While stocks last. This is the old OOP Animeigo boxset. The gist of it is that this reportedly has restored Japanese Mono, whereas the current ADV releases have unrestored mono with crackles and hiss.
Both company's takes have reportedly near identical video and subs. (source)
The ADV releases do have an all new dub, but seriously who gives a shit?
The Animeigo version is superior for hundrends of reasons such as remastered cleaner audio track, superior packaging, no compression issues (ADV squeezed to many episodes on to each disc), better extras (excluisve commentary track)l.
source wrote:How does the does the video compare on ADVs version to the Animeigo version? IIRC, the Animeigo version is progressive. Is ADVs?
source wrote:After watching volume 1 of ADVs version of Macross(Rightstuf had volume 1wbox for 9.99)...I can say that this dub is atrocious.
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The video seems identical to the Animeigo version. I thought I had read though that ADVs wasn't progressive like Animeigo's version. I did notice the Japanese audio doesn't sound as good as Animeigo's.
source wrote:In favor of AnimEigo
-Great informative liner notes
-Audio quality is better than the ADV set. People have complained about a significant hiss and crackle in ADV's Japanese audio track.
If I didn't already have a set and I didn't care about the dub, I'd probably go with AnimEigo's set for the audio quality, unless I was worried about the discs breaking
In favor of ADV
-The ADV set has better package art. (I can confirm that opinion personally, as I've seen it on shelves)
-Extras, including the usual "clean" opening and closing sequences and an interview with Mari Ijima.
-Video quality is about the same as AnimEigo's.
-A few very minor lines were changed from AnimEigo's subtitles because some fans complained. These include removing an unobtusive Star Trek reference from one of Roy's lines. While I'd prefer the reference not to have been added, it didn't change the intent of the line.
-A few people have had a problem with their AnimEigo discs spontaneously cracking from the middle. Neither I nor anyone I know has had this problem personally, but some people have, and it is unlikely to exist in the ADV set.