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Hey, Answerman! - Made To Hit In America

TarsTarkas wrote:

As more and more of the non-anime world goes to streaming to watch TV series and movies via the Internet; more and more of the IP's will start throttling down bandwidth usage during peak hours with increasing frequency. This will effect the anime streaming community. Even in the United States now, streaming is not a perfect service and many still suffer with intermittent buffering. There will always be a place for physical media, especially for those who want to collect.

The first two paragraphs are independent of the third ~ a buffering system copes with bandwidth limits, and the industry is slowly slogging toward a buffering system, without the perceived pitfalls of http streaming, in the DLNA system.

The collectors market tends toward less elastic demand, so higher price points. The Japanese physical media market has already gravitated there, and reserving a portion of a Japanese production run for international collectors markets seem like the likeliest model to address the collectors market alone.