Spent $80 on a bootleg anime box set back in 2005 and it was a total disaster

I remember seeing it at a local convention, a complete series for way less than the official release. The discs looked okay at first, but half of them wouldn't play past episode three. The subtitles were a mess, full of weird grammar and sometimes just stopped. It felt like such a waste of my summer job money, especially when I had to buy the real version later anyway. Makes you appreciate how easy it is to get good quality stuff now with streaming. Anyone else have a story about a bad physical media buy that pushed you to digital?

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caleb_price12d ago

Man, I was the same way for years, swore physical was always better. A messed up DVD set of a show I loved, with the audio totally out of sync, was my final straw. That kind of junk just makes you give up and accept the convenience of digital. I still like having some stuff on the shelf, but I don't miss rolling the dice on a bad burn.

victor_jones9912d agoMost Upvoted

Ugh, that's the worst. Bad burns were such a gamble.

wendy3914d ago

Yeah, "bad burns" makes me think of scratched discs. The gamble was more about whether the disc would even work at all, not the audio being off. That was just a bad copy.