At least, the second run through. The first time at least two episodes were skipped, namely:
Sympathy for the Devil Cowboy Funk
If any others were dropped, I don't know because I didn't watch more than the first few. I had bought the dvds almost a year earlier and prefer subs, anyways.
Actually, TV Tokyo determined that the series was, as a whole, too violent to air entirely, and picked 12 episodes to show. WOWOW later picked it up and aired all of it.
I have a big node on Everything2 under Cowboy Bebop all about that.
But generally, even for a TV series/OAV, the budget for the show was incredibly high, and it paid of well for Sunrise.
Oh, and for fans of the music, a new show called "Wolf Rain" is coming, with Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts at the helm of the soundtrack.
First episode - The bartender, on the dvds, gets a hole clear through his forehead from front to back. You can even see the shooter on the other side.
Later they painted over some blood on the vehicle window when they try to run.
I didn't watch the whole run through to compare for edits, but there were not as many as for Tenchi, for instance.
And ADV's Anime Network will be premiering in Philly first, on a VOD service. Only down side is there's no word if there will be any subtitled stuff shown at all.
Oh well. I'll just keep buying my DVDs and enjoying them (Legit licensed R1 DVDs).
All of the Wal-Marts I've been to (and I live in Arkansas, world HQ of Wal-Mart) have and still do carry GTA3, Soldier of Fortune, Hitman 2, and a number of other decidedly violent games, complete with M ratings.
Why this dissasociated policy exists, with the censored music and magazine covers, I don't know. But they do carry R rated movies and M rated games all the time.
Mir was rapidly becoming unsafe, and the necessary upgrades to keep it safe would have required enough replacements that building one of similar size but newer construction would probably have been cheaper.
The only problem here is mismanagement and political infighting, which alone caused the bloated wasteful expenses the ISS project has incurred.
The AI and the gameplay are far better, and has a shitload fewer bugs. You'll need Win98 to run it though, as it freaks out a bit on Win2K. Don't know about WineX.
I just got tired of my units sitting in range of a Scion howitzer and just DYING.
Thanks to that price drop ($300 -> $200) it costs Microsoft at LEAST $150 per xbox.
They still do not have the volume being made to counter that, primarily because they don't sell fast enough to justify increased production.
Sony and Nintendo both have highly optimized designs (sony because they own all the silicon designs, nintendo because of requirements at outset for a tiny footprint) so they can better consolidate components, and they have 3 continents (at least) where their systems are selling very well. This is where using almost stock Intel and Nvidia components, IMO, hurts Microsoft.
I don't know about anyone else, but something tells me you're full of shit...
I'd like to see more evidence of this "increased rate of speaker decay" you claim that Vorbis causes. I honestly don't see that happening, unless the amplifier supplying the signal is fucked, or your DAC is shot and is feeding bad signal (but you'd hear that). Once audio is decompressed, it's just PCM.
IIRC, wasn't Vorbis's big feature that it supported up to 255 independent audio tracks? No joint-stereo crap at all?
And I've encoded karaoke tracks into Vorbis. I imagine the only thing keeping me from singing along is that my Japanese skills aren't that high. Interestingly enough, the tracks I have encoded (so far: Jin-Roh and Escaflowne: The Movie OSTs) are some of the hardests tracks I've thrown at any encoder, and Vorbis pulls off a damn fine job.
Sorry prof., but I'd like more info to back up your claims before my skepticism is anything but high.
If they can't stick with Motorola, they should go with IBM.
It's one thing to go from 68k to a more powerful PPC architecture. It's another issue altogether to move from a PPC to an Intel or AMD cpu. The emulation speed would be a hell of a performance hit.
Puni Puni Poemi was licensed by ADV recently, it will be released here untouched.
The primary use for Region Encoding in Anime is to prevent reverse importation. They know this is a load of crap though, so companies like Sunrise (creators of Cowboy Bebop, Gasaraki) require a 6 month lead time between Japanese DVD release and US DVD release, and after that it's "May the best release win" (and they get buyers for both on both sides of the ocean).
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Are you sure your release was legit?
The subs on the US release of Bebop were perfect.
And whether the dub cast was better is strictly a matter of opinion.
Not really.
It was created for the explicit purpose of creating the music for Bebop, and was done so months before production of the animation had even begun.
The Seatbelts, however, exist beyond Bebop. I believe they _did_ do an album after Bebop, but information on that is sparse.
Regardless, they are not solely a part of Bebop and will be returning to do Wolf Rain.
And I'm going to burn my f#$%@ comma key off I swear...
OH COME ON.
That's not even a FUNNY troll.
At least put some EFFORT into your contribution to entropy.
They all made it.
At least, the second run through. The first time at least two episodes were skipped, namely:
Sympathy for the Devil
Cowboy Funk
If any others were dropped, I don't know because I didn't watch more than the first few. I had bought the dvds almost a year earlier and prefer subs, anyways.
Actually, TV Tokyo determined that the series was, as a whole, too violent to air entirely, and picked 12 episodes to show. WOWOW later picked it up and aired all of it.
I have a big node on Everything2 under Cowboy Bebop all about that.
But generally, even for a TV series/OAV, the budget for the show was incredibly high, and it paid of well for Sunrise.
Oh, and for fans of the music, a new show called "Wolf Rain" is coming, with Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts at the helm of the soundtrack.
Language mostly.
First episode - The bartender, on the dvds, gets a hole clear through his forehead from front to back. You can even see the shooter on the other side.
Later they painted over some blood on the vehicle window when they try to run.
I didn't watch the whole run through to compare for edits, but there were not as many as for Tenchi, for instance.
And ADV's Anime Network will be premiering in Philly first, on a VOD service. Only down side is there's no word if there will be any subtitled stuff shown at all.
Oh well. I'll just keep buying my DVDs and enjoying them (Legit licensed R1 DVDs).
Of course, there's no reason what he says should be taken with any authority.
Hell at 800 for two episodes a month, that's not a bad price. I'd love it if shows were done like that here in the US.
That's not true.
All of the Wal-Marts I've been to (and I live in Arkansas, world HQ of Wal-Mart) have and still do carry GTA3, Soldier of Fortune, Hitman 2, and a number of other decidedly violent games, complete with M ratings.
Why this dissasociated policy exists, with the censored music and magazine covers, I don't know. But they do carry R rated movies and M rated games all the time.
Mir was rapidly becoming unsafe, and the necessary upgrades to keep it safe would have required enough replacements that building one of similar size but newer construction would probably have been cheaper.
The only problem here is mismanagement and political infighting, which alone caused the bloated wasteful expenses the ISS project has incurred.
Oh please no.
Play the first one, simply titled "Battlezone."
The AI and the gameplay are far better, and has a shitload fewer bugs. You'll need Win98 to run it though, as it freaks out a bit on Win2K. Don't know about WineX.
I just got tired of my units sitting in range of a Scion howitzer and just DYING.
Ok then, YOU get to explain what happens when you cross a Hooloovoo with Benny...
And entering hubs....
colissions...
How would you describe packet loss?
No, it's gone UP.
Thanks to that price drop ($300 -> $200) it costs Microsoft at LEAST $150 per xbox.
They still do not have the volume being made to counter that, primarily because they don't sell fast enough to justify increased production.
Sony and Nintendo both have highly optimized designs (sony because they own all the silicon designs, nintendo because of requirements at outset for a tiny footprint) so they can better consolidate components, and they have 3 continents (at least) where their systems are selling very well. This is where using almost stock Intel and Nvidia components, IMO, hurts Microsoft.
I don't know about anyone else, but something tells me you're full of shit...
I'd like to see more evidence of this "increased rate of speaker decay" you claim that Vorbis causes. I honestly don't see that happening, unless the amplifier supplying the signal is fucked, or your DAC is shot and is feeding bad signal (but you'd hear that). Once audio is decompressed, it's just PCM.
IIRC, wasn't Vorbis's big feature that it supported up to 255 independent audio tracks? No joint-stereo crap at all?
And I've encoded karaoke tracks into Vorbis. I imagine the only thing keeping me from singing along is that my Japanese skills aren't that high. Interestingly enough, the tracks I have encoded (so far: Jin-Roh and Escaflowne: The Movie OSTs) are some of the hardests tracks I've thrown at any encoder, and Vorbis pulls off a damn fine job.
Sorry prof., but I'd like more info to back up your claims before my skepticism is anything but high.
Disney's contract with Ghibli has a no-edits-allowed clause.
This clause stems from the butchering that Nausicaa recieved which GREATLY pissed off Miyazaki.
So no, it's untouched. Disney knows they'd catch WAAAY too much shit from critics and fans if they even tried to tone down the dub.
Fine then.
Don't buy it.
Don't see it.
But don't buy a bootleg and give them ammunition for their copy control laws.
Well yeah, he's right about it being out.
What he's wrong about is the dvd he links to, which is a bootleg.
As you can see if you READ OTHER POSTS he has no clue what he's talking about.
Think harder.
Both links you posted are of illegal bootlegs.
NO legit Spirited Away dvd is "All Region"
BOTH of those sites are KNOWN for exclusively selling bootlegs, especially discoutanimedvd.
The LEGIT Japan release of the movie was published by Buena Vista Japan.
THIS IS NOT THAT DVD.
The official Japanese release is R2 encoded.
You'd be better off simply NOT buying it than hurting Ghibli by encouraging the bootlegging of its titles.
While we don't like the MPAA, we shouldn't support those who exist by TRULY illegal means.
That and the licensor pissed Miyazaki off by mutilating it and the dub, then retitling it.
This is why all of Ghibli's contracts with Disney include a no-edits-allowed clause.
BECAUSE THAT'S A FUCKING BOOTLEG.
Buy the Japanese R2 release from cdjapan.co.jp, animaxis.com, or animenation.com, or you could wait for the US release.
DON'T BUY BOOTLEG!
If they can't stick with Motorola, they should go with IBM.
It's one thing to go from 68k to a more powerful PPC architecture. It's another issue altogether to move from a PPC to an Intel or AMD cpu. The emulation speed would be a hell of a performance hit.
Kinda late for this but...
Puni Puni Poemi was licensed by ADV recently, it will be released here untouched.
The primary use for Region Encoding in Anime is to prevent reverse importation. They know this is a load of crap though, so companies like Sunrise (creators of Cowboy Bebop, Gasaraki) require a 6 month lead time between Japanese DVD release and US DVD release, and after that it's "May the best release win" (and they get buyers for both on both sides of the ocean).
Since when has it been necessary for it to involve copy control or the ??AA for a company to use it like the big stick with a nail in it that it is?
HP didn't hesitate. I'm sure few others would as well.