[EVA] reissue of the first DVD

[christian nutt]

>From: Brendan Jamieson
>
>christian nutt wrote:
> >it's moot now anyway. as long as people know to get the new version.
>
>It's not really moot. I dished out $30 (well, $90 if you count the VHS
>tapes) for a badly done DVD #1 and now I have to invest another $30,
>for a grand total of $120, for yet another disc of episodes I already
>have on DVD and VHS just for a quality copy? Okay, I don't *have* to
>do this. But I really feel raped by ADV Films over this one.

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.

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. fwiw i picked up the 
busted eva vol 1 too, and ended up ebaying it when i heard they were 
remastering it. i knew they wouldn't do any sort of trade-in so i moved 
quickly.

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. 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. =)

>Further, am I the *only* one who sees it being a little less than
>virtuous for ADV to wait till the old poor DVD sells out before
>dispersing the remastered copy? Can you imagine the backlash if Manga
>Ent. tried something like this?

even if ADV is the biggest distributor of anime on the US, i doubt they can 
eat a large print run of DVDs. i doubt they really sold that many of the 
screwed up DVD once their timetable was complete for the new one. they're 
not currently shipping the uncorrected DVD, just the uncorrected packaging.

>I can't wait to hear what the so-called "Premium" box has.

i doubt it's exciting, but i'm always curious. as long as it's a 
domestically-released evangelion product, i'll be curious.

i don't like ADV's treatment of evangelion in general, but they're basically 
all i've got for convenient, cheap, english-subtitled NTSC evangelion. i'll 
deal. when i get a bigger budget i can worry about the japanese DVDs. i only 
own vol 6 at the moment.

christian

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