Article 175082 of rec.arts.anime:
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From: mneideng@wrath.ugcs.caltech.edu (Mark L. Neidengard)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: [POLL] PREFERRED FORMAT FOR LD'S (for USMC)
Date: 3 May 1995 02:23:40 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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The purpose of this poll is to furnish USMC with the distillation of
opinions from participants in rec.arts.anime about the proper way to offer
American-language formatted anime on laserdisc.  I will compile all emailed
responses and send the results to USMC, in addition to posting the results to
rec.arts.anime and keeping a copy in my archives.

The last time I will take responses is May 16, 0000 PST, 1995.  PLEASE RESPOND
IN EMAIL TO mneideng@ugcs.caltech.edu.

Please be honest in answering the questions below.  Though the topic is an
emotionally-charged one, please try for as concise a tone as possible.


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Question 1: (please ONLY mark a box in this section)
  I prefer:
  [ ] Subtitled anime over dubbed anime
  [ ] Dubbed anime over subtitled anime

Question 2: (please ONLY mark a box in this section)
  If both closed-captioned and normal subtitles were available, I prefer:
  [ ] Closed-captioned subtitles
  [ ] Normal (i.e. permanent) subtitles

Question 3: (please ONLY number the selections below)
  Please rank the following formats, with 1 being highest and 6 being lowest:
  [ ] Normal subtitle
  [ ] Normal dub
  [ ] Dub on DIGITAL track, original audio on ANALOG track, closed-captioning
      for subtitling (e.g. Pioneer's "multilingual" format)
  [ ] Dub on ANALOG track, original audio on DIGITAL track, closed-captioning
      for subtitling
  [ ] Normal subtitle on one side of a disc (with original audio), both
      dub and original audio W/OUT closed-captioning on the other side
  [ ] Normal subtitle on one side of a disc (with original audio), both
      dub and original audio WITH closed-captioning on the other side

Question 4: (please ONLY enter a number in this section)
  How important is CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) format to you, with respect
  to CLV (Constant Linear Velocity)?
  [ ]  1=extremely important, 5=unimportant

Question 5: (please ONLY enter numbers in this section)
  How many LD's of the following types do you:
                          OWN NOW    PLAN TO BUY
  Original Japanese       [     ]    [         ]
  Normal Subtitle         [     ]    [         ]
  Normal Dub              [     ]    [         ]
  Dub/normal audio & CC   [     ]    [         ]
  One side subbed, other  [     ]    [         ]
    dubbed w/out CC
  One side subbed, other  [     ]    [         ]
    dubbed with CC

Question 6:
  Please enter any comments you wish to make below:






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