Forum - View topicNEWS: Viewster Closes Omakase Subscription Box Service
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DangerMouse
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That was fast.
Yeah. I took a shot for the neat KLK box with the copy of the manga and was going to keep going for the Vocaloid one since it looked nice. Aside from not catching on, I'm not surprised there might not have been much crossover between the box and the streaming as not only was their streaming pretty limited, but it was also inconsistent with what they might have in dub or sub. And most importantly their streams, or atleast the ones I tried, were not HD, they were SD streams. So if I had to watch subbed (since I prefer dub when good and available, like GITS SAC) there was usually another choice for better video. I'm not too surprised though since we've all got too many subscriptions as it is. I don't even have that many but I've already got Amazon and Funimation to go with all the anime and games I fully buy, and will probably have Crunchyroll eventually. |
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Usagi-kun
Posts: 877 Location: Nashville, TN |
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I think this would have been better scaled back a decade or so. It simply has just become much easier to access and acquire anime-related merchandise on sites like Crunchyroll or CDjapan. There are tutorials online for Amazon.jp too. I don't get the surprise factor they were going for. 'Surprise' is not the same thing as 'exclusive'.
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relyat08
Posts: 4125 Location: Northern Virginia |
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Maybe not exactly what you're looking for, but Crunchyroll does have an option to go to a random episode. It might just be for Premium Members or something, but it shows up right next to the "Queue" button. Just push the button and it plays a random episode from anything in their catalog. |
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GeorgH
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I can access about 130 Animes in their library (each season counts seperately), but only about 25% are subbed in local languages. Some of them are avaiable at Crunchyroll too - but besides some highlights that have been simulcasted it looks like they only got shows anyone else wanted (ok, that's a bit too hart). They started to offer Naruto Shippiden Ep 394+ in April 2015, but already lost this licence. Their Simulcast-Highlights were Arslan, Seraph 1+2, Rin-Ne, Your Lie in April, Danmachi, Samurai Warriors and Log Horizon 2 - they may be other Highlights in other european countries. They also offer about 40 Korean Dramas (they started with Korean Dramas before Animes) TV-Shows from Europe? I only found a couple of documentaries - that's all. They also licenced "Highlander: The Series", some Classic Cartoons from the 1930s and 1940s and a few dozen series I never heard of (from US, CA, AU and other countries). |
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leafy sea dragon
Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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Heh, that'd be something I'd like to try out sometime. Won't work quite as well for anime, which is mostly serialized, as what I had in mind, which are the more episodic American programming. But it'd still be interesting anyway.
So Viewster is, first and foremost, an anime streaming service? I had the impression it was a general programming service, like Hulu or Netflix. |
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GeorgH
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They changed over time: A few years ago they focused on pay-per-view movies - but they never offered a subscription service here (only US + UK). They tried to be a general service, but they kept 100 times smaller than the big US-services (and at least 10 times smaller than their european competitors). So they tried to get attention with exclusive content - first with Korean Dramas and later with Animes. You may compare their latest Blog postings to their oldest: http://blog.viewster.com http://viewster.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/4000009317-why-are-there-no-blockbusters-available-on-viewster- http://viewster.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/4000009312-i-can-t-find-a-movie-i-would-like-to-see- |
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leafy sea dragon
Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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Ah, thank you very much. So Viewster's always been a pretty small company.
It must be hard to be a start-up media streaming service. |
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