[EVA] Various comments re EoE DVD [NOISE]

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Oscar Archer" <oscar.archer at adelaide.edu.au>
To: <evangelion at eva.onegeek.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 1:44 AM
Subject: Re: [EVA] Various comments re EoE DVD [NOISE]


: > how
: > things should be run, maybe you guys should give it a try. try to
: > start up
: > an anime company from the ground, hire people, do market and
: > research, ask
: > opinions, go to cons, and see what people want.  That is a lot of
:
: I get a bit sick of being preached at by subscribers who think they're
a
: better Eva fan than me or many other list members, simply because we
are
: confident that we have the best resources of Eva information
available.
: You're missing something quite big with this "Well, YOU try it"
sermon:
: *this list doesn't want to make money from anime*. To run a business
it
: would need to be profitable, and we just want to watch the stuff. Why
: should we lower our standards just because many US distributors often
: aim at lowest denominators?
:
I agree totally. Also being told to buy R2 & learn Japanese if I don't
like the R1 (although on "discovering" Evaotaku" & BB's scripts, *then*
I did buy R2s. You 2 guys are my heroes :)

We could have had worse than ADV licensing/translating (or not)/dubbing
Eva. Especially mid-90s when they were first released. Think of the
alternatives at that time. Maybe Pioneer -  just or Anime Village
(Bandai).

I am still sorry ADV could/would not digitally remove the hard subs when
Eva went DVD & replace them with soft subs. Especially when releasing
the "re-mastered" DVD.
Their early DVD dialogue subtitle font was too big (as on all their
titles) compared to their Eva VHS & LD versions. The better font on the
last 3 or 4 was the best.

But I repeat, we could have had worse than ADV.
Richard
who will have 4 versions (R1,2,2,4) of each Eva movie in search for the
best.