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Kirkdawg
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It just makes me laugh when a company sells a DVD for typically $20 more than what their competitors are selling at. Although it is somewhat confusing; obviously it's working, otherwise they wouldn't do it. (HINT: STOP BUYING THE HUGELY OVERPRICED DVDS HARDCORE FANS)
Or I might have the shock of reading "Bandai Visual USA files for Bankruptcy" on ANN. Without the shock. 
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Kirkdawg
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EDIT: Sorry-double posted on accident.
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CCSYueh
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I happen to believe downloaders are killing anime & am firmly in the corner strongly desiring it to stop before they totally kill the North American anime industry. It's not stopping the downloaders, is it? Since I am morally against downloading my option is pay $165 for Haruka or do without. Obviously I will pay the money because I want the series. I paid more than I care to think about for CardCaptor Sakura-sub only-in a time when anime wasn't in every store selling dvds. I remember paying over $20 for most of the 18 dvds. It's still my favorite series. It was worth the money (what, about $400?) People here insist shojo titles don't sell. Haruka ran 10/04-3/05. No one's busted down any doors to bring it over to the US so I really don't see this as a title anyone else wanted. sola ran last summer. We had all those licensing announcements last year-was sola amongst them? Or is it a title that would have languished in the ever-growing never-to-see-the-light-of-North-American-shores? When we get into the never-ending fansub debates, certain downloaders insist what's killed the North American industry is American companies licensing everything & anything & the expense of dubbing every (in the opinion of the posters posting the opinion) unworthy title out there. "The American companies don't need to license everything!" we're told by this segment. Ok Bandai Visual is trying to reduce the lag-time the downloaders hate, but also eliminate reverse importation. They're releasing titles with a smaller potential audience, so they have to charge more. If they put a dub on sola & released it at $30 per dvd, would all the people here whining about their prices buy it to the tune to make the extra cost reasonable? Or would this only sell a few hundred more copies while adding $20,000-$40,000 per ep in dub costs? |
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Kirkdawg
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@CCSYueh
Your position is fine, but let it be known that the opposite may also be true; one who first downloads to see whether or not the potential series is worth the time/$$$ to purchase. It's also debatable that if for some reason, fan subs just suddenly ceased, the industry would not improve.
First, I think you need to check your figures on the $$$ per dub-that may be a little high. I don't mind a sub only DVD because I think the dubs do injustice to the original content. The question is, why do they charge so much for a sub only DVD? If the speed of production is what's increasing that cost, then BV needs to slow down and take their sweet time. I can think of 10 different ways off the top of my head I could better spend the $50 wasted on 3 episodes of sola. Some 26 episode series go for around that price these days...
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GATSU
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CCS:
I imagine the people who initially bought FY at that price were the hardcore fans. The shojo fans probably went for CCS.
Mine do have matinees, but $7 is usually the discounted ticket price around here.
Believe me when I say that Netflix is impacting theatrical sales. Less people are attending screenings than in the past, because they can rent that stuff at a better rate than they pay for a seat. In response, the studios are hoping you're stupid enough to take another price-jacking for a 3-d version of the same crap you paid too much for in digital format. They're using people who got suckered into that Hannah Montana thing as justification that the format works, but they'll be really sorry if they dare charge $5 more per ticket for everything else.
You pay that much for M, because Criterion is poor. But even at that rate, it still gives you more content for your money than Freedom.
Except for FUNimation releasing Kodocha and ADV releasing Sailor Moon...
They offered titles they thought most people wanted, not just shoujo fans.
That'd be Galaxy Angel Rune.
You forgot about Karin, Rozen Maiden, Hana Ukyo Maid Team, Girls Bravo, and DearS.
But those aren't series meant to cater exclusively to yaoi fans.
Let's see if it makes it to the next May.
That's because it's based on a bunch of dating sims which have never been released here. Though the brief attempt to sell the genre here has failed(*cough* Thousand Arms *cough*), which makes you wonder why BV would bother in the first place.
If they have to charge more, it should be for something which adds to the market, not just pushes it further on the brink of bankruptcy. |
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