Lott Sheen

The Pioneer LD-S9 is a good budget alternative. It has very high quality internals matched with some of the top end units. I think I saw one on Y!jp for under $500 recently and was considering it myself for the SW Difinitive Editions and my copy of CAV DYRL Perfect Edition I picked up for $5 in Japan.

To be honest I never saw that, I actually saw an overall improvement in the mecha animation in episode 5 and 6. Save one terrible scene featuring the fairy squadron... I want to make another point. Kawamori never directed SDFM or DYRL, Ishiguro did so I dont see Macross as belonging to Kawamori at all. In my opinion Kawamori is a brilliant mechanical designer but a poor director and has taken the franchise in a really weird direction over the years. I would have much preferred to see the MII continuity continued as it feels more like the original shows than any Kawamori sequels.

In all seriousness and with all due respect do you have asperger`s syndrome possibly? I never jumped on him for agreeing with me, I jumped on him for coming from the assumption that an old show like DYRL SHOULD be worse, becaus it is old. And then being surprised that it was not inferior, despite its age. To me that is ridiculous. When you think about it most things decline in quality over time. Cars used to have bench seats, plenty of leg room, cruise control, power steering starting ine the `50s. While we kept power steering everything else has gone in the name of cost cutting and environmentalism. Japan had analogue HD broadcast to analogue HD tubes in the `90s aswell as HD LDs. At its peak the PQ of these was superior to digital HD, but broadcasters went with digital to fit more lower quality programming on their bandwidth because analogue took up too much. I for one prefer less channels at a higher quality but as with most things the first of class is superior and its always dumbed down for the masses. We went to the moon in 1969, now the best we can do is take antfarms into orbit. The youth of today think mp3s are high quality audio and actually don`t like the sound of CDs or LPs because they aren`t used to it. In conclusion humans are dumb and buy the marketing and hype that tells them every day the latest is the greatest. Don`t believe the hype, thats my motto. And btw I am MilSpex, I changed handles because I thought I should have a Macross based username here.

Thankyou, I always get those two mixed up.

Again, WHY do people assume that something older should be inferior and why do people act surprised that something made in the `80s or `90s looks better than something made with the aide of CGI? Can I get an answer to this question please? CGI is mostly a cost saving measure, not a great artform. A hand drawn high framerate combat scene will beat CGI everytime and some of those Ishiguro dogfights in SDFM will never be topped.

Gubaba, I am often misunderstood on MW. If you read the OP you will see what I mean: The OP clearly believes it is unusual that an older program is higher quality than a newer one. Something that is just not true in so many cases. He also assumes that the days SINCE CGI are some kind of golden age. Therefore I assume this guy is some kind of kid under 25 years old who has a warped view that NEW SHOULD BE BETTER. Even the space program was better 40 years ago! Fact is that OLD IS USUALLY BETTER and standards go down over time, not up.