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ConanSan
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But yeah, this is bunk nonsecne from Toei anyway. But "Hikaru", yikes...maybe I don't want thems sorts of fansubs. |
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firecrouch
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Because they can't. Toei Animation's been trying to get "Pretty Cure" on American T.V. for a while now, but nobody wants girls' cartoons. So they're settling with what they can get. |
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firecrouch
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Don't blame Toei Animation. I mean how many good popular partners are out there that they can turn to that don't rely on region-blocking? Seriously, I see so many people bad-mouthing Toei Animation about this when it's not really their fault and it's ridiculous. |
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2231 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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To be honest, the people in that office have no say in whether the shows get a DVD release. You'd be better writing letters directly to Japan. I did my part and talked to Toei representatives at the Tokyo Anime Fair at least, telling them that a lot of people wanted a DVD release. |
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Sheleigha
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Perhaps in doing this is another step closer to actually having them uncut on disks
 I would be sooooo happy
And yes, I for once love the series still purely for nostalgia. I also find that seeing them in Japanese is a whole new experience because in many cases, the dialogue is completely different! It's great^^ |
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MorwenLaicoriel
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Agh, man! I'd happily buy DVDs of Digimon either subbed or the old cut dub, but my computer is so unreliable for playing videos it'd be a waste of my money buy them... I hope someone releases them on DVD someday. I actually even bought the horrible American Digimon movie just so I could have something of the show that got me into anime.
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Daimao Raki
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GATSU
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hollow: It ain't Takeuchi who's holding up Sailor Moon here.
hikaru: PPG ain't hip, either, and that didn't stop it from making money. Celes: I thought Toei tried to steal her rights from under her. sailor: If Toei really cared what we thought, it wouldn't take FUNimation three years to get One Piece. 
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Tenchi
 Posts: 4469 Location: Ottawa... now I'm an ex-Anglo Montrealer. |
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Indeed, but only on DVD. I'd watch ad-supported downloads, but, if I'm paying, I want a hard copy. |
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MarcFBR
 Posts: 47 Location: California |
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HIkaru is a one time typo, the rest of the time it's Hikari.
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K.o.R
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Given that the fansubbers were able to do 140 MB DVD-quality Pretty Cure episodes, the 336MB file size of episode 1 looks stupid.
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Dreaming Sky
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I bought the movie too(I really wish that there was more merchandise available!), and I would kill to get the episodes on DVD. |
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Crawly
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There's no guarantee they'll finish anything, as Toei doesn't have a great record for that kind of thing in R1. There's also no guarantee your computer won't crash and need to be replaced or that the D2D service won't one day shut down, thus meaning you just wasted a lot of money on something that you'll no longer be able to watch. All in all, this is just a bad service and a bad way to deliver product. But as most people don't care, more power to them. I've got the fansubs and if something becomes available that is DRM free that will allow me to actually own what I'm paying for (and actually be better than the fansubs - so far what's offered is far inferior), I'll support them. |
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2231 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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Thank you for the compliment. I'm glad to know that I'm clearly more knowledgeable about video encoding than a multi-million dollar anime studio. A part of me is wondering now if Toei is actually gimping the video quality on purpose... From what firecrouch said, the people are just sending the videos to Japan to get encoded, and they are using the same process as is used for the videos they put up on the Japanese download-to-rent websites. I wouldn't be surprised if they knowingly make sure the quality is less than DVD for those rental files to prevent people from stealing them in Japan, and the side-effect is we get the same crappy video on our download-to-OWN files in R1. |
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MarcFBR
Posts: 47 Location: California |
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It isn't the same process, it is the same encodes just with subtitles added.
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