kyatsu Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 (edited) i went on a spending spree today and bought most of the dvds i always wanted. so, after i came back from the store, i opened up the eva boxset and started to watch it. is it just me or is the quality for the death and rebirth and end of eva pretty bad? did manga re-mastered it? if someone can answer this question, really appreciate it. also, i found out that manga re-mastered the macross plus ova series and i found it at fry's for 28.00 dollars ( i am not sure if this is old news or not, but it's new to me). kyatsu Edited September 17, 2006 by kyatsu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 Manga DVD's suck, plain & simple. The only thing I can reccomend is watching the subtitled side (without the dub commentary) as it's slighly better. Manga is actually supposed to be releasing the Renewal versions sometime next year, which have better remastered source material, but unfortunately, will still be subject to Manga's aweful disc authoring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyatsu Posted September 17, 2006 Author Share Posted September 17, 2006 so, i just bought myself a farted up version, eh? damn, and here i thought manga got their act together. i will see if i can return it at bestbuy first thing tomorrow. thanks for the info keith. kyatsu Manga DVD's suck, plain & simple. The only thing I can reccomend is watching the subtitled side (without the dub commentary) as it's slighly better. Manga is actually supposed to be releasing the Renewal versions sometime next year, which have better remastered source material, but unfortunately, will still be subject to Manga's aweful disc authoring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyatsu Posted September 17, 2006 Author Share Posted September 17, 2006 man, tomorrow i will check the macross plus to see how the qualtiy is. manga said it is re-mastered, but i wanna be sure bout that. kyatsu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
areaseven Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 man, tomorrow i will check the macross plus to see how the qualtiy is. manga said it is re-mastered, but i wanna be sure bout that. kyatsu They lied to you. If you bought the boxed set, you get nothing but the same DVDs issued back in 1999. You can tell by the KISS and Everclear anti-drug PSAs on the Extras section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 Worse yet, they didn't include their awful VHS dump of the movie edition. Manga really does put out some of the worst disc's on the planet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumdumgai Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 (edited) I have a manga UK disc of Death and Rebirth, as usual everything could have been better. At least I only picked it up for a few euros from Book-Off Paris (I don't recommend buying most things from there because they over-price things in general and sell used bootleg cds at full price). edit: clarification about the cds Edited September 17, 2006 by Sumdumgai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Shade Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 It's not just their old releases that can be messed up. Just look at the recent release of "Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro" special edition. In their infinite wisdom, Manga decided to replace the animation for the opening credits with a bunch of still images, just so that they wouldn't have to show the Japanese text during the credits, instead, showing English credits superimposed on the still images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyatsu Posted September 17, 2006 Author Share Posted September 17, 2006 damn, so i am gonna be returning a lot of dvds next weekend, eh? i should sue manga for false advertising on the macross boxset. kyatsu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyatsu Posted September 17, 2006 Author Share Posted September 17, 2006 i thought the macross plus boxset quality is decent. much better than the movie. also, the first disc has a movie label on it, but it's false. man, manga is really sloppy or just dumb. kyatsu They lied to you. If you bought the boxed set, you get nothing but the same DVDs issued back in 1999. You can tell by the KISS and Everclear anti-drug PSAs on the Extras section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 Just be glad they lost the license to Gunbuster, it'd bad enough what they did with their Honeamise DVD. They actually made it look worse than the VHS dump that it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newtype Ace Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 It's not just their old releases that can be messed up. Just look at the recent release of "Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro" special edition. In their infinite wisdom, Manga decided to replace the animation for the opening credits with a bunch of still images, just so that they wouldn't have to show the Japanese text during the credits, instead, showing English credits superimposed on the still images. Ugh. So is the old dvd release worth getting instead even though its non-anamorphic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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