ab5tract said:

leesa, does this mean you are ordering the tvsanctum version?

I can't really afford it at this point. I haven't heard any reports of really good versions out there, and I assume most everyone selling these are probably using the same source... I could be very wrong, but the odds lean toward this being just one of the usual.

I do have a copy of the .avi versions that are readily available as torrents all over... and have made a VIDEO_TS version with the first 4 episodes. It looks pretty decent. I'm chatting with a good friend who is a digital video engineer, and we're trying to figure if it will look much better if I expand the bit rate and only put 3 on a DVD. It all depends on just how good the source material is... expanding crap is just expanded crap.

I also assume that it's possible that that is how these other companies have created their DVD versions (But always remember: When you "assume..." you make an ass outta Uma Thurman).

Either way, hopefully I'll have something to post (probably on demonoid, unless you have other suggestions) pretty soon.

There is a LD Japan box set of Max with a few episodes. If the quality of these are good, it would be nice to digitize these... but I have no resources for them.

If you have any other info, I'd love to hear it.

Thanx so much for being involved.

~leesa