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<blockquote data-quote="Rui" data-source="post: 622847" data-attributes="member: 2">It costs the same (a lot) to get an old show through the BBFC as it does for a newer show, and that's compounded by the fact that older series often ran longer which makes it even pricier to get them certified. At the same time, fewer people will buy sets of older shows compared to the newest, flashiest content which appeals to a younger audience with no nostalgic attachment to the cel era. It doesn't make much commercial sense in the UK, unfortunately, which means that most fans import Discotek content - thus compounding the problem because that shrinks the potential audience of buyers in the UK further! It's trivially easy to bypass the region lock (if you can afford to import, buying a region A or region selectable player usually isn't a huge investment over the course of your collecting) so if anybody really wanted a UK classic title to do well it would have to be a big show (expensive to license) or something obscure that Discotek had passed over. And even then, some 'forgotten' gems that we'd love to have in the UK are considered valuable classics in Japan so the licensing costs would be disproportionately high. Easier to license some dodgy fan service light novel adaptation with a built-in audience and watch it pay for itself. A shame, as I like older stuff too, but the costs of getting it to the UK make it impractical most of the time :/I wish we could be included in Retrocrush as that would be a nice solution; splitting streaming rights by region rather than language always seems dumb.R</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rui, post: 622847, member: 2"] It costs the same (a lot) to get an old show through the BBFC as it does for a newer show, and that's compounded by the fact that older series often ran longer which makes it even pricier to get them certified. At the same time, fewer people will buy sets of older shows compared to the newest, flashiest content which appeals to a younger audience with no nostalgic attachment to the cel era. It doesn't make much commercial sense in the UK, unfortunately, which means that most fans import Discotek content - thus compounding the problem because that shrinks the potential audience of buyers in the UK further! It's trivially easy to bypass the region lock (if you can afford to import, buying a region A or region selectable player usually isn't a huge investment over the course of your collecting) so if anybody really wanted a UK classic title to do well it would have to be a big show (expensive to license) or something obscure that Discotek had passed over. And even then, some 'forgotten' gems that we'd love to have in the UK are considered valuable classics in Japan so the licensing costs would be disproportionately high. Easier to license some dodgy fan service light novel adaptation with a built-in audience and watch it pay for itself. A shame, as I like older stuff too, but the costs of getting it to the UK make it impractical most of the time :/ I wish we could be included in Retrocrush as that would be a nice solution; splitting streaming rights by region rather than language always seems dumb. R [/QUOTE]

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