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Valid point, it's that I personally quite like to thinker with stuff like this, that I generally don't mind a (minor) problem or two as long as it's not a damaged disc on arrival. In an ideal world, the product should indeed just work (and it generally does). However, I still check all the...

Finally found some time to try a few of the new shows this season. Will definitely continue Natsume Yuujinchou Roku (ep. 1) - When you hear those first few sentences, you know it's going to be another great season :D Nobunaga no Shinobi: Ise Kanegasaki-hen (ep. 1-2) Promising Anonymous Noise...

I must say, I've never really had any damaged discs on arrival. The worst thing is when you hear the disc moving around in the package, knowing it has been collecting scratches during the transport. But luckily, I've yet to encounter a disc that would not play (one way or another) due to this...

Somehow the recent episodes I've watched all disappointed me. :confused: TRICKSTER - Episode 23 While I didn't really like the show from the start, it sort of got a bit better in the second half, but this episode was really bad. This does not bode well for the final episode. Idol Incident -...

Personally I buy physical release for more than just their video content. It's going to take up some space on my shelf and probably stay there longer than the runtime of the show, so I might as well go for a nice looking release. Physical extras sometimes win me over (though, art cards or...

Quite a lot actually, it can be used to make more dynamic menus, add interactivity during (normal) playback, implement simple games, fetch resources from the internet. Sadly, it is often used to implement additional anti-copy protection mechanisms and causes limitations like not being able to...

Dragon Maid - episode 9 While I quite like this show, I think the scenes with Lucoa and Shouta don't really fit in with the rest.

Orders on AL's webshop generally ship via anime-on-line.com/MVM, right? That sort of makes me wonder why there is such a huge difference in shipping rates for international orders. AOL has a per item rate, while AL's webshop seems to have a fixed rate, which for me, for a single item, is more...

Ehm, you should only ever need one BD drive regardless of the region(s) you intend to play. In contrast to DVD drives, BD drives don't have a region flag on the drive (for BD playback). The region is solely checked by the player, and in case of a desktop, your software player. Basically all BD...

You can say that again! I only like the higher bitrate, capacity and scratch resistance of BDs, everything else is just to give the consumer a hard time trying to play the discs they've bought: AACS, BD+, StreetLock, Cinavia, BusEncryption, etc... Just the thought that popping in a newer disk...

Sadly playing back BDs on a desktop is not as easy as DVDs, but it is doable. There is a lot of cryptographic trickery going on and some mechanisms to make it not consumer friendly (e.g. inserting newer BDs can revoke certificates of the (legal) player you use, making all you're BDs unplayable...

Dragon Dentist - episode 1 The original short was one of my favourites of the Japan Animator Expo shorts, so I was really looking forward to seeing it. They managed to keep the same feel to it as the short IMHO and was overall very nice. GochiUsa S2 - episode 5-6 For some reason stopped...

ReLIFE - Episode 9 -13 (Complete) Really enjoyed this show from start to finish. The only thing I didn't like was that Hishiro turns out to be the first test subject. In my opinion this takes away a bit of the magic and doesn't really make a whole lot of sense. But I'll just pretend that it...

The real question is, whether or not they will make a sequel in the sequel;)

From my perspective the UK is actually great with regards to anime at the cinema. Seeing the announcements of anime films getting (limited) runs in cinema, is something I could only dream of over here. Having to travel by bus or train for, say 1 or 2 hours, to get there, seems like a luxury. :p...

Dragon Maid - episode 4 Really starting to like this show :D

Here I thought the awards were long over, but it seems Crunchyroll stretched it out a full month into the new year. Decided to give it a proper look and now I get why many complain about the selection of the nominations. Based on theses awards 2016 seems to have only featured 6~7 shows. In any...

The big question is of course, whether or not they would start buying anime releases if the prices were significantly lower? From what I can see, people who pirate will generally not start buying physical releases even if they were dirt cheap. The fact of the matter is that physical media are...

I don't think I've every seen subtitles like that on any anime Blu-ray, while it is most certainly possible. Whether or not you'd want it, is another question. If done correctly, sure, but seeing how many anime BDs can suffer from a plethora of issues (black levels, rubbish upscaling, banding...

Does a DVD release of Garden of Sinners do the show justice? I haven't seen it yet, but from what I gather (and given that it's from Ufotable), you would probably want to see it in the best possible quality.