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egoist
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Volume hardly matters, what matters is the amount of money you're pouring in.
Then add everything you can count up to the farthest year your memory can reach, divide it by the number of years and then by 12. You guys are such perfectionists. 
Even though I don't measure how much I spend (which is mostly with fast food), I just gave a rough amount usually of what I spend daily multiplied by 30. Clothes? Hardly buy them as I'm either at home or work. So I I spent around$250 in the past 6 months... and I put$50 monthly, I think. Talking about conversions, I'm going at at £1 = $1.5 basis. Which is also inaccurate. Is it bad for the survey if its participants start rounding the numbers? Hardly. They're not building a nuclear bomb after all. |
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Bored_Ming
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Or...maybe they are......DUN DUN DUNnnnnnnnnnn What can I say? Nerds love complaining about numbers. |
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Ohoni
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The last question was a little tricky, because the answer was "maybe". I mean, if freely given the option, I very much prefer downloading fansubs of most shows to streaming. It's just much more convenient for me, since I can watch it in media player, rather than in a little window in my browser. That said, I do watch several shows in streaming format, both because I want to support the official source, and because there are some shows that I do not feel are worth downloading (as the quality of presentation is not up to that level).
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Alan45
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As with several others that commented, my purchases variy greatly from month to month. The amounts I listed are from November. At this point, with the exception of figures, my purchases are limited by what came out in the month, not by cost. I would buy more anime and manga if more of what I'm interested in was available. With figures, when they passed the $100 each point, I cut back a great deal. I'm much more selective now.
I consider streaming to be "try before you buy" for anything that will be issued on disc. I watch a whole series on streaming only if it is unlikely to be issued on DVD or Blu-ray. Don't do fan subs at all. |
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Ohoni
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I just averaged the prices out, so a lot of the categories were things like "$2" or "$1", which obviously won't buy you a lot of anything, but if you consider only 1-2 titles per year, that'd be about what it ends up being.
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Mune
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The trick to buying is figuring where and when to buy. Great deals are around all the time. I bought DVDs as low as $3 each on a good day. $35 on a not-so-good day.
It's the holiday season now, so plenty of deals will be around until about New Years Day. That means that DVD sales for anime should be going up from previous months. That means the money spent normally on anime in a month may stay the same or increase, but the quantity will be more, hopefully making sales better than the rest of the year for all of the anime companies. |
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chrisc1978
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So if an anime is not steamed you don't even concider buying it? |
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gartholamundi
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^^ i often base my buying habits on reviews, not on pre-watching. i've bought dozens of series, for example, but i've only pre-watched a first episode twice (Mushi-shi and Ghost Hound, both on Hulu if i remember right -- i think i tried both over a year ago).
watching a show before i buy just doesn't enter into it. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
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I utilize legal streaming where available, but I don't prefer streaming as a medium per se (would much prefer to have a permanent copy on disk, and not have the hassle of flash players and network issues etc.)
I ticked iPhone, but what I actually have is an iPod. I fudged the spending figures - not only was I guestimating, I've not been spending money on anime (or really anything non-essential) for months. |
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 9874 Location: Virginia |
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chrisc1978 said
I probably could have worded that better. It is just the other way around. Much of what I buy as based on what ever information is available when it comes out. Frequently what I remember from the initial reviews here or often just on the blurb on the RACS website. I used to use magazines for this but they are mostly gone. For shows that are streaming, I check them out if the set-up looks interesting. If it is announced that it will come out on DVD, I quit watching the stream as soon as I determine that it's good enough to continue watching. I then buy it when it comes out. The only time I will watch an entire show streaming is if it is obvious it won't come out here, Skip Beat for instance. |
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Sunday Silence
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How can one even consider buying an untested series without a little peek? If your gonna put down the investment, you do need to be somewhat reassured that it's not gonna be a bust. |
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einhorn303
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One could say "That's what reviews/trailers/OPs/promotional material/online rankings/friend opinions" are for. I've bought a number of shows blindly. Usually, I can tell with 86% accuracy if a show is the sort of show I'll like. |
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