Reading report #3: Anime DVD and placelessness
I’m now reading the textbook entitled Doing Cultural Studies, The Story of the Sony Walkman, edited by Paul du Gay et al. One key aspect of the Cultural Studies approach they highlight in the second section of the book, is the importance of describing the economic and technical circumstances out of which is born a … Read more
Time of Eve 1 – Official Time of Eve 1 Anime Videos
Thanks to a member of the Soleil Romand Forum, a Swiss-French group of popular Japanese entertainment fans, I have discovered a new expression: ONA – Original Net Animation. For those familiar with the acronym OAV (Original Animation Video), this should appear as a natural transposition of practices around home video entertainment into the electronic space … Read more
Ph.D. front update #4: Vinyl DVD
As part of my dissertation, I’m now watching some animes which I didn’t know before and were recommended to me by people I’m in touch with for my fieldwork. One of these is the famous Cowboy Bebop series and I was very lucky to be lent the Dybex Deluxe limited edition box. When I opened … Read more
Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD
Le Monde just relayed a Reuters news announcing that Sony’s Blu-Ray is garnering more momentum through the decision by Warner Bros. to stop releasing its products on HD-DVD. Although this format is still supported by Paramount and NBC Universal, this is a major blow for Toshiba, as Warner Bros represents all by itself about 18-20% … Read more
The scroll and the book
There is something I have just realized when thinking about the position of the DVD in the long line of audiovisual record technologies, although it should have been very obvious. But maybe it is this obviousness that made it invisible to me until now. The DVD is like a digital hypertextual book, while the VHS … Read more
