Forum - View topicNEWS: JASDAQ release reveals new Ghost in the Shell details
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uberfrosch
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Some DVD players can be hacked to become region free. Of course, it invalidates any warranty you may have, and some DVDs won't play on region free players, but it can be done. |
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Alex K.
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Wow, that is amazingly stupid. I bet Captain Nancy Wilson was voiced by some old guy, and Chief Hideki Kurata was probably voiced by overracting 20-year-old college student. I've heard some UK dubs before (the Guyver OVA) and they're pretty bad (I'm pretty sure the Guyver OVA was a UK dub, although it had Steve Blum and David Hayter (Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid games) in the cast). Dubbing a series with only 2 actors is even worse than the English dub of Patlabor 3: WXIII (Wasted Thirteen), in which Richard Hayworth (Kenshin from Rurouni Kenshin TV) plays all but one cop, and that one cop is played by Steve Kramer, who then plays 3 guys that are working on a ship together. Let us be thankful that dubs like these are about as rare as 4Kids NOT butchering an anime. 
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Glory Questor
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If you have a PS2 or XBox (with DVD expansion), you could pick up Action Replay (or Gameshark), which has a multiregion DVD interpreter included with the software. |
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Armagguedes
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Ninja skillz and a Red Star R0 player (this player is probably one of those cheap chinese ones, but rocks). Also, you can simply buy a no-*R/RW-capable DVD drive, and set it to R1 and your burner to R2, or the other way around. These players are BERY BERY cheap (a +/- & DL dvd burner costs <60euros these days (at least in PT), so those are what, <40?). |
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patch
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Thanks for the heads up everyone, didn't realize that R2 DVD got released last month, time to place an order
For the ones wondering how to watch R2 DVDs in R1, there are alot of region-free 'fixes' that you can apply to R1 DVD players to make them region free, search for your player at VideoHelp.com to see if there are any available. |
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SlyphGlitch
Posts: 35 Location: Fighting my way out |
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<sarcasm>Great now they are going to merge the SAC universe with the original movie/manga</sarcasm>
GITS is nice, but it's getting to the point where the series needs to take a break. The show has too many one dimenional characters that are beginning to where thin. Maybe this will lead to a movie version of Man-Machine Interface... |
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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No, that was actually a VERY early LA dub, from the now-defunct LA Hero -- when they went belly-up, Manga UK got most of their library. Almost every dub they made was ear-shatteringly terrible. Macross II, Outlanders (original release), Guyver, Ambassador Magma, Iczer One... Take your pick. Manga didn't re-dub any of 'em. |
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MeggieMay
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I was about to tell you to read the article closer but that article doesn't have the same information the one I found had  .
Check this one out from Yahoo Entertainment News and there's another one here (your article looks to be this one here). Anyway, these articles mention that what was sold was the "... all 59 DreamWorks live-action films released through September 15, 2005." So it seems Paramount/Viacom is keeping the animation library of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. Now how that effects the Anime Go Fish pictures had I haven't a clue but I think it's possible that Paraount/Viacom still has those rights seeing they aren't "live-action" films. As to how you view a R2 PAL disk on a R1 machine - well it isn't as hard as you'd think. However, it isn't as easy either. My best laid plans fell apart when the player I picked up to play it on worked but none of the TV sets could handle the PAL signal  . However, it turned out my portable DVD player could handle PAL (it's really just a mini-monitor) and it did have a way to change its regions, so I didn't have to run the other DVD player through the in-line [BTW, I've noticed if you can Region 0/All Region a player, you can also change it to the actual region in question, as well]. So now I can watch the DVD but it's on a 7" screen  The bizarre things I've done for fanish interest over the year  .
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Mohawk52
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silentjay
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Since they weren't owned by Dreamworks, just the distribution rights were, they probably aren't included and the distribution rights have more than likely reverted back to the owners. Also, Dreamworks Animation wasn't part of the sale to Paramount/Viacom, as they were spun off months prior to the sale. However, Viacom does get distribution rights and has a financial stake in any future productions. |
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jsevakis
Former ANN Editor in Chief
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There isn't one -- it's fantastic. We were talking about another PAL MangaUK disc that I ordered at the same time. |
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red stranger
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Deacon Blues
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A Production IG representative speaking on behalf of Ishikawa in Florida confirmed that Bandai Entertainment has licensed the movie.
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patch
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Does this mean there will be a new R1 DVD release with the english dub? |
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