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Originally Posted by Taiyz
The anime industry would do just fine without fansubbing.
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Craziest sentence of the year award goes to........
Most people, myself included, get introduced to all the animes through
Fansubs. Without the fansubs noone would know what the animes are and thus would have alot (alot) less incentive to pay through the nose for a DvD of a show they've never seen.
Take out fansubs - kill the industry, it's that simple. Only the über hardcore fans like you would buy something without watching it first
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Anime is already coming out on iTunes; Ghost in the Shell just landed. Xbox Live's Marketplace has had anime episodes for reasonable prices, and lots of popular series' like Trinity Blood or Akira, at that.
FUNimation's official site is now holding series' for download either by episode, or as a batch for a reduced price and ADV's been doing the same for a while. They're all pretty much .99-2.99 per episode.
The problem is that nobody really knows these features, cares to learn about them, or actually goes and uses the features; they claim they can get the exact same product for free anyway. No matter how many times this solution is suggested, it's consistently ignored by consumers.
And also, DVDs are 20 bucks for 4-5 episodes; I think that's totally reasonable considering that they can't be paid to air the stuff on TV, nor do they get free advertising. The television market isn't welcoming for the Anime Industry either, which has affected prices.
It's also worth noting that I live in Canada, so I pay roughly 2-5 dollars more for a volume of manga, 10 dollars more on the average DVD, 20+ more on the average box set, and twice as much tax on each purchase than Americans, and yet I still do it. That's not even including 20+ dollars of Duty per shipment when I have to order something from America.
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Personally, I didn't know they were offering these services - So thats 1 more person you've introduced to it.
And your DvD prices, sure it's fine to say that $4-5 an episode is fine, the trouble is alot of the people in the world aren't in America/Canada - and Anime is very cheap over there opposed to most other places. It's about $40 for a DvD here, or if you're lucky and they bring out a boxset you can get it for $60-80ish (I'm English btw).
I've heard in some of the euro countries its $60 for a single dvd - can't remember which country I'm thinking of, was talking to someone about it a few weeks ago and he said where he's from.. norway or something like that.. they're really expensive and it's alot cheaper to buy from UK and ship.. Dispite UK being reletively expensive (to America).