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Is it REALLY that hard to grasp the theory that Disney may no longer have the rights to some of Ghibli's own provided sub translations, and is "stuck" having to use their own in-house ones?
When even Justin is saying "Gee, I don't know why they'd do it, maybe they like dubtitles... ", it's starting to become an epidemic.

Disney may have bought Marvel and Star Wars outright, and have free reign to do any marketing they want with them at any time, but the rights to Ghibli are a bit trickier, and much of Princess Mononoke, for one, is still tripped up by legal gray areas.

It's sad that movie studios haven't caught onto portable DVD players and even portable BD players. Movies have been portable since DVDs became mainstream. I also did a Google search and portable VCRs exist, I don't think they caught on as much

...Even for some unpopular, marginal series -- I never thought disc 3 of Angel Tales would be going for $121.00.

Sometimes it's not so predictable, though. I recently spent an evening looking up prices for my old/out-of-print ADV/Geneon/CPM/Bandai discs, and often found that most of the volumes would be available in Rightstuf's Bargain Bin, or for pennies (+$3.99 S&H!) on Amazon Marketplace. But there'd often be one or two random volumes not on RS and selling for far more on Amazon, and it was frequently like volumes 2 and 5, not always discs at the end of the series. Even for some unpopular, marginal series -- I never thought disc 3 of Angel Tales would be going for $121.00.

Disney has always had the license to Princess Mononoke...

Ponyo is NOT dubtitled. The BD includes a faithful subtitle track for the Japanese audio that can be accessed from the menu.

PurpleWarrior13 wrote:

Disney has always had the license to Princess Mononoke...

None of this is true at all. Disney had to renegotiate and relicense all of the Ghibli films. That's how GKids got theatrical rights out of nowhere.

The Cat Returns - No US Blu-ray release is scheduled (yet). Japanese disc has faithful subtitles and the Disney dub.

He forgot to mention Ocean Waves which only has Japanese and UK DVD releases.

I was the one that asked that question, and they definitely did. I've skimmed Rightstuf's bargain bin multiple times in the past and it's just absurd at times how much stuff they have left.

*and bunch of other thing that I've already got*

Zalis116 wrote:

Sometimes it's not so predictable, though. I recently spent an evening looking up prices for my old/out-of-print ADV/Geneon/CPM/Bandai discs, and often found that most of the volumes would be available in Rightstuf's Bargain Bin, or for pennies (+$3.99 S&H!) on Amazon Marketplace. But there'd often be one or two random volumes not on RS and selling for far more on Amazon, and it was frequently like volumes 2 and 5, not always discs at the end of the series. Even for some unpopular, marginal series -- I never thought disc 3 of Angel Tales would be going for $121.00.

That volume of Angel Tales going for as much as it does is possibly due to Amazon implementing new rules for sellers trying to sell DVD's that are above $25 MSRP. Last month they implemented a rule where you had to get approved in order to sell DVD's with an MSRP of above $25. TONS of listings had nearly all of their sellers removed, or removed completely, also causing the remaining ones (Sometimes the only seller) to raise their prices. This is why there's no one selling say When They Cry's box sets on the Amazon Marketplace right now because none of them got approved (And the approval process isn't easy for small sellers, you need multiple recent invoices from wholesalers of a certain amount). It's also why say the artbox for Melody of Oblivion went from being like $10 from a ton of sellers to $50 from only one.

Theozilla wrote:

He forgot to mention Ocean Waves which only has Japanese and UK DVD releases.

If you're just talking about English language releases, it was also released in Australia. It has been released on DVD in several other countries as well, but not necessarily with English subtitles.

About all of Right Stuf's old Geneon/ADV: It's simply the matter of fact that these two companies both fell into bad habits of printing a lot of titles that had very little interest, therefore all the leftover stock.

For example, Right Stuf still has two singles and two complete series bundles of Moeyo Ken in stock from ADV. No one wants to watch Moeyo Ken. However, I'm tempted to almost buy it out of sympathy for the fact that Right Stuf's been trying to get rid of it for almost 8 years.

(Risky Safety appears to be the current record holder in the Bargain Bin; it has 85 copies left of its first disc that came out eleven and a half years ago.)

Not to mention all those soundtracks they have left over from back when anime soundtracks were actually released on CD...

I think what Edgar wants is a "legit" form of horriblesubs and other rip groups (sites that just pull content from CR, Hulu and FUNi and put torrents for download.) and who knows he may be storing his anime in SSD's which has almost none of the downsides of HDD failures. I mean, buying 500GB SSD's en masse isn't outside the realm of possibilities anymore.