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Postby kain2983 » Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:01 pm

[MOD: Please refrain from posting links to sites that sell bootlegs]

I never bought anything from the site so I didn't know that they sold bootlegs. I had just found it the other day and then I saw this post and thought I would tell people about it.
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Postby AMVfreak » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:02 am

GMM2005 wrote:Thanx, but i already have a place.

Its in a shitty 2-story house. The place is called David's comics, and not many people know about it. He has over 2000 anime dvd's and videos that you can rent for $1.50 (for 3 days) also has every marvel comics there is on sale, action figures, books, and magazines.

You can talk to the guy and he can order manga for you then all you have to do is go to the place and pick it up. The same with the DVDs. He orders them from a friend in Japan, and its very cheap. My friend got the Hellsing boxset for $45 (and its on 3 dvd's not 4 like the american version). Also the Evangelion boxset is $50, pretty cheap if you ask me. The only drawback is that you have to wait about a month for it to arrive.


how do you play your dvds
i thought that japana and US dvds have different region codes
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Postby bubblehead » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:38 am

Well, it sounds like a bootleg, so any DVD player or PS2 can play it (as it's probably region 0/all region). I looked on the Japanese versionof amazon, and it seems there are at least 5 Hellsing DVDs, though I can't read Japanese.
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Postby Nekoboy Sal » Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:49 pm

AMVfreak wrote:how do you play your dvds
i thought that japana and US dvds have different region codes

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I bet you can just take any chip number from you DVD Player and get some results with it. Mine was easy to locate because it had a big sticer saying USA on it. I knew that was the Region thingymabob.

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Postby KirinRiotCrash » Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:29 pm

I guess while we're on the subject in regards to international DVDs, if someone knows of a good place that sells Region2 discs at some lower prices, that would rock! The price sounds cool until I get into the shipping part ... shipping from Japan to my house is a pain in my wallet.

Having experience with a few bootleg titles that I have won in local gatherings as door prizes at university anime meetings (none I have ever directly purchased from a bootleg store, although, there might be some legal thread I'm walking on compared to actually buying it from someone), it's always questionable in regards to quality. I have found that some legit Region2 anime on DVD in 16:9 resolution usually gets beatened down so badly in quality when distributed on Region0 DVDs in 4:3 letterbox format. Additionally, the audio is downgraded to 2.0 if the original Region2 discs had 5.1 sound. However, those originally in 4:3 might be more or less forgiving in quality depending on the company who bootlegged ... but I'm not mentioning those companies on this board. That's up to you if you feel the need to feed the mouths of Chinese pirates just to research which bootleg company is the best. Someday, those bootlegs will be replaced with legit versions but for now, they just sit somewhere buried in my closet and gathering dust.

Anyway, I hate bootlegs. If I ever get a good paying job, I'm going to buy some legit discs to replace the pirated ones that were given to me and have a bootleg-burning ceremony in my back yard. (although, I might need to research the environmental hazards when it comes to burning DVDs before starting such a ceremony)
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Postby LantisEscudo » Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:04 pm

KirinRiotCrash wrote:I guess while we're on the subject in regards to international DVDs, if someone knows of a good place that sells Region2 discs at some lower prices, that would rock! The price sounds cool until I get into the shipping part ... shipping from Japan to my house is a pain in my wallet.


Yeah, the shipping hurts... I just shelled out 2000 yen for just shipping a DVD from amazon.co.jp.

Usually when I want imports, I look at CDJapan, amazon.co.jp, and animecornerstore.com. The first two will really hurt on the shipping costs, but they have absolutely massive selections.

For really popular stuff (like Ghibli movies), animecornerstore.com will usually have it, and they ship from inside the US, so shipping doesn't cost nearly as much. You will pay slightly more for the actual disk (reseller markup), but that markup will still usually be less than what shipping from Japan would cost you.
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Postby bubblehead » Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:37 am

KirinRiotCrash wrote:Anyway, I hate bootlegs. If I ever get a good paying job, I'm going to buy some legit discs to replace the pirated ones that were given to me and have a bootleg-burning ceremony in my back yard. (although, I might need to research the environmental hazards when it comes to burning DVDs before starting such a ceremony)


No, what you do, you microwave them ten seconds on high. The underside gets sparkly and crackly and pretty, and they stay in one piece, but they become unusuable (I saw it on TechTV). I might do it, too.
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Postby LightningCountX » Tue Jul 20, 2004 2:29 pm

www.dvdpricesearch.com

www.deepdiscountdvd.com

or when i dont have a credit card and im forced to...

bestbuy...

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Postby KirinRiotCrash » Tue Jul 20, 2004 6:31 pm

bubblehead wrote:No, what you do, you microwave them ten seconds on high. The underside gets sparkly and crackly and pretty, and they stay in one piece, but they become unusuable (I saw it on TechTV). I might do it, too.
You know what? That's not a bad idea! I might try it out someday. I've done that with a few CD-Rs before ... I'm not sure if it's any different with DVD discs since their materials are somewhat different but I might just try it. :twisted:
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Postby pyro baka » Tue Jul 20, 2004 8:42 pm

before i discovered using online anime stores, it was suncoast or hastings. now it's robert's anime corner store(mainly for my anime cd's), animetoyshop(i dont think the dvd's here are bootlegs but oh well if they are) or asylum-anime(when they sold dvds).
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Postby trunkims » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:33 pm

I've checked out all these places, been to suncoast and bestbuy, I've wasted a ton of money just buying at suncoast for one dvd. Now I go to one place to get all my anime....... it's the cheapest and best place to go. I've dealt with ebay before, not the best place exactly.

Here's my secret: :shock:
[MOD: Please don't link to bootlegs.] MY #1 source for anime. They come in neat boxsets for a cheap price I think. For those who like the dubbed versions, they have them too. Ex: Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances) Eng Dub: $18.99. Yu Yu Hakusho Part 1-3 Boxset: $53.99 pretty cheap eh? Well organized and I don't think many people know about it, since I haven't seen it been mentioned on here.
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Postby Jnzk » Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:49 pm

trunkims wrote:Here's my secret: :shock:
[MOD: Please don't link to bootlegs.] MY #1 source for anime. They come in neat boxsets for a cheap price I think. For those who like the dubbed versions, they have them too. Ex: Kare Kano (His and Her Circumstances) Eng Dub: $18.99. Yu Yu Hakusho Part 1-3 Boxset: $53.99 pretty cheap eh? Well organized and I don't think many people know about it, since I haven't seen it been mentioned on here.

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