what is the best option for the heisei series?

[leunames]

[Dr Kain]

Well the Heisei series is coming to Blu-Ray. Biollante was released today in Japan, and the US and Japan share the same region codes when it comes to BR.

[canofhumdingers]

yeah, the blu rays should be fantastic. However, they won't include english subtitles.

If you need subtitles, you can't go wrong with the Madman region 4 dvds from australia. I've got a few of them & they're very nice. However, they are region 4 & PAL encoded. To play them in the U.S. (assuming that's where you are) you'll need a dvd player that is either region free or region hackable that also does PAL to NTSC conversion. Fortunately, a lot of the really cheap dvd players out there fit the bill. I have a cyberhome model (model 300 if i remember correctly) that was under $40, was easily hackable via a 4 digit code from the remote, and does the PAL conversion no problem. You'll just have to do a little internet searching to find one.

Lastly, there's the Hong Kong Region 3 discs. The biggest problem with these is the quality varies greatly. Some are nice anamorphic transfers (i have biollante and mothra '92) while others (such as G 84 and GvsKG i believe) are non-anamorphic, hazy, artifacted junk. but they do all have subtitles and are all NTSC, so if you're not interested in hunting down a cheapo dvd player, you can just burn copies on your computer, setting the region to 0 when you do, & then they'll play on any dvd player you've got.

[RyanClark]

[Dr Kain]

[leunames]

[Dr Kain]

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