Re: Suncoast: "Anime" now "Otaku"

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 9:31am-0400, Phil Yff <phil.yff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:30:24 +0200, ender wrote:

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 20:15:47 -0400, Phil Yff wrote:

That reminds me. When the first Rurouni Kenshin DVDs came out, the quality
was poorer than the Japanese RRK laser disks.

Certain R1 anime DVDs are still awful, and practically always worse than
the Japanese R2 release (and it can't be contributed to R2 DVDs having less
episodes per disc, since it's not the compression artefacts that are the
problem).

That's so later on we can come out with the new and improved 'platinum'
release so we can sell the same DVD twice [grin].


Heh, like the Japanese don't do limited extended editions. ;-)

Laters. =)

STan
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