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Sahmbahdeh
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Interesting, and hopefully a good sign. I wonder what this will mean for Crunchyroll going forward. More of the same, but better? New features? I also wonder what they mean by "original content initiatives".
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mangamuscle
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So the heat is on to get into as many (profitable) production committed as possible. Maybe they would also use some of those funds for dubbing new series.
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SpacemanHardy
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And yet, I bet you Crunchyroll will still fall back on the old "We don't have enough money" excuse to keep them from dubbing anything.
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Saeglopur25
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When did they say this? What shows were they being asked about? |
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_Quasar_
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Well I'd rather them not waste money on dubs. I'd prefer to see more content. More manga would especially be welcome as the scanlation of currently non translated manga gets squeezed.
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encrypted12345
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That shouldn't become a priority of Crunchyroll until they start selling DVD's like Funimation. Crunchyroll only gets the license to stream certain titles, not to sell them like Funimation does. |
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enurtsol
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Some more interesting tidbits from the source:
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13555 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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One of the comments from the link was from a Glen Watson and he said:
I don't know how he comes to that conclusion. For a non-subscribing member, there could be at least longer ads (at least for me when I'm not logged in, there's 3 commercial break indicators). I am also only speculating that with this high investment, perhaps we can get more simulpub titles. |
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relyat08
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^That second part is extremely intriguing to me.
I can see this working out pretty well for them. I have a weird level of trust in the way that Crunchyroll does business. |
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teferi
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Has he even looked at Hulu's anime section lately? I'm pretty much ready to switch to them because they get Funi, Viz and CR's content anyways. Some of it's on a delay but I'll put up with that instead of having to sub to Funi and CR for about the same price as Hulu's no commercials sub.
I really doubt that the group of people that are not subbing to CR makes up a significant enough portion of their audience that it would net them enough subs to justify the added cost. |
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Spotlesseden
Posts: 3514 Location: earth |
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Hulu doesn't have all the cr shows and hulu has ads unless you pay more. hulu just has daisuki and funi shows. Daisuki shows are normally on CR.
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TheAncientOne
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Hulu also has Sentai shows. Although for current season shows those are often a longer delay (as much as 30 days), that and the Aniplex titles gives them a healthy chunk of what is on CR. That said, there would still be some shows one would miss out on with Hulu alone. Personally, I prefer to subscribe 12 months at a time to both CR and Funimation, and I'll save the commercial free Hulu sub for when I have the time to make use of it, at which time I can catch up on Viz titles and some others that are only on Hulu. |
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mangamuscle
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Neither Netflix sells discs, but nevertheless they dubbed The Seven Deadly Sins (even to spanish!). Hint: To expand their user base, crunchy will sooner or later need to add dubs, at least for the top of the line shows of the season, otherwise new subscribers will go to Funi or even Hulu since TBT, casual viewers are not used to reading subtitles at all. |
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AbZeroNow
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Actually, I could see them considering dubs for a Free! BD for Discotek or Strike the Blood BD for Discotek(if StB had gotten enough streaming numbers for CR to justify one) since Discotek distributes series that CR had gotten home video rights for. And a CR-produced Free! dub with Bang Zoom or Okraton would be better than that Eternal Summer dudebro crap that Funi did. |
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kusanagi-sama
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Not mentioned, is that I heard that Crunchyroll is in the top 10 of streaming sites in the US.
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