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BlankSystemDaemon posted:that's very clearly a light novel title, op it's not 3 paragraphs so i doubt that
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Watched BELLE last night and was loving dying at how part of how they save the day is doing that exact cyberstalking poo poo the gangster bear did in ODDTAXI
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Lmao at plutonis’ post
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Namtab posted:Lmao at plutonis’ post
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Hey quick question I'm not a huge anime fan but I liked Berserk and wanted to find a definitive blu ray collection for the 1996(?) series I remember watching years ago. What would you all recommend? English dubbed preferred. I saw that there is a Berserk series on HBOMax for streaming but I did not like the 2d/CGI whatever art style that was so I would wish to avoid that.
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If you're in America, you're SOL since it doesn't look like the 97 anime has been released on BD in Region 2. There does seem to be a European release on Amazon.
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Namtab posted:Lmao at plutonis’ post
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Waffleman_ posted:If you're in America, you're SOL since it doesn't look like the 97 anime has been released on BD in Region 2. There does seem to be a European release on Amazon.
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i feel like you can follow that with a who the gently caress has a dedicated disc player nowadays
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Who the gently caress doesn't have a region free dvd+bluray player nowadays? I still use a ps3
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dogsicle posted:i feel like you can follow that with a who the gently caress has a dedicated disc player nowadays
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I recommend piracy
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:I get why you wouldn't buy one today, but most people don't have a habit of throwing out things they own, do they? i think having one to begin with is still uncommon enough
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Namtab posted:Lmao at plutonis’ post
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I have no more video consoles save for my Switch, also disk players in PCs are pretty uncommon now as far as I know, and so I got a region free BR player about a year or two ago. I imagine if you buy one online like I did they're very likely to be Region Free but maybe not if you pick one up at your local Walmart or Best Buy or something. People do still go outside to shop, the Neanderthals. But on a more serious note, I have to wonder if Funimation makes or loses money by streaming. Like, why would I ever buy a MHA BR set when I can just watch the whole series online over and over? Only this applies to pretty much everything they still own the rights to. If MHA Season 1 is like $30, and so is a Fairy Tail set, that's $60 for two anime and only two small parts of the anime. Or I can watch all of MHA and FT and everything else for $8. NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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Probably not. Physical media in anime seems to be mostly a collector's market nowadays anyway.
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where's my oddtaxi blurays
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id be more compelled to buy anime BDs (and a BD player lol) if there was a technical reason to do so. BD movies usually have extremely high bitrate in 4K HDR, while streaming has the lowest passable bitrate they can get away with. anime is just 1080p with very little detail so compression algorithms don't mangle them as much there's just not much of a reason to buy anime BDs outside of building a collection
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both h264 and h265 have presets that are optimized for animation too, just in case large swaths of color didn't compress well enough - which they do
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i want certain things on bluray on the off chance they become not easily available thru streaming in the future for whatever reason
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mycophobia posted:i want certain things on bluray on the off chance they become not easily available thru streaming in the future for whatever reason Same. I don't trust companies to keep these out there perpetually. I won't buy everything, but anything over an 8/10 I make sure to buy and the galling nature of certain companies to lock titles I like down as streaming exclusives with no hard copy worries me.
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mycophobia posted:i want certain things on bluray on the off chance they become not easily available thru streaming in the future for whatever reason yup. same reason i buy paperbacks of stuff i really dig. that stream aint forever
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me to my dorohedoro books after the licensing armageddon has deleted all digital editions: it is up to you now to rebuild
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the problem for most people is that there's cheaper and arguably more convenient ways of having a hard copy for the apocalypse.
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mycophobia posted:i want certain things on bluray on the off chance they become not easily available thru streaming in the future for whatever reason This is my eternal fear about Steam, Kindle, basically every online service. Nothing lasts forever, where will all my books and games and anime go if something happens to any of these sites? poo poo maybe I should get back to collecting anime.... But man, when you like long runners, it gets really pricy real fast NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Apr 4, 2022 |
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cheetah7071 posted:I recommend piracy Won't pretend I'm above it when there's no other choice, but I'm old enough that I still feel a sense of "someone did the work to bring it over, translate it, and release the sucker, I'll pay for that effort" given how rare it once was (is becoming again?)
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cheetah7071 posted:I recommend piracy this is also an excellent method marumaru posted:the problem for most people is that there's cheaper and arguably more convenient ways of having a hard copy for the apocalypse. yeah ive done this for exactly one series and it is non-loving-trivially expensive. prob just do the M:tG equivalent of proxy deck if i feel the urge to do something like this again.
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Plutonis posted:
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I buy blu-rays because I don’t have to worry about internet issues, and I’ve found that they’re usually better about small things like subtitles. When multiple people speak the subtitles can sometimes get confusing or misplaced and when the BR comes out all those small issues have been fixed. You’ll sometimes see it as well where animation fixes have been done for a show for a BR release that the streaming version never updates to. When I run on my treadmill it’s way easier to pop in a disc and hit a button on a remote then deal with a controller or streaming service as well. Physical media still has its place. I will never stop buying physical media because I prefer to have something I have access to. I like looking at my collection deciding what I want to watch and I don’t get the same curiosity browsing a digital name list. They make the product try to stand out. Digital only is fine if that’s what you want, but I think going “ah yes. I await the death of physical media” is a real bad thing because it’s just putting more power in corporations hands and that is not good.
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that guy should have talked to his brother
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physical media is not the be-all end-all of preservation either, and has significant issues that are inherently unsolvable. for example, being physical it has a finite lifespan. people who think a bookcase of discs means they are the vanguard of media preservation are gonna start getting real upset in the next few years when all their ps1 discs start failing en masse (since they have a lifespan of ~25-30 years before natural and unavoidable chemical processes render the optical layer unreadable). the solution is to support digital methods outside corporate purview, in any way possible and in any arena possible. holing up in your house with bits of plastic and metal that are subject to physical decay does not actually solve that problem in a real way.
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a proper raid nas will probably do you more good for archival purposes than a bluray.
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yeah, what's important isn't whether it's physical or digital, it's whether you have it stored locally or get it through a streaming service
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Just remember that RAID is not a backup solution Especially if you're a clown who goes RAID 0 with WD Greens or something
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also electronic media formats are constantly changing and needing to be updated, a problem which is much worse with physical media. If .avi files becomes unplayable on future computers for some reason, archive.org or whoever can run software to mass-convert their files into a usable format. If you have obsolete physical media it's first a pain in the rear end and eventually nearly impossible to recover it. Think of what it'd be like to have an extensive library of VHS tapes.
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Stairmaster posted:that guy should have talked to his brother 
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Namtab posted:Lmao at plutonis’ post
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Stairmaster posted:that guy should have talked to his brother I don't know if that would have helped or made it worse
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classic plutonis
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