Ironic, since ADV is widely hated for their handling of the Evangelion dub (it's why Gainax is such an ass to them, moreso than to any other company).
And ADV has been pissing fans off with overlays (on Eva disc 1 and Nadesico where japanese writing is erased in favor of english, the equivalent of a visual dub). Never mind the change of Kenshin to Samurai X...
And no, Gainax would sooner license FLCL to anyone BUT ADV. But why wait, buy the R2 release, it has subs. That's one of the primary reasons no US company has been in too much of a hurry to get it.
As for ADV, they're improving, but they're not the be-all and end-all of Anime DVDs.
You can hope they Finish Battle Angel, but you better hope that they start from the beginning.
The anime is very different from the manga, so different that I'd say that apart from a complete plot rewrite (something very bad), they could not continue/finish the story properly. That and 30 Minute OAVs was WAY too short to catch all that is Battle Angel.
Go get the manga (9 volumes from Viz, translated), it's better than the OAVs could ever be.
It has to be from Cowboy Bebop because one of Ed's (translated lines) is "Ed knows Ed because Ed is Ed" or something like that (coincidentally matching the title of the quickies post). It's on episode 9, when Ed first appears.
No, but I do know how to be most evil with that song.
Play the song in a classroom with about 20+ people in it. And just watch. In about 3 seconds, half will hate you, and ALL of them will have it stuck in their heads for the rest of the week.
It's one of the signs of a great anime song, it sticks in your mind like glue =]
There is a lot of controversy over the quality of the video. Some people have analyzed it and have said that the video is not simply buggy, or made strangely, but that it is defective outright, and only looks good on the best highend players.
Streamline Studios and Orion, who originally released it, did so with only a dub, and it wasn't that great of a dub either (macek would alter things, like THE STORY, if it suited him), and he hated subtitles, so he never released tapes like that.
But a while ago Streamline died, and Orion lost the rights to Akira. The rights sat idle for some time, and were recently reacquired by Pioneer.
It's a virtual impossibility, unless they plan to air it only on the midnight run. Even then, it faces heavy editing.
When Cowboy Bebop aired in Japan, they only aired 12 episodes on TV Tokyo, because many of the episodes were deemed too violent (if you've seen any of the Spike v. Vicious episodes, you know).
If it couldn't air in it's entirety except on Japanese cable, there's no chance in hell it'll survive the knife on CN.
Kenshin, too, will face a hard time. And that aired untouched on japanese broadcast (though you'll never see the OVA series on CN). They'll probably get some lame Sony-mangled version.
I fear for Bebop and Kenshin appearing on CN, unless they get real brave and show 'em only on the midnight run.
As a previous poster mentioned, it was available as an addon for MacOS in the early 90s.
It's also available for windows machines today, only not with sound, but with the mouse. I have a logitech ifeel mouse, and it does basically the same thing. It has your drag buzz, your scroll buzz, and mouseover buzzes (all customizeable!)
Not only that but it's more fun seeing someone react to my mouse, than reacting to a sound!
Or as opposed to being a neato-thing for the rich, you maintain that robotic body part replacements are ONLY available in place of damaged/destroyed parts. Doctors could still get in trouble for vanity replacements.
So if you have catastrophic heart failure, you can get an artificial heart, but you can't get one if your heart is fine, or get that new arm should you end up getting your old one diced off. And just as good, it'll look (hopefully) a lot like your old one, same fleshtones, hair, and everything.
SPECfp, iirc, is designed by the cpu manufacturer. Intel may have done funny things to their compiler, to make it look better. AMD, as you said, may not have cared.
Most all manufacturers do this, I wouldn't be suprised if AMD had done this in the past.
SPECfp, for the most part though, is useless. Sorta like the old Mac benchmarks that showed it to be better (ByteMark, was it?). They were written by Apple, and pulled all sorts of shortcuts.
IIRC, intel was planning on selling current P4s with the huge heatsink, but was going to restructure it to make it require a smaller heatsink/enable SMP, then re-release it.
This means the 1.2GHz athlon and the ultrabulky pentium 4 will go head to head in the market. They'll compare the latest athlon out to the re-released p4 when they arrive. Until then, it's fair game.
Laptops already get pretty hot, I assume that with the lower power consumption they also solved the heat issues with their chipset, as there's little to no room for a heatsink, much less a fan.
Much like the mozilla dual license, you obey the one you choose. So any GPLv2 software could still be used by abiding only to the terms of GPLv2, while you couldn't do that with GPLv3 software. Which means the changes such as the ASP protection will only apply to new releases or if the people who make the software change the license (or the ASP provider chooses to apply GPLv3).
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$30 is a little high for 4 episodes. I'd say you're buying from the wrong place. Buy.com has Cowboy Bebop for $20/disc (Suncoast: $30). If you're willing to wait (2 day air was $12, and covers each disc, even if shipped seperately), you can get discs cheap.
Although, ADV does owe the fansubbers for getting me addicted to Nadesico, of which I have 2 CDs with all 26 episodes. Now I want 'em on dvd (First disc: 11/07/2000).
Probably never. Closest you'll get is if they show it on PBS. That's why I download fansubs, and if I like it, I go for the DVDs.
I believe CN tried to get Neon Genesis Evangelion, and ADV considered it but Gainax came down and said NO, due to the editing that would be required by american censors. That and NGE would be over the heads of 90% of the viewers, on whom the story would undoubtedly be lost.
Ironic, considering that the restrictions of Japanese broadcast TV influenced the show heavily in it's own right.
But Duo did go from being the Great Destroyer during the day to "The God of Death" at night, and a few scenes were deleted entirely (which severely damaged one episode)
It's interesting that copyright could be used in a way totally contrary to it's original intentions.
Personally, I think a loss of all of their current copyrights would force them to actually be *creative* in their choice of works to publish (and bring some material into the public domain, which hasn't happened except by willing release for the past who knows how many years). Maybe this will give them that kick in the pants they need to stop shoveling us this crap they have been.
It'll be interesting to watch. They should sell courtside tickets.
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Ironic, since ADV is widely hated for their handling of the Evangelion dub (it's why Gainax is such an ass to them, moreso than to any other company).
And ADV has been pissing fans off with overlays (on Eva disc 1 and Nadesico where japanese writing is erased in favor of english, the equivalent of a visual dub). Never mind the change of Kenshin to Samurai X...
And no, Gainax would sooner license FLCL to anyone BUT ADV. But why wait, buy the R2 release, it has subs. That's one of the primary reasons no US company has been in too much of a hurry to get it.
As for ADV, they're improving, but they're not the be-all and end-all of Anime DVDs.
You can hope they Finish Battle Angel, but you better hope that they start from the beginning.
The anime is very different from the manga, so different that I'd say that apart from a complete plot rewrite (something very bad), they could not continue/finish the story properly. That and 30 Minute OAVs was WAY too short to catch all that is Battle Angel.
Go get the manga (9 volumes from Viz, translated), it's better than the OAVs could ever be.
It has to be from Cowboy Bebop because one of Ed's (translated lines) is "Ed knows Ed because Ed is Ed" or something like that (coincidentally matching the title of the quickies post). It's on episode 9, when Ed first appears.
No, but I do know how to be most evil with that song.
Play the song in a classroom with about 20+ people in it. And just watch. In about 3 seconds, half will hate you, and ALL of them will have it stuck in their heads for the rest of the week.
It's one of the signs of a great anime song, it sticks in your mind like glue =]
Why are you asking if there will be subtitles?
Now that DVD is the major vehicle of newly released/re-released anime, subtitles are virtually guaranteed.
And yes, the Pioneer DVD will have subtitles. Guaranteed.
Yes Manga has put out a Wings of Honneamise DVD.
but...
There is a lot of controversy over the quality of the video. Some people have analyzed it and have said that the video is not simply buggy, or made strangely, but that it is defective outright, and only looks good on the best highend players.
Good thing.
Streamline Studios and Orion, who originally released it, did so with only a dub, and it wasn't that great of a dub either (macek would alter things, like THE STORY, if it suited him), and he hated subtitles, so he never released tapes like that.
But a while ago Streamline died, and Orion lost the rights to Akira. The rights sat idle for some time, and were recently reacquired by Pioneer.
Streamline Studios and Carl Macek were the first group to get their hands on a lot of anime, most notably, Akira.
The dub, which everyone is familiar with because Macek hated subs, wasn't all that great, and really confused some of the story.
Streamline and Orion lost their license a while back, so the US "lost" per se, Akira. Pioneer did reacquire it, and is giving it a proper release.
... no, you cowardly fuck, Taco referred to it as a comic book.
Then i wonder what american companies you refer to, since everything i've gotten is uncut.
Except Kite, but then that's a whole section of law, age of consent, and all that...
Cause it's a western-style anime, and the ship's name is Bebop.
Jet is a fan of jazz, you know...
Ironic, since most of what CN shows edited on TV here (on cable, no less), aired on broadcast TV in Japan.
I think it says more about the US, than it does about TV in general.
Yeah, we do. It's done every day.
Go get the DVDs. You can grab all of bebop on dvd for ~$120. A worthy investment for someone who likes anime, IMO.
It's a virtual impossibility, unless they plan to air it only on the midnight run. Even then, it faces heavy editing.
When Cowboy Bebop aired in Japan, they only aired 12 episodes on TV Tokyo, because many of the episodes were deemed too violent (if you've seen any of the Spike v. Vicious episodes, you know).
If it couldn't air in it's entirety except on Japanese cable, there's no chance in hell it'll survive the knife on CN.
Kenshin, too, will face a hard time. And that aired untouched on japanese broadcast (though you'll never see the OVA series on CN). They'll probably get some lame Sony-mangled version.
I fear for Bebop and Kenshin appearing on CN, unless they get real brave and show 'em only on the midnight run.
In a way, this exists today.
As a previous poster mentioned, it was available as an addon for MacOS in the early 90s.
It's also available for windows machines today, only not with sound, but with the mouse. I have a logitech ifeel mouse, and it does basically the same thing. It has your drag buzz, your scroll buzz, and mouseover buzzes (all customizeable!)
Not only that but it's more fun seeing someone react to my mouse, than reacting to a sound!
Or as opposed to being a neato-thing for the rich, you maintain that robotic body part replacements are ONLY available in place of damaged/destroyed parts. Doctors could still get in trouble for vanity replacements.
So if you have catastrophic heart failure, you can get an artificial heart, but you can't get one if your heart is fine, or get that new arm should you end up getting your old one diced off. And just as good, it'll look (hopefully) a lot like your old one, same fleshtones, hair, and everything.
SPECfp, iirc, is designed by the cpu manufacturer. Intel may have done funny things to their compiler, to make it look better. AMD, as you said, may not have cared.
Most all manufacturers do this, I wouldn't be suprised if AMD had done this in the past.
SPECfp, for the most part though, is useless. Sorta like the old Mac benchmarks that showed it to be better (ByteMark, was it?). They were written by Apple, and pulled all sorts of shortcuts.
Totally fair.
IIRC, intel was planning on selling current P4s with the huge heatsink, but was going to restructure it to make it require a smaller heatsink/enable SMP, then re-release it.
This means the 1.2GHz athlon and the ultrabulky pentium 4 will go head to head in the market. They'll compare the latest athlon out to the re-released p4 when they arrive. Until then, it's fair game.
Laptops already get pretty hot, I assume that with the lower power consumption they also solved the heat issues with their chipset, as there's little to no room for a heatsink, much less a fan.
At the users option.
Much like the mozilla dual license, you obey the one you choose. So any GPLv2 software could still be used by abiding only to the terms of GPLv2, while you couldn't do that with GPLv3 software. Which means the changes such as the ASP protection will only apply to new releases or if the people who make the software change the license (or the ASP provider chooses to apply GPLv3).
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Nonsensical uninformed (most likely) rantings of noone in particular. Please put on you Peril Sensitive Sunglasses now.
$30 is a little high for 4 episodes. I'd say you're buying from the wrong place. Buy.com has Cowboy Bebop for $20/disc (Suncoast: $30). If you're willing to wait (2 day air was $12, and covers each disc, even if shipped seperately), you can get discs cheap.
Although, ADV does owe the fansubbers for getting me addicted to Nadesico, of which I have 2 CDs with all 26 episodes. Now I want 'em on dvd (First disc: 11/07/2000).
Probably never. Closest you'll get is if they show it on PBS. That's why I download fansubs, and if I like it, I go for the DVDs.
I believe CN tried to get Neon Genesis Evangelion, and ADV considered it but Gainax came down and said NO, due to the editing that would be required by american censors. That and NGE would be over the heads of 90% of the viewers, on whom the story would undoubtedly be lost.
Ironic, considering that the restrictions of Japanese broadcast TV influenced the show heavily in it's own right.
Nah, no shit. literally.
But Duo did go from being the Great Destroyer during the day to "The God of Death" at night, and a few scenes were deleted entirely (which severely damaged one episode)
It's interesting that copyright could be used in a way totally contrary to it's original intentions.
Personally, I think a loss of all of their current copyrights would force them to actually be *creative* in their choice of works to publish (and bring some material into the public domain, which hasn't happened except by willing release for the past who knows how many years). Maybe this will give them that kick in the pants they need to stop shoveling us this crap they have been.
It'll be interesting to watch. They should sell courtside tickets.
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Ever try to kill a service? Gotta go through service manager to do that, and if Explorer's dead, you can't get there without nt server or client based admin tools (which i believe are dependent on having nt server, AND require you to have a second computer running NT)