guestimate how much you would owe, i'm probably over $20k

[Jasta85]

i've often wondered to myself how much i would have to pay if i bought the dvd's of every series i have watched. back in early highschool when i was just getting started on anime i purchased quite a few anime dvds and vhs, a few from stores but most from ebay. probably spent 250-300 dollars on them. i also watched a number of series on TV, although probably the only ones i got to watch completely was trigun and cowboy bebop. then i found the miracle of fansubs, and my anime watching skyrocketed as i was introduced to all the series that had not been shown or sold in the states.

all in all i think i've probably watched somewhere in the area of 70-90 complete series (movies not included). i've sort of tossed them into 4 categories
"mini" series - about 12 eps
regular series - usually 24 eps, although with additional seasons they can be 36 or 48
long/extended series - FMA, Hunter X Hunter, Fushi Yugi with multiple seasons and anywhere from 50-90 eps
epix series - ones over 100+ eps, the ones everyone knows about, naruto, one piece, bleach, dbz etc.

so, given that an anime DVD usually has around 3 eps (on average, some have 4, some have only 2). I tried to guess about how many episodes i have seen and divide that number by 3 to figure out how many DVD's that would be, and let's say about $20 per dvd.

so, i have no idea how many series i have exactly seen so i'm just gonna throw out some numbers. i'll say i've seen:
15 miniseries (180 eps)
50 regular series (1200 eps)
8 long/extended series (guestimating an average of 65 eps per series that makes 520 eps)
gonna say 5 epix series (prince of tennis, one piece, naruto, bleach, dbz, cant remember any others off the top of my head although i'm sure i've seen at least 1 or 2 others. those are pretty close to 1200 eps combined).

so, that totals 3100 eps, divided by 3 is about 1033 DVD's, which cost, at $20 a piece, $20,667

So, if i bought the DVDs for every episode i have ever watched, i would have paid roughly $20,667. thank god for TV and fansubs, anyone else care to guestimate how much they owe?

[OropherZero]

at least 3 times that amount, although taking into consideration that over half of that = still unlicensed in Australia stuff. Can people see now why the anime industry is failing when we are expected to pay such insane amounts for the entertainment we want? An anime distributing store in Australia now recently downpriced all single dvds and will only be selling boxsets in the future which are like the only things which really sell. I think anime licensers should take this approach as the prices for individual dvds are too ridiculous =/ Boxsets alone can at least /3 the total amount spent on anime.

[Sukunai]

None.

I make it up in freely given advertising for the series.

I think a free copy is a fair deal

Counter question, how many series do you think would ever see the light of day on a shelf as a dvd if we never actually gave a damn to check out the subs?