Re: There are no old, bold anime fans...

On 6 Jan, 20:51, Justin Palmer <jus...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Tsugumi wrote:
> > "Peter Boulter" <starhun...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >news:memo.20080106080400.2788C@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Tsugumi(Tsug...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) added
>
> >>> Blimey! What they'd make of me paying =A328 for Bubblegum Crisis #8
> >>> doesn't bear thinking about...
> >> Come to think of it, what we paid for our anime back then doesn't
bear
> >> thinking
> >> about by us!  ^_^
>
> > Agreed!
> > We used to buy NTSC vids despite not having a NTSC player. Luckily
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 was
> > a shop around the corner that would convert the tapes to PAL for =A312
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er
> > hour.
> > That actually seemed to make sense at the time as well...
>
>         Going to ****n nen kai - '98? was it? Anyone remember the quiet
guy=
 from
> Devon trying to hide in his own skin? - and seeing NSTC tapes of
> Escaflowne (I think) set me down the path of acquiring one of those
> players for my own, a road that had led to me having to learn more about
> various international TV, input, and codec types than I ever wanted to
> know... ^_^
>
>         (The other great revelation was seeing Ben Carters AEGIS system
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> action at Minamicon, which is where I got my first glimpse of the power
> of digital media... )

Ben Carter, now that's an old skool name that brings back memories!

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Mappy