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2008.11.30, 11:14 PM | #41 |
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Sorry I have to vent my frustration once more... well at least until they reply to my angry angry email...
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2008.12.01, 03:36 AM | #42 |
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Ok... weird. My friend in Sweden got a CD box instead of a DVD box... we might trade. XD
(That's if he's willing to give up the more expensive of the too... and if I can figure out a good way to ship this over to Sweden) |
2008.12.01, 03:41 AM | #43 |
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Those boxes are near identical in appearance, maybe the guys at the depot had no idea what they were packing up when they shipped them out ?
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2008.12.01, 04:21 AM | #44 | |
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You'd think they could at least read the item number, or scan the barcode on the item sticker. Wonder how many orders got screwed up. |
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2008.12.01, 06:29 AM | #45 |
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There's sod all around here, I've since ordered it from Yes Asia who have already shipped it. So it should turn up soon.
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2008.12.01, 01:32 PM | #46 |
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Is YesAsia's stock level usually correct? I was wondering if HMV will refund me but don't have stock, if I should be ordering the DVD box from yesasia? (Even though its freaking AU$200)
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2008.12.01, 01:34 PM | #47 | |
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I finally received my 'express' shipment today.
With the way HMV Japan clusters everything together in one surround layer of shrinkwrap, without any other packing material between the goods and the outer box, I can't find the merit on how/why they charged me 12,900yen for shipping. I've had a heavier stack of magazines shipped to me from Tokyo for less than that, and that was while oil prices were higher. I'm not going to use HMV to buy vinyls anymore, unless it's something nobody else has. At least they gave me exactly the items I ordered, after shipping out two days late, and never asking me if I wanted to approve a hiked-up shipping charge. *edit*
*edit* The 100-page booklet is a little better than I expected. Lots of alternate shots from old photoshoots, that didn't get featured with the original CD booklets. I wouldn't say the alternate photos are any better or worse, but they're a little refreshing after you've seen the same standard photos hundreds of times. I'm indifferent about the stickers and bonus pieces of paper. I noticed there's this partitioned-off section of cardboard within the inner box, like you could fit a whole additional 100-page booklet in there, and I was thinking "hmmm, I wonder what's inside, and how you open that up", when upon inspecting it further, I heard an electronic voice come out of the one side of the inner box I hadn't looked at it yet. DUH-uhhhh. They've got to stash the speaker and the light sensor in there somewhere. The voice didn't actually kick in when I first opened the box, because I was in a dimly-lit room. It's not easy to describe what make the MoRA cardboard sleeves more or less nice compared to cardboard sleeves in other releases, except that the MoRA sleeves are more... two-dimensional (on the front at least). No indentations or creases like you often find with cardboard disc sleeves that are packaged and sold individually. The fronts of the MoRA sleeves are perfectly flat and smooth, like the scans you could get off of these would be at least as good as with the original CD booklets. Both of the MoRA boxes have the exact same outer dimensions, even though they include a different amount of discs. I haven't opened my CD box, and I don't think I ever will. I'm not going to believe the 44.1kHz/16bit got noticably 'remastered'.
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2008.12.01, 06:04 PM | #48 |
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What/how is the fold-out poster ?
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2008.12.01, 06:28 PM | #49 |
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This is what the poster looks like:
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2008.12.01, 07:31 PM | #50 |
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at the beginning of each dvd Ringo [wearing that wire frame hat from the photo shoot] lip syncs or does some playful motion to kick off the exciting[?] audio visualizer. No motion graphics like the HF dvd. Its the algorithm-based stuff like when you play an audio file on wmp or on a ps3.
it was such a tease, I thought she would stick around for the whole song. The audio is sharper, like a dial was turned up or something to help you pick out every instrument clearer. I'm not saying the sound is better, but the warmth is gone. I think the original cd versions sound better when played through the same sound system. I imagine the analog version sounds wonderful. Digital clarity isnt all that great when it comes to music. |
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