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Supporting the Anime Industry
Zalis116:
Plus, these are businesses we're talking about here, not charities.
gezenko:
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on May 18, 2013, 11:54:09 AM ---I would subscribe to CR, since the majority of airing anime are streamed at roughly the same time nowadays anyway, and the translation quality is usually pretty decent (a lot of their staff are ex-fansubbers, after all). But the video is terrible (seriously, one look at their 1080p preview put me off immediately), and I much prefer having actual files saved to my computer which I can watch any time I want, without having to worry about having an internet connection, and which I can copy to my phone to watch while travelling, or do whatever I want with.
If CR could achieve equivalent quality to fansubbers in all aspects, and were able to provide offline downloads (never gonna happen - which also means good quality won't happen, since fansub quality is too high bitrate to easily stream for most people), then I'd subscribe in an instant. But they don't, so I won't.
Also, I may be misremembering this, but didn't CR start of as a fansub group as well? Except, unlike other groups, they had the bright idea of charging people money for their releases (obviously, none of that went to the original creators). Then they made so much money that way that they were able to form a company and go legal. I'm not 100% sure if that's true or not (it was before my time), but if so, then I'd be very dubious about paying them any money. I don't want to support people who would do that kind of thing.
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I don't think Crunchyroll in itself was ever a fansub group, but I do know they initially were an illegal anime-streaming site, because they hosted a lot of copyrighted material. Eventually they made deals with companies (and eventually TV Tokyo, I believe) and became legal.
I probably won't ever subscribe to them, because fansubbers do the same job (and some groups actually have more material) for free. The biggest thing though (at least for me) is that you NEED an internet connection (which you mentioned), and that you can't rely on them to have something forever, which is why I like to either have the box set or at least a copy of the show on my hard drive.
VicViper573:
Speaking of supporting the anime industry, animesols.com has several classic anime being streamed by major anime studios like Tatsunoko. If you pledge enough money, they will put those series on DVD, such as Yatterman.
I started a thread about it but it was strangely deleted.
Tatsujin:
Speaking about this, I have no freaking idea what to do with my Spice & Wolf funimation purchase. I have to sell it off. Both Japanese versions of Spice & Wolf - Collectors Edition and Complete Edition - are way above the shitty American version from funimation and they are not altered at all. The worst decision I made so far. Well, I learned the Hard way.
Are you guys just happy with the media itself altered or unaltered? Or do you like excellent quality type versions with extra media and materials within your purchase?
Shohei-kun:
I'd prefer to watch my shows unaltered - the way the artist wanted the work to be seen. I never want to watch anything Funimation has touched since they butcher the shows to no end.
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