I Jst Got the Astroboy 80's DVD Collection

[Astro Forever]

Originally posted by O2Destroyer+Dec 13 2005, 10:21 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (O2Destroyer @ Dec 13 2005, 10:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>..and now we have the 60's box to look forward to.[/b]

I don't think I'm going to buy the 60's box. And should I decide to do so, I'll wait until it gets released in the US. But I'll look forward to your reviews, it might make me change my mind.

Originally posted by -ChibiGoku@Dec 13 2005, 12:05 PM
Astro Forever, I have to apologize about not explaining this earlier.

In your screenshot topic you posted some of the manga pictures. The reason the colors looked a bit more washed out is due to our television standards are different, which produces a slightly different color. (though will look almost identical on a regular tv set, you'll notice the difference more on a Computer moniter and such)

NTSC literally means "Never the same color", thus the color standard isn't as set as the PAL, which I believe has a standard color set. There's also SECAM but that's similar enough to PAL that PAL tvs support it.

But yes, the Astroboy R2-J DVDs are exactly likethe Manga DVDs, in terms of coloring, so even if you did end up spending 30,000yen(right price?) on each set, you'd be only getting the same color, though there's all the deleted scenes. (obviously, being the original).

That would be more around 20 000 yen for Madman's set.

Thanks a lot for the explanation (and no need to apologize, I'm just very thankful! ). I didn't know NTSC was often called "Never (twice) the same color"! I knew PAL was considered better, but I didn't really know why. It all makes sense now. You are right, Manga's DVDs look a little more washed out (though, as O2Destroyer said earlier, a little cleaner). But on my computer, it's darker and the colors aren't as good. As I said earlier, the animation seems to slightly lack fluidity, and I suspect this might be because of the difference in frame per seconds between PAL and NTSC (I'm watching on a DVD Player that supports PAL and sends a NTSC signal to my TV set). It's still very good nonetheless. I was not expecting to be able to get such a great quality out of PAL disks.

But when you were mentionning the screenshot topic, you found them washed out? Because they were all from Madman's set, which is in PAL, and taken directly from my computer, not through an NTSC television set. I personally find them very colorful. If I were to take them from Manga's, they would be much more darker, unless I changed some settings I guess.

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EDIT: Oh and, I get my replacement DVD today B)[/quote]
Oh great! Enjoy!

[O2Destroyer]

Originally posted by Astro forever+Dec 14 2005, 04:20 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Astro forever @ Dec 14 2005, 04:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--O2Destroyer@Dec 13 2005, 10:21 AM
..and now we have the 60's box to look forward to.

I don't think I'm going to buy the 60's box. And should I decide to do so, I'll wait until it gets released in the US. But I'll look forward to your reviews, it might make me change my mind. [/b][/quote]
I was referring to the US box. Now that I know it is coming out, I'm not going to spend a 3rd more to have the australian version. If I trust anyone with Anime, it is Right Stuf, and now that it is in their hands, I'm sure we'll get something really nice here at a non-import price.

[Astro Forever]

Originally posted by Selenite@Dec 19 2005, 12:45 AM
Salutations all...

I'm a canadian fan of Astro and I just got the Manga Ent. box set. I have to admit, I'm disappointed because I would have liked both original episodes 1 and 2 to be in it. I mean, episode 2 is so important for the series, and they could have included them in japanese since there is a japanese language track on this set anyway... Oh well, we do see Tornado's fall and Leopold's electrocution, and the young Atlas does appear in flashbacks in various episodes, but that's nothing compared to the lack of episode 2!

The japanese track and the booklet are very nice in this release, but I will sure miss that oh-so-important episode. I hope they still release the uncut versions of episodes 1 and 2 over here, one of these days...

Le Selenite ^^;;^^

Hi and welcome. I'm Canadian as well. I agree it's too bad for those episodes, but as I've just written it in this thread, you can download them if you want to see them. If only we could buy only the "extras" DVD from the Australian release... It's the only one that can't be bought by itself!

At least this is a much more complete version than the Canadian version we got on TV, which was cut down to 16 to 17 minutes per episode instead of 20 to 21...

[astro_mcfly]

I got the DVD's on Sunday (my birthday) from my cousin. I'd like to see the
uncut episodes! I mean, I'm younger than most of you, and cannot buy the Madman DVD's off the internet. As for the cuts, why is cereal the only thing companies in Battle Creek (Michigan) make right? The server didn't work on my computer! :wacko: Is there a different way to access it?
By the way, nice to see you Astro forever!

[Astro Forever]

Originally posted by astro_mcfly@Dec 20 2005, 05:27 PM
I got the DVD's on Sunday (my birthday) from my cousin. I'd like to see the
uncut episodes! I mean, I'm younger than most of you, and cannot buy the Madman DVD's off the internet. As for the cuts, why is cereal the only thing companies in Battle Creek (Michigan) make right? The server didn't work on my computer! :wacko: Is there a different way to access it?
By the way, nice to see you Astro forever!

Did you click on the right link? I copy and pasted the URL as it showed in my browser, but I had totally forgotten about the username and password not showing... Fafner gave the right one a little later in one of the thread.

The right link is ftp://ast:ast@atomu.ath.cx:6872.

Nice to see you too, and happy birthday! Hopefully you'll enjoy the series as much as we did!

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by astro_mcfly@Dec 20 2005, 06:27 PM
I got the DVD's on Sunday (my birthday) from my cousin. I'd like to see the
uncut episodes! I mean, I'm younger than most of you, and cannot buy the Madman DVD's off the internet. As for the cuts, why is cereal the only thing companies in Battle Creek (Michigan) make right? The server didn't work on my computer! :wacko: Is there a different way to access it?
By the way, nice to see you Astro forever!

Happy birthday!

[jennytablina]

I got the US set the other day and at first was really worried that I'd got the worse set after hearing Episode 2 Japanese was omitted. Though hearing that episodes have Japanese audio tracks and all was great! Sadly I dont get to watch my set till Christmas Day *impatent*.

I'm going to have to wait for my Kimba set though. I keep hearing from people that it's release has been delayed and people are only just now getting copies in the US. At this rate my copy might not come till after Christmas ;___;.

BTW I got confused about the status of "Astros First Love" on the US set, is it there or is it only on Madman's version?

[fafner]

Originally posted by jennytablina@Dec 21 2005, 10:41 AM
BTW I got confused about the status of "Astros First Love" on the US set, is it there or is it only on Madman's version?

"Astro's first love" is in all packages as far as I know, although there might be some missing scenes ( as in most episodes ). However it is the last episode in the Japanese order while it is somewhere in the middle in the other order.

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by fafner+Dec 21 2005, 06:28 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (fafner @ Dec 21 2005, 06:28 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteBegin--jennytablina@Dec 21 2005, 10:41 AM
BTW I got confused about the status of "Astros First Love" on the US set, is it there or is it only on Madman's version?

"Astro's first love" is in all packages as far as I know, although there might be some missing scenes ( as in most episodes ). However it is the last episode in the Japanese order while it is somewhere in the middle in the other order.[/b][/quote]
Here is a post from Dr. Frag that gives the sequences: Astroboy on TV Tome, The episode list. I do not think that TV Tome (now 'tv.com' still has it, but it is there on the thread.