[Glathannus]

It's about damn time.

Now let me just state for the record that I'm not part of the "I will finally be able to play the footage in my DVD player!" crowd, because I see that as a very minor aspect of what makes this release special. Most of my video playback is computer-based, even when I've got an All-Region DVD. Not only that, but the Spa & Treatment bootleg floating around was already very close to being ready for burning - pretty much all you had to do was mux it into a VIDEO_TS folder with TMPGenc DVD Author, burn that as UDF 1.02 with ImgBurn, and no transcoding was required. Personally I've never bothered doing that with Spa & Treatment, though I've heard a success story from at least one person I guided through that process.

We can finally have the audio in PCM or whatever formats (FLAC/MP3/etc.) we want to produce from that, and not be living in transcode city. We'll also finally have access to MPEG2 that's gone through 2-pass instead of whatever quick-&-dirty job someone's TiVo/DVR/PVR did in realtime.

If this DVD doesn't reach the retail scene, it will surely reach Yahoo! Japan Auctions just as a small handful of Ringohan-edition Ringo Books did.. I'm going to get this DVD one way or another, even if I have to forgo eating out for awhile.