Forum - View topicNEWS: HIDIVE to End Service in Certain Areas Outside N. America on December 14
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LegitPancake
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Some on social media received messages from Hidive support that said they will only be available in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia. Which is even worse than Funimation pre-2020 since at least they usually included New Zealand which is almost always tied to AU rights… This is really a shame. Hopefully Sentai will attempt to sublicense regional rights to local partners, but I can see a lot of regions falling through the cracks.
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MarshalBanana
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In that case, when they licence titles, they should stop getting worldwide rights.
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el_morris
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No big loss so I don't care. They never landed properly here in México, they have a poor catalog, only a third part of it has spanish subtitles and godawful apps for 100 pesos (aprox, because they charge their service in dollars), and the spanish subtitles for the current simulcasts takes a week to be released, but the thing is where am I going to watch legally their licenses? Rumors say in Netflix but there's no news about it.
Oh, and as for any gringo saying "no, Crunchyroll now has the anime monopoly", please shut up, you have no idea how's the thing outside the US, just keep on your own business |
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Marzan
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It annoys to me no end that they don’t give some sort of explanation of why other than some generic PR bs that says nothing conclusive.
I fear that a lot of titles will end up in licensing limbo for people outside the anglophone bubble. |
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MFrontier
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On a list of bad business decisions...this is pretty high up there.
I'm sorry for anyone outside the US who has HIDIVE pick up shows they want to watch. |
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chium
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I live in Chile, and I received the service termination notice.
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Kiwi93
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Yea it’s a terrible situation for those outside of the U.S, what’s unfortunate is that for a lot of people who wanted to watch these shows legally now they’ll pretty much be forced to pirate. |
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paulchaested
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What a kick in the nuts for MBS and people outside English speaking territories. |
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Romuska
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I gave Hi-Dive a chance and I’m from the US. But I use an Apple TV which makes a big chunk of the catalog unavailable so I don’t use it anymore.
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Greed1914
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I'm guessing that it amounts to those regions being too costly for what they get from them, but a company is rarely going to plainly state something like that and potentially give information to the competition in the process. I do think people have a point here that acquiring rights to regions that a company doesn't intend to serve isn't good. Some sort of local company that could make a go of it might pass because they can't secure content. Although, I do wonder how much of that is coming from the Japanese end where a company has to license more regions than it wants to get it at all? |
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tfwnoymir
 Posts: 325 Location: Hungary |
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It feels like the beginning of the end to me, doesn't it? In practice, it was already in effect, I was not able to access HiDIVE for almost a year at this point. What goes around, comes around, I guess. I can't even call them underdogs with a good heart, with such opaque business decisions, especially lately, they might as well hit the dirt for all I care.
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coates32
 Subscriber Posts: 46 Location: USA |
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I remember that this has to do with Apple being weird about mature rated content. Here's the tweet from HiDive: https://twitter.com/HIDIVEofficial/status/1250221309256249345?lang=en |
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SilverTalon01
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The HiDive app is garbage. Ideally I'd like competition, but I wouldn't be unhappy to see it die and the shows end up on another platform. Preferably not Netflix or Hulu. Crunchy's is garbage as well, but not nearly as bad. I don't know why they ditched the Funi app which had proper language support and a skip intro button (which Crunchy only has on mobile versions and browsers).
That seems really odd to do for a streaming app. I've never watched Netflix on my phone, but do mature series on there get blocked? I'm guessing not. |
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Sevokevo Royuki
 Posts: 303 Location: Texas |
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In all honesty… I really do not like their layout on both the app and website and also don’t like how they don’t sync up properly if I want to go back and forth. |
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Silver Kirin
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Not to mention the few Spanish dubs that Sentai made for series such as DanMachi, Akame ga Kill! and Shokugeki no Soma were even worse that the infamous My Hero Academia Neutral Spanish dub that Funimation comissioned when they entered the Latin American market Don't know how thing will work now, maybe Netflix, Crunchyroll and perhaps even Anime Onegai can license some of HiDive titles for the Latin American market |
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