Cyrix wrote:I see none of your AVI synth guides taught you how to recognize a joke.
It's a well known fact I have no sense of humor about community standards.
It was one of the first animes I bought, before I knew how to recognize a bootleg. The quality of the packaging is so incredibly high I would never have guessed that FX is a bootlegging company. Seriously, my bootleg Cowboy Bebop has better packaging than my official anime DVDs, even the goddamned Evangelion platinum collection I paid $76 for. I haven't bought a bootleg since I learned how to recognize them in 2006.
Irrelevant. In 1998 I purchased a few SonMay CDs before I knew they were bootlegs. When I found out, I replaced them by buying original copies. I certainly didn't parade around the fact I knew they were bootlegs and used them anyway.
Notwithstanding, I sure see a lot of people here talk about editing off of torrents, bootlegs, and even files ripped off of Youtube.
Which they are wrong to do, and when I see such discussion, seriously taken, I comment on it. I'm not "picking" on you.
Cyrix wrote:Also I had assumed with all these abysmal quality problems people are describing maybe they were using low-quality torrents or something.
You assumed incorrectly. The vast majority of anime DVDs need some kind of filtering. Even some BDs are not without flaws (if they're not just horrible upscales, which happens more often than you'd think it would). You can't just say, "Oh, it's progressive, that's that" unless the footage really is very clean. Such DVDs do exist, Aoi Hana as an example, but they have been produced very recently (within the last year) and are often painstaking remasters of older anime (Utena's remasters as an example). Your Elfen Lied example is the norm: it has issues, even if it is progressive. They must be dealt with.
