Navarre pulls plug on BCI, Home Video Apocalypse begins.

Yep, crap in a HAT, man.

http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/13949.html

I know, I know, so what, who cares if the company that put out He-Man and Ark II and Shadow Warriors and Red Baron goes belly-up? It's not anime or even important mainstream stuff.

But see, it's the niche product that MATTERS. It's stuff like this people get excited about because you just don't see it on TV. New season of House coming out? Well, it'll hit syndication soon enough. Why buy the sets of Friends episodes when the damn thing is running 6 times a day SOMEWHERE in every market?

But man, when was the last time you flipped channels and *SHUWAT* Ultraman was on?

And nobody, NOBODY is talking about the real reason why sales of DVDs are down. THERE'S FEWER PLACES THAT SELL DEEP CATALOG AND NICHE DVD's!! You want a copy of The Dark Knight? Easy-peasy. You want to buy Iron King? Good luck.

"Ahh, you SAP! NOOOOBODY buys in a store anymore! that's a sucker's game! All the COOL people buy online and constantly hunt to save the maximum amount possible, you DORK!"

If this were true, AND IT'S NOT, there would be no problem at all. But for those idiot people with their noses in the air about shopping in the real world, guess what? That's STILL the major driving force in retail.

And now YOU won't be able to buy BCI's catalog because too many stores have closed and those that remain are cutting back their stock to just New Releases, Top Evergreen titles and whatever package deals the studios put together each couple of months.

Dammit. and I was REALLY waiting for Navarre/BCI to whip out the follow-on to Red Baron, Mach Baron.