>>39447
>Have Movie stores that had to close a few years ago reopened at exactly the same place they have been before?
You mean like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video? That went out of business in my area 15 years ago, before the Streaming Wars started? And when Netflix's big revenue was still sending DVDs by mail. Because where I live, there really hasn't been a "dedicated movie store" since forever. Movies were always attached to something else, if you didn't go to a rental store. I think the first time I've actually gone to a dedicated "video store" was when I began driving around the state capital a few years ago for business reasons. And it's still there to this day, to where I occasionally drop by there when doing work in that areas, and my most recent acquisitions were the second season of Starsky & Hutch a few months ago. Outside of that, I just by DVDs from thrift stores, flea markets, and the occasional bookstore.
>These are ONA. Since I strongly believe words, Jargon and even idioms have specific meanings, I think they are not the same as OVA. For pretty much the same reason I also think they don't obey the same V-cinema market dynamics OVA have. They don't have the very same appeal and definitely not the same freedoms OVA had, but digress.
I see them being akin because it's operating on a similar principle to the D2V market that existed for a while with VHS tapes and early DVD releases.
>>39449
>And while hairs are split, let's not forget that corpo players have been already active on the ONA market.
So? It's a great release model with little risk. That's why I see the ONA model as an evolution of the OVA model. The only difference is that opposed to occasional limited premium releases of VHS tapes for experimental/budget series that receive an episode or two once a year, they instead publish them on a website (That dispenses money based on clicks received) and cut-out the distribution costs for anything except the eventual later "full" release of the finished thing. Like how Milky Subway has it's original episodic web release before later receiving a "full" theatrical and now a DVD/BR release with additional footage.