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Nebs
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Speaking of Monster, Manga.com recently added the first 10 episodes (dubbed) for free on their site. Full episodes are also scheduled to be added to Hulu soon (the first ep has already been up there since December 10).
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The King of Harts
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Hold up. They're charging us to rent a streaming video? At those prices per episode? Really? Am I the only one who finds this a little absurd?
Those prices for Download-to-Own I get because you own it, but to charge that for single episode rental is ridiculous. You might as well get a Netflix account so that you pay less to get more and can easily watch it on your TV. I could understand something like $4 for 4 episodes because that would be the same as renting a volume, but for an episode? C'mon, man. |
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whoisfriend
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Jeez. $2 for a week? $1 for a day?
I don't forsee this Youtube rental thing going anywhere. Especially when I can get the Funimation stuff from their site anytime for free with a few ads. Maybe if Youtube let you keep the files or offer a downloadable copy it'd be different. As of now there are enough ways to get a good deal of this stuff for free (Crunchyroll, Funimation.com, and Hulu for those Americans). Paying as much as an iTunes purchase (especially with the rumours that Apple is trying to lower the TV episode prices to $0.99 already) just seems excessive to me, especially if it isn't permanent. |
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prime_pm
 Posts: 2375 Location: Your Mother's Bedroom |
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Microsoft has the same thing going with renting movies and tv shows on 360s and Zunes, only it's four dollars a movie, five for HD, you keep it for 14 days, BUT as soon as you watch it, the length is shortened to 24 hours. Bleh
We need a Bleh emoticon. |
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Ashyukun
Posts: 7 Location: Lexington, KY |
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I can't say I'm going to be in any hurry to 'take advantage' of this anytime soon myself. I've never been fond of the 'rental' approach to TV episodes- it's why I stopped watching Xam'd on the PS3 when they started renting the episode of it in HD through the PSN. Absolutely GORGEOUS to watch in HD, but just way too expensive per pop, especially since you couldn't really go back and re-watch them later- especially since they started that about the same time CR started their first pay-to-download shows like Strike Witches, which cost less per episode (though admittedly were lower resolution/quality) and you could go back and watch the files whenever since you actually downloaded them, DRM free.
I don't think Anime Network especially has the best grasp on how to approach this reasonably, between their $7 iPhone app and this. I realize they need to make money- but they can only really do so if people will actually pay what they're asking for their products/services... |
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decepticons2
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Would not a more reasonable monthly fee be more appropriate? I am more then willing to support anime through purchases. But for these prices I might as well go to local video store and rent them.
There may be a few people that rent the odd thing. But i much prefer an all access monthly fee. If you compare this to CR model the costs for this are astronomically higher. |
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hikaru004
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But when CR introduced their rental model, people were complaining that they couldn't afford the monthly fee. Then CR introduced other ways to lower the bill (taking surveys). At least this will appeal to the limited funds crowd who will watch an ep. here and there.
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configspace
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I'd be surprised if this is even remotely successful.
By the time you're done watching an anime network rental, you've already paid the cost of a 12/13 ep season DVD set on sale. It's half the cost for a Funi title, but you might as well save up just $15 or so more for the actual DVDs and watch them streaming in the mean time (even if the stream is low quality).
Well the same people most certainly won't be renting either... And how is CR a "rental" service? FYI it's $7 a month if you pay monthly at CR or $5 a month if you pay yearly (without any of those promotional surverys either). With that small amount you get access to lots of series, whenever you want, plus simulcasts, at high quality, including 720p when available. |
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niiica
 Posts: 72 Location: Las Vegas, NV |
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$1.99 per episode? Uhm, no thank you? That's pretty expensive for just an episode.
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Asrialys
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Prices look similar to DTO stuff FUNi already does...
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egoist
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Doing that after offering the streaming for free seems to be some sort of bad move. Even with the lowest(Funimation's 1$), a 24 episode series would cost about as much as a 12 episode DVD. I'd say they could try offering subs-only for free, dub for sale(though that still seems somewhat flawed, but I guess it's their job to find a good way).
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GWOtaku
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It's one thing to do it on Playstation Network, but on youtube it simply isn't worth it. Current streaming services render this very much redundant unless they eventually unveil crazy good video quality. Of course, Youtube Shows is currently as good as it gets for video on that site, so yeah.
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
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"The YouTube rental service is currently only available in the US"
..darn. Still prefer DTO if I'm paying per-episode rather than a monthly subscription fee anyway. |
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egoist
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That depends on the amount of anime you're going to watch. CR's monthly subscription feels like a reverse rip-off to me, since I'm currently watching over 4 shows from the season, plus the ongoing ones, which would come to a total of about 30$ monthly was it not for the 7$(I think) monthly subscription. I just wish they could upgrade their bandwidth. |
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mglittlerobin
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I'd rather just stick to using Funimation's video portal, I go there all the time anyway. Why should I pay $0.99 for a rental when I can watch it free with a few commercials?
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