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Warning: Don't ignore the dub delay on older anime sets
I picked up a used box set of a 90s series at a thrift store for $15 last weekend. Got home and popped in disc 3, but the audio was a full second off from the lips. Tried adjusting on my player but nothing fixed it. Has anyone else run into this with older DVDs and found a way to sync it right?
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the_christopher29d agoMost Upvoted
Right, because nothing says "premium 90s anime experience" like watching characters have full conversations while the audio is stuck a country behind them. $15 for the privilege of playing "guess what they actually said" sounds like a steal honestly. Gotta love when the discs are the ones gaslighting you into thinking your whole setup is broken too. Real talk though, patricia's right that you can sometimes fix it in the player settings, just gotta hope your remote has that "audio delay" button buried under seventeen menus.
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I recall reading somewhere that some of those older DVD box sets had the audio tracks encoded wrong on purpose to save money or something like that. A buddy of mine told me he had the same trouble with a set from the late 90s and he had to go into his player settings and manually adjust the delay by a few frames. It might not fix it perfect but it could help if you try tweaking the audio sync options. I think sometimes the pressing plants just did a bad job with those early transfers.
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murphy.abby29d ago
Huh, I had always just assumed it was my cheap DVD player messing things up but never thought the discs themselves could be the problem, so that actually makes a ton of sense now.
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