I can't keep silence

I've been trying several times for six hours to post the following text on DHN, but for some reason comment didn't get posted. As I googled, I found that there's a limit of 4096 characters for comment's length on blogger, although my comment was only 3018 characters. Anyway, if I couldn't post my comment there, I'll post it here, so bear with me.

OK, here's my kinda rude and not very humble opinion. DVDs and iTunes are good, they mean that Hasbro can offer MLP episode to their audience. But let's take a deeper look.

As already mentioned, iTunes Store with MLP episodes isn't available outside USA. And fans are scattered all over the world. What are they supposed to do? How they supposed o watch their favourite show? I even contacted iTunes Store's support, and they said I couldn't buy anything from the US store unless I have a billing address inside US, which most of non-US residents, including me, don't have.

Another option is to buy DVDs. Those DVDs are even released in other countries. But here's another "but". First, it is DVD, while show actually airs in FullHD. I guess, there's no need to explain the difference in video quality. Even downscaled HDTVRips have better quality, than that (AFAIK, only one) DVD. I bought that DVD, I know. Where's Blu-Ray, guys? Maybe I missed something, but I haven't heard BDs are even planned to be released.

Second, how many episodes got released in DVD so far? Two? The first season is more that half a year as finished airing on TV, and still only two episodes? OK, you may point me to the fact, that there's another DVD with whole THREE episodes is about to get released at February 24. Cool, another three episodes. Out of twenty six.

Now let's pretend the show officially airs (or is sold) in all countries that have pony fans. What will we get? Quite often, bad translation and dub. At least it is true for Russia. We have a DVD with dubbed S01E03. It is awful. Accents are gone, intonations are completely off, voices don't reflect ponies' characters at all. And there're a number of translation mistakes. I even contacted Russian branch of Hasbro about the quality of their dub, but haven't got any reply.

And now let's look what pirates have to offer. Thay have: FullHD instead of DVD (Hub actually airs the show in a crappy quality for FullHD, video is unforgiveably blocky, but still); decent translation and very nice fandub (vital for non-english speaking countries), that's even better, than the official dub; lots of ways of obtaining episodes. In other words, PIRATES can offer the show at better quality than the actual DEVELOPER.

To conclude my small review, I'll say this. If a company can't offer to their customers good enough quality worth to be payed for, this company should just shut it and let those, who can, do THEIR (company's) job right. Unfortunately, pirates often offer content (be it software or some rips) at better quality (or without brainflipping with activation process), than official developers and distributors, MLP:FiM is just another example.

Regarding PA. They just did what Hasbro couldn't: they offered episodes for EVERYONE.

P. S.: I highly respect Hasbro, this is just my opinion and the facts I know of. I hope I was clear regardless my bad English. I call people spreading MLP episodes in non-legal way pirates because, let's face it, they ARE pirates.

Added: fsLeg | Date: Wednesday 21 December 2011 - 13:53:04 | Comments (0)