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Post by Scintilla » Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:41 am

OtakuForLife wrote:Well I have bought HK dvd' only twice and for good reasons.
One, I hear the LH dub sucs, I was low on cash and wanted the series.
I made the mistake of buying the Fushigi Yuugi: Eikou Den HK version off of eBay; I didn't realize it was HK, nor did I realize that Pioneer had an R1 version out. The subs (which appeared to have been translated from the Chinese instead of straight from Japanese) were so bad that I <i>had</i> to watch it dubbed.

So let me advise anyone who wants to take their chances with bootlegs: make sure they're listed as having an English audio track. If you're going to get bootlegs, you might as well make sure you get <i>good</i> bootlegs.
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Post by Jonathan02us » Mon Dec 15, 2003 1:22 am

Scintilla wrote:
OtakuForLife wrote:Well I have bought HK dvd' only twice and for good reasons.
One, I hear the LH dub sucs, I was low on cash and wanted the series.
I made the mistake of buying the Fushigi Yuugi: Eikou Den HK version off of eBay; I didn't realize it was HK, nor did I realize that Pioneer had an R1 version out. The subs (which appeared to have been translated from the Chinese instead of straight from Japanese) were so bad that I <i>had</i> to watch it dubbed.

So let me advise anyone who wants to take their chances with bootlegs: make sure they're listed as having an English audio track. If you're going to get bootlegs, you might as well make sure you get <i>good</i> bootlegs.
LOL ... heck yeah ... if u gonna get bootleg go for the best thing out there .. u dont wanna mess with those cheapo's that subtitle it themselves ... im not telling u to buy them but if u r going to, get the best ... 8)
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Post by Vlad86 » Mon Dec 15, 2003 2:18 am

I'd only get bootlegs for three reasons:

1. Not available in the U.S. (i.e. not licensed, and no idea of when)
2. U.S. company did horrible job (i.e. the Sonic X and Yu-gi-oh dubs. 4Kids sucks so much ass)
3. Entire series cost is probably more than you'll spend in a lifetime, and the U.S. release is slow as crap. (i.e. InuYasha)

Those are my main reasons I'd get a bootleg. Now, I have thought about getting some, but as of this time I have not bought a bootleg or downloaded a fansub.
If a title is licensed, then I'll be patient for its U.S. release. (however ADV is testing that patience with its long wait for Puni Puni Poemi. When was that licensed? Like almost two years ago? Guess it keeps the shelf warm and they like warm shelves [their old shelf heater broke])
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Post by CaTaClYsM » Mon Dec 15, 2003 3:32 am

If a US release was for whatever reason crappy, I'd just import the Japanese release and try to mux in the subs.

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Post by DJ_Izumi » Mon Dec 15, 2003 10:12 am

J-0080 wrote:So order now as copies are limited until Izumi runs out to Best Buy and picks up some more DVD-R disks.
You'd have to be stupid to buy something that was encoded from Divx and Xvid source material.
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Post by Otohiko » Mon Dec 15, 2003 10:42 am

DJ_Izumi wrote:
J-0080 wrote:So order now as copies are limited until Izumi runs out to Best Buy and picks up some more DVD-R disks.
You'd have to be stupid to buy something that was encoded from Divx and Xvid source material.
<= I'm with stupid

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Post by AtomicWeezleman » Mon Dec 15, 2003 12:26 pm

Vlad86 wrote:I'd only get bootlegs for three reasons:

1. Not available in the U.S. (i.e. not licensed, and no idea of when)
2. U.S. company did horrible job (i.e. the Sonic X and Yu-gi-oh dubs. 4Kids sucks so much ass)
3. Entire series cost is probably more than you'll spend in a lifetime, and the U.S. release is slow as crap. (i.e. InuYasha)

Those are my main reasons I'd get a bootleg. Now, I have thought about getting some, but as of this time I have not bought a bootleg or downloaded a fansub.
If a title is licensed, then I'll be patient for its U.S. release. (however ADV is testing that patience with its long wait for Puni Puni Poemi. When was that licensed? Like almost two years ago? Guess it keeps the shelf warm and they like warm shelves [their old shelf heater broke])

adv is slow init? Im still waiting for the last nadesco disks and 3 eva disks............ so you think you have it bad???
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Post by J-0080 » Mon Dec 15, 2003 4:09 pm

Otohiko wrote:
DJ_Izumi wrote:
J-0080 wrote:So order now as copies are limited until Izumi runs out to Best Buy and picks up some more DVD-R disks.
You'd have to be stupid to buy something that was encoded from Divx and Xvid source material.
<= I'm with stupid

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Post by Vlad86 » Mon Dec 15, 2003 7:00 pm

AtomicWeezleman wrote:
Vlad86 wrote:I'd only get bootlegs for three reasons:

1. Not available in the U.S. (i.e. not licensed, and no idea of when)
2. U.S. company did horrible job (i.e. the Sonic X and Yu-gi-oh dubs. 4Kids sucks so much ass)
3. Entire series cost is probably more than you'll spend in a lifetime, and the U.S. release is slow as crap. (i.e. InuYasha)

Those are my main reasons I'd get a bootleg. Now, I have thought about getting some, but as of this time I have not bought a bootleg or downloaded a fansub.
If a title is licensed, then I'll be patient for its U.S. release. (however ADV is testing that patience with its long wait for Puni Puni Poemi. When was that licensed? Like almost two years ago? Guess it keeps the shelf warm and they like warm shelves [their old shelf heater broke])

adv is slow init? Im still waiting for the last nadesco disks and 3 eva disks............ so you think you have it bad???
When were they licensed? And by Eva disks you mean the director's cut right? That was licensed on 4/19/2003, Nadesico doesn't have a date, and Puni Puni Poemi was 7/05/2001.

So in fact you've been waiting less, sometimes it pays to have patience.
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And Izumi, just what source are you using then? Mpeg, Mpeg2, etc?

Oh, and CaTaClYsM, now that I do have an R2 player, I was thinking about getting the Japanese releases over bootlegs(I'm planning on learning Japanese......eventuallly), but the Japanese releases are very expensive. I'd only do it for short series. (something like InuYasha would put me in mountains of debt.)
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Post by Scintilla » Mon Dec 15, 2003 7:20 pm

DJ_Izumi wrote:
J-0080 wrote:So order now as copies are limited until Izumi runs out to Best Buy and picks up some more DVD-R disks.
You'd have to be stupid to buy something that was encoded from Divx and Xvid source material.
Vlad86 wrote:Izumi, just what source are you using then? Mpeg, Mpeg2, etc?
Didn't her statement imply that she was using DivX and XviD source, and hence, no one should be paying for her DVDs?
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