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NEWS: ADV Releases Gantz Details

Godaistudios wrote:

kusanagi-sama wrote: Godaistudios wrote: kusanagi-sama wrote: Godaistudios wrote: with the cost they are suggesting, I highly doubt I'll be buying it... since I didn't see it before it was licensed, looks like I'll be renting instead, which means the only people who get money out of it is whomever I'm renting it from. No, even if you rent it from them, some of the money they used to buy the DVD to allow you to rent it went to the distributor (ADV in your case). It's not that I don't understand that, but for each person who rents instead of purchasing, then each one could be considered a "sale" that ADV didn't get. It's just semantics. Of course, the rental company has to pay 2 or 3 times the normal cost when purchasing. Hmm... the comic book store where I often rent stuff from just uses a sale copy, so that's really not the case at all here... I don't know about the rest of the online companies, and I'm hardly an expert in that field, but my understanding of the current retail companies is that they no longer have to pay that much either. As far as the online renters? I don't have a clue how much they pay for their copies.

There is one particular movie made in 1984 that I want. It is called Electric Dreams, but it is available as a VHS rental, however, you can buy the VHS tape for it at what a renter would buy it, for $54. I've seen it on Amazon.com as VHS (where the $54 comes from) as well as eBay (mostly PAL VHS and some R0 DVD's), but I prefer to wait until it comes available on DVD eventually

if MSRP is 18$ that means that some stores will have it for less.

This is a very good point. If the MSRP is only $18, and Deep Discount DVD starts carrying this, it will be even cheaper.

Technically, isn't 1 episode of Gantz (50 minutes) the length of 2 episode of a regular anime? So if you're buying 2 episodes per DVD, that would approximately be the length of 4 episodes per DVD. This means that the anime as a whole would have a length of 52 episodes, even though its only listed as 26 episodes, because the episodes are double the normal length. In effect, you'd be paying $18 for the equivalent of 4 episodes, which is not a bad deal. If you really wanted 4 Gantz-length episodes on one disc, that would be 8 normal episodes worth of material.

I hope they don't decide to do this for all of their releases. It's been a long time since I've had to buy anime at 2 episodes a release, and I think it's a poor step. The pricing may even out in the end, but fans are more likely to pay more for more episodes, than less for less. For a 26 episode series, 13 is just ridiculous.

Technically, isn't 1 episode of Gantz (50 minutes) the length of 2 episode of a regular anime? So if you're buying 2 episodes per DVD, that would approximately be the length of 4 episodes per DVD. This means that the anime as a whole would have a length of 52 episodes, even though its only listed as 26 episodes, because the episodes are double the normal length. In effect, you'd be paying $18 for the equivalent of 4 episodes, which is not a bad deal. If you really wanted 4 Gantz-length episodes on one disc, that would be 8 normal episodes worth of material.

Correct me if I'm wrong on this.

2 episode per disc? This is super lame.

Bring on the manga instead, at least you'll get the whole TV arc with like 4 or 5 volumes of manga.

Necros Antiquor wrote:

Technically, isn't 1 episode of Gantz (50 minutes) the length of 2 episode of a regular anime? So if you're buying 2 episodes per DVD, that would approximately be the length of 4 episodes per DVD. This means that the anime as a whole would have a length of 52 episodes, even though its only listed as 26 episodes, because the episodes are double the normal length. In effect, you'd be paying $18 for the equivalent of 4 episodes, which is not a bad deal. If you really wanted 4 Gantz-length episodes on one disc, that would be 8 normal episodes worth of material. Correct me if I'm wrong on this.

Episode are 24min.

They've also confirmed the 50 minute / 2-episode running time reported earlier this month.

darkhunter wrote:

Necros Antiquor wrote: Technically, isn't 1 episode of Gantz (50 minutes) the length of 2 episode of a regular anime? So if you're buying 2 episodes per DVD, that would approximately be the length of 4 episodes per DVD. This means that the anime as a whole would have a length of 52 episodes, even though its only listed as 26 episodes, because the episodes are double the normal length. In effect, you'd be paying $18 for the equivalent of 4 episodes, which is not a bad deal. If you really wanted 4 Gantz-length episodes on one disc, that would be 8 normal episodes worth of material. Correct me if I'm wrong on this. Episode are 24min.

I read this on the main page, though:

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They've also confirmed the 50 minute / 2-episode running time reported earlier this month.

Would that only apply to the first DVD? Or does that mean that the DVD itself is only 50 minutes long, as opposed to each episode being 50 minutes long like I thought?

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They've also confirmed the 50 minute / 2-episode running time reported earlier this month.

Would that only apply to the first DVD? Or does that mean that the DVD itself is only 50 minutes long, as opposed to each episode being 50 minutes long like I thought?