ADV Films chooses Blu-ray, otakus rejoice
- Posted February 2nd, 2008 at 13:27 EDT by
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Popular Anime seller, ADV Films, has chosen to back the Blu-ray format bringing with it, its substantial library of Anime. According to sources, ADV plans on releasing titles as early as this spring for the BD format.
For the Otakus out there, don’t expect to see a backlog of Anime coming to the shelves at your local Best Buy. ADV feels that their frontlist titles that are coming out will have first priority. "Frontlist is more important than catalogue right now," said a highly placed source from within the company. The decision to move to a high-def format may cause issues with their release schedule due to the films having to be prepared for a high-definition release.
With Warner Bros. sending a death strike as the top Hollywood movie producing studio in early January, this announcement is pretty parallel with it. ADV Films is one of the leading distributors of Anime in North America. With Geneon stopping the production of Anime from their studios, it will give way to a slew of new licensing possibilities for ADV Films in the immediate future.
Bandai Visuals and FUNimation are the other two major suppliers and have expressed support but have been weary of releasing titles until the war is over. However, with an announcement like this, you could see the other two studios following suit very quickly.
ADV has been under a lot of rumors recently with their NewType licensing coming to an end and the fact that there has been a ton of changes to their official website. "We know there are a lot of rumors swirling about, and that fans are looking for assurances that ADV will continue to distribute the anime series they know and love," the statement said. "While we can't go into any detail at this time, please know that ADV is working through a few short-term challenges and fully intends to continue our releases. We thank you for your patience."
With Anime being a growing hobby for North America over the course of the last decade, this will be a huge blow to the HD DVD camp as support for this hobby starts to grow. We’ve seen what HD animation can look like with the beauty of Cars and Ice Age, we can only imagine the pull HD Anime will bring to people who haven’t yet delved into that world.
Now with the top Hollywood studio’s backing the Blu and the top Anime studio backing it as well. It’s only a matter of time until this is officially over despite the last ditch effort of a Toshiba Super Bowl commercial.
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 1:32pm GMT - February 2nd, 2008
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Let's just hope,they start publishing HD animes soon.
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netherdragon |
netherdragon- 1:43pm GMT - February 2nd, 2008
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OHHH YEAHHHH I LOVE ANIME and high def blue ray anima will rock. cant wait and i hope that they release some awsome, new series and movies asap. (damm my bank is gonna hate me:P )
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XSpike_SpiegelC |
XSpike_SpiegelC- 6:25pm GMT - February 2nd, 2008
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not another nail Righteous, just another shovel of dirt on top.......Soon, we shall place the headstone, once paramount comes to their senses...
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RotaryMatt |
RotaryMatt- 7:08pm GMT - February 2nd, 2008
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Yeah i bought the 2 DBZ Broly movies on blu ray and it looks sweet, and it was only 25 bucks at best buy.
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Dave-The-Rave |
Dave-The-Rave- 10:42am GMT - February 3rd, 2008
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@VEGAZ5: Advent Children isn't anime..lol, dunoo why people always say that !!
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zbamf
- 9:29pm GMT - February 4th, 2008
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There's an ad on UK Tv for a movie release and it used to start with it saying 'Now on HD-dvd and DVD' and at the bottom of the screen is written DVD HD-DVD. Now that same advert is running but has been cut at the begining and now says 'On DVD' cutting out the 'Now on HD-DVD' and the writing at the bottom quickly flashes 'DVD HD-DVD. Obviously didn't re-do the ad but edited it so they no longer advertise the HD-DVD release, if there is to be one?
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