Defective or Disappointing UK Anime Discs

Shiroi Hane said:
It is one of those cases where they've got the phase inverted? IIRC in that case if you can listed to the left and right channels individually they should each sound normal, but peculiar if listened to together due to phase cancellation.
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I don't think that's it. I had another listen and it's as the review I linked to says: the distortion tends to affect higher-pitched sounds - which, when the lead character is a lively 13 year-old girl, constitute a fair bit of the noise coming out of the speakers.

Nobody noticed the Poppy Hill subtitles appearing slightly too early?
 
Hahaha, stupid Kaze. Apparently this happened via UK Anime Network.
I dont know if anyone else has spotted this (There's No Sign of anything on Kaze's FB Site), but the Sleeve art of Bleach 12 v2 has the Plot from Series 10 V1 printed on it.
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fabricatedlunatic said:
Nobody noticed the Poppy Hill subtitles appearing slightly too early?
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Got my copy of the collectors edition today. Checked it and you're correct, they do come up a fraction early. Not checked the whole disc just an odd section here and there. An easy place to see it is at around 14:26 (13:30 on the DVD). The poster on the billboard, a translation comes up to translate the main title of the poster, however the subtitle comes up just before the poster is shown up close. Can notice it easy at the beginning as well when the title and credits are getting translated. You can see it when they are talking as well, but it's more noticeable at the beginning of a conversation.

I checked the DVD as well and that's fine.

Not sure how any of the reviews didn't notice.
 
It's a shockingly long list isn't it!? My own personal issues have been with the Serial Experiments lain boxset and Karas (both UK releases). With the former my Pioneer DVD player of the time had issues playing discs 2 and 4, which became rectified with a new player, and I was so damned determined to see it that I took the plunge again and found they worked. As for Karas, that seemed to be more a case of unstable discs (!) by which I literally mean that they had vibration issues which appeared to render them unplayable in both my DVD player of the time and the PC drive. Again with the change of player things rectified themselves somewhat, though they do seem to still create a bit of noise..
 
Gavrev said:
It's a shockingly long list isn't it!? My own personal issues have been with the Serial Experiments lain boxset and Karas (both UK releases). With the former my Pioneer DVD player of the time had issues playing discs 2 and 4, which became rectified with a new player, and I was so damned determined to see it that I took the plunge again and found they worked. As for Karas, that seemed to be more a case of unstable discs (!) by which I literally mean that they had vibration issues which appeared to render them unplayable in both my DVD player of the time and the PC drive. Again with the change of player things rectified themselves somewhat, though they do seem to still create a bit of noise..
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Those are more manufacturing issues rather than authoring issues, and can usually be fixed by exchanging them for a replacement copy.
 
Probably true, but they were very persistent manufacturing issues.. I tried Lain three times from two different places and two sets of Karas.. Didn't bode well for a while lol..
 
I know when trying to rip the clean Lain OP to put in the video collection on my phone (well, my PSP at the time) I found it was impossible for some reason. It played OK from the menu but I could rip it. I think there was also some sort of timecode problem or something.

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Oh, remembered I only have the US discs for Lain, except possible the first UK volume.
 
Right.. It's the UK boxset of Lain that I have, but it was odd that of the three sets I worked my way though the first two had the same issue of discs 2 and 4 not playing. I'm assuming that third time I managed to get a set with either some silent corrective work or a better run of discs (!?). Hard to tell..
 
Gavrev said:
My own personal issues have been with the Serial Experiments lain boxset and Karas (both UK releases). With the former my Pioneer DVD player of the time had issues playing discs 2 and 4, which became rectified with a new player, and I was so damned determined to see it that I took the plunge again and found they worked.
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I couldn't get my region 2 copy of Lain to play on my PS3.
 
Sword Art Online: Part 2
Note: Everyone is aware these parts will be downgraded in contrast to the Aniplex of America release.

UK Anime Network had this to say:
As per part one, we're sad to confirm that this second volume of Sword Art Online also features no chapter markers, making it impossible to skip through sections of an episode (such as skipping the opening credits) as you can only move between episodes themselves. On top of this, there also an issue with the Sword Art Offline web extras included with this disc that has completely skewed the pitch of its audio dialogue - if you've ever wondered what Asuna would sound like if she was an elderly granny who speaks really slowly, this might inadvertently be the release for you, but otherwise it's another disappointing error on what is otherwise one of Manga Entertainment's current tent pole releases.
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Extra information thanks to MyReviewer (aka J.Canth):
This appears to be a Manga authored disc, and so you get the old problem of an inability to show more than one subtitle caption at a time. When you get a confluence of dialogue and on screen text to be translated, the captions flick by at an accelerated pace, and a fast finger on the pause button might be necessary to catch it all.

Sword Art Online’s UK Blu-ray release looks to be authored by Manga Entertainment in house. Certainly the subtitling issues are one tell-tale, the other being a lack of chaptering for the episodes; there’s no skipping credit sequences here. The disc boots up pretty quickly after a single Manga logo to an animated menu screen. This time you get more than just the textless credit sequences. You also get the Episode 9-11 Web Clips, and Episode 13-14 Web Clips (there’s got to be a typo in there somewhere).

These are the Sword Art Offline clips from the US releases, and you may think that it’s pointless presenting them to us now, having missed them out altogether on the first disc. They last 14 and 16 minutes respectively, and are fifty percent longer than they should be. Seriously, they’ve been slowed down on this Manga release, all of the characters now speak in deep, distorted voices, and the animation judders in slow motion. I could get it running closer to the intended speed by pressing fast forward on my Blu-ray player, but that does nothing about the pitch of the audio. Asuna sounds like Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies, after Arnie is given that truth serum. It’s a screw up that I found rendered the Sword Art Offline extra unwatchable.
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Huh, that's a weird audio glitch. Manga do need to sort out their in-house authoring. Oh well, as long as they have lossless dub audio then I'll still get these discs if they're rereleased as a boxset in a few years.
 
This is why i try to keep away from getting releases on day 1 and since Im not from the UK, its even a bigger pain in the ass to send it back if needed. Though 1 weeks is enough to see if the release has problems or not...
 
I emailed Studiocanel about the subtitles on the Blu-ray on Poppy Hill and this is the response I got.
"We’ve investigated this issue and found no problems with the subtitling track sync.

The slight variation in frame rate from DVD to Blu-ray, along with the nature of animation in its rendering of human speech, could possibly result in the subtitles appearing at marginally different times.

However, we can attest that the subtitling track is correct on both DVD and Blu-ray versions."

Still look slightly off to me. Animation in its rendering of human speech doesn't explain why the subtitles appear a fraction early when translating the credits and signs. On the DVD they appear at the same time as the credits and signs. The difference in frame rate shouldn't be any issue as the timing for the DVD and the Blu-ray would be different any way.

Not sure if I can be bothered to reply back.
 
NormanicGrav said:
Sword Art Online: Part 2
Note: Everyone is aware these parts will be downgraded in contrast to the Aniplex of America release.

UK Anime Network had this to say:
As per part one, we're sad to confirm that this second volume of Sword Art Online also features no chapter markers, making it impossible to skip through sections of an episode (such as skipping the opening credits) as you can only move between episodes themselves. On top of this, there also an issue with the Sword Art Offline web extras included with this disc that has completely skewed the pitch of its audio dialogue - if you've ever wondered what Asuna would sound like if she was an elderly granny who speaks really slowly, this might inadvertently be the release for you, but otherwise it's another disappointing error on what is otherwise one of Manga Entertainment's current tent pole releases.
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"Downgraded" isn't the word. This is a goddamn mess.

And just watch, they'll get Fairy Dance perfect, just to be f'ing contrary.
 
I looked up something, now correct me if I'm wrong but

I'm.watching deadman wounderland on DVD and I saw that on bluray it has a lot of uncensored stuff that's not on the DVD,

If so il buy the blue-Ray if it's censored on DVD but I need to know if its true.
 
Not got it myself but according to Just Passing Through review of Garden of Words Blu-ray, it's missing a signs only track.

From the review.. "There is no signs only track on this disc, and there are a fair few moments of plot specific on screen text that need translating, including the film’s title."
 
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