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But, they are also now moving some anime titles to a pay-per-episode format, which I think they may be planning to use in place of Anime Strike... so you may want to watch what you can on prime, while you can still do it with out paying extra for it.

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Thanks for reply @HWR

Before I buy School-Live US premium set, does anyone have a pic of the UK set? Its not a great deal cheaper than the US set, but would be good to see
 
I need new shelves, is the Ikea Billy still the best cheapish option? I say cheapish as I went on to the Ikea website and saw it was £35 which I thought was pretty damn cheap, changed the colour to black and it jumped up to £55, checked delivery charges and saw it will cost £35 to get it delivered, and I'll have to wait like 2 and a bit weeks >_> at that price I'm tempted to just chuck in some glass doors in a attempt to keep away dust... So yeeeah, anyone got any better recommendations or should I just be done with it?
 
Buzzkillington said:
I need new shelves, is the Ikea Billy still the best cheapish option? I say cheapish as I went on to the Ikea website and saw it was £35 which I thought was pretty damn cheap, changed the colour to black and it jumped up to £55, checked delivery charges and saw it will cost £35 to get it delivered, and I'll have to wait like 2 and a bit weeks >_> at that price I'm tempted to just chuck in some glass doors in a attempt to keep away dust... So yeeeah, anyone got any better recommendations or should I just be done with it?
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I've got a couple a tall ones and a few of the short ones and they are damn fine book cases. I went for white because I can't be doing with the random double price of alternative colours. You can double up books/DvDs/BD's on them as well which is great. I'd recommend grabbing an extra shelf for short ones and two extras for the tall ones if your using them for books/DvDs to maximise your ability to store things nicely.
 
I didn't even realize it, but after reading these posts above, I looked up Billy shelves on the Ikea website and discovered that the bookshelf I bought used from a newspaper ad 5 years ago is actually an Ikea Billy bookcase with glass doors - although mine has a gray or silver color finish, and the glass on the doors is heavily frosted so you can't see through them. US$169 on the Ikea website, and I bought mine used for I think $30, so it was still worth it. With those 11" deep shelves, I mainly use it to store all my oversized NIS America PE box sets and PonyCan releases, all my Studio Ghibli and other hardcover coffee-table-sized anime art books, and a few odd-shaped anime releases like lunchbox sets and larger DVD LE boxes and tins.

I built two new shelf units from scratch a few months ago, to add to the two units I constructed six years ago, so I had to move the Billy shelf upstairs into the living room to free-up enough space in my theater room for all four home-built 8-shelf units. Three of those four are now loaded up with anime, and the fourth with 3D movies, TV series, and Concert videos. I have enough live action Hollywood movies boxed up in storage to completely fill a fifth shelf unit, if I had one. I'm almost out of shelf space specifically reserved for anime already, so I may have to migrate some of my old DVD Box sets upstairs into the Billy as well. It's always a never-ending, vicious battle for shelf space, lol...
 
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I have like a dozen Ikea Billy bookshelves in storage along with most of my stuff which will come in handy when I have my own place again. Can finally build that library I've always wanted.
 
Rosencrantz said:
I've got a couple a tall ones and a few of the short ones and they are damn fine book cases. I went for white because I can't be doing with the random double price of alternative colours. You can double up books/DvDs/BD's on them as well which is great. I'd recommend grabbing an extra shelf for short ones and two extras for the tall ones if your using them for books/DvDs to maximise your ability to store things nicely.
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Thanks for the answer. Unfortunately for me my TV unit is black so I kinda need to pay the extra money for the black stuff or live with having a mixture of both, although I guess black and white actually doesn't sound that bad. Anyhoo gonna pick one up with the extra couple of shelves as you suggest (even a extra shelve in black is £5 more than white :/). My collection is small so one should do me for now. Thanks again.
 
Australian DVDs are Region 4. You need a Region free DVD player to use those in the UK. Getting a DVD player made Region free is a lot easier than Blu-ray. Incidentally, all AU Blu-rays are Region B, just the same as the UK, and you can play those on a UK Blu-ray machine no problem.
 
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Need to double check something, these two sets - United Publications - Cardcaptor Sakura: Complete Series (S) & http://www.up1.co.uk/Details/S4027-Sailor+Moon:+Season+1+Complete+Hyb+Blu-ray

All episodes in English dub? & Aus DVD's (The SM set is a combo pack yeh? Need DVD's) do play in the UK right? I'm sure they do...
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The key right at the top of their page says anything marked (S) is sub-only, so that Cardcaptor Sakura: Complete Series (S) evidently is sub-only, no dub.
 
Oh dear. I had hoped CCS would've had a new dub produced but I guess not. Sailor Moon received a new one didn't it? & the AUS version contains Blu?

Thanks for all the info thus far. I need to be 100% certain as a friend wants to purchase one for a b'day present & I would hate to get something wrong.
 
The Sailor Moon link in your post says +Hyb+Blu-ray, so that one is Blu-ray-only with both sub and dub (Hyb). You would be able to play the AU Blu-rays on a UK machine, just not the AU Cardcaptor DVDs, unless your player is multi-region modified.
 
Sailor Moon did indeed get a new dub, and it's very good. The version you have listed is the recent Madman Blu Ray release which I've just brought myself. It only comes with Blu Rays though, not DVDs.
 
I'm interested in Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine Blu-ray. The saving on AOL sale isn't much over Amazon and I've got an Amazon card with some money on it, but the front cover is different.

Amazon:
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Maybe Amazon didn't want to use the front cover as it is:
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The back cover on Amazon seems to match (isn't on AoL):
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If I got it from Amazon, what would the front cover be?
 
@D1tchd1gger the Amazon image is a placeholder image that they’ve never updated. The only cover is the one under your spoiler button.

Edit: Beaten by literally seconds, I’ll get you next time Lemon.

Also I doubt Amazon are balking at the cover art, you can buy hentai and even live action porn off Amazon and last I checked they didn’t censor the covers.
 
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