Forum - View topicNEWS: Funimation, BONES Anime on PlayStation Video Service
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2231 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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Well, you've convinced me. Oh wait, I live in Tokyo, so I can't purchase it. Do'h. Normally I don't pay twice as much for exclusivity, and exclusivity pricing only works when there's significant demand and you're in a market with little competition. E.g. I might be the only person on the street that sells Coke, but I still can't charge twice as much for a soda if everyone else on the street sells pepsi. They might have this anime exclusively for now, but it's still competing with everything else on the PSN service. |
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mdo7
 Posts: 6253 Location: Katy, Texas, USA |
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When I heard Funimation put the anime on Playstation Network video store, I was kind of excited. So I went over to Funimation's youtube profile.
http://www.youtube.com/user/FUNimation (you can leave your thank you on their profile if you have a youtube account) I went to the Playstation store via PC. I saw what kind of anime they put on there. I saw Trinity Blood, Samurai 7, Kiddy Grade, Basilisk, and other great anime. I thinkj Funimation should try putting these anime subbed also just for the sub lovers like me. I would love Funimation to put these anime on PSN store both dubbed and subbed (if possible, put a HD one also): Negima One Piece uncut Dragonball Z uncut Fullmetal Alchemist Hellsing Ouran High School Host Club (try putting those before releasing it on DVD) Fruit Basket (I heard the PSP is not getting enough appeal to girls, maybe Funi can change their mind) School Rumble Rumbling Hearts Degrassi: The next Generation (not a anime, but something from funimation to reach teen audiences) It's a only a matter of time before ADV, Viz Media, Bandai, Manga Entertainment, Media Blaster, and Right Stuf will ask Sony to put their anime (which is kind of cool and I don't mind) on PSN store. So we got both Itune, directnload, and PSN video Store as digital distributors of anime. How can buying anime be so good? |
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DmonHiro
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I'll wait for the fansubs to watch this new show. Like I said, these prices and retal periods are BS. I can pay and only have it for 24 hours, or I can get it for free and have it forever. Not much of a choice if you ask me
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Jetto
 Posts: 49 Location: Hattiesburg, MS |
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I'm going to at least download the first episode...I need something to do on my ps3 since I have finished metal gear. ><
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Zoe
 Posts: 898 Location: Austin |
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PSN games have been keeping me busy for the past year. |
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edzieba
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Looks like anyone outside the US is stuck with piracy, as usual. According to Crunchyroll, only 36% of their viewers are from the US, so even assuming that every potential viewer of Xamdou owns a PS3 and is willing to pay exorbitant amounts for an incredibly short rental period, Sony are still only hitting a third of the possible audience at most.
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Pepperidge
 Posts: 1104 Location: British Columbia, Canada |
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Yep, looks like the PS Video Service doesn't even exist in Canada. And I was actually considering paying the obscene price to rent that first episode of Xam'd, too.
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walw6pK4Alo
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I just downloaded a PSP rip which I guess originally came from the store. Not gonna say where, and quality is kinda lacking on it. Oh well, 4 dollars for a rental deserves to be stolen.
I like it thus far, kinda has that Eureka 7 feel, along with some Miyazaki elements and Escaflowne. Though for the other shows, I do like the $1.99 for keeps, as that stays within the two dollar rule. |
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WhtHawk
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I wouldn't plan on that any time soon. Funimation is doing dub only for their other digital distribution outlets at the moment. I doubt they'll spend the time to prepare even more copies just for the PS Video Store unless it proves to be quite popular. |
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Zoe
Posts: 898 Location: Austin |
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Except being popular with only dubs just proves to them that they don't need the subs 
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Nomeru
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Though I may not be able to afford all of them, I'm renting this episode at least. (I've got enough for all of them I suppose, but eh supposing it's a 26 ep series, I'm not paying over $110 to see all of it, sorry (tax included).) I'm waiting for it to finish now.
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
 Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
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You know, this is basically "I stole licensed property". This is you coming here to brag about having downloaded an Xbox game or watching a camrip. Sony made it available legally and you made up some arbitrary rules that in your mind make it OK to steal it. Nobody cares what your personal rules are. You may as well be downloading DVD rips. Enjoy your ban. |
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therealssjlink
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2 fanservice-heavy episodes of Burst Angel are not on the service :X
16 (that's the swimsuit one, right?) and 23. |
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2231 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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Hmm, I was wondering why certain episodes seemed not to be on PSN... is there any more evidence of them removing episodes because of content or is this just a fluke? For all we know that episode of xam'd is heavily edited and you'll have to pay for the blu-ray to see the "uncut" version. Here's hoping that Sony isn't foolish enough to try and set some kind of arbitrary standards for anime when letting you rent R rated movies on the same service. |
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bayoab
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