Hi everyone. More questions about bootleg DVDs!

I have been looking for Digimon series with Japanese audio. The Japanese Digimon DVDs are extremely expensive, and the US and European DVDs don't have Japanese audio. Someone on another forum told me the US releases have heavily edited video, so the Japanese audio doesn't fit. It appears that most other language dubs use the US video track, while Cantonese and Malay dubs use the Japanese video track (so can include the Japanese audio). But if the DVDs are not properly licensed, all the money is going to scammers, and not the people who made the anime.

I read many of the old posts about this. Also wondering, would a licensed DVD always be encrypted and region-locked? (Is region free always pirated?)

And 17 episodes on an 8G DVD is still 470M per episode. So why is the video quality worse than smaller-sized fansubs?

I bought this one when I didn't know much about DVDs:
http://imgur.com/a/A9sYk
17 episodes on a DVD, low quality video, region free and not encrypted.
The government censorship sticker points here:
http://b.moha.gov.my/bcert/pid/1604111004117
An old post said VBG has licensed some anime, but also sold pirated things:
https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2308501

Also seen a Savers set by Glorious Media Sdn. Bhd:
http://i.imgur.com/Ae7fnRu.jpg
Again this has 16 episodes on a DVD...

Is it possible to check if these companies have a licence? Some people in the old posts seemed to know how to do that.

Highlights of old posts:

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/352018
Some signs of a bootleg are low quality packaging, low quality video, bad subtitles, and putting many episodes on a DVD.

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1407531
Some anime are licensed. If the box has information about the licence holder, maybe it can be checked.

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/949676/+20
Easy to get fake KPD Tulen stickers.

https://forum.lowyat.net/topic/949676/+120
The government censorship board is only making censorship approvals and is not concerned whether the release is properly licensed.

so what do you want currently? buying digimon dvd?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digimon_Adventure


don't think its still available at funimation.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-...season-1-on-dvd

http://www.rightstufanime.com/search?keywords=digimon

in other words, dig fansubs, buy the original non sub japanese dvd (or even bluray if its available) if you truly want to support.

Got Blu Ray release 15th anniversary box set but no official English subtitle and you know how much usually the Blu Ray cost right, for 12 episodes?
Digimon Adventure is 52 episodes, so do your count.

And DVD is no longer relevant these day. Its now Blu Ray era(before we go disk-less media soon)

This post has been edited by nazrul90: Sep 5 2016, 01:38 AM

you pay for what you get if you are not willing to pay the extremely expensive price then better not spend at all for such an old series if ur intention is to give money to the people that make the series do it with other ways
the cheaper dvd alternative that you able to find 99% isn't worth the money you paid for

Most other anime, I can buy a US or European copy including Japanese audio. Digimon is strange because the English dub edited the video track.

The US version of Digimon Adventure is $50, but it's English dub only.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008L5FFMO/

The Japanese ones are like 10x that.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000232BU2/
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000W2SVC0/
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B00M7RJ8AC/

If VBG really licensed Digimon Tamers, it's possible that I still have a pirated copy of it...