The UK DVD Market - Why the wait?

[harkins]

Meh, even if we got UK releases sooner there'd still be fans bitching about something else - most likely the length of time between Japanese and western releases. :roll:

Another good point! Why don't the Japanese do English subs & dubs on their DVD's and then we could import from Japan!!

 

[Gawyn]

I'm not loaded like all of you apparently are, so I prefer the amount of time given for R2 releases. Although...

That did happen to me with Eureka Seven, after DVD 3 I just lost the buzz completely. >_>

While the pricing issue is a different matter, well done on picking up on the hype and buzz. This is completley valid and an excellent point.

The best example in modern times is Haruhi, we all know just how big this show is and this year America has had it dubbed, boxed and released the complete first series (i think, last time i checked it was upto vol 3) But what about the UK? i don't think (and prove me wrong if im incorrect) that anyone has picked it up for here yet.

As lupus said, what will happen in 2008 or 2009 when the next big show comes along and steals the limelight. Granted Haruhi has another season to go but interest will start to dwindle after time. Missing the moment if you will.

As I understand it, sales of Haruhi in the US were not that great to begin with. Andrew has already mentioned that he got a very muted response when he mentioned the possibilty of Haruhi at AmeCon last year (although I honestly don't remember him actually mentioning it at the BEEZ panel myself...)

Meh, even if we got UK releases sooner there'd still be fans bitching about something else - most likely the length of time between Japanese and western releases. :roll:

Another good point! Why don't the Japanese do English subs & dubs on their DVD's and then we could import from Japan!!

It is neither worth the time or effort for all shows that Japan produces to have dubs and subtitles since they cannot guarantee sales to the west of any particular show but rather rely upon the local distributors to decide which shows have a market or not. The fact of the differences in the prices of DVDs is also somewhat of a problem. If you would consider paying twice what you pay here for half of what we get (that is not an exact amount but it is not far off the mark in many cases) then fine but given the negative response of people wanting to pay half of what they pay for domestic releases I don't see that as much of an option.