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NEWS: ADV Films Removes Titles from Website - Update 2

This reminds me of what the British Airways 747 captain said to his passengers when all 4 of his engines shutdown whilst flying through volcanic ash on their way to Indonesia.

Quote:

Goodevening ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. You may be wondering why we seem to be losing altitude at the moment. We are experiencing a small problem with all 4 engines at present and can assure you all is being done to rectify it. Please be calm and follow cabin crew instructions. Enjoy the rest of your flight.

Needless to say they did manage to restart the engines but not until they were about 2000 feet above the water and landed safely at their final destination with the paint scoured off all forward facing surfaces and the windscreen permanently frosted. He had to land as if in a fog.

I'd like to read up on that. Source?

Mohawk52 wrote:

This reminds me of what the British Airways 747 captain said to his passengers when all 4 of his engines shutdown whilst flying through volcanic ash on their way to Indonesia. Quote: Goodevening ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. You may be wondering why we seem to be losing altitude at the moment. We are experiencing a small problem with all 4 engines at present and can assure you all is being done to rectify it. Please be calm and follow cabin crew instructions. Enjoy the rest of your flight. Needless to say they did manage to restart the engines but not until they were about 2000 feet above the water and landed safely at their final destination with the paint scoured off all forward facing surfaces and the windscreen permanently frosted. He had to land as if in a fog.

I'd like to read up on that. Source?

Arcwave, my thoughts exactly.

This new response does not increase my faith in ADVision one bit. What they just said was only the absolute minimal response I could have imagined. If anything it lessens my faith that they will pull through even moreso.

In any case, I'm not interested in arguing whether this statement is reassuring or disheartening. And I'm not interested in arguing whether or not ADVision is going to die or not. No one knows for sure. But at the moment I'd certainly place my bets on them dying. And I'm still not going to buy any of their products such as Gurren-Lagann until they are completed first, even if they do temporarily pull through.

And as dargon said in the earlier thread, I have little sympathy for a company that is so stupid that they licensed a ton of new titles when they were having problems...like a kid in a candy store with no money. Geneon did the exact same thing. A graceful exit from the industry would have earned ADVision my sympathy. But an ungraceful exit only pisses me off.

Arcwave, my thoughts exactly.

This new response does not increase my faith in ADVision one bit. What they just said was only the absolute minimal response I could have imagined. If anything it lessens my faith that they will pull through even moreso.

In any case, I'm not interested in arguing whether this statement is reassuring or disheartening. And I'm not interested in arguing whether or not ADVision is going to die or not. No one knows for sure. But at the moment I'd certainly place my bets on them dying. And I'm still not going to buy any of their products such as Gurren-Lagann until they are completed first, even if they do temporarily pull through.

And as dargon said in the earlier thread, I have little sympathy for a company that is so stupid that they licensed a ton of new titles when they were having problems...like a kid in a candy store with no money. Geneon did the exact same thing. A graceful exit from the industry would have earned ADVision my sympathy. But an ungraceful exit only pisses me off.

why do you and everyone else assume that this has to deal with money and ADV losing it?

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In fact, everything seems to point towards this being a licensing matter and not a monetary one (though of course we can't know for certain).

The statement contains nothing substantial at all, except for the subtext which says "We are in deep sh*t."

Calculusman wrote:

why do you and everyone else assume that this has to deal with money and ADV losing it? [...] In fact, everything seems to point towards this being a licensing matter and not a monetary one (though of course we can't know for certain).

How should I imagine a licensing matter which is not at the same time a monetary one? Could someone please explain that for me? A scenario which I can understand is, in very simple terms: ADV sends check to Japan, check bounces, Japanese come and take licenses away. But if ADV fulfills their part of the contracts, how can they get into license trouble?