[EVA] reissue of the first DVD

[Brendan Jamieson]

christian nutt wrote:
>first off. i don't think you can blame ADV for making you buy VHS tapes of
>the first four episodes. DVD wasn't even OUT when they came out.

I know. What I was saying that I was spending over $100 for episodes I
already have. I thought at $90 I was being a good little consumer and
supporting ADV (er, Eva)..
 
>but as to rebuying the original, bad DVD, sorry; i didn't mean *that* issue
>was moot. all i meant was that, for people who had never picked up eva on
>DVD, the bad vol 1 is not really an issue anymore.

It won't be moot till the old DVDs sell out :P
The general anime fan, who doesn't follow animeonDVD.com and who just
goes in an buys Eva for the first time won't know anything. But to be
fair - they probably won't notice the overlays... but it's a matter of
principle :P

>it's inconvenient, but life moves on. as many people have pointed out, major
>studios do stuff like this (and worse than this) all of the time.

Heh... when I said stuff like this on the Manga Ent. forum I was quickly
labeled a Manga Apologist (and Peter can back me up on this ;)
But ADV does it and these points suddently become valid (I'm not
directing this to you - just venting a little).

>that doesn't make it excusable, but it does make it more believable and certainly
>means that you should be mentally prepared for this sort of stunt. =)

Oh, I wasn't taken aback by what ADV did. Not at all. ^^;
I was taken aback by how little the furor over this was and how immense
the backlash over Manga's WoH disc was.

-brendan