Forum - View topicThe Mike Toole Show - Stream Warriors
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russ869
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Yeah, I think I do remember discovering Sputnik7 right around the time I was downloading 160x120 RealMedia Dragon Ball Z episodes. Actually this was literally the very beginning of my anime fandom. Yu-gi-oh! was my gateway anime, so I was looking for episodes to download. My memory is hazy but it seems like at the time Sputnik7 only had a very few shows available (or maybe I just couldn't stream many with my crappy internet connection, or maybe I had already seen most of them elsewhere?). The only thing I remember seeing is Orguss 02. My internet connection was so bad that the streaming basically never made it passed the opening. I think "Uchū de Mita Yume" is actually the 2nd OP, but because Sputnik7 of course used the Manga DVD version of the video it was the only OP they used. It's already not a very good song, but hearing it over and over again starting and stopping constantly while my internet dropped out drove me insane and totally turned me off from watching Orguss 02 until years later when the Japanese BD came out.
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Greed1914
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I remember that. Getting to watch episodes a day ahead of the air date was cool, and I'd usually watch it again the next day since the limited amount of legal ways to watch anime meant I watched a lot of re-runs, so I was surprised to see the end of the finale cut off. Unfortunately, it seems they eventually decided that they were competing with themselves since now you need login information from your cable provider to access recent episodes, and the only ones that do that are the big cable providers. My local one isn't among them, so adult swim streaming is useless to me. Jet Stream seemed like a good idea, but it was always something of an afterthought for me, and the shows didn't really click with me at the time. I think I mostly used it to watch Naruto after it was dropped from Cartoon Network, although even that was a bit of a struggle since it was well into the filler by then. Netflix was a slow start for me, too since the anime selection was limited, and streaming started out on a system where you got one hour of streaming for each dollar spent on a subscription. That didn't last too long though. I wasn't surprised that Neon Alley closed fairly quickly. Viz DVDs would have inserts with them, so I checked it out, but I never subscribed since I didn't see much point in a linear service. They tried things like "catch-up" streams and then eventually switched to traditional streaming, but by then it was too late. I don't think it helped that the big attractions, meaning its shonen series, were already on other services anyway. |
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SpacemanHardy
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If you want to talk about obscure anime streaming services, anybody remember the video game subscription service Gametap? In addition to games, they also had a service called "Gametap TV" that came free with a paid subscription. It really didn't amount to much; basically it aired a bunch of original animated shorts like Computer Lab and old episodes of Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, but what was really interesting was they actually had the streaming rights to *one* anime: ADV's dub of Mezzo.
What's funny is that they never even got around to streaming the entire show; they stopped about halfway through once the series started getting a bit too racy. But from my brief Gametap subscription, I was able to learn about this show so that I could rent the DVDs from Netflix and finish the series. To this day the show's one of my guilty pleasures, and I ironically enough have Gametap to thank for it. |
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Puniyo
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I've used crunchyroll since pretty early to its inception. There was absolutely no ceremony to their switchover to becoming a legal site; one day it had every series pirated imaginable, and the next day, suddenly it was all gone, they were squeaky-clean, and the only series they had for ages was The Tower of Druaga. Good times.
Hilariously enough, their desktop site was a lot easier to navigate and the video player worked much better when they were a pirate site as opposed to now Thank goodness for the apps. |
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Aura Ichadora
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Even now on Gaia, people still do wish for the administration to bring back the movie theater and do other promo events related to it and occasionally ask about it during the weekly Ask The Staff. |
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Greed1914
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I didn't know they did video streaming. Then again, I only had a free account. The concept of Gametap seemed great, especially since I was in college at the time so it met my "fast internet, low funds" lifestyle, but its library never quite justified payment from me. If memory serves, the free games had expiration dates on them. |
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CandisWhite
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And, yeah, Anime Sols was here way too short a time. I remember going there every day. |
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Hiroki not Takuya
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Thanks Mike for not letting the origin of CR disappear! I was using CR and Box-Torrents when the call came with the question of whether BT should accept backing from a major money source to go "public" as a streaming site. The purists gave a resounding "NO" so as not to be sell-outs and the rest is history. BT may one day be history too, though I still check in once in a while (now is BakaBT). Maybe one day you can cover the BT drama where Box was ousted by his volunteer mods when they found how much of the donations he kept and they took over the site (as it stands today)?
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Greed1914
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So that's what happened. I had heard that there was some sort of dispute that happened, but didn't know what. I didn't know that Box Torrents considered going legitimate. |
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DmonHiro
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There's no way for Box to go legitimate. It worked for CR because they were a streaming platform. Box is torrent.
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CatSword
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Not necessarily. They could've set up a $1.99 an episode system like other download-to-own services. On a related matter, does anyone else remember when ADV used to release torrents for shows with preview material? |
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