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(rant)No wonder ADV and other companies have folded...
Scudworth:
this is why I just torrent.
Neco:
Its why a lot of people torrent.. But frankly, I'd prefer they get there act together and clean up stuff they transfer to DVD, especially concerning the older stuff. Clean it up, and make the price feel worth it.
I torrent just like everyone, but at the same time, its not always the best quality. BluRay rips are changing that of course for the newer Anime, but for the old stuff and stuff I want to buy.. It just doesn't feel worth it if they have all these crap problems they -shouldn't-.
But its a catch22.. The more people torrent, the less incentive they have to put out a quality product.. Scapegoating pirates is always going to happen whether it truly affects their bottom line or not, but it seems a lot of these companies truly only bring stuff over here on an "as we can afford the license" basis.. Which piracy is more apt to hurt versus something like Video games which get bukoo sales regardless.
So yeah on the one hand, people send a message they are not satisfied with the price and/or quality of whats being offered. On the other hand their only response is to cheapen it even more and cut costs wherever they can to maintain their sales.
OZC has an interesting take, which I kind of agree with as well. Supporting the whole BluRay thing. It would be nice to see lots of titles shift over to BluRay, transfered from original masters and cleaned up. But that is also very expensive and it sucks. But products like Dirty Pair:Flash are just inexcusable no matter what the medium. So far 100% of the scene changes I've come across in Episode 1 are horrible junk with the corruption. If episode 1 is any indication, the entire series is also littered with glaringly obvious dot crawl too :(
I still haven't figured out how I want to get rid of that and where in the filter chain to do it.
I would totally support and feel better about spending money on good quality BluRay releases though. I just wish the industry would catch on (or at least the torrent community) and stop encoding every single OP/ED /Commercial Break sequence with each episode.. Just annoying lol..
Monkemon:
Yeah prices are much better these days, except maybe in the hentai genre (Have not checked current prices in a few years) where a single disc can cost as much as an anime boxset. Just be glad we are not shelling out as much money as those in the 80's for vhs tapes, those went higher than $30 for as little as 30 minutes of animation.
Animade:
--- Quote from: Monkemon on November 26, 2009, 10:06:47 PM ---Yeah prices are much better these days, except maybe in the hentai genre (Have not checked current prices in a few years) where a single disc can cost as much as an anime boxset. Just be glad we are not shelling out as much money as those in the 80's for vhs tapes, those went higher than $30 for as little as 30 minutes of animation.
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lol you've got that right. I was one of those that shelled out $30 an episode on VHS back in the 80's. I still remember my utter shock when ADV started to sell DVD boxsets for 60 bucks at the end of the 1990's. Picked up a ton for no other reason than, just because. Sure the transfer wasn't the best but lol entire seasons for less than a hundred was wonderful to me. :P
You know what is actually the worst thing about shelling out any amount of money for a 1 episode VHS tape? Yeah the actual tape. Those damn things took up a shit load of real estate. So I loved the price, quality, amount of content, or slim-ness of packaging that DVD's offered. Hey I grew up in the slim pickings and high price days. To say nothing about the smorgasbord of anime that's at the tip of my mouse today.
Neco:
I too know the pain of VHS Anime prices. Oh man.. I remember when I saw a New Dominion Tank Police set of 3 tapes for $15 each and I was jizzing in the store.
One reason I never saw Lodoss War until I picked up the DVD set for some $30 or so, is because I remember looking for VHS sets and they were over $100 - good god.
Making some very good progress with DP:Flash though!
Assuming it all goes smoothly for each episode, I've got the dot-crawl all but removed, some good noise cleanup and got it all squeezed into a 2-pass VFR decimation routine. So I'll only have some 38,000-ish frames to deal with, instead of the 47,000-ish I was looking at before.
But either way it will be a very nice release and way superior to the DVD's. Hopefully won't take more than 2 - 4 weeks of work, ideally I'll be able to clean an episode per day though. Knowing my luck something else is bound to go wrong, like the audio ending up out of sync or something though ::) :P
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