On 6 Jan, 20:51, Justin Palmer  wrote:
> Tsugumi wrote:
> > "Peter Boulter"  wrote in message
> >news:memo.20080106080400.2788C@starhunter.compulink.co.uk...
> >> Tsugumi(Tsug...@Tsugumi.karoo.co.uk) added
>
> >>> Blimey! What they'd make of me paying £28 for Bubblegum Crisis #8
> >>> doesn't bear thinking about...
> >> Come to think of it, what we paid for our anime back then doesn't bear
> >> thinking
> >> about by us!  ^_^
>
> > Agreed!
> > We used to buy NTSC vids despite not having a NTSC player. Luckily there was
> > a shop around the corner that would convert the tapes to PAL for £12 per
> > hour.
> > That actually seemed to make sense at the time as well...
>
>         Going to Shin nen kai - '98? was it? Anyone remember the quiet guy from
> Devon trying to hide in his own skin? - and seeing NSTC tapes of
> Escaflowne (I think) set me down the path of acquiring one of those
> players for my own, a road that had led to me having to learn more about
> various international TV, input, and codec types than I ever wanted to
> know... ^_^
>
>         (The other great revelation was seeing Ben Carters AEGIS system in> action at Minamicon, which is where I got my first glimpse of the power
> of digital media... )

Ben Carter, now that's an old skool name that brings back memories!

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Mappy