Forum - View topicNEWS: Manga UK Cancels Future FMA: Brotherhood Blu-ray Discs
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| Anime Remix Posts: 354 |
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Oh well. Sucks for the UK people.    
Good News is, at least they are still releasing the series on DVD... |
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Megiddo Posts: 5084 Location: TX |
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| Ouch, only 750 copies.
I'd say that they imported the US BD, but aren't the UK in a different region for BDs? |
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| Lincolne Posts: 21 |
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| yes blu ray will work from usa to uk if i am remembering correctly | ||||||
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jmfsilenthill Space Cowboy Posts: 1482 Location: White shores, and beyond........ |
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| This sucks for UK Brotherhood fans. It shouldnt be too disconcerting though, as Funimation's Brotherhood BD's are both region A and B, so import away! (that is, if Funimation continues to produce them that way). | ||||||
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Hardgear Posts: 365 Location: Middle of Nowhere, Colorado |
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| luckily for our homies across the pond, they should be able to import ours just fine.
Though I gotta admit, I almost had a heart attack when skimming the title, for a second there I thought it applied to us... |
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Blood-It...it's not like I post for you or anything! Posts: 10738 Location: Toronto, Canada |
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| Cor blimey! I guess UK anime purchasers are too busy rioting over their government's austerity measures to buy the FMA BDs... |
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InuNaruPokeAlchemist Posts: 142 Location: Amestris |
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| I got some fellow FMA fans who live in the UK, I feel so bad for them DX | ||||||
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asimpson2006 Posts: 3128 Location: USA |
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All of Europe, except three countries, Africa, Greenland, the Middle east, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania use Region B. I don't know if the Funi BD's are All region or Region A. IF they are All Region which a good many BD are they should be able to play them on their BD players. |
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| dragonrider_cody Posts: 1574 |
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Manga usually coproduces it's blurays with the American licensors (in this case Funi), so they are generally region A-B. So yes, these usually will work in the UK. However, Funimation may make them region A only if Manga is no longer involved. So future sets may not work. |
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| ExtraRegards Posts: 8 |
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| Worry not.
The US and Australian versions are region AB: http://www.asianblurayguide.com/ |
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| Jaymie Posts: 903 |
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| Obviously this wasn't going to do well. FUNimation is releasing their own Blu-Rays and people from the UK could just import them.
Even if they're region locked, there are ways to get around that. |
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The King of HartsCollector Extraordinaire Posts: 6308 Location: Mount Crawford, Virginia |
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| Viz Media sure could learn a thing or two from Manga UK.
It does suck that they had to cancel it. I don't live in the UK, but since they're still going forward with DVD, I have to assume blu-ray isn't as popular there as it is here. I hope this doesn't affect their decisions to release High School of the Dead and The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya on BD since I plan on importing those (assuming they're A compatible) if they don't get one here. |
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| Shiroi Hane Encyclopedia Editor  Posts: 5122 Location: Wales |
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You need to lend your Crystal Ball of Hindsight to Manga then, but yes they certainly did lose sales to impatient people importing from the US - how many we'll probably never know.
It doesn't: http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/ http://twitter.com/ On-off releases like movies and one season titles aren't a problem, since they don't suffer the sales drop off that longer series like FMA:B do. However, they are likely to be Region B only. Last edited by Shiroi Hane on Mon Dec 13, 2010 8:06 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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hikaru004 Posts: 2283 |
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But the UK isn't buying too many BD anyways, 1.5 BD movies/year/BD player owner. |
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The American Average Posts: 550 Location: In the World between this world |
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bloody hell  |
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