Do you think they’ll bother? If Odex is already doing all this it would make sense to conclude that they don’t really give a damn about what we want or think.
Support real people in live action! Support dramas! (You can get them at TS or Poh Kim for 25 bucks per DVD set, tops.)
26
Xinru
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
The survey made me do a lot of thinking…
A lot of the irate comments (concerning Odex) raised various points that most people have realised, including me…
But I also started thinking about what exactly I have purchased over the years. And the thing is…I usually purchase only when I know I’ll like the anime, and I look for specific titles.
Overall, boxed DVD sets from Hongkong/Taiwan/China are much more affordable than Odex, and I didn’t mind bad English subs on those sets because I could either read the Chinese, or understand Japanese. (I studied the language and I got better and better at it.)
When I couldn’t get specific titles in local stores, I started buying them online.
Although I have some Odex VCD sets, I only bought some of them because I had some shopping centre vouchers to clear, and the rest were bought by my husband, not me. Like I said, I find Odex expensive. And I hate dubs. Hubby bought dubbed Odex by mistake and was horribly disappointed too.
I also have an R1 set of Bubblegum Crisis that I splurged on, when I needed it for my project.
And I also started thinking…I really wouldn’t mind buying downloads. If someone were to start a licensed download service, I would go for it, provided it’s reasonably priced — and it would have to be cheaper than DVD sets, because it doesn’t come in a hard copy (no box, no extras, no disks). It would be a good way to pay per episode or per five episodes, so that you can decide whether to buy the series or not.
(I would not go for Odex’s video-viewing service though.)
Having said that, I would still buy DVD sets, if I like a specific title very much. DVD sets are a fan’s way of collecting a treasured series forever.
THat reminds me of something else — your average Singaporean would be more reluctant to buying DVDs of series that they know nothing about, because simply put, these series have never been aired on Singapore television. In Japan, all the series are aired first, and then fans wait for the DVDs to be sold in stores. That’s how it works. And here, people watch downloads — they only buy if they think they want to keep the series.
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exalt dragon
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I notice the comments area is now split into separate pages instead of going on and on and on like previously in the loli-porn controversy one. Nice Feature.
Back to the survey: It’s Very Sad. Public opinion seems to be that Odex deserves to be double-6-ed
(o.o)y
Lol.
28
iLol
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:13 pm
odex is horrible and all but does anyone still downloads?
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Hono DokiDoki
September 5th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I refer your survey Q5. It’s very sad to see 31.5% of the respondents do not own any legitimate anime DVDs, maybe they owned VCDs or other anime related stuffs, I dunno…
I don’t like how Odex had dealed with the whole situation but I don’t like freeloaders as well.
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kitsura
September 20th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Wow. I’m shocked at the amount of freeloaders that are present in the local anime scene. I didn’t get to take the survey since I didn’t know about it as I don’t lurk at HWZ, VRzone or any anime blogs or forums. But I’m a huge supporter of anime. I’ve a collection of DVD and merchandise that costs more than S$6k (worth more than that now since there are several that are already out of print) so I don’t think it’s that much of a stretch to imagine anime supporters having such a huge collection. Still we are the exception rather than the norm.
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September 3rd, 2007 at 12:01 am
Thanks for compiling the results. :)
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:12 am
Resemble Pac man does not resemble Pac man rox! :)
good luck with fighting Odex I’m not from singapure but nah they are nasty :D
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:45 am
My bad - for trying to act smart. XD
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:48 am
lol odex strikes again. this time in the survey. but the masses pwns odex
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:17 am
Thank you for posting the results. It certainly shoots down the belief that Odex has on the anime community. They don’t know shit about us.
September 3rd, 2007 at 2:20 am
Hm… Interesting results.. But will Odex listen to this feedback of their actions?
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 am
u could send a sample of this to ODEX and see wad happens. sending it to TNP works quite some bit too
it could help create awareness of the anime communities’s stand on the situation
September 3rd, 2007 at 10:15 am
Do you think they’ll bother? If Odex is already doing all this it would make sense to conclude that they don’t really give a damn about what we want or think.
Support real people in live action! Support dramas! (You can get them at TS or Poh Kim for 25 bucks per DVD set, tops.)
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
The survey made me do a lot of thinking…
A lot of the irate comments (concerning Odex) raised various points that most people have realised, including me…
But I also started thinking about what exactly I have purchased over the years. And the thing is…I usually purchase only when I know I’ll like the anime, and I look for specific titles.
Overall, boxed DVD sets from Hongkong/Taiwan/China are much more affordable than Odex, and I didn’t mind bad English subs on those sets because I could either read the Chinese, or understand Japanese. (I studied the language and I got better and better at it.)
When I couldn’t get specific titles in local stores, I started buying them online.
Although I have some Odex VCD sets, I only bought some of them because I had some shopping centre vouchers to clear, and the rest were bought by my husband, not me. Like I said, I find Odex expensive. And I hate dubs. Hubby bought dubbed Odex by mistake and was horribly disappointed too.
I also have an R1 set of Bubblegum Crisis that I splurged on, when I needed it for my project.
And I also started thinking…I really wouldn’t mind buying downloads. If someone were to start a licensed download service, I would go for it, provided it’s reasonably priced — and it would have to be cheaper than DVD sets, because it doesn’t come in a hard copy (no box, no extras, no disks). It would be a good way to pay per episode or per five episodes, so that you can decide whether to buy the series or not.
(I would not go for Odex’s video-viewing service though.)
Having said that, I would still buy DVD sets, if I like a specific title very much. DVD sets are a fan’s way of collecting a treasured series forever.
THat reminds me of something else — your average Singaporean would be more reluctant to buying DVDs of series that they know nothing about, because simply put, these series have never been aired on Singapore television. In Japan, all the series are aired first, and then fans wait for the DVDs to be sold in stores. That’s how it works. And here, people watch downloads — they only buy if they think they want to keep the series.
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:08 pm
I notice the comments area is now split into separate pages instead of going on and on and on like previously in the loli-porn controversy one. Nice Feature.
Back to the survey: It’s Very Sad. Public opinion seems to be that Odex deserves to be double-6-ed
(o.o)y
Lol.
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:13 pm
odex is horrible and all but does anyone still downloads?
September 5th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I refer your survey Q5. It’s very sad to see 31.5% of the respondents do not own any legitimate anime DVDs, maybe they owned VCDs or other anime related stuffs, I dunno…
I don’t like how Odex had dealed with the whole situation but I don’t like freeloaders as well.
September 20th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Wow. I’m shocked at the amount of freeloaders that are present in the local anime scene. I didn’t get to take the survey since I didn’t know about it as I don’t lurk at HWZ, VRzone or any anime blogs or forums. But I’m a huge supporter of anime. I’ve a collection of DVD and merchandise that costs more than S$6k (worth more than that now since there are several that are already out of print) so I don’t think it’s that much of a stretch to imagine anime supporters having such a huge collection. Still we are the exception rather than the norm.