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billborden
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Much like my comments on Hulu, good quality, full screen streaming video with good sound; it's not DVD quality, but it's at least as good as standard broadcast TV. It's this type of provider channel that the industry has been looking for to combat the fan-sub industry. They will never completely kill off F-S, as there will always be people that don't want to pay, and there will always be shows that never get licensed, but now I can watch a show, get hooked and then decide to buy it or not, just like I do with my TV collection (the Simpsons are still sucking cash out of my pocket, like a spiky-haired vampire
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walw6pK4Alo
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They'll never kill off fansubs because fansubs provide you with the show immediately. Sure, they're playing Shikabane Hime (the only one that they can actually say is a fresh show) but even then it's 3 weeks behind the Japanese broadcast. Fansubs also usually give the highest quality possible (from a TV broadcast) in a download-to-keep format that you can store indefinitely, share with whomever you want, and play in any player of your choosing. It's no wonder why they're so popular. Sure, the companies might try to fight back with licensing shows and getting them on the internet faster, but the fact remains that they'll still stay on streaming, a lot of people hate streaming anime. |
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Anath_19
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Funi may be three weeks behind the Japanese broadcast, but so are the fansubs for Shikabane Hime (which makes me think that they might just be rips of the Funi videos, but I'm not gonna touch them with a ten foot pole, so I dunno). |
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Xanas
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Exactly, the fansubs are behind because none of the groups that have a lot of skill to do it faster are bothering to do it because of Funimations streaming version (and the show... well it didn't seem bad and I probably will check out a few more episodes but it was so so for the first 2 episodes)
Funimation doesn't have to eliminate fansubs altogether, they just have to limit them by making most groups not bother. There will still be a few, and really popular shows will still have fansubs but.. really popular shows will do good regardless of fansubs (or because of, even). Lets be honest, it's not the really awesome shows that the R1 industry is worried about making money on. People will be willing to buy those they are wanting to watch more than once. It's all these somewhat mediocre shows (that aren't really bad, but aren't really great either) that people will watch and move on without buying. It may be something they want to see but that doesn't make it something they necessarily want to buy. |
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Hikargh
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This is all great new and all, but there is one tiny detail that kind of bugs me. You get this neat service with new anime every week and older shows to watch at your leasure... provided you're american.
The more I think about it, the less it makes sense. Apart from being slightly racist, it can hardly be good for business to shut out half (?) the anime fans of the world. I live in a faraway place called Sweden, and being able to watch the official subtitles up-to-speed with the original broadcast would be a dream come true. But I can't, because I'm not american. In that sense, the fansubs will always be preferred, because they don't car where you're from. I hear the service is only at its beta stage yet; I really, really REALLY (really) hope they fix it in the finished version. If it's a paid subscribtion they want, I'll pay them, no problem; just don't shut us non-americans out! |
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Top Gun
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FUNimation is a company located in the R1 DVD region; as such, the only content licenses they have obtained from the Japanese production companies, including streaming rights, are for that particular region. There's no "racism" involved at all; FUNi is simply not allowed to stream their shows anywhere but the US and Canada (though the latter sometimes runs into trouble with that, for some reason I've never been able to figure out). Just about the only piece of advice I could give to you would be to contact a licensing company in your region and suggest that they try to obtain a similar streaming license.
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Hikargh
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I do realize they're not really trying to look down on other countries, but I still think the restriction is wrong and stupid. What do they have to gain from localizing a streaming service? Wouldn't they make more money if they got subscribers from all around the world? And even if it's free, wouldn't they benifit from making as many fans as possible? It's not like you can't get a hold of their R1-DVDs outside of the US; you can even find them here in Sweden. Maybe it's not entirely Funi's fault, in which case my above post goes out on the japanese companies.
And I really do wish they would start up a streaming service in sweden, but our companies here doesn't seem to take anime seriously. Surprisingly often they don't make their own subtitles (they translate the dub and use it on the japanese audio... without even including the dub!), and the picture quality is below all standards. Perhaps a streaming service is possible in the future, but I get the feeling that anime isn't big enough in sweden yet. |
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