Buying Anime (18)

1 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-15 19:24 ID:qA0TXhzV

One of my favourite shows, Super Robot Wars: Original Generation -Divine Wars-, got licenced. The fansubbers don't seem to be doing the last few episodes because of that. Me being in the UK where anime isn't as popular as the US, have to resort to ordering online.

I tried YesAsia, but the DVDs don't have english subtitles.
So, where does one buy anime online? I need it to be able to ship both to the UK and Brunei Darussalam.

2 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-15 19:49 ID:qA0TXhzV

OP here, asking whether www.MegaAnimeDVD.com is safe to buy from.

3 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-16 00:36 ID:o1LsNsKM

There's always amazon.com, who'll ship anywhere apart from a few isolated spots at the bottom of the Mariana Trench (though they're working on extending their coverage there). They had a pretty decent sortiment of R1 DVDs last time I checked

4 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-07-16 06:26 ID:yT/u4HDs

>>3

They don't have Super Robot Wars: Original Generation -Divine Wars-...

5 Name: Dizzy Death : 2007-07-31 20:22 ID:Cs9fsIbI

Why not just torrent it? Much easier >.>

6 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-08-01 04:23 ID:WdokAOf5

I dunno about easier, but certainly the quality of fansub encodes has been much better than DVD lately.

7 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-08-01 06:08 ID:CLRoPpdj

>>6

That must be really embarassing for weeaboo-industry.

8 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-08-03 02:14 ID:a5YkA8hB

It's just retarded that they only put 3-4 episodes on a DVD and they're still unable to give us 720p quality.

9 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-09-02 13:21 ID:7zwM5BvC

DVD Video doesn't support 720p
Unless you're asking them to include DivX versions on DVD-ROM or something.
It's high time stuff broadcast in hi-vision comes out on Blu-ray/HD-DVD though.

10 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-09-03 04:44 ID:WdokAOf5

Actually all you need to support 720p DVD video is a drive capable of double read speed. So plenty of computers are already capable of doing it, it's just not something the original standard specified as necessary to implement in players.

11 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-09-03 07:54 ID:G/BWVEss

>>10

dvd-video is not 720p ever shut up

12 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-09-03 20:12 ID:Heaven

My DVDs appear to be "480p", if you want to call it that.

13 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-09-03 20:15 ID:i3iEpKzX

I use μTorrent.
But μTorrent is not for the casual user. There's a danger you will be marked by the Swarm. Women and children should screw off and stay at home.

14 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-09-04 13:08 ID:WdokAOf5

>>11
It is if you make it, but no commercial ones are. Why? Because there are players out there which still have 1x drives, and you have to support them. Shame.

15 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-09-04 15:21 ID:heini+mM

16 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-09-05 04:33 ID:a5YkA8hB

>>15

Section 2.12 of the DVD FAQ says:
"Ironically, computers supported HDTV before settop players, because 2x DVD-ROM drives coupled with appropriate playback and display hardware met the 19 Mbps data rate needed for HDTV. This led to various "720p DVD" projects, which use the existing DVD format to store video in 1280x720 or 1920x1080 resolution at 24 progressive frames per second. It's possible that 720p DVDs can be made compatible with existing players (which would only recognize and play the 480-line line data)."

This is what I mean when I say it's possible to do it, it's just that nobody has yet.

17 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-09-05 16:39 ID:Heaven

>>16 Those set-top boxes are too cheap, it really holds back the industry. Hell, the whole DVD format is underpowered, and it's not going to be able to improve fast enough because people are stuck watching movies on crappy devices.

18 Name: Random Anime Otaku : 2007-10-07 14:27 ID:Heaven

How about you wait until the R2 DVDs come out and then import them off of http://www.rightstuf.com/ , http://www.amazon.com/ , or http://www.animenation.com/ ?

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