I'm just asking this of people as a kind've thought provoker. I'm not some marketting team its just something i'm curiious about because i know my reasons but i'm not sure how other people think.
I'm a huge anime fan i've download christ knows how many anime, and i would love to buy the DVD's but i won't and these are my reasons.
Overpriced.
Ok i think thats a fairly good reason don't you? I can understand a lot of things about why these DVD's are so expensive.
Cost of editing, dubbing, re-mastering, re-doing certain animations, re-doing the music. But likewise thats just what pisses me off.
1: i'm not paying £20 for a dvd with 2 eps of the series on. (if i ever buy it'll be the discounted box sets which are normally about £80 which still seems too much if you ask me)
2: Why am i paying for all these extra features? i mean, i buy these dvd's rarely if ever at all. And when i buy them i listen to the dubs for 5 seconds and want to rip out my ear drums, turn on the subs, switch to japanese audio and i'm happy.
3: i'm also paying for these special features... what special features i dont' see them anywhere.
So to put it bluntly i'm paying a large amount in my opinion for a large amount of features that i am never going to use. Ever. I hate the english audio and i don't even see the point in bothering with the "special features"
What would make me buy Anime DVD's? hmm.. Perhaps if they dropped the crap and gave me something worth my money. If we thinka bout how much of the original price is made up to cover the expenses of what noboyd uses then i'd say the actual price of the dvd's they'd be selling would be maybe 40% lower, since they aren't paying voice actors etc etc etc. so we've just dropped from £20 per dvd to £12, and per box set we've dropped from £60 - £80 down to £36 - £48
Now those are prices i would be willing to pay. Not to mention the fact it'd be out a hell of a lot faster.
I honestly don't understand why a few of the licensed anime companies don't do something similar to fansub.tv as in. When they license the product they get it translated and subbed, pop all of their DVD's onto an online store and let people download the entire series etc for the discounted price. I know i'd be interested in something like that.
I don't think that these companies realise that, the majority of people who buy these DVD's are people who actually watch fansubs, and are used to the japanese and reading subtitles etc, as well as getting the series much sooner then the english equivalent.
Either way i think this rant is long enough. If anyone else has any views / corrections to my math then let me know.
=== edit ===
Just pointing one other thing out. After watchign so much anime i'm gradually grasping the basics of the language, enough to get through an average episode and know the gist of what everyones on about.
I would order the anime from abroad where its cheaper, But i'm not going to let customs screw me over with their bloody tax charges.
I'm a huge anime fan i've download christ knows how many anime, and i would love to buy the DVD's but i won't and these are my reasons.
Overpriced.
Ok i think thats a fairly good reason don't you? I can understand a lot of things about why these DVD's are so expensive.
Cost of editing, dubbing, re-mastering, re-doing certain animations, re-doing the music. But likewise thats just what pisses me off.
1: i'm not paying £20 for a dvd with 2 eps of the series on. (if i ever buy it'll be the discounted box sets which are normally about £80 which still seems too much if you ask me)
2: Why am i paying for all these extra features? i mean, i buy these dvd's rarely if ever at all. And when i buy them i listen to the dubs for 5 seconds and want to rip out my ear drums, turn on the subs, switch to japanese audio and i'm happy.
3: i'm also paying for these special features... what special features i dont' see them anywhere.
So to put it bluntly i'm paying a large amount in my opinion for a large amount of features that i am never going to use. Ever. I hate the english audio and i don't even see the point in bothering with the "special features"
What would make me buy Anime DVD's? hmm.. Perhaps if they dropped the crap and gave me something worth my money. If we thinka bout how much of the original price is made up to cover the expenses of what noboyd uses then i'd say the actual price of the dvd's they'd be selling would be maybe 40% lower, since they aren't paying voice actors etc etc etc. so we've just dropped from £20 per dvd to £12, and per box set we've dropped from £60 - £80 down to £36 - £48
Now those are prices i would be willing to pay. Not to mention the fact it'd be out a hell of a lot faster.
I honestly don't understand why a few of the licensed anime companies don't do something similar to fansub.tv as in. When they license the product they get it translated and subbed, pop all of their DVD's onto an online store and let people download the entire series etc for the discounted price. I know i'd be interested in something like that.
I don't think that these companies realise that, the majority of people who buy these DVD's are people who actually watch fansubs, and are used to the japanese and reading subtitles etc, as well as getting the series much sooner then the english equivalent.
Either way i think this rant is long enough. If anyone else has any views / corrections to my math then let me know.
=== edit ===
Just pointing one other thing out. After watchign so much anime i'm gradually grasping the basics of the language, enough to get through an average episode and know the gist of what everyones on about.
I would order the anime from abroad where its cheaper, But i'm not going to let customs screw me over with their bloody tax charges.