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Of Robotech and Yes
Nov. 25th, 2003 09:05 pmWeekend was largely uneventful, mostly spent in playing computer games and recharging. Workdays have been about the same as they've ever been...not much new on that front.
Heard an interesting bit of news the other day...A.D. Visions is coming out with a remastered version of its Robotech DVD sets...taking the footage from the restored and remastered sets of the original anime on which it was based that they've done, adding in some stuff that was edited out of the original series before it aired on TV, and redoing the entire soundtrack in Dolby 5.1 sound. A lot of the fan response has been indignant complaint, particularly from those who already shelled out over $200 for the 7-volume, $30-to-$40-a-volume first release of the show on DVD. They accuse ADV of "double-dipping," releasing successive editions of the same show so as to make fans shell out more than once. I have to admit, if I'd purchased those DVD sets (as I had half a mind to when they came out), I'd be more than a little peeved myself.
( Robotech reminiscing )
Speaking of DVDs, another DVD I've recently picked up is the DVD-Audio edition of the classic Yes album "Fragile". I did this partly because I could get a bargain price on eBay, and partly because I was curious at how good it would sound compared to the stereo version I've heard already. Suffice it to say, I was completely blown away by the surround-sound nature of the music. I can't say whether the quality of individual channels is necessarily any better than CD, but then I've often had trouble telling the difference between high-quality mp3 and CD. What I can say is that having the sound coming from five different directions at once makes a lot of difference—like the difference between mono and stereo, but more so. It's a lot of fun to hear it.
Not much else to report.
Heard an interesting bit of news the other day...A.D. Visions is coming out with a remastered version of its Robotech DVD sets...taking the footage from the restored and remastered sets of the original anime on which it was based that they've done, adding in some stuff that was edited out of the original series before it aired on TV, and redoing the entire soundtrack in Dolby 5.1 sound. A lot of the fan response has been indignant complaint, particularly from those who already shelled out over $200 for the 7-volume, $30-to-$40-a-volume first release of the show on DVD. They accuse ADV of "double-dipping," releasing successive editions of the same show so as to make fans shell out more than once. I have to admit, if I'd purchased those DVD sets (as I had half a mind to when they came out), I'd be more than a little peeved myself.
( Robotech reminiscing )
Speaking of DVDs, another DVD I've recently picked up is the DVD-Audio edition of the classic Yes album "Fragile". I did this partly because I could get a bargain price on eBay, and partly because I was curious at how good it would sound compared to the stereo version I've heard already. Suffice it to say, I was completely blown away by the surround-sound nature of the music. I can't say whether the quality of individual channels is necessarily any better than CD, but then I've often had trouble telling the difference between high-quality mp3 and CD. What I can say is that having the sound coming from five different directions at once makes a lot of difference—like the difference between mono and stereo, but more so. It's a lot of fun to hear it.
Not much else to report.
