> >< smacks you up! > I'll give you one reason why to buy DVD.  Tenchi Muyo
> >Remastered 5.1 Dobly digital Surround Sound OAV Box set due out in late
> >March/ April.  Shall I smack you again?  Also, regoinal stuff doesn't really
> >matter because foreign DVDs hardly put any english subs on the disc anyways.
>
> Ahh....but it does.  I enjoy the fact that all I've got to do
> is talk to my contacts and I can get the first editions LDs with
> all of their goodies from Japan.  With DVD, I'll get the disk and
> the goodies but will have to hack on my player unless I want to
> wait months for a release.  Besides, that means that everyone over
> here will have to wait months, maybe years, as well

Tomar, Were you saying that there are Region 2 DVDs with English subs? or that
the Japanese Laserdisc have English subs on them? From what I've been told(from a

Region 2 DVD anime collector) the Region 2  Anime DVD do NOT have English on
them---if they did I would be buying them.

> .
>
> >So you'll just have a really expensive raw version.  < smacks you again for
> >not getting DVD > Did I mention the Tenchi Movie DVDs?
>
> Got this stuff on LD.  Actually I've got the two versions of
> Manatsu no Eve. ^_^
> (BTW, the Japanese packaging was far neater than the US version ^_^)

Have you had a chance to compare Laserdisc and DVD side by side? The 2 Tenchi
DVDs that Pioneer has released are excellant in Video and 5.1 Dolby Digital. Do
the Laserdisc versions have the capabilities to playback 5.1 Dolby Digital in
BOTH  English and Japanese? I don't think so--- you can hear the difference on
DVD. The OVA Tenchi that will be coming out will have 3 ---- 5.1 Dolby Digital
tracks while you (and I ) still listen to it in STEREO on Laserdisc.

>
> Ahhh...what is remastering going to do?  If the original soundtrack
> was in stereo then how is remastering it into 5.1 going to help. Its
> still in stereo.  Its pretty amazing how much Anime out there is
> only in stereo or worst mono.
>

I use to think that way also till I bought an OLD movie (Stereo/mono) that had
been remixed(on Laserdisc) into 5.1 Dolby Digital. The sound was so
improved----no more bleeding into all of the speakers of the person talking. (For

those who don't know the Center Channel Speaker is for Talking/speaking while the

other 5 speakers are music, effects, and background.) Let's just say that it was
worth upgrading the Laserdisc to the 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. There's one thing
that Laserdisc has that DVD doesn't ----Laser Rot---which 2 of my Anime Laserdisc

now suffer from.

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