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Jih2
Joined: 24 Jul 2007
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| Quote: | | and other titles every weekly starting this month. |
I think you're trying to say "every week" or maybe I'm just retarded.
Ultimately if the R1 companies want more business this is probably the best way but I'm getting sick and tired of morons who don't look over ANN to see what's licensed, what's going on, etc. They just sort of search the web assume nothing's licensed or don't even think about it, watch stuff wherever they can because it's free, etc. Those of us willing to dig for information on a series, how it's being released, where we can buy it the cheapest online, etc are once again forced to roll our eyes but I guess that's how it has to be, at this point I think they can only do what they think might possibly sort of help the industry. |
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Splitter
Joined: 19 May 2003
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Location: Knockin' on Heaven's Door
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:10 pm |
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| This seems like a good move to me. From the way it looks, these are all titles that are not profitting on DVD like FUNi would probably like them too (let's face it, Mushishi's a critical masterpiece, but the average viewer still thinks its boring). Putting up full episodes of shows that aren't performing up to par sounds like a great way to stir up interest and purchase potential. |
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marie-antoinette
Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Location: Toronto
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:35 pm |
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| daxomni wrote: | | You want some help finding a proxy? |
Thanks, but I've already downloaded the entire season anyway. I don't understand why Canada doesn't get to air at the same time as the States, especially when apparently there is significant Canadian funding for the show (I forget what organization is thanked in the credits). I suppose CBC has to figure out what to cut to make it only soft core porn  |
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kashicat
Joined: 07 Apr 2008
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Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:25 pm |
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I think even when a Canadian team helps in the production of a lot of these shows, they have to agree to let them be broadcast in the other country first. For example, with CBC co-created the new Doctor Who series with the BBC, we always had to see the episodes a week after they saw them in the U.K. (And for the second season, if I recall, we couldn't see the entire season until it had shown both in the U.K. and the U.S. first.)
And actually, even when a Canadian network has bought a show from an American company, it has to show in the U.S. before we can see it here -- which is why you so often get the phenomenon of a show being on Tuesday in the U.S. and then on Wednesday in Canada. (Or the even more irritating phenomenon of a Canadian network having to scramble to rearrange its broadcast schedule if an American network moves a show to a different night.)
Anyway, it seems to be that way in Canada most of the time, which is too bad. |
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v1cious
Joined: 31 Dec 2002
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:29 pm |
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| can they really get away with Blue Gender? i'm not really sure this meets Youtube's standards. |
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Mohawk52
Joined: 16 Oct 2003
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Location: Celebrating Lindsey Hawker murder suspect arrest, in Basingstoke, UK.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:52 pm |
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| Youtube Standards? Youtube? Standards? It's a joke yeah? |
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Kireek
Joined: 01 Jul 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:39 pm |
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| v1cious wrote: | | can they really get away with Blue Gender? i'm not really sure this meets Youtube's standards. |
In jest to you have you never searchen on youtube for ermmmm sertain subjects |
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Primus
Joined: 01 Mar 2006
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Location: Home of the Only Canadian MLB Team
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:11 pm |
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| kashicat wrote: | I think even when a Canadian team helps in the production of a lot of these shows, they have to agree to let them be broadcast in the other country first. For example, with CBC co-created the new Doctor Who series with the BBC, we always had to see the episodes a week after they saw them in the U.K. (And for the second season, if I recall, we couldn't see the entire season until it had shown both in the U.K. and the U.S. first.)
And actually, even when a Canadian network has bought a show from an American company, it has to show in the U.S. before we can see it here -- which is why you so often get the phenomenon of a show being on Tuesday in the U.S. and then on Wednesday in Canada. (Or the even more irritating phenomenon of a Canadian network having to scramble to rearrange its broadcast schedule if an American network moves a show to a different night.)
Anyway, it seems to be that way in Canada most of the time, which is too bad. |
This may have been the case in the past, but it's almost nonexistant now(only exceptions sometimes being CW, and MTV shows). A lot of US network TV airs on Canadian television at the same time with the US network affilates that are available in Canada simulacasting with the Canadian broadcast(this is the reason we don't have those niffty Super Bowl Commercials). Heck there are even times(mostly with CTV) in which we get a US show a day or two before the US, evident in the broadcasts of Pushing Daisies, because the Canadian network has another show planned on the same day and time as the US broadcast of that show.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to see Blue Gender this way, I was always interested in this show but never found the original release, or the various boxsets in B&M stores. |
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Ggultra2764
Joined: 21 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:41 pm |
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| v1cious wrote: | | can they really get away with Blue Gender? i'm not really sure this meets Youtube's standards. |
They may edit it to TV standards like it was done for Adult Swim and the Funimation Channel.
As for the online channel, at least there is now one anime distributor promoting their stuff on Youtube now. If this online channel goes well enough, then perhaps others like Bandai and ADV will hop onto the band wagon. More people go online to be exposed to advertising for anime since such promoting isn't so mainstream for anime. |
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rocklobster
Joined: 22 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:44 pm |
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| Hey, I like FUNimation, so this's a great idea! And youtube got me interested in some stuff that I might buy when I have the funds, so we Youtube fans aren't all cheapskates, OK? |
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marie-antoinette
Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:35 am |
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| Primus wrote: | | Heck there are even times(mostly with CTV) in which we get a US show a day or two before the US, evident in the broadcasts of Pushing Daisies, because the Canadian network has another show planned on the same day and time as the US broadcast of that show. |
I was going to bring that up. With the regular US shows, they are usually on at the same time slot, or at least the same day. It seems to be more the exception than the rule that they would go later (I can only think of one from the current series, Gossip Girl, which had finished airing in the US before CTV started playing it again, but that might have been so that they had new content longer, though that's just a theory). But generally the only real difference is timeslot, which is sometimes changed because often I've found that CTV airs two shows which actually run against each other in the US (I believe Grey's Anatomy and CSI were up against each other, when they are shown back-to-back in Canada).
Also, I believe one delay with Dr Who was because CBC wanted to show something sports related (I'm thinking hockey, but I'm not sure...I just remember my old roommate complaining about it since sports are not her thing, while Dr Who is). |
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