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, Because they're posted rapidly after their brodcast. In the past few days, I've watched anime on my TV's blu-ray player, on my laptop, and on my phone. And detail is, even with the good stuff, these are shows that I'm really not going to watch again. See, that's how TV shows are designed - you mind once, you sit through a commercial or two or pay a subscription fee, and everyone prospers. Maybe if you're really wild for the claptrap, you'll buy the DVDs - but that home video sales model is designed for a shallow segment of the viewership. Since it's hard for anime to get on TV, however, the anime business on these shores has tolerant of that relatively small collector segment as its primary customer core. In other words, it was already a fairly small pie - DVD made it bigger, but then it just started shrinking again.

But for a eat one's heart out time, that worked fine! There were plenty of fans who wanted to own their favorite shows, and more unpredictable fans got their DVD fix via Blockbuster and other rental chains, which still funneled money back to the publishers. But then, things changed. DVD sales started to dip, unselfish retailers like Best Buy started returning unsold discs (and not lawful anime - even big Hollywood flicks) to publishers in shorter and shorter requisition, meaning less time on the shelves for the DVDs, which only got harder to sell as they elderly and were supplanted by budget collections and re-releases. Suncoast, which was, despite its tipsy prices, an extremely visible place for anime to be seen and purchased, vanished. Anime's TV revenue shrank. These were ominous portents, and , and other outlets offer is almost seamless, specifically if you've got a computer hooked up to the TV. The sheer variety and flexibility of IPTV has me wondering how hanker cable TV will be in charge of things. But the abundance of legitimately streaming anime has, for me, absolutely put its biggest flaw in the spotlight: you don't need to watch it more than once. And in the end, that'll eat away at the medical man media market more effectively than any number of pirates on bit torrent.

Source: Anime News Network

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