Anime and the MovieCD format

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Re: Anime and the MovieCD format

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You have to set your player, like VCD to deinterlace the picture. Then the lines should disappear. Only other way is to output to a CRT TV which does the job for you...
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That should read VLC, not VCD. Where's the edit button when you need it...
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usamimi wrote:Oh that's possible!! I'll have to keep my eye out for ads in my old Animericas next time I'm flipping through em & see if that's what it was lol.
Software Sculptors, the company that released the BGC screensaver, also released some CPM/US Manga Corps titles on CD as Quicktime-compatible videos. Not sure if they ever released actual BGC episodes, though.

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Re: Anime and the MovieCD format

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zimmerit wrote:
usamimi wrote:Oh that's possible!! I'll have to keep my eye out for ads in my old Animericas next time I'm flipping through em & see if that's what it was lol.
Software Sculptors, the company that released the BGC screensaver, also released some CPM/US Manga Corps titles on CD as Quicktime-compatible videos. Not sure if they ever released actual BGC episodes, though.

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I've had these for a little while (Mike "Star Blazers Fan Club" Pinto sent them to me) but haven't gotten pix of them until recently. They are still in the original shrink wrap because I don't even know what GDC is for my PC or if any of my PCs will even run these stone-age artifacts.
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Amazing! I never came across any of these. I remember ads in imported Animericas but assumed they were CD-Roms/screensavers.

We got VCDs from London's Chinatown as at some point it was the only way to get PAL region anime without crazy N-th gen conversion problems. I remember seeing Creamy Mami on my first visit to Chinatown but even at the time was too expensive for my budget at the time!
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I have Chinese VCDs of a few shows, Prowes Sanshiro and Slow Step. Bought mostly because of the "Holy crap, it's Prowes Sanshiro!" factor, and I think the Slow Step VCDs were like $1.

These CPM "Anime Hyperguide" CD-ROMs I had never seen in my life, ever, I don't know if they ever made it to any sort of retail anywhere in my line of sight. Not that I would have ever bought them, if there was ever an entertainment medium destined to die a quick death, it was the CD-ROM.
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davemerrill wrote:These CPM "Anime Hyperguide" CD-ROMs I had never seen in my life, ever, I don't know if they ever made it to any sort of retail anywhere in my line of sight. Not that I would have ever bought them, if there was ever an entertainment medium destined to die a quick death, it was the CD-ROM.
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Wow, I remember that website (particularly that 'Laws of Anime' page) but never knew it was associated with CPM.
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davemerrill wrote:I've had these for a little while (Mike "Star Blazers Fan Club" Pinto sent them to me) but haven't gotten pix of them until recently. They are still in the original shrink wrap because I don't even know what GDC is for my PC or if any of my PCs will even run these stone-age artifacts.

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Nice finds! These can be pretty difficult to track down.

Your current PC may or may not run them, but installing an older version of Windows in a virtual machine will usually allow you to run them. To play the MovieCDs, I had to install Windows 2000 in a virtual machine due to some issues with newer operating systems and the codec MovieCDs use.
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