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Sailor Star Dust
Posts: 166 Location: US and A |
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Haven't listened to the podcast yet, but I mentioned it in an Amazon feedback section.
Whether the fault is VIZ or Toei, being a 16-year Sailor Moon fan, I'm upset either way. First the crappy ADV sets in 2004, now this?! |
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Primus
Posts: 2758 Location: Toronto |
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I'd be willing to cut Viz some slack if they didn't release a pillar boxed DVD in 2014 and told people to deal with it.
As for their Canadian streaming plans, they'd likely have better luck encouraging Hulu to region lock shows on an individual basis instead of their blind block. That's about as likely as Canada getting a Hulu equivalent, which is to say, not very. |
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Zalis116
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Posts: 6864 Location: Kazune City |
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As for the streaming issue, is there no way to license something to, say, CR, exclusively for Canada, so that Hulu can maintain its US exclusivity? |
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ChocoBar1
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What people seem to be confused here is that the only high quality release the series has ever gotten was from the German DVD release a few years back. Even the Japanese release looks like garbage due to the shit masters Toei gave out. |
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CorzaMoon
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I just wanna know why Toei wouldn't give Viz a whole new proper HD resolution scan of the original film... did Viz not offer Toei enough money for that? Why even do this if you're not gonna go all the way?! If it was done properly, I'm sure no one would mine spending the money for the series on blu-ray... but when it's been handled so poorly, it makes me cringe!
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fuuma_monou
Posts: 1816 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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Okay, what exactly was censored in the Viz release of the Tenjo Tenge manga? You do know the censored release was from CMX, right? |
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Barbobot
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Toei very likely doesn't have the original film. Japanese companies were pretty awful in their upkeep of these types of materials so they are either lost or in such a condition that they are more or less useless. |
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Blanchimont
Posts: 3426 Location: Finland |
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Sorry, you're right, my memory played a trick on me. CMX messed that one up and Viz actually released the uncensored version five years later after acquiring the rights after the former's closure... |
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Cptn_Taylor
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Or it's possible that TOEI didn't want to spend the kind of money needed to retelecine and digitally clean over 150 episodes. I mean we're talking about TOEI here. The company that embodies the motto : do the absolute minimum and even the minimum is too much". |
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katscradle
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(Apologies if I misheard or the punctuation is weird.) I listened to this part over and over again trying to understand it. However, on a non-Sailor Moon note: it's great to hear about the early report of the VIZ survey data regarding demographics with gender being close to a 50/50 split and a broad age range of respondents. |
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DJStarstryker
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I understand the ghosting, etc complaints, but I really don't understand why the pillarboxing complaining is so loud here. I'd figure on ANN, any fans big enough of anime who want to buy it would want to watch anime in their correct aspect ratio. The DVD's pillarboxing is only a problem if you want to stretch the image. There is zero problem if your TV/player is set in 16:9 mode.
Sure, John Q Public may complain. But I suspect anime fans on ANN are not John Q Public. But maybe I assume too much. |
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fuuma_monou
Posts: 1816 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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Well my first name is Johann, which is the Germanic form of John, so.... Anyway, the reason why pillarboxing DVDs is so bad is that it wastes lines of resolution. Instead of using 640x480 to properly encode 4:3 content, you're effectively using less than that just so that it displays "right" on HDTVs. Or if you want to be less charitable, Viz just downscaled the pillarboxed Blu-ray encode to anamorphic widescreen DVD resolution. On a DVD player hooked up to a standard definition CRT television, the ideal setting is letterboxing widescreen content so you see the whole picture. But with pillarboxed "widescreen", that looks like SHIT. You then have to "crop" the pillarboxing. This is not rocket science. Just plain laziness, IMO. |
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Buster D
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The reason why it's not even out on DVD in Japan is because Yasu-sensei has said that it's a very "bitter" ("苦い") work of his and he doesn't want it out on DVD: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ヴイナス戦記#.E3.82.A2.E3.83.8B.E3.83.A1.E7.89.88
I believe I've read somewhere that the main character being voiced by a Johnny's idol is also a factor. Thankfully it was easy enough for me to create my own custom BD using the video from the Italian BD slowed down to 1080p23.976 and PCM from the JP LD (was going to use the subtitles from the US DVD but it's an old Nadelman script with tons of mistakes and missing lines). |
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shamisen the great
Posts: 658 Location: Oregon, USA |
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I guess it sucks, but after so many years waiting I'll take what I can get. Viz doesn't have a history of quality video releases so my expectations were low to begin with. This doesn't excuse them and I don't like their evasiveness in this interview. That said, my main concern now is that this will hurt sales enough that they don't release the whole series. I want a legit copy of Stars so bad.
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Kosaka
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Here's a link to an Amazon.com review that I think is good, and has some good comments. (Unfortunately, you have to cut-and-paste the URLs since they aren't links.)
Customer Review — Sailor Moon by Viz, a complete and utter disaster., November 7, 2014: http://www.amazon.com/review/R123Y8PP112G85/ |
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