How to Fix Fansubbing

[http://www.otakunovideo.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/animegirl-264x300.png|264x300px|Anime Girl]American anime fans don't buy DVDs as much as they did, because they can get fansubs of shows as soon as they're broadcast on TV in Japan. As a result, much less money is getting back to the studios.

There's a solution to this. What if the studios released DVDs before the shows air on TV?

Let's take Angel Beats!. Imagine if DVD 1, containing episodes 1-4, is released two days before episode 1 airs on television. A few days before episode 5 airs, the second DVD is released.

Otaku who must watch it now can buy it immediately and get geek cred for watching it early; others can wait for the TV airing. And if someone becomes a fan through the TV airing, the DVDs are already out and waiting for them.

Of course, this would have to be a simultaneous world-wide release, like Gundam Unicorn; otherwise American fans will rip the discs and we'll have the same fansubbing problem.

The studios would have to plan and prepare more than they do now, and I'm sure the TV networks would push back. Otherwise, though, why wouldn't this work?