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NEWS: Kurozuka's 1st Episode Streamed by Crackle in U.S.


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twinklestarex



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:31 am Reply with quote
yuna49 wrote:
Sony distributed the Animax Asia version of Nodame Cantabile with English dubbing on Crackle for a while a year or so ago. Then they suddenly and inexplicably blocked US viewers. The reason for the blocking was never explained, but it certainly wasn't because they were planning to release Nodame in R1 on optical discs.


I think they removed that already..

Animax Asia never aired Kurozuka cause another cable TV channel aired that one(its Thrill Channel Asia co-owned by Saban).

Hoping Ocean will dub Nodame Paris and Finale for Animax and Crackle. Laughing
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yuna49



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 9:42 am Reply with quote
twinklestarex wrote:
yuna49 wrote:
Sony distributed the Animax Asia version of Nodame Cantabile with English dubbing on Crackle for a while a year or so ago. Then they suddenly and inexplicably blocked US viewers. The reason for the blocking was never explained, but it certainly wasn't because they were planning to release Nodame in R1 on optical discs.

I think they removed that already.

Not only did they not remove the block, they removed Nodame from the service entirely as far as I can tell. I browsed the shows on the Animax page at Crackle and did a site search for Nodame. All I get are a couple of press releases, but the episodes themselves do not appear.

The URL that once worked for Nodame, http://www.crackle.com/c/Nodame_Cantabile/, now redirects to the home page after a 404 error.

I'm in the US; YMMV.
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Mr. sickVisionz



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:35 pm Reply with quote
vulcanraven01 wrote:
Saw the show when it was released and enjoyed it alot. Not the sort of thing that would turn a profit over here though, especially dubbed.


I thought the US loved hyper violent ultra bloody anime... it wouldn't put up Cowboy Bebop or DBZ numbers but I think it would do as well as stuff like Shigurui, Gungrave, Hellsing, etc.

It's weird to me that something with all of this work put in for an English release doesn't actually have an English release. There was a time where I thought print-on-demand systems would basically eliminate situations like this where maybe a company didn't think a full 5,000+ manufacturing run would be worth it or they didn't have space to store said inventory, but alas I guess that isn't the case.
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agila61



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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 2:49 pm Reply with quote
Mr. sickVisionz wrote:
... It's weird to me that something with all of this work put in for an English release doesn't actually have an English release. ...

Could be that Sony thought it was weird too, and so they decided to stream it on Crackle to see if they could attract some interest.

After all, the dub was already paid for by the pan-Asian cable broadcast (see above which channel it aired on), so even a small-run specialist like Nozomi could distribute it as a dub.

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There was a time where I thought print-on-demand systems would basically eliminate situations like this where maybe a company didn't think a full 5,000+ manufacturing run would be worth it or they didn't have space to store said inventory, but alas I guess that isn't the case.

There's still the media mastering, subtitling and, for normal dub releases that do not already have a dub track, the dubbing costs. If the sales volume can cover that, the finances work out better for a manufacturing run than for DVDoD. If there is expected to be too much unsold inventory at 5,000, they'd just order a smaller run.

DVDoD would be more about having a small run and using DVDoD to keep it in print, but you still have extra up-front costs with the DVDoD release, and if the market for small runs tends toward thinpacks, that's not a very DVDoD friendly format.

However, if the market shifts to majority BD / minority DVD, I could see DVDoD used to cater to the DVD side of the market to back a BD only main release.
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twinklestarex



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:40 am Reply with quote
Crackle removed Nodame Season 1 cause they don't want to sell the DVD R1 version of it in the U.S-Canadian market.Though I hope Nozomi,Media Blasters and others will pick up this series alongside with Nodame Paris-hen and Finale.
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ArsenicSteel



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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:54 am Reply with quote
twinklestarex wrote:
Crackle removed Nodame Season 1 cause they don't want to sell the DVD R1 version of it in the U.S-Canadian market.Though I hope Nozomi,Media Blasters and others will pick up this series alongside with Nodame Paris-hen and Finale.


Fact(link please) or speculation?
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