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Originally Posted by dee
I know it sounds elitist, but if you're used to working with high resolution video, you really don't want to lower that standard.
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Exactly. Anyone who reads the Technogirls website closely will see that the technical inferiority of compressed digital video is precisely what they find fault with. They spend many hours translating and mastering their shows and are entitled just like any other fansubbing group to their choice of release format.
Making digital captures of the tapes and torrenting them would be contravening their choice in this matter of release format. The tapes of the earlier episodes are not hard to come by; the release of the final 4 episodes is imminent.
A couple of other points:
Technogirls has always taken a position similar to that of Live-eviL, and for a longer period of time. The idea is to fansub older works not likely to be licensed and make them accessible. They have made a name for themselves and several outstanding anime series by doing just this.
For anyone who has not seen any of this series, the last 4 episodes are
no place to start! Too much has already taken place.
I also call Instrumentality's ethics into question. I never heard of Instrumentality doing the work to translate and encode the other 35 episodes. Fansubbing groups who jump into the middle of other groups' projects are always frowned upon. I never saw anything to make me think that Technogirls were not working to complete the series. There was no need for the Instrumentality to do this release, at least not in this fashion.