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Hey, Answerman! - Haters Everywhere We Go

ArsenicSteel wrote:

Quote: And now it's even more fun when we have Hi10P, a 10-bit h.264 profile which allows for better quality in things like banding and gradients at even smaller filesizes than 8-bit. No you have a few anime technofa...technophiles bandwagoning a technology with tiny gains, poor performance, and high compatibility issues just to wag their epeen around.

That may be, but the filesizes are smaller for the same or better picture quality. And you're going to see a good number of fansubbers adopted it fully in the coming seasons.

I'll be sticking with legal streams and physical goods,..the stuff that can be played with stable technology.

"All the big cons"? Not Worldcon, not Dragon*Con?

(No, they're not exclusively anime cons, but neither is Comic-Con.)

An Apology for Fansubbing
Let's be honest, around here fansubbing is the Great Satan. And there is a lot of about fansubbing that is evil, frankly. But feel like I must make a defense of my actions, even if they are hated. When I got into this, there was a code of honour. It was a crude and crabbed sort of code, a pirate's code, but we did try to follow it. Fansubbers didn't aim to make money from it, distribution ceased after the show was licensed, and if we liked the show, we bought the DVDs after they were released. This is what I signed up for when I got into this hobby. And when I followed this code, and I did, I was the good guy, I was doing the best I could in the murky legal waters. When streaming came on and Crunchyroll went legit, the whole paradigm shifted. And suddenly I was the baddie, despite not doing anything different that before. Well, I embraced my new evil nature and became a passionate fansub defender, but I still feel rather bitter about the whole thing. It wasn't that I started being a bad guy, but rather the good guys all left me.

ArsenicSteel wrote:

I'll be sticking with legal streams and physical goods,..the stuff that can be played with stable technology.

I hope I'm misunderstanding something and you're not actually implying that some buggy flash app made in a couple hours by a stoned college student is superior to professionally engineered media players.

Fansubs had a place in anime, but frankly the idea of fansubbers caring about promoting a series and wanting it do well started disappearing 7 years ago. It became more ego driven with people plastering their names all over the releases, and claiming that they where better than the professionals.

With the rise of streaming Fansubbers have no place in anime anymore. I can now watch most series legally.

Eh I'm still using fansubs cause I like running my media player instead of a flash player, and that now I can use my keyboard shortcuts to control it as well, bigger win.

Legality of this should have never been the issue. It's all about convenience. That's how the internet works these days. More is better, as long as its not worse.

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Lately many anime's "international" names are decided by the anime production committees themselves before they are even created and sold.

"Many" doesn't cover all and can only be assumed to apply to the anime in this article. That sort of reasoning is flimsy, plus with the channel of communication being more or less closed it looks like an attempt to redirect the finger pointing to some untouchable entity for an easy cop-out.
There was no factual English subtitle or alternative title for Asobi ni Iku Yo developed prior to either CR's stream or Funi's licensing. Two different English companies had the rights and we ended up with two different English version names. Seems like the unique names were translation decisions made by the licensees to me.

Asterisk-CGY wrote:

Eh I'm still using fansubs cause I like running my media player instead of a flash player, and that now I can use my keyboard shortcuts to control it as well, bigger win. Legality of this should have never been the issue. It's all about convenience. That's how the internet works these days. More is better, as long as its not worse.

You like using fansubs because you don't want to pay for anime.