 0 (Region Free/Bootleg) disk.



In correct. Region codes were brought about arround '97-98 (not sure the exact year.) Proior to that all DVD's were playable on all players. I mean jebus people, how long have you been on the DVD sceen?

yes teacher... btw you spell sceen 'scene' ;-0...
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Postby Mr Pilkington » Fri Jan 17, 2003 1:07 am

NicholasDWolfwood wrote:DVDs came out in what, 99? I don't remember DVDs being out when I was in Kindergarten. (Kindergarten = '97)



*urge to kill rising* I think I would know. I owned my first DVD ROM back in '96. It was "Generation 2" and cost me butt loads of money. Keep arguing.
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Postby CaTaClYsM » Fri Jan 17, 2003 2:28 am

Mr Pilkington wrote:
NicholasDWolfwood wrote:DVDs came out in what, 99? I don't remember DVDs being out when I was in Kindergarten. (Kindergarten = '97)



*urge to kill rising* I think I would know. I owned my first DVD ROM back in '96. It was "Generation 2" and cost me butt loads of money. Keep arguing.

yeah, I remember then talking abput the prototypes on the news 2 years before they even came out. 99? god that was stupider than my mistake about mpeg 2
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Postby FATTY_VM » Fri Jan 17, 2003 7:31 am

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.


i dont know what copies you got .. but the dvd's i got for hellsing and trigun look just as sharp and crisp as my evangelon and (dont yell at me for this) DBZ dvd's. and as one poster said .. each dvd still had a room for a few extra features and menus and ish. all i gotta say is dont knock it till you tried it.
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Postby FATTY_VM » Fri Jan 17, 2003 7:33 am

whoa .. Holy shit i just lost 40 posts. ???!? :?: :?:
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Postby tacooe » Fri Jan 17, 2003 2:58 pm

where did the post counts go? Now there is equality and who wants that?

Almost all of DVD's I own are bootleg and I love them. I don't watch extras and things and usually I only want the dub so why should I pay trice the price and waait twice as long for postage? Rarely have I had a problem with subtitles that I can't handle and the quality has always been perfect, it takes for alot of compression for me to notice any drop in quality.
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Fri Jan 17, 2003 3:01 pm

CaTaClYsM wrote:
Mr Pilkington wrote:
NicholasDWolfwood wrote:DVDs came out in what, 99? I don't remember DVDs being out when I was in Kindergarten. (Kindergarten = '97)



*urge to kill rising* I think I would know. I owned my first DVD ROM back in '96. It was "Generation 2" and cost me butt loads of money. Keep arguing.

yeah, I remember then talking abput the prototypes on the news 2 years before they even came out. 99? god that was stupider than my mistake about mpeg 2


no, no it wasn't.

Wolfwood, you were really young then. When you're that young you only notice things that are big deals or everywhere. DVDs had been out but they wern't mass produced, ya know like every movie didn't have one. It was very limited, and player were really expensive! SHIAT!

Gladiator came out on dvd the same time it was out for rental on VHS, ever since then pretty much every movie that comes out has had both, so check the gladiater dates. That's when it went main stream and got REALLY big.


And about those bootlegs who ever bought (don't feel like going back to page one to look). I know a site that sells legit copies for even less. If your intrested in making AMVs only you should buy from them. The catch is they're in japonese only, subbtitles in chinese and english I believe though, for most of them. They do have some american domestic dvds and they are cheaper than they normaly are else where, but not by much. It's not like you're gunna find somehting 50% off, maybe a good solid 15 or 20 though. Depends on the DVDs and what they have on them (movie, box set, episodes, that sort of thing ect.)
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Postby lupe121283 » Sat Jan 18, 2003 1:59 pm

Yeah, I know about those videos. I already started to sell those here in California. Especially to people who still buy the VHS copies of anime in the swapmeet (layman temr: flea market). $15 for three episodes of Pokemon. HA, I bought 12 volumes for a dollar each at a 99 cent store for my little nieces, and they are the real thing. The only thing a person has to do is shop around instead of just buying stuff at random.
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Postby Knowname » Sat Jan 18, 2003 4:12 pm

yeah I read about dvds (and 3d ;-p) back in '95 in a computer mag (Boot ;-p ahhh the good ole days)... I remember cuz they were all excited over the ViRGE chips and that was '95 deffinitely ;-p

anyway I didn't notice DVDs till the 21st century (dvd drives in 99)! it took em a LONG time to be mainstream, good thing 3d gfx didn't take that long.

don't know what Pilkington's smokin lol but I guess it's possible to have an SVCD... or if consumer players came way before DVD drives.
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Postby Knowname » Sat Jan 18, 2003 4:15 pm

May 95... I read that article like 20x!! interesting stuff! hehe
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Sat Jan 18, 2003 5:26 pm

uh, you make svcds...... all it is is burning video onto a cd-r so you can play it on your dvd player.
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Postby Mr Pilkington » Sun Jan 19, 2003 12:53 am

Knowname wrote:anyway I didn't notice DVDs till the 21st century (dvd drives in 99)! it took em a LONG time to be mainstream, good thing 3d gfx didn't take that long.

don't know what Pilkington's smokin lol but I guess it's possible to have an SVCD... or if consumer players came way before DVD drives.



Did I say SVCD? Do I stutter? No I purchased a “Sony DVD-ROM” from the bookstore at Georgia Tech University. And I was incorrect it was December 1997 not ‘96. I have the receipt right here in front of me. Don't believe me that's your problem but to de research and you’ll find that all your claims are complete and udder bullshit. Besides, just because YOU didn't notice doesn't mean that they didn't exist.
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Postby Jace Tsunami » Sun Jan 19, 2003 1:40 am

well said Mr. Pilkington.

you deserve a Touche!

So, Touche!
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