Broken, lost, Neon Genesis Stuff

rb_182_ · Postby **rb_182_** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:33 pm

So yeah I was going to watch The End of Evangelion again today, and when I pulled the disc out of the case, it snapped. Now there is a big crack in the disc, and most of the movie doesn't work. :x Now since it's just one movie i'll just buy it again from the store or something. But I was wonder, has anything like this happened to anyone else before?? Any stories of your Eva stuff getting stolen or broken? Brother or sister destoryed or scratched your discs?? Dog ate your Rare Eva artbook??

Phaze · Postby **Phaze** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 9:47 pm

I bought one of the early defective EoE DVDs, so yeah.
Someday it will be worth million$!!

Mr. Bud · Postby **Mr. Bud** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:58 pm

Phaze wrote:I bought one of the early defective EoE DVDs, so yeah.
Someday it will be worth million$!!

So did I!

I still have it too. It works in my PS2 and my 4 1/2 year old computer, but not in my top-of-line Samsung player.

rb_182_ · Postby **rb_182_** » Mon Jul 04, 2005 11:58 pm

I didn't even know about these. Were the first batch of copies released duds or something?

Cogboy · Postby **Cogboy** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:57 am

they were missing 1 or 2 lines of dilogue somewhere in there.
i still have mine, the bastards at adv have completely forgotten to send me the replacement. :x

Mr. Bud · Postby **Mr. Bud** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:23 am

Cogboy wrote:they were missing 1 or 2 lines of dilogue somewhere in there.
i still have mine, the bastards at adv have completely forgotten to send me the replacement. :x

You mean Manga.

Hexon.Arq · Postby **Hexon.Arq** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 5:09 pm

My original copy of EoE had misaligned layers; you'd put it in and it'd skip, stall, and sometimes the lens would just get lost. I shattered and lit it up out of frustration; I still have the scar on my right hand where the dripping remains burned me.

Timesplitter 01 · Postby **Timesplitter 01** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:36 am

Hexon.Arq wrote:My original copy of EoE had misaligned layers; you'd put it in and it'd skip, stall, and sometimes the lens would just get lost. I shattered and lit it up out of frustration; I still have the scar on my right hand where the dripping remains burned me.

ouch....

Toilet Duck · Postby **Toilet Duck** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:00 pm

and manga sheds a tear for their shoddily produced end of evangelion dvd. personally, i can't fathom why they they didn't stick any real artwork on the top side of the disc; i thought it was double-sided at first. and the audio selection that defaults to english no matter what... ugh.

about the evangelion movie pack that's coming out this month... they're going to be just manga's old non-renewal releases slapped into a different box, right?

Hexon.Arq · Postby **Hexon.Arq** » Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:48 pm

and the audio selection that defaults to english no matter what... ugh.

So? Every licensed anime DVD I've seen does that. (Except the Cowboy Bebop Movie.)

about the evangelion movie pack that's coming out this month... they're going to be just manga's old non-renewal releases slapped into a different box, right?

Would they still be Mangle if they did any better?

Cogboy · Postby **Cogboy** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:48 am

Mr. Bud wrote:
Cogboy wrote:they were missing 1 or 2 lines of dilogue somewhere in there.
i still have mine, the bastards at adv have completely forgotten to send me the replacement. :x

You mean Manga.

Well, actually i meant platinum 01.

I should learn to read things more carefully. Silly me.

Toilet Duck · Postby **Toilet Duck** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 1:04 pm

Hexon.Arq wrote:
and the audio selection that defaults to english no matter what... ugh.

So? Every licensed anime DVD I've seen does that. (Except the Cowboy Bebop Movie.)

what i meant to say was that no matter which language you choose on the audio selection menu of the disc, it starts the movie out in english with no subtitles.

Ataru · Postby **Ataru** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 8:14 pm

Hexon.Arq wrote:
and the audio selection that defaults to english no matter what... ugh.

So? Every licensed anime DVD I've seen does that. (Except the Cowboy Bebop Movie.)

On a lot of players you can set your language preferences such that it'll default to specific language track and specific subtitle track if available.

I have my dvd player set to Japanese language and English subtitles, so all of my anime, takashi miike and akira kurosawa movies play correctly without me setting the language. And since 99.9% of my English language movies don't have a Japanese language track, it never effs up on the domestic stuff.

chocomanji · Postby **chocomanji** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:17 am

I remember the first time I watched EoE with some friends, and EM's DVD didn't work to well, eventually leading to a blue screened tv with the words, "THE DISC IS DIRTY."

Lots of laughs for that one -of course EoE is "DIRTY", silly DVD player! XD

Space Penis · Postby **Space Penis** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:54 am

The boxes for the first two platinum boxes disintigrated the same day I bought them. That was incredibly annoying.

And I was once sent two copies of volume 2 of the manga when I only ordered one. That doesn't really count, though.

Machinehead · Postby **Machinehead** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:13 pm

The second day I got Death (I actually got it for $6 at a music store), I decided to watch the commentary tracks. While opening the disk tray, I accidently pressed it twice. Since my DVD player has a slight delay, and not knowing I pressed it twice, when it suddenly closed it startled me. The disk, which was almost in, was instead caught up inside of it. It got stuck in between the top of the player and the actual tray.

So, the tray won't eject. I had to rip it out. This resulted it in being completely scratched up. Oddly enough, it plays just fine, you just can't select anything but "Play Movie" on Side I, the one with no extras. The movie will play through just fine, thankfully.

Hexon.Arq · Postby **Hexon.Arq** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:07 pm

That's when you know it's time to get a new player.

My DVD player will, on rare and frustrating occasion, make a sound not unlike a working lawnmower once it starts spinning. Oddly, it seems to happen most on my *ahem* bastard DVDs, and sometimes it is limited to one chapter or menu. I've never understood why that is.

Ah, The Future--what a beautiful and horrifying time to be alive.

Machinehead · Postby **Machinehead** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:25 pm

My DVD player will, on rare and frustrating occasion, make a sound not unlike a working lawnmower once it starts spinning. Oddly, it seems to happen most on my *ahem* bastard DVDs, and sometimes it is limited to one chapter or menu. I've never understood why that is.

Don't worry, I did. I kept it around though, because it plays VCDs.

Anyway.

Happy Death :

Sad Death :

Postby **ObsessiveMathsFreak** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:39 pm

This is why you need to back up your DVD's. You could go one of two ways. One, through torturous trial and error with esoteric audio, video and subtitle encoders, combined with muxer programs.

Or two, would could get a program such as DVD decryptor, copy the discs to Hard drive, then burn them to writable DVD discs.

Either way the studio will be irritated, but both ways are completely legal.

Machinehead · Postby **Machinehead** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:33 pm

ObsessiveMathsFreak wrote:This is why you need to back up your DVD's. You could go one of two ways. One, through torturous trial and error with esoteric audio, video and subtitle encoders, combined with muxer programs.

Or two, would could get a program such as DVD decryptor, copy the discs to Hard drive, then burn them to writable DVD discs.

Either way the studio will be irritated, but both ways are completely legal.

I BET THEY CAN'T REPLACE MY 2 INCH EVA UNIT 01 THAT I LOST A YEAR AGO

:(

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