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GeorgeC
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Oh, the region protection on Blu ray is MUCH more robust than it ever was for DVD! You can literally get discs from Japan that WON'T play in the US! Those are GAME titles of course but my point is made. Japan is SUPPOSED to be the same region as the US. They've done this for games a few times where they programmed them to NOT play on American consoles. Nowadays, they don't bother with region protection on MOST titles but a few like the Persona series WILL get them. You can't depend on region-free Blu ray players. I've heard stories of where they've redone the keys were these players just don't work on titles. Heck, they STILL screw things up occasionally in the States and I have "Region A" titles for the US that don't play on an old Pansonic BD player I have and that's supposedly up to date! And yes, those titles that give it fits are anime titles. I can tell you straight off the original MS Gundam, Vampire Hunter D, and at least one other title will NOT play on this machine. It's a good thing I have a Blu ray drive for my PC and a PlayStation 3! As far as multi-region goes, the most credible thing is probably just getting a second Blu ray drive for your PC and setting it to another region. You'll only get 5-6 region changes but at least if you set it you theoretically shouldn't have to deal with decryption software and mess around with it as long as you have a registered copy of an official BD player like PowerDVD which is one of the very few authorized BD player software on PC (or Mac) that I'm aware of. BD was NEVER well supported on Mac or PC and they've dragged their feet on 4K BD which a bunch of us probably wouldn't get away for PC because the 4K monitors are more expensive and not a lot of PC's really do support 4K BD drives all that well. |
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alextenshi
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That doesn't seem correct. Aniplex bought Madman's anime business Madman Anime Group (which includes AnimeLab), not their titles. It wouldn't make sense for Aniplex to buy just the titles since they don't operate here, so Madman will still distribute anime. |
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Parrad11
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Didn't it come out in Jan?
Wikipedia says this is a "Universal/Sony" title in Australia, but then again "The Heroic Legend of Arslan" had season 1 released by Useiversal/Sony while season 2 was released by Madman (but Wikipedia also shows something similar happening in the UK)…
The decline of the Australian dollar probably isn't helping much here either. Back in 2012 the AUD was hovering around parity against the USD. Since then it's fallen down to around 70 cents. |
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Errinundra
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I ordered it the day it was released: 16 Jan.
Good point. |
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#874931
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I find this all rather disturbing.
How is this even going to work. Is madman anime going to become a separate entity. Is aniplex going to take everything and make a aniplex Australia. Madman has been getting an increasing number of the titles universal was putting out. Will animelab expand. Should have seen something like this coming with animelab regaining some titles that were lost when the funi crunchy deal happened. I just hope they keep things running the way they were, because sub licensed anime from aniplex always had a different pricing and release structure. This is all a big mess for the consumers. |
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LegitPancake
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Don’t Aniplex technically already have a hand in anime distribution in Europe via Wakanim? Granted I don’t believe they release physical media. |
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juusee
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Heard Aniplex is notorious for their ridiculous pricing of DVD/Blu-ray. I mainly stream my shows, so don't know if there's going to be an effect on my Animelab subscription.
Animelab used to simulcast a lot of seasonal shows back in its beta phase (2014-15ish), and it's dropped a lot in recent years, with usually 2-3 non long-running shows. One thing I do find however was that Madman had earlier theatrical releases for the bigger films, although it only happened at fixed cinemas in major cities. I watched Maquia at the theaters last April, which was only 2 months after the release in Japan. |
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Angel M Cazares
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Aniplex USA releases expensive anime discs, but to me their biggest problem is that they don't do physical releases for several of their licenses, especially if they are old titles. If I were from Oceania I would be more worried about lack of releases from Aniplex than their prices.
And how relevant is the sale of Funimation to this situation? Don't Sony Pictures Television and Aniplex operate independently from each other? |
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Greed1914
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Yeah, I suppose we don't know for sure, but Aniplex of America is probably a good indication of how it will go. People's displeasure about their pricing is far from a secret, but AoA hasn't changed that significantly because it works for them. If that is the case in a location where they have major competition in terms of number of shows on offer, then I can't see where they would have much reason not to apply it to an area where there is next to no competition. |
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SaiyamanMS
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The thing that really baffles me with DBZ is how the washed out poorly dubbed heavily cropped versions of the original are consistently on shelves, while the far superior director’s cut DBZ Kai is apparently out of print. It’s not even on AnimeLab, meaning that Kai is essentially unavailable here without importing. |
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_Quasar_
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I do wonder if it includes cinema, given Madman is basically the company that distributes all the cinema anime.
That said it would seem like bad news for AnimeLab in the medium term. |
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harminia
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madman anime group has been seperate for a bit now __ madman has been releasing aniplex titles for a long while now without selling them at massive prices. Unless Madman starts selling the fancy schmancy stuff aniplex does, there shouldn't be a change also people complaining about madman not releasing titles need to keep in mind the fact there are restrictions with licenses, and that when companies like CR license stuff that tends to mess up distribution overseas |
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kuzronk
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Siren's last releases was El Topo and Holy Mountain in Jan 2017, feels like a end of a era but I hope Madman improves their other releases now instead of releasing them on DVD only months after you could import them on Blu-ray in the UK.
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Furuzaki
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Aw man, this means UK's MVM will probably be in for tough times, since they co-sponsor anime releases with Madman to decrease the costs...
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Cryten
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I find this a bit sad. Anime was Madmans original content, now it selling off all its anime assets. I will miss the company the used to be among one of the best for DVD extras during the anime boom and at least tried to do a respectable service (AnimeLab) in the streaming era. They never really got ads for it though so I imagine it wasn`t profitable.
So the company that started with anime and branched out into its eastern movies and drama and finally into its indies lable has now thrown out its anime heritage for a few million. I am mostly interested in what will become of AnimeLab and if this will enable crunchyroll to have less titles that they cannot show in Australia due to region exclusive deals. |
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