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Click for biggie size. I scanned them at higher resolution (1200 dpi), but they don't look that great above this size because of the limits of the printing process used. Even on a 17" monitor these are are magnified 2x.
I tried to order the Laserdiscs when I got these (2002), but they'd run out. Anyway, I don't have a scanner big enough.
I'll scan the back covers and post those tonight.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, November 03 2005 11:42 PM (AIaDY)
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You are just an evil, evil person.
I take some solace in the fact that they aren't subtitled and you don't know japanese, but you're still evil and cruel.
God I envy you.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, November 04 2005 01:12 AM (KnWO3)
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I have subtitle files for them. :)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, November 04 2005 01:32 AM (AIaDY)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, November 04 2005 01:37 AM (AIaDY)
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, November 04 2005 11:46 AM (+rGmJ)
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Die, die, die!
And double that for the jackasses that came up with region encoding... :-(
Posted by: Ubu Roi at Friday, November 04 2005 04:23 PM (dhRpo)
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Ubu, did you know that you can change the region coding on a DVD-ROM or DVD-R/W? (in WinXP anyway, not sure about other versions)
You can only do it a four or five times, but that's why I have two DVD drives ^_^.
Posted by: JP Gibb at Friday, November 04 2005 07:56 PM (e7eKn)
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Both my standalone DVD players are region free. That's standard in Australia.
My
notebook is region-locked. You know, a portable computer that you take with you on business trips that comes with a DVD-ROM drive and DVD player software.
Wankers.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, November 04 2005 11:18 PM (AIaDY)
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"did you know that you can change the region coding on a DVD-ROM or DVD-R/W? (in WinXP anyway, not sure about other versions)"
It seems that Apples do the same thing, from what I've read. No big surprise there, they use most of the same hardware, close enough.
I'd kill for an unlocked home DVD player. Oh well.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, November 04 2005 11:35 PM (KnWO3)
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Wonderduck, you could also get your player modified. Depending on exactly how cheap life is where you are, that might well be the cheaper alternative.
Posted by: HC at Saturday, November 05 2005 03:02 AM (d3NQv)
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There are also region zero DVD players on eBay.
Caveat emptor, though.
Posted by: JP Gibb at Saturday, November 05 2005 07:36 PM (e7eKn)
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"Depending on exactly how cheap life is where you are, that might well be the cheaper alternative."
Well, if we're talking about MY life, it's very expensive. I'm somewhat less concerned about random strangers' life. :-)
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, November 05 2005 10:18 PM (mAAjO)
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I've got a utility I downloaded called "
SmartRipper". It's got an option which says it will "unlock" the DVD drive. There isn't any documentation which explains what, precisely, that means but I think it means that it de-regions the drive, sets it to region 0.
I haven't taken the risk to try it to see what it would do; there's no telling, and I don't really want to trash a drive just to find out that it doesn't work. (And anyway I haven't really been tempted to purchase any non-Region-1 DVDs.)
Right now my primary DVD drive for my PC is an external USB 2 drive from Iomega. I think that if I was going to start buying Japanese disks, I'd probably get another one and change it to the appropriate region.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, November 06 2005 12:21 AM (CJBEv)
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I have US, Japanese and Australian DVDs,
three different regions. I don't think I have any European ones, fortunately.
I've seen stores here offering free - and region-free - DVD players if you buy four DVDs. Wonderduck, maybe I can find a cheap one that will run off 110V and send it to you. :)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, November 06 2005 02:33 AM (QriEg)
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"I've seen stores here offering free - and region-free - DVD players if you buy four DVDs. Wonderduck, maybe I can find a cheap one that will run off 110V and send it to you. :)"
Woo! I'll take you up on that one, Pixy... particularly if you wanna throw in burns of the DP discs, too!
Hey, in for a penny...
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, November 06 2005 12:00 PM (+rGmJ)
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By the way, I take back what I said about you being evil and cruel. You ARE, but I'm taking it back anyway.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, November 06 2005 12:01 PM (+rGmJ)
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Subtitles and R2 dvds-now the fun is putting them together! What I'm doing is ripping the dvds with DVD Decrypter (which removes DCSS, macrovision, & region encoding) and gives me bit for bit copies of the originial dvds and using a subtitle program to add and sync the subs to the video and audio, then taking the resulting files and burning them to a DVD+R DL blank-presto-originial Dirty Pair the way it was meant to be.
Posted by: zrdb at Tuesday, April 04 2006 10:37 PM (ieOxu)
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My Dirty Pair dvds came in standard cd jewell boxes, they have a fold out cover insert in the front of the case.
Posted by: zrdb at Saturday, May 06 2006 07:29 PM (ieOxu)
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Yep, that's what I have.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, May 06 2006 08:30 PM (Yen+c)
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