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| Gen 1482th Post
 
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|  "Re(1):Dilemna with Buying Anime DVDs..."
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Okay, I have a dilemma. I've become a bit hooked on Trigun on Cartoon Network, and I decided that I want the entire series on DVD. The problem is that the entire US release DVD set is going for nearly $200 at most ($160 is the cheapest I've seen). But I dont have the funds to invest in it all at once. Then I remembered that you can probably order the set on E-bay, but it won't be the US set found in US stores. For example, I saw this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3320990572&category=2290
I've ordered Asian DVDs off e-bay before. Lets just say the Versus DVD I bought seemed to have less than ok quality. I want to be sure I'm buying something of good quality.
The point is, I want to try to buy legit Anime, and I'm not sure if I'm going about it the right way. Can anyone give any advice? Cause I'm also interested in buying other anime, like the Evangelion series.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
If it's a legal American or Japan region disc, it should be good typical DVD quality. VCDs & pirating with them were ultra popular in some parts of the world like China, I don't know if they had any effect on other industries.... What else I might say would be guessing...
That's all I can say to try and help, my experiance is legit N.A. and J. region DVDs are good quality. (note I'm not suggesting that other regions aren't good quality)
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| Grave 294th Post
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| "Re(2):Dilemna with Buying Anime DVDs..." , posted Thu 17 Apr 21:47
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If it's a legal American or Japan region disc, it should be good typical DVD quality. VCDs & pirating with them were ultra popular in some parts of the world like China, I don't know if they had any effect on other industries.... What else I might say would be guessing...
That's all I can say to try and help, my experiance is legit N.A. and J. region DVDs are good quality. (note I'm not suggesting that other regions aren't good quality)
Legal region 3 stuff is good, too. I have a couple of Hong Kong discs that I know not to be pirates, and they're quite good. This is useful, because often Japanese movies will hit the HK market with English subs long before they ever get picked up for a US release, if they do at all. HK releases are how I saw Godzilla 2000, the Gamera movies, Battle Royale, Jin-Roh, Parasite Eve, etc. with English subs without waiting around for the US video releases. 
Oh, and you'll pay a premium for Japanese discs, believe me. And you probably won't get English subs, or in any language other than Japanese, more than likely. You can pay close to $100 for one movie, depending on the edition, sometimes. And you might get a lot of cool features, but if you don't understand Japanese, you're SOL.
So I doubt you'd be saving money buying any Japanese releases. Unless they're illegal.
A good HK release might be the way to go. The legal ones seem cheaper, anyway. I've paid $15 or less for some stuff. It's hard to determine what's legal or not, though... but the quality has been okay to very good, with everything I've seen. Just remember to expect what you pay for. Sometimes you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Sigh. I guess I can't even really speak on this issue. I have Trigun fansubs, heheh. Gotta grab the DVDs sometime. Got the Bebop box back when it hit the US... I'd like to have Trigun around, just for when I'm dying to see a certain episode or two on DVD.
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| CrazyMax
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| "Re(1):Dilemna with Buying Anime DVDs..." , posted Thu 17 Apr 21:51
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Okay, I have a dilemma. I've become a bit hooked on Trigun on Cartoon Network, and I decided that I want the entire series on DVD. The problem is that the entire US release DVD set is going for nearly $200 at most ($160 is the cheapest I've seen). But I dont have the funds to invest in it all at once. Then I remembered that you can probably order the set on E-bay, but it won't be the US set found in US stores. For example, I saw this one: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3320990572&category=2290
I've ordered Asian DVDs off e-bay before. Lets just say the Versus DVD I bought seemed to have less than ok quality. I want to be sure I'm buying something of good quality.
The point is, I want to try to buy legit Anime, and I'm not sure if I'm going about it the right way. Can anyone give any advice? Cause I'm also interested in buying other anime, like the Evangelion series.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
At least your copy of Versus works! :( Mine won't.
But I've only had good luck with HK anime discs. It's just that the subtitles can be atrocious. Gundam Seed's subtitles make your head spin, they are so bad. But they are always pretty good image and audio quality. If you don't mind missing the english, the price difference is of course incredible.
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| OmegaDog 532th Post
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| "HK DVDs and their English translations" , posted Fri 18 Apr 09:51:
Yeah, but my experience with HK DVDs has been, um, less than inspiring.
A friend of mine got HK DVDs of Giant Robo a while back. The university anime club was watching the VHS tapes of Giant Robo at the time, and our friend suggested that watching it on DVD would allow us much better quality. It even had English subtitles, which we would've considered a plus.
Well, the image quality was better. However, what do you make of a subtitling job that refers to the huge, fearsome Eye of Vogler as "Mr. Big Strange Ball" ?
WORST SUBTITLES EVER. It was horrible -- we could barely understand the subtitles. Sentence structure was horrid. Spelling was horrid. Names were inaccurate and often laughable. Word choice was really questionable. The very experience itself was painful.
That's left a less-than-favorable impression of HK DVDs on me. It's made me think twice about getting cheaper HK DVDs that I've seen on eBay.
(Now, I know that's just one example -- I imagine others' experiences have been better? Or is it pretty much a hit-and-miss kinda deal? Still, though, I'm actually not planning on investing in HK DVDs.)
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