anime dvds on ebay from hongkong

[puffpio]

how is the quality of these dvd imports? They have subtitles that you can turn off luckily, but what is the video quality of the transfer and the quality of the translations?

 

[littleman]

the anime ones are usually pretty good, because they copy the dvds straight. The movies, however, suck because they record em outta the movie theaters.

 

[dc]

video quality is usually great, translations are another story altogether lol. they vary from babelfishlike to somewhat decent. usually the former. 🙂

 

[Passions]

This place has them for really cheap and high quality.

DVD Imports

 

[Nefrodite]

piracy = bad😛

if your going to pirate dono't support scumbags with your money. juist rent the freakin dvds.

 

[Desturel]

The translation is the worst.

My friend bought the pirated version of One Piece. Ugh! Zoro is Sauron. Lufey is Roof. Usop is Lier (sic) Boo. Sanji is Sunkist. The whole translation was worthless. What a waste of money. Just buy the R2s and get someone who understands japanese to translate. You'll feel better in the long run even if it does cost a bit more money.

I guess I can say this is because I can understand japanese, but reading those subs made me ill. 🙁

 

[GermyBoy]

Some of them are quite good. I got Tekkaman from soemone and it's nice (although I'm resubbing it now to fix some Engrish).

 

[AndyHui]

It depends actually. The video quality and sound quality, for the most part, are exactly the same as the licenced North American versions. Most Anime DVDs here in Hong Kong are not actually copies, but published by proper companies.

Due to some "irregularities" in the law, the companies which publish these DVDs don't necessarily pay licensing fees to the original anime studio. This is legal here in Hong Kong and TaiWan. It's hard to classify whether or not this is piracy though.

Most of the recent releases do have decent subs. A lot of the earlier ones (which came out on VCD) were terrible.

I'm not too worried as I understand 90% of the Japanese anyway.

 

[puffpio]

Sounds good...cuz on the imports they put like 8 eps on one DVD, whereas on the US release they put like 2 eps :frown:
If the quality is the same, and the subtitles are decent, I might as well give it a shot