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agila61
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 Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:26 am
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| dragonrider_cody wrote: | In other words, they will be looking closely at streaming numbers before they make their final call on a dub and bluray release. So if you want a dub, watch the streams.  |
"they" being Section23, I take it.
And agree with tuxedocat, this is most likely the last [?] in the Crunchyroll season lineup. And adding "most likely" squared, most likely North America only, so causing still more rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth among Scandinavian and South American Crunchyroll members.
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Teriyaki Terrier
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:54 am
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| firedragon54738 wrote: | | Well it been good but not worth getting if its not dub |
Something tells me it could easily be subtitle only and like others, I've been enjoying the series as well. Actually really interesting (despite clearly having some well used elements in the first episode.)
It will be interesting to see what Sentai does with this license though.
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zensunni
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 8:42 am
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Better late than never! Good pickup!
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ArsenicSteel
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 1:53 pm
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| firedragon54738 wrote: | | Well it been good but not worth getting if its not dub |
Please. Do you even like the show or the idea of the show? Depending on the feedback Sentai gets they could figure that the show itself would not sell enough to support the cost of a dub.
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configspace
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:07 pm
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I really really wish they would release blurays for sub-only titles though.
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dtm42
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 3:27 pm
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| Quote: | | Yes home video is coming, we just haven't finalized all the release details yet. |
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That just makes me even more glad that I dropped it. A story which thinks that solving a medium-level Sudoku puzzle is something worthy of adulation is not the show for me.
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agila61
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:00 pm
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| configspace wrote: | | I really really wish they would release blurays for sub-only titles though. |
Of course, if a bluray will normally add x% to the sales and $x to the overhead cost, and a dub will normally add y% to the sales and $y to the overhead cost ... then a bluray release tends to make the cost of a dub easier to cover, and a dub release tends to make the cost of producing a bluray easier to cover.
There could be some series that are in the border territory, where a BD production is justified while a dub is not ... but the risk of not making back the BD production cost is higher for the borderline series than for the ones expected to cover the cost of a dub.
There'll be a level of BD penetration when the BD choice will start to be automatic for anything worth releasing at all, but until then, sub-only DVD release and hybrid dual format release seem like natural market niches.
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configspace
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Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2011 5:45 pm
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| agila61 wrote: |
| configspace wrote: | | I really really wish they would release blurays for sub-only titles though. |
Of course, if a bluray will normally add x% to the sales and $x to the overhead cost, and a dub will normally add y% to the sales and $y to the overhead cost ... then a bluray release tends to make the cost of a dub easier to cover, and a dub release tends to make the cost of producing a bluray easier to cover.
There could be some series that are in the border territory, where a BD production is justified while a dub is not ... but the risk of not making back the BD production cost is higher for the borderline series than for the ones expected to cover the cost of a dub.
There'll be a level of BD penetration when the BD choice will start to be automatic for anything worth releasing at all, but until then, sub-only DVD release and hybrid dual format release seem like natural market niches. |
The actual cost of BD production itself is very minimal (like literally a just a couple $ over a dvd). They can easily pass that onto the consumers, which they already do and more. If anything those are two very independent variables. They can easily make back the cost of blurays and generate more sales than a dvd-only release, regardless of a dub. However, the only other factor and what probably makes the difference is the license cost.
I'm not convinced adding a very costly dub (orders of magnitude more than BD production alone) to the already costly license premium for BD actually generates more profits for *all* their titles, rather than being more liberal with BD releases and more picky for dub releases. Look at NISA--they've taken that latter, opposite approach. I think likewise for Nozomi, that they'll move to bluray before moving to dubs
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