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NEWS: HIDIVE Streams 4 Former Anime Strike-Exclusive Titles

This further suggests that the Amazon-Sentai deal could indeed be over. If that is the case, I hope the move to HIDIVE is profitable enough for Sentai, and that they will be able to compete with Funi-CR for top quality shows.

This is quite interesting. I'm surprised that Amazon's side of the deal didn't come with completely exclusive streaming rights.

angelmcazares wrote:

This further suggests that the Amazon-Sentai deal could indeed be over. If that is the case, I hope the move to HIDIVE is profitable enough for Sentai, and that they will be able to compete with Funi-CR for top quality shows.

Unless AnimeStrike is dead, I don't see HIDIVE getting anything great since Crunchyroll, Funimation, Aniplex, Viz, AnimeStrike, Netflix could outbid them for many of the show specially that Funimation is getting more fund from Sony.

Crunchyroll and Funimation are the thougher competition because Aniplex USA gets like 2 titles per season, Viz only gets 1-2 shows per season, Amazon seems content with their Noitamina and Animeism deals and Netflix seems to be moving away from licencing to focus on developing true anime originals.

With 35+ new shows debuting every season, there is enough for every company. Sentai can probably license 6-8 shows per season. The big question is how many of those shows are of top quality, and not just leftovers.

I believe that 1 or 2 probably are quality while the rest are scrapped. Crunchyroll and Funimation are trying to get all the big quality shows and since Funi are getting more funds from Sony, they are able to get more shows so it make it harder on Sentai. I am happy that Netflix are doing their original anime so I don't have to worry for months to see an anime delay for a season. Well I hoping that AnimeStrike just have timed exclusives anime license from now on.

Maybe once Hidive gets out of beta, but right now they are an exercise in frustration. Their player and website are buggy, requiring a half-dozen or more page refreshes to get the video to load, or show subs, or show the right subs, or not show subs when you're watching a dub. It seems to randomly decide at times that you're using more than one stream when you are clearly not.

Their library is good, and this shows they can puck up some good series, but I much rather they get their platform working properly than rushing to build up a library that is so difficult to watch. They have the potential to be a major force in the streaming business, but I'd like them to fix their service first so the effort at collecting titles isn't wasted.

Maybe once Hidive gets out of beta, but right now they are an exercise in frustration. Their player and website are buggy, requiring a half-dozen or more page refreshes to get the video to load, or show subs, or show the right subs, or not show subs when you're watching a dub. It seems to randomly decide at times that you're using more than one stream when you are clearly not.

Their library is good, and this shows they can puck up some good series, but I much rather they get their platform working properly than rushing to build up a library that is so difficult to watch. They have the potential to be a major force in the streaming business, but I'd like them to fix their service first so the effort at collecting titles isn't wasted.

Don’t you think the problem lies with your internet / computer? Because the site works fine for me.

It just requires - by my standard - ridiculous internet speed for higher quality streams (Land of the Lustrous sometimes required 10mbs for 720 where CR only requires less than 4mbs. So yeah, if Hidive could pick some streaming speeds and stick to it, that would be great.

Being that I have 100 Mbps download internet, my PC has a Ryzen CPU and Vega GPU, that no other streaming service I use has any of these issues (Crunchyroll, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu), in addition to multiple attempts at troubleshooting, and further confirmation of the same issues on other devices, and that it has been persistent from the time I signed up for the streaming service, no, I don't think it's an issue with my PC or my internet connection.