mp (thuey@UCDAVIS.EDU)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:45:24 -0800
X-Sender: ez073369@catbert.ucdavis.edu Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.04.9901222032200.9087-100000@catbert.ucdavis.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:45:24 -0800 From: mp <thuey@UCDAVIS.EDU> Subject: Re: Surprise!!!!!!!!
> >buy the sub, but $10 was too much so I ended up buying the dub.") It was
> >cross-posted in alt.fan.sailor-moon and rec.arts.anime.misc
>
> Urban Vision and CPM do this as well.
Dunno about Urban Vision, but what titles do CPM do? I know that
their SOftware Sculptors label is ok. Either you get same price sub/dub
like Slayers, or $5 more for the sub(Shoujo Kakumei Utena).
> > So yeah, I'd be interested in the insider stuff.
>
> Companies like ADV and Urban Vision and Pioneer pick up such new items
> that the Accuisition Price is made up for in the Dub by shear volume.
But what does that mean? That doesn't justify the $10 increase in
subs. If subs and dubs were actually in competition(I hardly call giving
the lower selling subs a $10 price hike a sales incentive), anime
companies wouldn't get less sales. So I don't understand the big problem
here.
> Also the prices
> that the Japanese copmanies are demanding has increased as well.
> How about that??
So it gives ADV the right to overcharge the "true fans"? If the
price of the anime goes up, then dub prices have to take the hit. One
day, no one will be able to afford subs. Then what will ADV(and the like)
do? They'll be forced to phase out subs and then bring the extra price
tag onto the dubs. At this point, neither the "true fans" nor the
"dubbies" will be happy.
If this is truly their philosophy, then domestic anime has to be
the biggest joke of all time. So what if we're getting more titles
domesticated? As far as I'm concerned, they're just "raping" the genre.
Tom's always saying that he doesn't like commercial acquisitions
because it's "keeping him from getting fansubs". I used to think that was
the wrong attitude(and I still do). But I also don't like the way anime
is handled here in the US, putting me in the middle ground.
If any of your inside sources are willing to discuss domestic
anime politics with me, I'm all ears, because I have yet to hear any
plausible excuse of why subs are so overpriced.
-mp
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