Comments on: Odex Survey II — The Results!

By: alphastickmania

alphastickmania — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:24:21 +0000

Btw, I only download what we cannot get on DVD easily around. If not, I buy them cause it firstly, prevent events like Odex from happening to me. Secondly, makes me feel like a true blue anime fan.

By: alphastickmania

alphastickmania — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:14:58 +0000

As much as I hate to say this but it probably will take time to change. Let’s just help it all to speed up. That way, companies like Odex will have nothing to going suing about and end up getting botcotted. (Is that not the case?)

By: kitsura

kitsura — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:10:45 +0000

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.

By: Hono DokiDoki

Hono DokiDoki — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:16:09 +0000

I refer your survey Q5. Itâ€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.

By: iLol

iLol — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:13:32 +0000

odex is horrible and all but does anyone still downloads?

By: exalt dragon

exalt dragon — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:08:48 +0000

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.

By: Xinru

Xinru — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:20:51 +0000

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.

By: Pear

Pear — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:15:22 +0000

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.)

By: leefe

leefe — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:12:10 +0000

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

By: niemda

niemda — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:20:13 +0000

Hm… Interesting results.. But will Odex listen to this feedback of their actions?