The video was not that bad, there were part with high pixelation but most were in the intro and ending, just a few parts of pixelation in the episodes so this set is watchable, nothing to spoil the fun. The parts that were good look very clean with great dvd quality. No skipping problems.

There was no problem with the audio, two tracks, one english & one japanese, both in 5.1 stereo. No synching problems at all, the timing was perfect and the sound was very clear plus the battles sounded GREAT. PERFECT!!!

There was no problem with the audio, two tracks, one english & one japanese, both in 5.1 stereo. No synching problems at all, the timing was perfect and the sound was very clear plus the battles sounded GREAT. PERFECT!!!

There were a few extras on both discs (trailer of this series), 6 chapter breaks per episode (prologue,opening,partA,partB,endind,preview) and the menu lokks great. This set was not as bad as one might think since the pixelation is mostly on the intros, this series was one of the best gundam series, even if you're not a fan you might like this because its just that good. Great series not bad set, Moderate recomendation. Equipment used: APEX AD-1110W DVD, DAEWOO 20" TV

Great quality during the first half of this or so (up to ep. 6), with only a tiny bit of the intros being pixelized. At Ep.7 the quality goes downhill quite a bit, as it is fairly pixelized. I hope FX fixes these kinds of problems in the future.

Great audio. The english and japanese tracks are almost perfect. I personally didn't like the american actor's voice for Gato, but in the long run it was ok.

Great audio. The english and japanese tracks are almost perfect. I personally didn't like the american actor's voice for Gato, but in the long run it was ok.

All in all, the set is very nice. The packaging is fantastic, with images of Unit 01 and Unit 02, as well as Unit 04 and the Nuei Zeial. Even with the pixelation flaws, this is still one of my favorite series of all time, and at only 13 episodes, it doesn't take long to watch the whole thing.

My set suffered from the ghosting on episodes 7, 8 & 9. It wasn't really bad but you would notice the second image was a split second behind the first. The balck of space was very grainy as well during these episodes but the pixallation wasn't as bad as I was expecting, and only noticed small amounts during very intense battle scenes. The rest of the video was excellent. It was very clear with no colour bleed or pixallation. Although the opening credits were poor and looked terrible, but it doesn't bother that much as I tend to skip the credits anyway. There were also some chapter timing problems with credits rolling into prologues etc, but this varied from episode to episode. some were perfect.

Sounded excellent no problems at all.

Sounded excellent no problems at all.

An excellent little series, as somebody has said before it takes a few liberties withe UC timeline but nothing I would get upset about. It is pure Gundam - Zeon vs the Federation, nuclear weapons, colony drops and the struggling emergence of a new underdog hero! This seres has it all - superb fast paced action sequences, fantastic character development, a bit of romance, truly gripping story that builds up to a great climax and a decent ending. It was a shame that the little extra with Sejima didn't have any sort of English translation to it or the explanation at the beginning of the scene as I bet it would have added quite a bit to the 0083 storyline. The packaging I thought was very nice, I think FX do a great job with their packaging and the gatefold and picture discs looked superb. It is a shame that the video quality on those three episodes let it down really otherwise it is a really good box set.

The first few eps look great but eps 5-8 have ghosting and pixelation problems, but after those eps the rest look great. Also the opening and closing credits have pixelation problems...

Sounded good on my TV.

Sounded good on my TV.

The sex is good but those 3-4 screwed up eps makes the set not that good. The small extras are nice. The other thing that bugged me about the set is the chapter selection. They are all off, so if you want to skip through it just fastforward.

Some pixelation in the episodes, but most is in the opening and endings. This is however not that bad. I was expecting my dvd player to spit this thing out after reading the reviews here, but to my surprise it seemed ok. Now during the episodes we do get the occasional minor pixelation, but it is never horrible macro blocking. In fact i paid close attetion to the battle scenes and found that they were not the biggest culperit for these 1-1.5 second pixelations. 90% of these are transition scenes. Other than that the video is clean. Not perfect, but ceartintly not enough to complain about.

Nice dolby digital 5.0 in Japanese and English. Everything sounds great, and i only take off because the show has a tendency to be hard to hear because of the use of music in some scenes. I don't think this is a fault in the dvd, but rather in the show.

Nice dolby digital 5.0 in Japanese and English. Everything sounds great, and i only take off because the show has a tendency to be hard to hear because of the use of music in some scenes. I don't think this is a fault in the dvd, but rather in the show.

A great gundam show with some of the best battle scenes in gundam. The characters are interesting and likeable on both the feddie and zeon side. Anaval Gato makes a great antagonist. The only problem was that i wanted to smack kou around at times for his imature behavior. He grows up though, so no worries. If your a gundam fan this is a good buy, im sure you will like the show. Some great mobile suits in this one including the gelgoog marine! I honestly cant see what all the fuss about this fx release being so bad. It had some pixelation issues but they were minor at best. Ive seen enough hk sets in my time to know there is a lot worse. At less than a 1/4 of th price of the r1 i'll take a little pixelation now and then. In case anyone wants to compare this is the set up i used to view the show TV: 27 inch flatscreen Apex with velocity modulation DVD Player: Apex AD-1200 connection type: AV standard

Totally agree with last poster. First 4 episodes (first R1 disc) are encoded at around 4MBS average. Was a little compressed but not too bad. Seemed the average video you'd expect from and FX and the title was a little old anyway. Then you get to episode 5 and it jumps up to 7-8 MBS! Absolutely flawless. No visual errors at all. I figured they must have divided the space in half for each R1 disc and since this half was a three episode segment the quality was boosted. WRONG! Get to episode 7, and the quality jump from the 8mbs of episodes 5 amd 6 to around 3 or less. LESS than HALF. Macroblocking and pixels everywhere even on my 20 inch tv. I shudder to think what it would look like on this 15" LCD I'm typing on right now. Really makes you wonder just how professional the supposed "high-quality" HK brand FX really is when they pull something that's so glaring as that. Almost makes me want to go back and buy nothing but R1's and R2's, almost. I'll just do my research next time. Most of the 13 episodes do in fact look fine. But a couple of them are atrocious while a couple of them have double the regular encoding, leaving you with a WTF look on your face.

Great. Watched it in Japanese. No problems

Great. Watched it in Japanese. No problems

I really enjoyed this more than expected so Gundam fans pick this up, but instead get the R1s or find someone who can burn them if you have to (they weren't getting any of your money anyway if you were planning on buying the HK). The FX set as a whole really was worth the money because the series really entertained me (and I wouldn't have taken the plunge unknowingly of that), but if anything will shake your faith on how intelligent people are this video encoding will. Almost not worth the potential psychological drama. You'll never trust FX again.

This set says "perfect" doesn't it? Well, it ain't. The intro and outros are all garbage (on every episode). Heavy pixellation. Episodes 7 through 10 all suffer from heavy macro-blocking and pixellation. When the video looks good, it looks damn good. There is no excuse for the flaws of this set (except to rip off customers by releasing a "remastered" set in a few months as seems to be FXs' MO).

Great audio on the english dubbed track (for those of you who can stand that crap). The japanese track seems to suffer slightly though, so the audio isn't as vibrant as it should be.

Great audio on the english dubbed track (for those of you who can stand that crap). The japanese track seems to suffer slightly though, so the audio isn't as vibrant as it should be.

This is the type of set that makes me want to grab somebody and punch them in the throat. Absolutely no effort was put into this at all. It's one F up after the next; Especially when you consider all these people did was rip off R1 DVDs. The menu screen is nice, but so what. On disc one in the "EXTRAS" section is a cool short on the Commander Cima character. A bonus episode if you will, which explains( i think) why she betrays Zeon in the series). We'll never know because its neither dubbed nor subbed. Even the packaging sucked. I own the (i think MI) 3-Disc set that came in the slipcase. Gorgeous video, perfect audio, but absolute crap sub-titles. It's still a better release than this. This is just a goddamn rip-off. Let me make this perfectly clear -while i do highly recommend this series, I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DVD SET AT ALL!!!

Video on this series varies. Apparently, Flora had troubles ripping discs 1 and 3 of the R1 set. The episodes on those discs on this set suffer heavy pixelation. I beleive it was episodes 1 through 4 and 8-10, if I'm not mistaken. Episodes 1 though 4's opening is almost unwatchable, but the episodes themselves make it through almost unscathed. Heavy action scenes get pixelated. Episodes 8 though 10 had pixelated openings, but the whole episode had minor pixelation going on. Very annoying at times. You can always see slightly different colored squares all over the place. Can be annoying at times. The rest of the episodes are perfect, though. So you get half of the sereis with great video, half without it. I don't know if it's bad enough that Flora would redo the set.

Audio is great. It has 5.1 soundtracks for both English and Japanese. Or so the menu says. I don't have the proper set up to really tell. All I have is the TV's two speakers. But the Japanese audio came through crisp and clear. I didn't listen to the dub. I'm not a fan of them. I didn't notice any drops in volume or nothing bad with it.

Audio is great. It has 5.1 soundtracks for both English and Japanese. Or so the menu says. I don't have the proper set up to really tell. All I have is the TV's two speakers. But the Japanese audio came through crisp and clear. I didn't listen to the dub. I'm not a fan of them. I didn't notice any drops in volume or nothing bad with it.

This was a really good Gundam OVA, despite it taking some liberties with the whole Gundam timeline. The characters are well thought out, the action is great, and it has a pretty good story. It's nice to watch the original Zeon vs Federation series again, especially with all the alternate universe sereis that having been coming out. Anyways, as for the discs themselves. The thirteen episode series is split on two discs. The first has seven episodes, the second has six. One of the reason that the video quality may have been bad for a few episodes is that it also crammed alot onto these two discs. Seven episodes with two 5.1 audio tracks is alot. Video might have suffered from that, but to me, it looks moe like a bad job on ripping the discs themselves. The gatefold has art from the R1 DVDs and apparently other sources as well. It looks good. It opens like a four disc gatefold would, with the inside being four panels long and having four different pictures inside. When the two outer flaps are closed, they both form one neat picture of the Gundams in space. Each episode is divided into prologue, opening, first part of the episode, second part of the episode, ending, next episode preview. I noticed when skipping the ending song (I wasn't a fan of it) that it wouldn't skip right to the credits. It would go to maybe 5 seconds before the ending song ended, and then lead into the next episode preview. All openings and endings are present, and change at there correct times in the series. There's only one eyecatch and it's in there. Gundam sereis are all about the eyectaches :) Now, if you're thinking it's wierd that the credits are in Japanese, it's because Bandai pulled a crazy dealy with this release. When you had the show on English, it would display English credits. When in Japanese, it would display Japanese credits. This rip only got the Japanese credits, which was expected. Ripping the alternate angles would've been quite a task. I got one of the first printings of the disc, so it wasn't playing perfectly. THe first disc played perfectly, while the second one had little skippings at some parts. But it played well enough to not need to be returned. I think that about covers it. A pretty good release. It was my first FX release, and it didn't seem to live up to the hype I hear people say about this company. But it was decent, nonetheless, and the subs sound better then on the MI release. Check this out defiently if you're a Gundam fan.

Generally excellent (being an R1 rip). But eps 5-9 had ghosting that was quite bad a few times, and the second half of the last ep had pixilation so bad you can't read the subs, and its all green and low-res there. That lasts about 5 minutes, with frozen subtitles for another 5. Then it goes back to normal at Kou's trial. But they don't stop you enjoying it.

No problems at all in both tracks.

No problems at all in both tracks.

A good set, and worth getting. It comes with an odd little short on the first DVD. It's Cima having flashbacks of being in a Zaku, and then preparing to sortie as Delaz gives his speech. Japanese only, no subtitles.