Forum - View topicPR: ADV Films' UK Titles Back on Shelves from March
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Gundam Junkie
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Yay!
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Zin5ki
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I guess this is good in the long run. The sooner things are back on the shelves the sooner I might see things like Air and the RahXephon boxset (not just individual volumes) on these shores.
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Mohawk52
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Moomintroll
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I don't see any ADV stuff on HMV's anime special offers page. But they do have Little Norse Prince for £5.99 so I'm glad I checked... |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
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Hugh has posted a list of all the items that are on sale here.
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Alric
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£20 today is equivalent to $40 US which makes the ADV UK disks at least $10 more expensive than the same disks sold in US. And despite this ADV has the courage to blame fansubbers for the failure of their UK business? Sure, fansubbers didn't help profits, but neither did ADV's attempt to price discriminate.
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Moomintroll
Posts: 1600 Location: Nottingham (UK) |
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A) This is the wrong thread for that particular rant. Try here. B) All UK DVDs tend to be more expensive than US DVDs - not just the anime ones. And the same goes for CDs, computer games, clothes, food and most other things. That's partly due to the fact that the cost of living is higher here and partly due to the fact that the dollar has lost a lot of its value relative to the pound over the past few years. All of which is completely out of ADV's (or MVM's, or Manga's, or Bandai's) hands. The RRP of UK anime DVDs is exactly the same as the RRP of live action non-English language movies available in the UK from Tartan, Optimum, Arrow and the other world / arthouse distributors. You just don't generally see fans of world / arthouse movies whining about it and using it as a justification to illegally grab stuff off the internet. |
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Faceman
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Well, if you highlight the text on the page, I'm getting
So hopefully it's just some coding error and will be resovled soon/eventually/maybe? |
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ConanSan
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Lets see, they still don't get that I don't want to pay Bandai Visual prices, thier CEO is a total acehole.
Nope, I think I'll keep reverse importing, ta. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 7584 Location: Wales |
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That ASP error has been on the front page of the site since a few days after the closure and sales were announced. I don't imagine fixing it was really a priority for them what with them about to lose their jobs and having hundreds of orders to fill, and there's now noone there to fix it, at least unless or until Lace or ADV in the US takes over the site.
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Brack
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The key word is Movies. £20 RRP is a fine price to pay for a DVD of a movie. For 3-5 eps of TV quality animation, it's a bit much, not to mention it's totally against how the majority of the DVD industry packages and prices TV shows. Ironically, Lace also distribute VDI Entertainment in the UK, and should have Initial D on the shelves soon at RRP £12.99 for 9 episodes, which is a much better price point for TV anime. Also, Arrow's RRP tend to be £16-18, £20 is normally their boxset price. And Optimum's tend to be £18-20 (£20 is the normal RRP on the Ghibli stuff, but it looks like most retailers get high discounts on that). Anyway, Lace have done a lot of handling of distribution of overseas video labels and have been handling ADV for ages anyway so I can't see them having any problems. Once the DVDs start appearing on shelves again, then I suspect we won't even notice there's been any change. |
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ConanSan
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Which I sad, because I would expect them to at least try to compete with, say, Revolation's price point.
Course, I got away with £20 on a ligit Gad Guard Boxset from Cash Converters so I still have the last laugh. |
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Moomintroll
Posts: 1600 Location: Nottingham (UK) |
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I'd be willing to argue that four episodes of Last Exile from ADV has more artistic merit than a Tinto Brass movie from Arrow Films...
True. But when you have as many viewers, as much exposure and as many other revenue-making possibilities as, say, The Office or The Simpsons, rather different economies of scale generally come into play. In any case, that's equally true of the US anime industry which is the market that Alric was holding up as a paragon of virtue.
Wow. I thought I was the only person in the English-speaking world who liked Gad Guard. I don't know about the last laugh though - if you'd visited ADV's website last year you could have got the entire series, new, for £2 a volume (with free postage)...I know because I did. 
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ConanSan
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Moomintroll
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I fully agree that ADV certainly don't deserve nothing. Although I'm not sure that's quite what you meant... 
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