Thu 30 May 2013
We need you ! :o
Posted by suzaku under Releases
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OK, where to start with something like this… there comes a time where one must break new ground and head into new UN-charted territory. (well for us anyway ) and that time seems to have come.
In this day and age of everything getting BIGGER and bigger file-wise and encoding wise ( Blu-ray )
files are just getting WAY to big to manage. We here at L-E intend to launch another classic Blu project, but nearly had a cow when we saw the size of the files it would take to work with this, over 400 GB just to START it. Now, I wont say WHAT this is, but I will say the director is very well known, and has often been associated with another very WELL known director for most of his career .
So as a first here at Live-eviL, we are asking you the watchers, for donations… this will be added to funds that we ourselves will be putting in for 2 ( at least 2) 1 TB drives, of a reliable brand with a 3 or more year warranty on them. These will be set up RAID 1 (mirrored ) and dedicated to this project, and any and all future Blu-ray projects we do.
Any help you can give is appreciated.
If you can’t , thatβs also understood.
Thank you.
Link here for donating.
Suzaku & the staff of Live-eviL =^-^=
Status updates will follow…
Normally I would say no money should be exchanged in fansubbing at all as to not get into murkier waters (yarrr…) , but for you heroes subbing things nobody else would, I’ll make an exception. π
For some reason, the first anime that came to my mind when I read “400GB to start”, was “Fushigi no Umi no Nadia”. BDs are out, but only 1080p versions -_- It’s directed by Anno + Higuchi… There is also a connection to Ghibli/Miyazaki… and 400GB for the BDMVs sounds plausible. Though I doubt my guess, I’d love a 720p version (to replace my DVDs).
Other random guesses (concerning 400GB):
Card Captor Sakura, Lupin, something-Gundam/Macross, Heidi… don’t know many classics that got BDs. “Attack No. 1” would be awesome lol
if things keep going well, we may upgrade this to 2 2tb drives.
otherwise we will stick with the orig idea of 2 1tb drives.
Thanks for your help so far!
=^-^=
If finances allow it, 2TB drives is probably the better option, since nowadays you seem to be getting about 50% more space per euro/dollar from them compared to 1TB drives. Also if possible get 2 disks from different batches / types so if there’s a manufacturing error in a batch, that won’t take out both drives at the same time. (me being paranoid, I ended up with 2 different WD, 2 different Seagate and 1 Samsung in a RAID 5 anime storage array. ( safety > speed ) π )
My payday is next Monday, June 3, 2013. I’ll see what I can afford then. I gotta keep you people running! LOL.
Please just don’t take this as a general “pay for fansubs” request.
It’s a special occasion to keep our encoder going, and staff is chipping in substantially as well π
We don’t generally approve of money for fansubbing.
Oh, I know that! But, I also know that HDD’s aren’t cheap, I have 5 of them in my computer. But, I wish to help the group that has given me Versailles no Bara, Fyuu no Sonata, Yawara! and others. It’s my way of saying Arigatou!
Hey, my fellow comrades of L-E. I just donated some money. It’s not much but it’s the thought that counts, right? π
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You know what? You stuck with Snow Queen to the very end (and will hopefully do so with Queen Millenia as well), so I’m going to make an exception to the rule too.
Yeah, YaoiBoy and I aren’t letting QM down…
Just sent some cash, since you jerks won’t let me donate otherwise. π Thanks for subbing the classics that no one else will touch. I’m looking forward to more quality releases from this top-notch sub group.
As promised, a donation has been paid so that you can get those HDDs. I have personally had good success with WD Caviar Black drives.