08-24-2003, 02:29 PM
You ask why we buy them and then tell us we can't say because of the price. Well, price is why most of us buy them.
I do own the R1's that I can afford and what I want to see in full quality (mostly movies and OVA's). But for a TV series, I wouldn't buy an official R1 that didn't at least come in a very affordable set with a minimal number of discs (actually using the space DVD's have available). But if a U.S. company wants to milk a 26 episode series to 8 discs @ $29.98 MSRP each then it is not affordable to me and I will not spend my money for it anyway. In that case my choice is to either not see the series at all or buy the $21 HK set if available.
Either way the U.S. company isn't getting my money for it but one way I see the series and the other way I don't. Do I have a right to see a series I can't afford to buy? No, but if there is an alternative to just not seeing the series at all then I'll take it. Nobody is losing any money.
I do own the R1's that I can afford and what I want to see in full quality (mostly movies and OVA's). But for a TV series, I wouldn't buy an official R1 that didn't at least come in a very affordable set with a minimal number of discs (actually using the space DVD's have available). But if a U.S. company wants to milk a 26 episode series to 8 discs @ $29.98 MSRP each then it is not affordable to me and I will not spend my money for it anyway. In that case my choice is to either not see the series at all or buy the $21 HK set if available.
Either way the U.S. company isn't getting my money for it but one way I see the series and the other way I don't. Do I have a right to see a series I can't afford to buy? No, but if there is an alternative to just not seeing the series at all then I'll take it. Nobody is losing any money.