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The UK DVD Market - Why the wait? Mon, 17 Dec 2007

"The DVD market is a weird and wonderful thing these days. With a lot more variety and a greater range of genres to pick from things seem to be on the up and up. But is this really the case? There are advantages and disadvantages of the UK being further down the food chain than our big cousin, Mr. USA, The focus of today’s article is the waiting time between Region 1 and Region 2 DVD’s. Are we getting the short end of the proverbial stick? Or are things better than 5 years ago?" [The UK DVD Market - Why the wait?]

Anime UK News writer Lewis talks with anime distributors Beez and a wide variety of British anime fans in his bid to understand the relative lag of DVD releases between the UK anime indistry and its more lucrative foreign counterparts.

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