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larinon



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 4:32 pm Reply with quote
I'm curious about what Discotek may have changed (if anything) from the original Tokyopop release of the series. Currently I own the original singles (ten of them) that Tokyopop put out about a decade ago.

Is it just a repackaging of the orignals? Was there any remastering done? Are they still on ten discs or did they use a smaller disc count? And are the extras still there, like the interview with Fujisawa spread out over several discs.

Basically I'm just curious if this one is something to consider buying if it's an improvement on the originals. I couldn't find anything online in the way of a comparison of the releases.
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chronoclast



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PostPosted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 5:08 pm Reply with quote
I posted this on the Fandom Post forums:

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I got my set today. I'm having DVD playback issues with my PC so I'm not going to be able to take screenshots at this time. Checking it on my TV though, it doesn't look much different from the Tokyopop DVDs from what I remember of them. It still looks like crap on this set. Blurry, composite artifacts, vertical lines running through the picture, etc.

I can't directly compare it to the TP DVDs but it doesn't look like Discotek were able to do any sort of clean up. I'm assuming Discotek's release probably has better compression but that's likely it.

I haven't checked all of the discs but as far as I can tell there are no extras whatsoever.

It's 7 discs in a Scanavo keepcase. All 7 discs have the same picture of Onizuka on them which is kinda lame (Pic 1, Pic 2).
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chronoclast



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PostPosted: Sat Oct 05, 2013 2:51 am Reply with quote
Just adding a bit more info, the OP/ED have the same English translated credits from the Tokyopop DVDs.

EDIT: I forgot to add, the discs default to English audio with the subs off. There are two subtitle tracks though, full subs and sign/song only subs. If you watch it in English you'll need to turn on the sign/song subs.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 12:51 pm Reply with quote
According to this post, everything is the same from the Tokyopop release. There's no reason to buy this if you already own it.

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Not just the OP/ED, all of it is exactly the same as the old TokyoPop versions. Complete with sloppy mastering, silly episode titles superimposed over the original (already in English) titles, removal of eye catches, etc. The subtitles, too, are taken directly from the TokyoPop release, and with it the incredibly stupid placement of the ED translation at the top of the screen rather than over the big empty field at the bottom where they would be non-intrusive (for the first few episodes, anyway - IIRC this changes later).
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larinon



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PostPosted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 4:54 pm Reply with quote
Thanks a lot for the info. Fandom Post is not a site that I visit on any kind of regular basis so I did not remember it as a source of info.
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