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Postby NS » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:26 am

ya hthat was good he said "KAGOMA" and whizzed by people were like "wtf?" but yah i'm not doing anything illegal to obtain every episode of inuyasha :P what's a crime is they only put 3 episodes on each disk that could prolly holy like 8-9 maybe 10 damn thieves
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Postby anime_flower » Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:59 am

NerdStrudel wrote:ya hthat was good he said "KAGOMA" and whizzed by people were like "wtf?" but yah i'm not doing anything illegal to obtain every episode of inuyasha :P what's a crime is they only put 3 episodes on each disk that could prolly holy like 8-9 maybe 10 damn thieves


LOL...that is funny.

Yeah, I totally agree, they should put more epsidoes on DVDs so that people don't feel ripped off. I know this place where they sell those special box sets (3 disc and has like 20 eps) and sell them for like $120.00 but my friend still buy it. She says that there's three discs and theres about 20 eps on all three, adding up disc with three eps each singlely, she says it's worth it. Of course, due to them being this much she doesn't get them often but when she does she buys a whole lot. Point is, if they put more episodes on them, people will buy them more. That's what I reakon anyway.
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Postby Brigid » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:22 pm

Definitely. I never really understood why they put so few episodes on each DVD. It isn't just with anime, either. The people who do DVDs do the same thing with shows like Doc and Full House.

It is so easy to think that these people are ripping us off on purpose. :evil:
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Postby GloryQuestor » Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:53 pm

It's not ripping you off, per se. The problem with putting more on a disc is you have to trade something off to get it on there.

DVDs at their best compression only hold anywhere from 90-120 minutes tops, and that's both video and one audio track. Adding extra tracks to a DVD adds more to the space required, and less to what can be put on there. This is why 3- and 4- episode DVDs are more common at the start.

In the case of many of these multiple-ep DVDs that are well over two hours, you will have a tradeoff in quality. I've heard many people complain about the first season Cardcaptor Sakura compilation because the quality compared to the original release is obviously poor. This is because, in order to keep the dub and subtitles on there, fitting as many episodes as they did, they had to make the video quality compress enough to fit it.

On that note, I like the way VIZ did the InuYasha First Season "English TV Version" (aka Wal-Mart) set. Instead of compromising quality (like the aforementioned CSS boxset), they opted to cram all of the first season on three DVDs by eliminating all but the English dubtrack and removing the subtitle tracks. The result of this is better video compression for a small three-disc set that's half the price of the normal boxset and you only get the dub (which is fine since the InuYasha dubs are the best dubwork I've heard in any media (excepting Inuyasha: Fedual Combat :? )).
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Postby Brigid » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:31 pm

Ah, so that's it. Well, I guess that makes sense. :roll: Kinda forgot that there are still limits on current disk storage capacity.
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Postby anime_flower » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:45 am

Yeah definitely makes sense now. I've also just been told that in order for them to make anime they have to spend thousands and compressing them to an episode takes thousands too. So, I guess looking at it that way, it makes sense how they're expensive.

With the technology been so advanced and being so quick and everything...it kinda makes you think that they've at least, somehow found a way to minimise costs or created a larger capacity disc for DVD makers or something. :?
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Postby GloryQuestor » Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:58 pm

anime_flower wrote:With the technology been so advanced and being so quick and everything...it kinda makes you think that they've at least, somehow found a way to minimise costs or created a larger capacity disc for DVD makers or something. :?


There are alternatives, but they cost a lot more to implement. For example, a company could put its media on a double-layered DVD, which effectively doubles the space available. The reasons why it hasn't been as widely used is both a higher price than normal, single-layer DVDs and potential incompatibility with some players.

Blu-Ray and other technologies are coming out, and they will be good for future media, but in the DVD age not a lot of people are going to re-buy Blu-Ray versions of media they already have. That's pretty much been the doom of the UMD format -- even though you can watch them on PSPs easily, no one's going to front the same cost as the DVD they already own just to get it on their portable player. :?
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Postby Tenshi K. Tama » Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:19 am

Guess what my daddy just bought Tenshi!!!!! A Sesshomaru plushie!!! Thats the only InuYasha type item I own, besides trading cards.
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Postby anime_flower » Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:20 am

GloryQuestor wrote:
anime_flower wrote:With the technology been so advanced and being so quick and everything...it kinda makes you think that they've at least, somehow found a way to minimise costs or created a larger capacity disc for DVD makers or something. :?


There are alternatives, but they cost a lot more to implement. For example, a company could put its media on a double-layered DVD, which effectively doubles the space available. The reasons why it hasn't been as widely used is both a higher price than normal, single-layer DVDs and potential incompatibility with some players.

Blu-Ray and other technologies are coming out, and they will be good for future media, but in the DVD age not a lot of people are going to re-buy Blu-Ray versions of media they already have. That's pretty much been the doom of the UMD format -- even though you can watch them on PSPs easily, no one's going to front the same cost as the DVD they already own just to get it on their portable player. :?


Yeah, that's true. Guess it makes sense. Which means we'll have to wait until Double Layer DVD Players becomes popular in order for them to make the Dual-Layer DVDs. However, I suspect ANIME dual-layer DVDs will come out after the normal movie dual-lyaer DVDs. After all, comparing the ANIME section to normal movie section, they have a lot more selection than ANIME.
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Postby Lortenian » Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:41 pm

[quote="iceNfire"]From what I read on a certain site there are 167 episodes....[/quote]

Ok you guys, from what I've read, you obviously have seen the show a lot more than me and have actually watched it ALL THE WAY THROUGH, but I have a really big question that's been nagging at me for awhile. The last time I actually saw the show, it must have been close to three years and I only got see see...roughly fifteen episodes, but I didn't actually start watching it from the beginning. What was the main problem in the anime show? Like, what was the plot? :oops: You people know so much about it...I kinda feel stupid asking such a lame question. From what I saw of the show, it looked awesome, but I never got the chance to watch the entire thing. :x
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Postby Lortenian » Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:42 pm

[quote="iceNfire"]From what I read on a certain site there are 167 episodes....[/quote]

Ok you guys, from what I've read, you obviously have seen the show a lot more than me and have actually watched it ALL THE WAY THROUGH, but I have a really big question that's been nagging at me for awhile. The last time I actually saw the show, it must have been close to three years and I only got see see...roughly fifteen episodes, but I didn't actually start watching it from the beginning. What was the main problem in the anime show? Like, what was the plot? :oops: You people know so much about it...I kinda feel stupid asking such a lame question. From what I saw of the show, it looked awesome, but I never got the chance to watch the entire thing. :x
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Postby Lortenian » Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:43 pm

[quote="Lortenian"][quote="iceNfire"]From what I read on a certain site there are 167 episodes....[/quote]

Ok you guys, from what I've read, you obviously have seen the show a lot more than me and have actually watched it ALL THE WAY THROUGH, but I have a really big question that's been nagging at me for awhile. The last time I actually saw the show, it must have been close to three years and I only got see see...roughly fifteen episodes, but I didn't actually start watching it from the beginning. What was the main problem in the anime show? Like, what was the plot? :oops: You people know so much about it...I kinda feel stupid asking such a lame question. From what I saw of the show, it looked awesome, but I never got the chance to watch the entire thing. :x[/quote]

Ha ha...I repeated myself :oops:
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I luv inuyasha man!

Postby tabbi_kat » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:51 pm

:D i love this series...which episodes do wanna talk about? which char do you love and hate? i can talk all day about it ^_^[/b]
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Re: I luv inuyasha man!

Postby Lortenian » Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:57 pm

[quote="tabbi_kat"]:D i love this series...which episodes do wanna talk about? which char do you love and hate? i can talk all day about it ^_^[/b][/quote]

Ha ha! Well, like I said, it's been awhile, so the episodes I saw a billion years ago are kinda hazy. But like ok....how am I gonna put this...just for starters, who is the main character again? The red-haired guy right and he's all cool with his sword (I know I like him, he be 8-) ), right?....wrong? OH! Who's the guy with the big huge sword he fights with..has black spikey hair (man this is bad, I used to know his name. He's the friend of the red-haired guy)


(oh gawd, this is gonna take forever...but what the heck, you just said you can talk about it all day! So... :D ) But I'm just a little desperate.
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Postby Brigid » Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:40 pm

Red hair? Black spiky hair? Are we talking about the same series?

Anyway, the main character is Inuyasha, a half-dog demon with long white hair and dog ears. (Some describe them as cat ears, but they're dog ears.) He was sealed to a tree by a priestess named Kikyo sometime in the 1500s. Then Kikyo's supposed reincarnation, Kagome, gets dragged down a magic well on the grounds of her family's shrine. Kagome is from our time and the well takes her to Inuyasha's, plus fifty years. Kagome unseals Inuyasha so that he can save her from a demonic centiped. But after killing the centiped Inuyasha turns on her because she has a magic stone called the Skikon Jewel. It's because he'd stolen that jewel that he'd been sealed to the tree in the first place.

Before Inuyasha can really hurt Kagome, though, Kikyo's younger sister, now an old lady and the local priestess, puts some enchanted beads around his neck that permits Kagome to subdue Inuyasha with a single word. (Kagome chooses the word 'sit' or 'osuwari' because of Inuyasha's dog-like features.)

More stuff happens and the jewel gets shattered, each piece zooming off for who knows where. So Kagome and Inuyasha are forced to work together to collect the shards and on the way they meet friends, enemies (lots of enemies), and grow to like each other. A lot.

That's a pretty lame sounding summary, but there you have it.
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