Just can’t wait until CGC encapsulates and grades Japanese manga 
BGS started doing that last month!
CGC will start grading and encapsulating PSA slabs.
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That’s actually a good idea a double 10 would be worth more than a single 10 and give people more confidence in the original grade. Include Bgs and get the triple seal of approval.
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Thats a surprisingly hard one to answer. It gives me the same warm nostalgic feeling that collecting cards do I guess. Also, i think it looks cool on a shelf lol
Fair enough! Thanks for the answer
The label is the same for their video games and it looks fine in the flesh to me
Can’t say I’m a fan of the idea at the moment. I’m sure it will grow on me eventually. I didn’t like graded games at first but now I don’t mind them.
i’m glad we can all at least agree that grading anything is silly 
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I’m sure this has been mentioned before by myself or others, but ‘preservation’ is an excuse. You’re not preserving or protecting a movie or a game encapsulating it in cheap plastic. It’s the exact opposite, once it is, you can’t actually watch the movie or play the game.
It’s just an attempt to hopefully make money in the future. I mean, that’s actually the only reason grading even exists, but it’s more obvious when it’s packaging being ‘graded’ and not the final product.
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i collect CDs, but i would never in a million years actually play the CDs when i could just listen to the digital version without having to degrade the surface of the disk. same would apply to movies if i had any physical copies.
CDs and Blu-Rays are meant to be higher quality than their digital equivalents so there’s an actual reason to use them if CD drives/players were still around.
But once again, “preserving” packaging has to be peak dystopia. These aren’t historical artefacts. They are mass produced consumer goods. They aren’t even made with good quality since they are packaging, and yet this grading industry exists.
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you wont get any argument from me re:grading. i think it is all silly (but i acknowledge the difference between something more rare and fragile vs something mass produced), but as for actually using disks to consume media, i think its a terrible idea.
you can rip the same file and play it digitally forever without degridation. the disk is merely a medium for the reader to play the file. when it comes to music, i don’t use streaming services and I don’t touch MP3s. if you want to talk about bitrate, i think its a bit naive to believe there is much of a tangible difference between a modest 1400kbps FLAC file and even the most obnoxiously large WAV CD files. there is a sharp curve of diminishing returns when it comes to fidelity that most people pretend to be able to distinguish. TBH unless you’re playing on music on a massive system, even a 320kbps mp3 is more than enough information to appreciate every bit of intended information created for that piece of music. I think the issue is most people listen to crappy 128mpbs mp3s and wonder why it sounds so much better on CDs.
I understand with movies, it gets a littler more complicated as you not only have the audio, but the video information and that it is less feasible to store that sort of data on a hard drive vs a dedicated disk, but the same fact remains that disks scratch which make them terrible mediums for playing media over time.
Wait actual Japanese manga books? 
I take it back. They announced it was coming in December but I don’t see it available yet on their homepage. Maybe soon!
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WOW thanks a lot I didn’t realise!
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