AUSTIN316
09-22-2006, 10:47 AM
My ST OVA box arrived tonight along with some other series DVDs I am collecting and/or catching up with (BLOOD+ Vol.4&5, Fate stay/night Vol.4, School Rumble 2 Gakki Vol.1, Ouran High Host Club Vol.2, Gakuen Heaven! Vol.1). The box is quite beautiful and the picture on the front looks very much like the huge Dreamcast boxset that contained all the ST games for the DC. The box is designed to hold the OVA box and the TV box so the picture shown on amazon JP is infact the inner box that holds the actual OVA discs. The 4 discs themsleves are held in the thin digi-pack style cases that Japanese companies seem to love so much these days. Think the covers for the Gundam boxset coming in December and you'll get an idea, the covers are all very nice although they just reuse old artwork, the cover for the original OVA for instance is the shot of Sakura from the first LD cover. (I will try and upload pics later if someone can suggest a reliable place to host them)
I have only popped in the first disc so far for a very quick 2 minute look at the first episode as I was most interested to see how the original 4 OVAs look. I was afraid that the disc would just be the original disc that was released back in DVD's infancy in Japan and would be a horrible LD dump (I have no idea what the original disc looked like though but most JP discs released in 1999/2000 were pretty crappy) and I am in Japan for the rest of this year so I can't compare to the ADV disc I have at home but from memory, it looks MUCH better than that disc. I only have a PS2 to watch DVDs on here (shudder, AND it's an early model PS2 at THAT so there are rainbows EVERYWHERE and everyline moves even when paused) but popping the disc into my laptop I noticed no rainbows or nasty early DVD problems like that but the openings did look a little crappy. The title had alot of dot crawl and there was some ghosting in the opening so it kinda looked like the problems on the Tenchi OVA discs that I detailed in another thread here. I didn't look at the other OVA discs yet but they are 3 eps per disc and are dual layered so I dont envision any problems with them as I know they will have been re-authored (and the original OVA discs came out when JP companies had already become the benchmark for DVDs). I can't wait to get the TV box set next month to fill the box up and it will be nice to have better looking discs than the ADV release that I previously bought /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif
More tomorrow when I actually watch through the discs.
I have only popped in the first disc so far for a very quick 2 minute look at the first episode as I was most interested to see how the original 4 OVAs look. I was afraid that the disc would just be the original disc that was released back in DVD's infancy in Japan and would be a horrible LD dump (I have no idea what the original disc looked like though but most JP discs released in 1999/2000 were pretty crappy) and I am in Japan for the rest of this year so I can't compare to the ADV disc I have at home but from memory, it looks MUCH better than that disc. I only have a PS2 to watch DVDs on here (shudder, AND it's an early model PS2 at THAT so there are rainbows EVERYWHERE and everyline moves even when paused) but popping the disc into my laptop I noticed no rainbows or nasty early DVD problems like that but the openings did look a little crappy. The title had alot of dot crawl and there was some ghosting in the opening so it kinda looked like the problems on the Tenchi OVA discs that I detailed in another thread here. I didn't look at the other OVA discs yet but they are 3 eps per disc and are dual layered so I dont envision any problems with them as I know they will have been re-authored (and the original OVA discs came out when JP companies had already become the benchmark for DVDs). I can't wait to get the TV box set next month to fill the box up and it will be nice to have better looking discs than the ADV release that I previously bought /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif
More tomorrow when I actually watch through the discs.