SD, HD, BR?

Mutsumi said:
ayase said:
What are you talking about? Having things rated by the BBFC costs a lot of money - if they didn't have to do that they'd be quids in, surely? They'd be putting out the same releases without one of their major costs.
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No BBFC would mean nothing to stop the cheaper US DVDs being sold over here, since being rated would no longer be a requirement. How can the UK distributors compete with the scale of the US ones? Remember, many US anime DVDs are already region 2 compatible.
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And uh, presuming you don't work in the UK industry that would be a good thing, wouldn't it? But even so, Beez are a subsidiary of Bandai and would likely continue with European distribution, and Manga are a multinational entity already. If such a scenario were to come about, wouldn't Beez & Manga UK just start distributing their American partners' DVDs in the UK?

And I don't think many US anime DVDs are R2 compatible... The only US distributor to release region free DVDs was CPM. All the others lock their releases to R1. A lot of people do have region free DVD players though.
 
Actually Ayase, Funi's Dragonball Z releases (and assumedly their DB GT and Dragon Ball releases) are actually regions 1,2 and 4. Although if there's a list out there with multi regional American DVDs i would like to have a gander.
 
Then I stand corrected. But I'd also stand by my comment that there still haven't been many unlocked or R2 DVDs released in the US.
 
Hang on. the reason behind america and the orients being R1 is because their not running on as high electricity as us and as a result. they rus NTSC. and we run PAL.

*wanders off*
 
Tachi- said:
Hang on. the reason behind america and the orients being R1 is because their not running on as high electricity as us and as a result. they rus NTSC. and we run PAL.

*wanders off*
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NTSC & PAL haven't been a factor in region coding for a long time because advances in TV technology came to allow people to display an NTSC picture on a PAL set and vice versa. To my knowledge, television systems have nothing to do with mains voltage. Of more relevance to this topic, NTSC & PAL no longer exist in HD media or digital broadcasting anyway.
 
BlackWolf said:
Actually Ayase, Funi's Dragonball Z releases (and assumedly their DB GT and Dragon Ball releases) are actually regions 1,2 and 4. Although if there's a list out there with multi regional American DVDs i would like to have a gander.
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Dragonball is only regions 1 and 4, and to my knowledge they are the only release from Funimation to be any region other than R1.
 
ayase said:
To my knowledge, television systems have nothing to do with mains voltage.
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Its not the voltage, its the frequency. We're 50Hz, US and Japan is 60Hz. Old old TVs used this to generate the frame syncs and it also reduced flicker on early CRTs under electric light.

HD still has 50Hz and 60Hz standards, as well as the much more ideal 24Hz.
 
Tachi- said:
Well....i was just throwing a concept out there :p
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I'd say Tachi is kind of right actually. When the DVD spec was being drawn up in the 90s, NTSC capable televisions were a luxury that few people had or even realised they had. It took rising e-commerce and the regional differences of the early DVD release market for there to even be a market for NTSC capable televisions. Don't believe my family owned a 50hz TV until 2003-ish, and we usually had three in the house at any one time.
 
Jiindama said:
Dragonball is only regions 1 and 4, and to my knowledge they are the only release from Funimation to be any region other than R1.
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I don't own them myself but every seems to say they are R2, since they play on region locked DVD players here.
 
Jayme said:
Jiindama said:
Dragonball is only regions 1 and 4, and to my knowledge they are the only release from Funimation to be any region other than R1.
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I don't own them myself but every seems to say they are R2, since they play on region locked DVD players here.
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They do, My broly movie plays on all the dvd players in the house and i've only unlocked one of them, all the DBZ releases are the same in that regard, although i'm talking about their season sets they just finished releasing, haven't heard anything yet about their new Dragonbox sets, but i've no reason to assume otherwise.
 
Jiindama said:
BlackWolf said:
Actually Ayase, Funi's Dragonball Z releases (and assumedly their DB GT and Dragon Ball releases) are actually regions 1,2 and 4. Although if there's a list out there with multi regional American DVDs i would like to have a gander.
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Dragonball is only regions 1 and 4, and to my knowledge they are the only release from Funimation to be any region other than R1.
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False. I have many funi releases that are R2 friendly. My 2001 DBZ Buu saga DVDs are R2, all the newer DBZ boxsets are R2, the GT ones are R2, & Blue Gender is R2. The Dragonball boxsets are as you said however, & their One Piece releases are R1 only also.

If we shared DVD & Blu-ray region with the US & the BBFC was out of the picture, would we even need a UK anime industry?
 
Jiindama said:
Dragonball is only regions 1 and 4, and to my knowledge they are the only release from Funimation to be any region other than R1.
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I had actually meant to edit this earlier, but forgot. Because I know that Dragonball Z is regions 1, 2 and 4 (I own them).

At one point whilst searching for One Piece DVDs I did discover a website which actually listed every region that a DVD would work in, but I never kept it.

Regardless, all the non DBZ, Funimation DVDs I'd found weren't anything other than Region 1.

Although apparently there are other Funimation DVDs which are also R2.




Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I certainly can tell a difference between Blu-ray and DVD, and I'm hoping we start seeing a few more series released on BD over here.
 
mangaman74 said:
Otaku-san said:
Just to digress, but i also noticed that the first volume of Black God is set for a release around this time
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Last I heard the bd release was pushed back to early February. If you are planning to get the Kurokami bd you may want to think again as the US release is English dub only. The Japanese release is slightly better in that it has Japanese, Korean & English dub tracks but it has no English subtitles. It also has a lower episode count than the dvd release (4 episodes on bd versus 6 episodes on dvd).


http://www.mania.com/bandai-announces-f ... 18788.html

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http://www.mania.com/kurokami-bluray-ex ... 18809.html
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that's okay since i don't have a blu-ray playing in the first place, though it's not a series at the top of my list to buy
 
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