I for one, much prefer VOD. Streaming online just isn’t convenient for me, so I only do it for shows that aren’t playing on VOD and aren’t available on Netflix. I can play a lot of the online episodes on my PS3, but the navigation and address entry aren’t easy. I mainly use VOD to sample shows before making a purchasing decision, at least on the shows I’m on the fence about.
Watching this dubbed makes me definitely want to buy the DVD set. I really enjoyed this show and a second complete viewing would be great. I just wish it had got a bluray release.
I’m not really against VOD, but since it is terribly inconvenient for me I’d prefer it if both streaming and VOD were “separate but equal” as it seems that VOD is the “chosen one” while streaming gets the shaft.
Netflix has become a pretty decent anime streaming site. Sure it takes a while for shows to be added, but for Funi that isn’t a problem as their current shows range from “meh” to “suck”, and for Sentai I decided to jump onboard this TAN bandwagon since they’re releasing shows worth watching.
Though when I can’t watch them (rigum frigum ragum fragum), as in the case of Princess Resurrection, it becomes a problem. The show is even on here, just in Japanese. So near, yet so far away. I can’t think of any sane reason why I’d want to watch the lame-o sub when the alternative is a Foster dub B)
VOD is far from the chosen one. The online service gets all the simulcasts first, and plenty of series premier online before VOD. Keep in mind though that the VOD service is where they make the money that allows them even offer the online stream in the first place. Plus, many VOD watchers also pay additional fees for the service. It’s only fair that they get some things first as well.
And don’t forget that streaming allows you to access almost any title that TAN has digital rights to, while the VOD selection is limited to whatever they are running at the time and varies on your package.
If streaming doesn’t make money, an assertion that I’ll need some corroboration to accept, then why is it here at all?
Once again, it isn’t just that VOD gets shows first, it’s that VOD gets shows with little indication of when or if they’ll arrive on TAN for streaming.
The kicker here is that while TAN has Princess Resurrection, it doesn’t have the dub.
So when does the “Fosterization” that was described earlier in this thread start in the dub? I just finished ep 5 and I haven’t heard really any, besides the little girl with the balloon in ep 2. BTW, in ep 5, did anyone else notice some mismatched lip flap when Emily Neves talks to the main character in the cafeteria? Maybe it was just the DVD.
Don’t get me wrong, the dub is still excellent. Though with the cast, how could it not be? I don’t think that’s possible. I didn’t think I’d like this show, but the dub makes me want to watch it. Color me impressed.
I’m surprised that no one has made a witty comment about this. I thought about it, but I can’t think of a good one
I understand the need to collect the physical copies of stuff, even though I find streaming to be convenient and preferable. I also don’t have to worry about TAN/Funi leaving me unable to watch a show if they their streams for it when I have a physical copy. I’m still pained that I wasn’t able to enter to win the poster for Broken Blade. Brutal.
You’ll find I posted in this thread a while back about a bit of obvious fosterization. It’s there in little bits and pieces if you catch it and actually sometimes is pretty funny.
As for needing something to touch, I understand the Japanese are quite good at making devices that can help with that, I see J-list posting about them quite often…
But seriously, I like to have the DVDs of a show I like, I can watch them any time without any internet connection or even a computer. DVD players and non-digital TVs are so cheap now they’re just about disposable.
I did see that. The promise of Fosterization is why I started watching this show. The quotes lead me to expect Orphen but so far this is more like HSotD or TWGOK.
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But seriously, I like to have the DVDs of a show I like, I can watch them any time without any internet connection or even a computer. DVD players and non-digital TVs are so cheap now they’re just about disposable.[/quote]
DVD and SD TV?!! Didn’t the cavemen use those? :laugh:
“What ams [DVD]? Oh, you means a grandpa’s [blu-ray]!”
Still got my Gunsmith Cats DVD and can watch it, is there any legal streams of that? My DVD collection does not go away just because a license expires.
True. It’s like the eBook/physical book tradeoff. Streams have convenience, or at least they should (looking at some people lol), but physical copies are forever and give us a higher quality presentation.
On the Princess Resurrection dub, when I saw the main character I was surprised at the casting. I thought “If Funimation had dubbed this, Brina would have been the main character.” So then I thought that Sentai would use their better Brina equivalent, Emily Neves, but instead they used Shelly Calene-Black. Now that I’ve seen 5 episodes, so I’ve seen Neves & Black’s performances, I’m of the opinion that Shelly Calene-Black was the better choice for Hime. I guess that would make her, by extension, the “better-er” Brina? :laugh: :huh:
Has anyone else noticed that the dubbed Princess ResurrectionDVDs cost as much on rightStuff as do the dubbed Infinite Stratosblu-rays?
It’s the same price as other dubbed DVD sets with that episode count and dubbed after sub-only releases they’ve done. Tears to Tiara , Clannad , and Clannad After Story for examples.
I’m not sure that I’d agree that 14 more SD episodes are worth as much as all the extras and HD.
An HD episode is more than twice the quality of an SD one, though I suppose I’m okay with it as, though I haven’t yet seen the dub, IMO princess resurrection is worlds better than infinite stratos.
If I lived in japan I’d be streaming and reverse importing like crazy (if I had the space to even have physical copies). Maybe, dare I say it, downloading …
So I found the first Fosterization that was quoted here, and it was good. Though upon seeing the motel I was surprised that they made cracks about Howard Johnson’s instead of the Bates.
When the blonde wannabe thug is rambling in the background about wanting “to stay at someplace cool” I can’t really discern what he says, which is brutal as the subdued background bits always have some of the best lines. I think I heard something about Jay Z, but I’m not certain in the least.
Personally I think that Illich should have been in the Chris Patton role. I know the show isn’t serious but Patton is incredibly cheesy in the role. I think he does it well, to be sure, but Illich would do it better. When there’s a smarmy, unctuous yet capable younger villain, I think Illich. When there’s an older competent villain, I think Andy McAvin. Especially if the villain babbles on and on about his arcane plans and motivations.
While Foster is still holding himself back on the dub (and madhouse is cheaping out on a animation), I still believe that it is his best dub in a long while. I’m not yet sure what I’d say is Sentai’s best recently dubbed show, but right now I’d say it’s between this and Infinite Stratos.
I don’t think we can convince Sentai that these awful stack-packs need to go fast enough. Getting the last DVD for Princess Resurrection out of this DVD-deathtrap concerned me.
I would much rather have had the 4 discs in 2 normal dvd cases, like Sentai’s recent Golgo 13 cases. I’d rather have singles or (provided they didn’t loose any features) thin-paks over this. With the exception of Golgo 13 Volume 3, all of my recent Sentai dvd purchases have been stack-paks
I still think this is one of Sentai’s best shows and dubs.
It’s one of the reasons I was hoping they’d do a Blu-ray release of this. Since as far as I can tell there is no Blu-ray stackpak. Though you would think the reason stackpaks are cheaper now would sink in after a while. When they first started to appear they were about the same price as the other multi-disc cases now they’ve gone down to like about 88 cents each. I’m assuming because no one wants them. Only like a few places online seem to even sell them anymore. On top of what I’ve paid for them I’ve had to go order replacement cases and pay more money to replace the stupid things. Going to start being hard to do it as my supplier for the cases that fit the stackpak covers has them on clearance and only has the 4 and 5 disc ones left. Which are slowly running out.
You’d think at some point logic would trump saving money but it never seems to. Course I can’t fault them for trying to save money. I just wonder if they did find something else would it be worse then the stackpak since they want a cheaper case?
A bluray release of this would be nice, not only because then, as you said, it wouldn’t come in one of these awful stack-packs, but also because this show could stand to do with higher resolution art.
I liked infinite stratos. I thought the dub was excellent and I rofl’d through the whole thing. The art for infinite stratos is “glossier” and higher resolution (I’d say it’s better), but I like the character designs for Princess Resurrection much more. Watching the princess resurrection DVDs at 1080 after seeing the IS bluray at the same resolution is brutal. It’s like trying to play a ps1 game at 1080 after having just played crysis or battlefield 3 on a gaming PC at the same resolution.
I really wish Madhouse hadn’t cheaped out on the animation for this show, infinite stratos destroys it in terms of animation as well, but I’m still a fan.
I can’t imagine a case worse than the stack. The paged cases suck too but at least with those I can get one DVD out without having to finagle potentially all the other DVDs out as well.
I think I’ve asked it before, but can the Funimation-style DVD cases be that expensive? If they stop using the stack, they’ll save all that money spent on the Sentai signature styrofoam insert
Shadow skill, rahxephon, and princess resurrection all came in these stacks. The shadow skill video of Chris Ayres, before his anime fame, still being a smartass was hilarious, but I almost didn’t see it as the DVD almost didn’t survive being pulled off the stack.
There really are cases worse than the stack pack. There are the super cheap bricks that Mill Creek and others use that doesn’t even hold the discs. There is just a square opening in the middle that they throw the discs, in slip covers, into. There were also the cardboard "Viridia " cases that Funimation used. They would regularly scratch and damage the discs, even before you removed them. Some people even found their discs glued inside the cases and unable to be removed.
My absolute most hated case is the digipacks that Alliance in Canada uses. The discs slide over each other and bend when you attempt to take them in or out of the trays. It’s almost impossible to keep from scratching them, and it’s quite easy for the discs to bend, crack, and become dislodged. I had to exchange season 1 of Relic Hunter because disc 1 was bent in the case and cracked when I tried to remove it.
I don’t like stack packs, but I’ve never had any trouble getting the discs out and I’ve never had any arrived bent or cracked.
