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Agreed, maybe start by looking at some successful examples:

http://www.iluvvideo.com/

http://www.scarecrow.com/

http://www.scarecrow.com/ - it's just a matter if your local market will support it..

And not just two of each hit, but whole walls with the same movie. Crazy. I go to http://www.scarecrow.com/

One example of what I watched was the DVD box set for the TV show Angel -- the PAL version was released almost a year before the NTSC version. Scarecrow had the PAL version for rental the moment it came out in the UK...

Best mom and pop video store on the planet is in seattle. Scarecrow Video not only carries all the movies you would expect a video store to carry, they have pretty much every foriegn release. they rent DVD's from all regions, and both PAL and NTSC. If you don't have a multi player, they'll rent you that too.

I wonder how this affects someone like scarecrow video? They have all the imported movies from hong kong. They have both hero and shaolin soccer for rent. You could rent 28 days later before it hit theaters, if you had a region free pal DVD player.

Wrong, I think. The director is practically everything. The producer gets the final say, but in films where the producer allows the director a degree of freedom, the director is what matters. Our local video store, Scarecrow Video, organizes the majority of films in the store by director. When I see a good film, I look to see who the director is, then I go get other movies by the same director. Most of the movies I see are good ones using this method.

You're sounding like a troll. And anime is going mainstream, but it isn't anywhere near there yet. Until I see sorority girls wearing Sailor Moon T-shirts and Ford trucks with Kogepan pissing on a Chevy symbol, anime isn't mainstream.

If it weren't for Cowboy Bebop, I wouldn't be watching anime. Period. I thought it was all a cross between softcore porn and Transformers-on-steroids-and-crack. But then came Cowboy Bebop, and I got it. Then came Akira and Miyakazi's many works and Outlaw Star and Ghost In The Shell....

CN ain't the be-all end-all, but at least it got me to go into the extensive anime section of Scarecrow Video. Nice to have a world-class video store on the route home from work.

Ummm....they're okay, for the occasional lucky used purchase, but check out Scarecrow Video it's THE place for movies in Seattle. It's one of the best movie rental places in the world--in fact it's a destination store for many directors, screenwriters, various and sundry Hollywood refugees...

Their collection is a great place to start learning about any kind of film--they also sell region free dvd players, new and used dvd's, etc. Truly an amazing place and one of the cultural treasures of Seattle.

If you don't want to rent, you can buy there, or you can go to Kicks or any number of grey market places in Chinatown (only anglos call Chinatown the International District by the way). There's also the place in the Great Wall mall down in Tukwila, but I'd stay away from them for the fact that many of their dvd's don't work quite right, but to be fair, they've always been really great about returns and customer service.

And for seeing anime in theaters, well, you're very lucky to be in Seattle--even some of the biggies downtown show anime, particular the theater in Pacific Place, but the one that shows the most is the Varsity on University Way.

Have fun.

It may be wise to wait, then, if they can make one volume look really good, don't you think that they will eventually make all of them look really good? You know there will be a market for it.

I say that because I'm fortunate enough to have a local video store that carries great anime, so I don't have to buy all of it.