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Aaron White
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 3:26 pm Reply with quote
I've heard complaints about the video transfer on Wings of H. I haven't seen it, but the worst video transfer I've ever seen on anything was Spring and Chaos from Tokyopop. Egad! The image blurred and digitalized sometimes. Bad transfer.
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Syker 07



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:18 am Reply with quote
Trust me, the transfer on Wings of Honneamise is horrible. It's the only time I've returned a DVD.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:38 am Reply with quote
Syker 07 wrote:
Trust me, the transfer on Wings of Honneamise is horrible. It's the only time I've returned a DVD.

Syker Seven


Then you haven't seen manga's version of Black Magic M-66 or ADV's versions of Evangelion.

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Proman



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 1:32 pm Reply with quote
eva05 wrote:


Then you haven't seen manga's version of Black Magic M-66.

j

Oh I've seen in it (on a VHS from my University's library). It was bad but not horrible considering that it wasn't a remastered version or anything.
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Cassandra



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 3:16 pm Reply with quote
eva05 wrote:
Syker 07 wrote:
Trust me, the transfer on Wings of Honneamise is horrible. It's the only time I've returned a DVD.

Syker Seven


Then you haven't seen manga's version of Black Magic M-66 or ADV's versions of Evangelion.

j


I've seen both of those. Those are NOWHERE near as bad as Honneamise. It's the only time I actually had to turn off a DVD because it was unwatchable. Completely unwatchable.
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Syker 07



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 1:10 pm Reply with quote
I'll give you M-66 is fairly bad. And ADV's Evangelion had a few issues with the "Gainax Twitch" and hard overlays on the first disk, but...c'mon.

There's no way you could honestly say that either one even approaches the level of bad that the WoH transfer achieved.
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Aaron White
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 1:35 pm Reply with quote
What's so bad about WoH? The transfer, that is.
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Cassandra



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 3:01 pm Reply with quote
Aaron White wrote:
What's so bad about WoH? The transfer, that is.


http://www.inwards.com/woh/
That site tells you all about it....and it has screencaps to show it.
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Aaron White
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 4:20 pm Reply with quote
Egad. So has Manga rereleased a proper version?
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Cassandra



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 4:54 pm Reply with quote
Aaron White wrote:
Egad. So has Manga rereleased a proper version?


Nope. Last I heard, Manga still won't acknowledge what a crappy job they did on it. Evil or Very Mad
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Syker 07



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 12:17 am Reply with quote
Thanks for the link, Cassandra. Very informative. I already knew how interlacing worked, but I didn't know anything that specific. Now I know Wink

So, I withdraw my earlier statement. It isn't a godawful horrible video transfer. It's a godawful horrible mastering job.

Syker Seven
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Jeff-Kleist



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PostPosted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 10:19 pm Reply with quote
Actually it's a bad transfer to. Whoever did the color correction set it on "mud"

Compare the Japanese disc
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Kyosuke-sama



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PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 7:31 pm Reply with quote
In regard to Wings of H correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the poor image transfer the reason GAINAX gained fame with other series? e.g. the infamous "Eva jiggle"
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 23, 2003 9:50 pm Reply with quote
Kyosuke-sama wrote:
In regard to Wings of H correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the poor image transfer the reason GAINAX gained fame with other series? e.g. the infamous "Eva jiggle"


You can have a lot of fun with the Eva jiggle. Try showing it to someone who doesn't know of it. If your victim isn't too bright, they might be there for hours trying to figure out what's going on. Trust me. It's fun.

Back to topic, I think I might have had a worse experience with Wings of H. I watched a copied bootleg. That's right, the copy of a copy. The resulting visual assault burned my corneas and half of my retinas, then proceeded to gouge my poor eyeballs with a blunted spoon. Or at least that's what it felt like.
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crazydumbek



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 24, 2003 12:24 am Reply with quote
Cassandra wrote:

Nope. Last I heard, Manga still won't acknowledge what a crappy job they did on it. Evil or Very Mad


So I guess this means that I shouldn't hold my breath that releases of Giant Robo and Gunbuster (whenever Manga get off their lazy butts to release them) would be of a decent quality.

Was there ever a Manga release that did not suck, and, if so, what ever happend to the crew that produced that release?
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