2011-06-11, 23:55 | Link #22 |
NOM
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Outside the Asylum
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All you brats out there are so lucky right now to have your stinking little "quantum computers" and "6.0GBPS Sub-Etha-Net connections" and those "Babel Translate 9.0", and whatever gigamajizzo to fulfill all your anime needs.
Back in the day, we had to navigate our way through IRC channels, get hounded by BayTSP and all those folks in bitttorrent, and play videos at 720p and 1080p on 19" monitors. We had to be smart and choose between 17 different fansub groups not knowing which ones truly have the better subs, or failing that, submit to the devil and subscribe to Crunchyroll for a hefty fee per month. And we like those days. Now look at you. Compared to the time when we have to wait hours for a series to finish downloading, you take minutes to obtain an entire season's anime line-up with full 9000c 3-D compatibility. Gone are the days where fansub groups take hours on end to release an episode; now all you kids have to do is run your Babel through, and subtitles perfectly tailored to your localization preferences can be made within 20 seconds. And when we had to suffer through 1 TB harddrives that can barely last a year, you kids with your 4 KqB-- Wait, I'm in the wrong time period.
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2011-06-12, 01:11 | Link #24 |
Expressionless
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Walking on the path known as life
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Lessee. Two second downloads. Beautiful animation that actually doesn't drop in quality in episodes 4-11 of a series. Holographic experience. And my prediction, a way to somehow choose what some characters do. Like a dating sim, but with a real anime that changes how things unfold giving infinite endings or possibilities (School Days doesn't count). It sounds like something a Japanese company would do.
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2011-06-12, 02:31 | Link #25 |
Megabuddy
IT Support
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Perth, Australia.
Age: 16
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When I was your age, my subs were scrawled on walls!
And we had to fight to the death with other tribes for their stuff! Nothing was animated, you kids today probably couldn't even understand a simple "man-holding-spear, man-holding-spear, upside-down U, dog" story! The resolution was a lot better though, I admit.
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2011-06-12, 09:50 | Link #28 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2007
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In the good old days, we send VHS tapes to fansubbers who will do the copying for us, and only pay the shipping costs. Some fansubbers also let you pay the cost of the tapes and shipping, but if you had to pay anything for the work itself, you got ripped off.
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2011-06-12, 13:43 | Link #30 |
Uguu~
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Canada
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Back then, it was a lot less painful to buy bootleg subs...I still have the old Gundams and Love Hina on Chinese bootleg...lol.
I remember I used to trade scanlations with my friend, where we each download a series with our crappy dialup connection that would take ages to get one manga series...things that I can get in seconds now. Oh man...things we do back in the day.
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2011-06-12, 20:05 | Link #33 |
temporary safeguard
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Germany
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Filesize scaled up quite a bit along with our bandwidth.
When all I had was a dial up modem, those Tenchi Muyo eps were like 13mb a piece in real media, so it did not take that long to get them. Today they don't look as good on a HD flatscreen as I remember them. It must be binary decay or something. |
2011-06-13, 18:38 | Link #34 |
Vanitas owns you >:3
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VH.....S?
Never heard of it! Oh wait....you mean those weird plastic black box things that you put into another black box thing and it comes on the TV? And you had to *gasp* REWIND THEM if you wanted to watch the anime AGAIN? Yes..........I remember those days. I still have Kodocha and Kaitou Saint Tail, even some Sailor Stars tapes. I remember how excited I got when each tape arrived in the mailbox. I'd jump up and down yelling "HORRAY!!" and my neighbors thought I was just losing my mind. As fun as it was, I'm glad we went digital. Tapes start to take up too much space on the shelf...plus they wear out. With .mkvs and .avis, you don't have to worry about that. If the DVD breaks or gets lost, you can just download and burn the file again.
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2011-06-13, 19:57 | Link #39 | |
is this so?
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Gradius Home World
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And I remember the kind admin at Ishin Digital's IRC channel. It took days to get an episode with my poor dial-up connection. But most of the people there were so nice to have "support resume" function. I'm talking about the time when Mahoromatic and Love Hina were still new.
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2011-06-13, 19:58 | Link #40 |
Eternal Dreamer
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Caladan
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My first batch was Fushigi Yuugi from Tomodachi, then came the City Hunter obsession. My favorite adventure was hunting down all fs City Hunter eps. I still keep all of them. Right now I have like (2) 5 tier shelves filled with vhs sitting in my parents' house. I don't know what to do with those VHS (and soon the DVDs too).
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