Forum - View topicNEWS: T3 Networks Media Distributor Shuts Down
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504NOSON2
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... And another one bites the dust. Very, very sad, indeed.
I've never heard of the company, but people are still losing jobs and this still another crumbling and falling of another pillar that was the foundation of this once great Colosseum we know as the North American Anime industry. Also, I just find it kind of interesting that they were officially protesting a bill that could actually have benefited them financially, in the long run. Best of luck to the former employees. |
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Teriyaki Terrier
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First Bandai and now T3. I have never even heard of T3 until now, but I give them a tremendous amount of respect for protesting the SOPA bill. These days that takes real guts to stand for what you believe and and actually take a stance.
My only hope now (for this company) is that the employees there are able to find new work quickly or if they are lucky enough/etc, able to retire and hopefully have a nice peaceful retirement if that is even going to happen. The North American anime industry is changing and I just wish that change didn't mean people would lose their jobs. While Bandai didn't exactly close I should add, given that they sold off all their anime, their anime side of the business has shut down. I hardly knew you T3, but best of luck the employee's. |
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Kit-Tsukasa
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I think this decision hurts Viz more than T3. Viz only just signed the contract and 3 months later, T3 is gone. Think about the potential resources Viz had to spend to actually get this to work. Basically, Viz is now back to the drawing board again.
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Kruszer
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So is VIZ going down the toilet now because they lost a distributor?
I have to say there's a little black part of my soul that hopes they will and would laugh malevolently for the sake of Monster and other series they had which got steamrolled....but instead sanity prevails. |
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Covnam
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While it is of course sad whenever anyone loses their job, I don't think this is going to have any major affect on the NA anime industry. Going back to the original announcement, it seemed like T3 was simply working for Viz to get more of their content to TV and similar media outlets.
I'm sure this isn't good for Viz, but it's not like they lost a major part of their operation. To quote the article from Sept.
Considering it's only been a few months, I would have to imagine that there was likely something already suspect with T3. Presuming of course that these last few months wasn't just horrible for their business, regardless of the companies they were working with (as I'm sure Viz was just one of (hopefully) many clients). |
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vgiannell5
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I'm not worried. I don't think T3's shut down will effect Viz Media. Some of their anime like Naruto and Bleach are still going on.
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LagannImpact
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This could be good...maybe reeling from this setback, Viz will panic and sell InuYasha: The Final Act to Adult Swim just to pocket some money other than what they already take in from Bleach.
And T3's disappearance seems like the anime distributor company equivalent of a stillborn, its mama punched in the gut by the general state of economic disarray in this country, while it was still in the womb. (Don't know who the "mama" is in that analogy, but I digress.) Hopefully Viz will find someone to do the kind of thing they were going to do someday. I don't know what that was, but it sounded interesting... |
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metroid24
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that sucks i feel bad for the employees its just a sign of the times but despite that i know anime in america has had a few bumps these pas few yrs 1st geneon got bought out by universal and left the states then adv became sentai then bandai odd and honesly dumb announcment and now this but despite that i still have faith that anime america will get bigger and better down the road
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TopGunman
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Am I the only one who buys all his anime?
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Mune
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People still buy physical anime. I being one of them. But Viz hasn't really released anything that has peaked my interest in a few years. I bought up Hunter X Hunter when they released it, but then they never released any of its OVAs... So, I've been buying from other companies like Funimation and Bandai. I'm not really into the whole digital media (as in download and/or streaming). It always felt like if I downloaded it, that I was still not supporting the anime industry and if caught with it, someone might not be able to differentiate illegal download from legal. Plus, a physical copy is more tangible and resellable if the need ever be. |
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Mawdryn
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I think the shutting down of T3 means the chances of Naruto and One Piece ever returning to U.S. television again has dropped from slim to zero.
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vgiannell5
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Probably. But at least we might be able to watch them uncut on DVDs.
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ArsenicSteel
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First Bandai and now T3. How? T3 wasn't an anime distributor that packed up their bags for greener pastures. T3 was a middleman for middlemen and just marketed content looking for profit. I am having a tough time finding anything anime related to this company outside of that one deal with VIZ.
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jlaking
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There is always the FUNimation Channel. |
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Top Gun
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Yeah, I'm not really sure how this could wind up affecting the anime industry in any significant way. Viz signs a deal with a company to try to promote their stuff on TV, and the company folds a few months later...so Viz is pretty much right where they were a few months ago. They're probably not thrilled about it, but I doubt it's going to affect their bottom line. |
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