I'm sorry, but those talks that imply that UK is not completely democratic are off.
Before considering this, think about China, North Korea, and the like. That's where democracy lacks, truly.
Whether you like or not a government, you should always respect the people that have elected it with their votes. If they are dissatisfied, they'll change their vote on the next election.
That's democracy for you...
I beg to differ. ADV extras on "non mainstream" releases are bad to say the least.
Not to mention errors in presentation (e.g. the name of a song spelled in three different ways! Do people inside the company talk to each other?), subtitles that overlap the credit lines, etc.
This is of course without considering extremely bad dubs (I am for dubs.... all Italian anime is dubbed, but *much* better than the English counterparts), and adaptations that are pretty bad.
The only upside of this would be if it could stop the ridicolous bi-monthly release schedule that's so common in the USA.
Where I live (Italy) it is customary to try (note, I say *try*) to ccomplete the distribution of a series ASAP, mostly because the consumer base has been irritated with endless delays in the past.
The problem with the bimonthly release is that it's applied also to *long* series. I mean, Funimation doing FMA every two months, 3 ep per DVD? It takes years just to see the end... I can understand the risk of flood, but if the release schedule can't be changed, at least more eps per medium.
...at least from a non-US perspective, ADV's releases are really poor in terms of localisation and sometimes, even content. I can't believe they don't include chapter selection in their DVD menus, which is something really basic (note: I'm *not* talking about episode selection, but individual chapter selection) and it's even more sad since the chapters are there on the DVD, just not used. Aside that, the presentation is somewhat lacking, and all. Other companies have been doing better efforts (cf. Bandai). I don't think Bittorrent will help them improve their quality, I think it will just make matters worse (remember ADV Fansubs?).
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I'm sorry, but those talks that imply that UK is not completely democratic are off. Before considering this, think about China, North Korea, and the like. That's where democracy lacks, truly.
Whether you like or not a government, you should always respect the people that have elected it with their votes. If they are dissatisfied, they'll change their vote on the next election. That's democracy for you...
I have a truckload of Region 2 Japanese DVDs, and while the extras suck, they DO have chapter selection.
I beg to differ. ADV extras on "non mainstream" releases are bad to say the least. Not to mention errors in presentation (e.g. the name of a song spelled in three different ways! Do people inside the company talk to each other?), subtitles that overlap the credit lines, etc. This is of course without considering extremely bad dubs (I am for dubs.... all Italian anime is dubbed, but *much* better than the English counterparts), and adaptations that are pretty bad.
The only upside of this would be if it could stop the ridicolous bi-monthly release schedule that's so common in the USA. Where I live (Italy) it is customary to try (note, I say *try*) to ccomplete the distribution of a series ASAP, mostly because the consumer base has been irritated with endless delays in the past. The problem with the bimonthly release is that it's applied also to *long* series. I mean, Funimation doing FMA every two months, 3 ep per DVD? It takes years just to see the end... I can understand the risk of flood, but if the release schedule can't be changed, at least more eps per medium.
...at least from a non-US perspective, ADV's releases are really poor in terms of localisation and sometimes, even content. I can't believe they don't include chapter selection in their DVD menus, which is something really basic (note: I'm *not* talking about episode selection, but individual chapter selection) and it's even more sad since the chapters are there on the DVD, just not used.
Aside that, the presentation is somewhat lacking, and all. Other companies have been doing better efforts (cf. Bandai).
I don't think Bittorrent will help them improve their quality, I think it will just make matters worse (remember ADV Fansubs?).