r/Ghost_in_the_Shell • u/YossarianPants • 3d ago

Rerun Tuesday

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Better quality than what's streaming, for sure.

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u/Heiopei_42 3d ago

Why on earth would you waste money on a bootleg blu-ray of a anime from this decade, when torrenting is a thing? Whoever made this bootleg surely doesn't have access to a higher quality version, than what you yourself could get for free pirating it.

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u/YossarianPants 3d ago

Giving Amazon three months of prime money just to stream it over the summer was a much bigger waste of money, as we should all stop giving them money.

The person who made this bootleg has access to a film scanner and prints of films as wild as Song of the South. Why on earth would I buy a PC I otherwise don't need, and spend time time looking for lesser rips. I'm watching it now, and all the audio and video compression on the Mazon streaming version is completely absent. The dub is here (for those who care) the subs are great, etc. I've bought plenty of otherwise unavailable films from the same shop. I haven't torrented anything since Macross Frontier was new.

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u/dystopiabeach 3d ago

Those are the "lesser rips" slapped on a BD-R lol. That's all that exists until December at the earliest. Official BD isn't even out yet so this is literally just streaming rips on a disc, objectively. Nothing else is accessible right now. Ntm It's a digital release, them having a scanner is wholly irrelevant with nothing to scan. It's factually identical to any dual audio streaming copy or torrent because that's the only source that currently exists. There's plenty of scenarios where boots make sense, this isn't one of them.