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EmbraceMe



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:55 am Reply with quote
Whoa! This just made my day! Even though I'm not a subscriber, I am happy to see a legal stream of this. I was thinking of a rewatch, but with a legal stream, I don't have to buy the boxset! (Yay, I save money for whatever!) Thanks ANN!
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jrnemanich



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 05, 2011 4:01 am Reply with quote
EmbraceMe wrote:
Whoa! This just made my day! Even though I'm not a subscriber, I am happy to see a legal stream of this. I was thinking of a rewatch, but with a legal stream, I don't have to buy the boxset! (Yay, I save money for whatever!) Thanks ANN!


You might have misread the post (most likely not, this also for everyone else reading this). Episodes 1 and 2 are only free. You have to pay 16 more dollars here to unlock episodes 3-26.

This seems like the deal the NIS has with ANN about their legal streams. Which is reasonable, because their physical product is out for purchase and they need to make more money from streams to offset the differnce from the loss of legal streams.

I believe it was Lance Heiskell, the Marketing Director for FUNimation saying something to the point of "Money from streams is good, but it isn't the exact same as the profit we get from the sale of dvds" on his twitter feed a few months ago.
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tatsu-chan



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2011 7:41 pm Reply with quote
What I would like to know is if this will ever get a dubbing? Don't want to spend $80 then months later it comes in a dubbed boxed set for $40.
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jsevakis
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 3:46 am Reply with quote
tatsu-chan wrote:
What I would like to know is if this will ever get a dubbing? Don't want to spend $80 then months later it comes in a dubbed boxed set for $40.

NIS has never announced any plans to dub anything, so I'd say you're safe.
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ryonomiko
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:20 pm Reply with quote
I bought the Part 1 DVD and was really not happy with the grain that NIS deliberately enhanced. For me it made the video hard to look at. The Japanese DVDs do have a SLIGHT grainy affect but nothing like what NIS has. I thus canceled my Part 2 order.

It's only 480 for what's showing on ANN, I paid for 15-25, but I don't see the grain... so is the video the same as on the DVD Part 2 set??
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2011 8:58 pm Reply with quote
Nothing was "deliberately enhanced" but whatever. Can't deny there's grain and it looks more prominent on the R1.

Our web encodes came directly from NIS' masters, but the web encoder was smart enough to remove the bulk of the grain during compression. Lucky -- as an experiment I tried to remove it with various filters first, and none of them worked at all.
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ryonomiko
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 2011 1:30 am Reply with quote
Thank-you for the reply.

jsevakis wrote:
Nothing was "deliberately enhanced" but whatever. Can't deny there's grain and it looks more prominent on the R1.

Our web encodes came directly from NIS' masters, but the web encoder was smart enough to remove the bulk of the grain during compression. Lucky -- as an experiment I tried to remove it with various filters first, and none of them worked at all.


NIS admits they modified the video to supposedly improve it... the video looks like bad cable reception. Meanwhile I can barely notice the grain effect on the R2 DVDs.

A huge thanks to your web encoder!
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