Re: Cowboy Bebop

Elana S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Now please nobody hurt me - I'm a very, very poor student who needed her
> Cowboy Bebop fix and didn't even realize the threat of bootlegs when she
> bought them. I couldn't see beyond the sweet, sweet price. So I am the
> not-so-proud owner of a bootlegged copy of the Cowboy Bebop Perfect
> Sessions. This puts me in the position to actually answer your questions
> from experience. I'm sorry!
> 
> The one I have is by "FX", and I got it at discountanimedvd.com. (If I'm
> doing something wrong by acknowledging the company, I'm sorry - I'm really
> new to the anime community and to Usenet in general.) It's on three discs
> instead of six, but it does indeed have every episode in the series.
> 
> I have played my bootlegged DVDs on a number of different DVD players as
> well as a few DVD-R drives of various computers of different platforms and
> have had no problems with it at all.
> 
> It does have all the extras and special features that I presume the official
> copies have.
> 
> From a purely egoistic perspective, buying a bootlegged Perfect Sessions
> seems to be an exceptionally good idea. It's super-cheap, and is identical
> to the official copies except that there are fewer discs to lose, and you
> can watch it with Chinese subtitles if you wish. Although I have never seen
> the official version, I don't find anything lacking in the quality of the
> video, audio, or content of my bootleg.
> 
> Of course, you'll have to deal with the remorse of contributing to the
> bootlegging community and realizing that you're just not as hardcore as the
> people who have the real ones.
> 
> Someday, after I graduate and when I have a lucrative career, I vow to buy
> the official Cowboy Bebop Perfect Sessions (and all the soundtracks, etc.
> etc.), but for now I must resign myself to being second-class to all of the
> real anime fans who can afford official copies.
> 
> Regretfully,
> Elana



This is exactly my problem; I'm a student and can't afford to buy a
whole new DVD player. It doesn't seem to me then that there is gonna
be much trouble with buying a bootleg (which, by the way, I am not to
happy about doing but the market for anime dvds in the UK has driven
me to it).