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Who's your favorite distributor?

Post by Bushido Philosopher » Sun Feb 02, 2003 9:49 pm

Who is your favorite DVD Region 1 anime distributor?

Mine would have to be Pioneer. They have great menu designs plus have lots of extras in everything that they do. Their video output quality for the DVDs are generally very clean and crisp. They're just plain good.

The worst one I'd have to point out though is ADV Films. True, they do have series like EVA or Rurouni Kenshin, but their video quality is apalling. It's like they're capturing from an analog source at some times. I see terrible rainbowing in pretty much every series that Ive seen from them.
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Post by MAS PRODUCTIONS » Mon Feb 03, 2003 11:47 am

I also like Pioneer but I like Bandai as well. I aslo enjoyed Animeigo, they did a pretty good job on Oh My Goddess.
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Post by LittleKefalos » Mon Feb 03, 2003 3:16 pm

My main source of judgement is quality and thus.

Pioneer is surely the best. I'm sure they know this. Let's hope they stay the best.

Manga Entertainment is also good, their Berserk extras certainly are creative (i.e. the outakes)

Viz Video, is the only other company I really know and I have only gotten Ranma from them. They are a decent company, not too many extras, but that's ok they only got a bit sloppy in the season three box set, where they didn't have Japanese for two of the episodes, and forgot some of Happosi's lines in translation underneath (for about two of his lines).
Other than this one mishap I can't say I'm not satisfied, though its annoying that you have to sit through their beginning title every time, oh well.

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Post by AKH257 » Mon Feb 03, 2003 3:21 pm

pioneer is my fav or bandai
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Post by Beefmaster10000 » Mon Feb 03, 2003 3:37 pm

Pioneer, definately.

Though, I don't see anything wrong with ADV. I think they are pretty good. I also like Bandai and Manga Entertainment. In fact, a lot of the companies are pretty good.

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Post by Jebadia » Mon Feb 03, 2003 4:56 pm

indeed Pioneer is great
ADV has it's ups and downs, but I don't have any problems with em.
As for Manga...nothing still angers me more than what they did with the Macross Plus: Movie Edition.
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Post by Jebadia » Mon Feb 03, 2003 4:57 pm

Bandai is also great.
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Post by NicholasDWolfwood » Mon Feb 03, 2003 5:00 pm

Ko Oh Yoku wrote: It's like they're capturing from an analog source at some times. I see terrible rainbowing in pretty much every series that Ive seen from them.
...in most cases, they are capturing from analog source. What do you think the FILM is?
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Post by Brolli411 » Mon Feb 03, 2003 8:26 pm

Ko Oh Yoku wrote:The worst one I'd have to point out though is ADV Films. True, they do have series like EVA or Rurouni Kenshin, but their video quality is apalling. It's like they're capturing from an analog source at some times. I see terrible rainbowing in pretty much every series that Ive seen from them.
What animes have you seen this in? I've seen quite a few ADV titles, but never anything like what you describe.
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Post by Jebadia » Mon Feb 03, 2003 8:41 pm

Ruin Explorers does have rainbowing, but i think they've been more careful since then when capturing.

If you want apalling, as I mentioned before, the Manga Ent. release of Macros Plus: Movie edition was horrid, as one person who reviewed it said, "It appears they captured it from their master VHS" in which it did appear so, that and the subs were burnt into the video, it was like they just gave you a fansub, and when I ripped the dvd, I saw that there was a ton black margins all around the actual footage, after cropping all the margines out, the true resolution was around 644x or so.
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