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NEWS: Viz to Offer Bleach Anime for Download on August 31




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kokuryu



Joined: 07 Apr 2007
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:08 pm Reply with quote
Can you burn them on DVDs after you buy them? It looks like you can only view them on 2 PCs after you buy them - kinda precludes buying them if you cant view them on any PC after you buy them. I mean who keeps a PC beyond about 2 or 3 years anymore? You would have to keep a legacy PC with Windows on it just to view what you bought...

And its too bad the individual eps are $1.99 to rent... I'll just buy the DVD thank you. When the get the prices set right, and make it possible to make a permanently viewable copy in a regular DVD player, I think things will take off.
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SharinganEye



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:03 pm Reply with quote
DRM'd, OS-locked copy of Bleach? No thank you.
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Roy9076



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:28 pm Reply with quote
Currently watching Bleach on [Adult Swim]. I'm fine thanks.
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Josh7289



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:07 pm Reply with quote
Seriously, what's the point? The anime is available on cable television and on DVD. The Death Note downloads only made sense because the show was not available anywhere else at that point.

Really, how stupid.
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HitokiriShadow



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PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:26 pm Reply with quote
Josh7289 wrote:
Seriously, what's the point?


To get some money out of people that normally wouldn't bother buying the DVDs in the first place, probably. I really don't think they are trying to use this as an alternative for DVD buyers, but rather, they are trying to tap a new market.
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Josh7289



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:18 am Reply with quote
Yeah, I can see that there technically is a point to this release, but for all of us here (or at least most of us here), there is no point.
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infoman99



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:12 am Reply with quote
well yeah it's stupid cause someone's going to offer a backdoor to this any ways so really what is the point!? i can go see the episodes in japanese(with subtitles of course) but i do buy the dvds but wal-mart(yeah i work there) dosen't release them like best-buy maybe after a month after best-buy does or a few weeks maybe.......the fact is this is a stupid idea.......honestly if they want money just sue the sub company's..they'll get some cash there
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goins007



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:09 am Reply with quote
Offer it to me with out the DRM and the box + DVD art included and I would probably start buying it that way. But with the DRM still on it, whats the point? It would just be more time for me to find a way to crack it, after I buy the DVD. And with buying the DVD I still get the box and stuff.
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RogueJedi86



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PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 4:37 pm Reply with quote
Now why don't they put the coming week's episode of Bleach on Adult Swim's Video section(formerly the Fix), as part of their old Friday Night Fix premieres? One episode for one night a week wouldn't hurt, especially for those who can't see the Saturday run.
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