[Animekitty]

I've recently read an article regarding Funmation issuing a number C & D orders for various series and I expect that more production companies will follow suite. While I understand the production company's point, respect their concerns regarding revenue and production cost recovery; i hope that some form of system can be implemented for people outside of the broadcast regions of Japan. I don't like having to wait a year or more for a DVD version of show and can't imaging buying them just on the strength of reveiws or trailers. I have nothing against reviews or trailers but how can you sum up 24 - 26 (or more) episodes in a 3 minute trailer or a review. (think Bleach, Inyuasha or Naruto compressed to a 3 minute trailer--do you think you'd see enough to want to buy a significant chunk or any of these with that level of knowledge for $50.00 - $60.00 a crack?) Also, I'm sure that the release of licensed versions of a series will be completely dependent on what a group thinks they can sell and may not reflect my taste at all.

It's going to be a hard sell for consumers of Fansubs to begin paying for content that is aired on Japanese broadcast television for free and freely recorded there as well, too.