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The Count
 Posts: 303 Location: Milwaukee,WI |
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You know at this point I've really lost all understanding of what the hell Bandai is doing. Even though I'm a dub fan I find it effed up that the format with more capacity and capabilities (Blu-Ray) will have a sizable amount of content cut from it. And I guarantee it will still cost more than the DVD.
I see their trying to protect themselves from overseas buyers getting a cheaper US version, but just how greedy can you be? Last edited by The Count on Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:48 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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John Casey
 Posts: 1853 Location: In My Angry Center |
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This is a massively epic fail of biblical proportions.
Go to frakking hell, Bandai. Just....go. |
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britannicamoore
 Posts: 2618 Location: Out. |
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So I should buy both the Japanese BD and the English BD to get both language tracks? I'll pass.
Should they really experiment on Blu-Ray given the cost? Why the change of the amount of episodes as well? I never really figured BD for single releases---only for boxsets. |
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darkchibi07
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Fears of reverse importation strikes again? The Japanese own BD release has Japanese, English, AND Korean audio tracks.
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=BCXA-157 |
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wandering-dreamer
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o_O Okay, um Bandai? When people were complaining about lack of dubs they were talking about wanting dubs AND subs, not either or. I guess if I'm ever going to watch this series I'll go watch it on CR. And I thought you were supposed to get more extras on Blu-Rays, not fewer...
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britannicamoore
Posts: 2618 Location: Out. |
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No one besides and avid collector is going to pay $98 for 3 episodes. Even more of a what were they thinking? |
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jmfsilenthill
 Posts: 1863 Location: Chinese cartoons are srs biz |
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Oh for the love of god, Bandai, wtf are you doing? Only one language track and less episodes on the format with way more storage capacity? Thats totally logical. I thought the time for single disc releases was over. It seems like a complete waste of the format's potential to put an hour and a half worth of content on the disc. This calls for a facepalm.
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UltimateSpaceLion
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The mind boggles. Every so often you just have to concede that you really have absolutely no idea what the frak is going on in these places.
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Mario1234567
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WTF! What in the hell is wrong with Bandai? Whoever is making the decisions at Bandai needs to be fired, and that's real... Sentai makes more since than them.
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Cait
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I'm sure it wasn't US Bandai that made this decision. I'm sure it was on the Japanese end and they didn't want Japanese consumers to import the US BDs to get them cheaper.
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leftbehindxp
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Well I can understand why they are doing this cause of reverse import, even mentions the idea at the end of the article.
Cait-"I'm sure it wasn't US Bandai that made this decision. I'm sure it was on the Japanese end and they didn't want Japanese consumers to import the US BDs to get them cheaper." <-Good point Though I'm a dub fan I still find it weird that the BD is only English. Should have both options. I'm feeling like the BD is not going to do so well because of this. Guess the DVD perhaps? Edit: After reading the source article, atleast they have prices down. DVD 29.99, while the BD 24.99 so that's a plus. Last edited by leftbehindxp on Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:34 pm; edited 3 times in total |
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rankothefiremage
 Posts: 523 Location: Michigan |
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Free trade my arse,
Now i know discs are more pricey in Japan, but this really doesn't make any sense, even before someone could just spend a bit and get a US region coded dvd player, hell they could just set one up that way in their computer, (i use two optical drives myself so i could code for 2 regions) Maybe i'm just being a bitter Detroiter (Japan restricts the sale of non japanese autos) but sometimes it seems that other nations are more willing to put up trade barriers that we americans see as against the gospel of free trade. -Gabe |
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doctordoom85
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(massive facepalm) If that's the case, thanks a lot (Japan's) Bandai. The US Bandai is probably struggling to stay alive given the fact that FUNi, Viz, and even neo-ADV are bringing out way more stuff than they are lately. We don't need you guys shooting bullets at them too. Isn't Japan kinda in denial about this? I mean, I'm sure it's easy to get a region-free DVD player in Japan, so why suddenly raise a fuss when Blu-Ray came along and it was region-free discs right off the bat? I'm sure Japanese fans who were concerned about price on their DVDs were buying region-free players and importing R1 DVDs a long time ago. SIGH. |
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TsukasaElkKite
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WHY?
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Dune
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I had to read that a few times just to make sure I got it right. But yeah, reverse importation fears. Even though I don't have Blu-ray yet, I was initially happy that the US and Japan share the same region. But, geez-- is this how future releases are going to be handled in order to compensate? Really, now. 
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