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Originally Posted by quigonkenny
And of course there's the added bonus of little to no loss of revenue to ripping and fansubbing, at least before the movie hits DVD/BD...
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So you're betting that no one is going to sub that thing out there we aren't talking about?
Better point - I'd be willing to bet a decent amount of money that the average fansub viewer spends more money on real DVDs and Manga than the average non-fansub viewer. I certainly wouldn't have bought all those volumes of Kimi ni Todoke if I hadn't seen episodes of a show that aren't licensed in my region first. I highly doubt I would have bought the boxed sets of Haruhi if I had never seen the show first. And so on.
Given that, I wonder if they aren't likely to actually start to minimize their market if they really delay everything by six months to a year. For high profile titles like Haruhi and Evangelion you can probably get away with it. But for most other series, I suspect what little publicity there was when it released would be gone and forgotten by the time the DVD/BD becomes available.
And let me get off my soap box now before I REALLY get started
