×
  • remind me tomorrow
  • remind me next week
  • never remind me
Subscribe to the ANN Newsletter • Wake up every Sunday to a curated list of ANN's most interesting posts of the week. read more

Forum - View topic
NEWS: Funimation to Stream Anime Samples on Joost for Free




Note: this is the discussion thread for this article

Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
abstract-alchemist



Joined: 18 Jun 2008
Posts: 65
Location: Hawaii
PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:26 pm Reply with quote
Y'know, I like viz's deal better, since naruto is subtitled. I'd be much more motivated to watch the samples if they were in Japanese. Sorry, but this doesn't really fit my purposes.

It'd be pretty cool if Mushishi were subtitled.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime My Manga
Greed1914



Joined: 28 Oct 2007
Posts: 4410
PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:06 am Reply with quote
I'm the opposite. Dubbed is the way for me. Also, this fits in line with something I remember from when ADV was allowing Crunchyroll to show some of NHK. With that they basically said that the English version is what they're responsible for so naturally they want to promote it. I obviously don't know for sure if that's the thinking here, but that's what makes sense to me.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
hikaru004



Joined: 15 Mar 2004
Posts: 2306
PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:22 am Reply with quote
But joost carries subtitled versions of other anime titles so FUNi could be less stingy with the subtitles versions. People who download fansubs aren't doing it for the English dub.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Takeyo



Joined: 25 Mar 2008
Posts: 736
PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:18 am Reply with quote
It's nice to see that some of these episodes are giving the option for either subs or dubs. So much of the legal on line content out there (not just anime) is dub only, which has never made sense to me given the digital format.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message My Anime My Manga
writerpatrick



Joined: 29 Mar 2006
Posts: 670
Location: Canada
PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:10 am Reply with quote
This appears to be much of the same stuff that Funimation has been airing on it's YouTube channel. There's tons of other streaming sites they could host their stuff on as well.

And most people who download fansubs do it because they just want the show, regardless of whether it's dub or sub. People will download dubs as well. Please don't turn this into a dub vs sub debate.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
hikaru004



Joined: 15 Mar 2004
Posts: 2306
PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:43 pm Reply with quote
No one's turning this into a sub vs dub. So chill.

People who download are downloading English subtitled for the most part. If FUNi is doing this to combat the fansubs that are still in distribution, then FUNi needs to put more subbed stuff up there.

If FUNi is doing it to advertise their work, then what they're doing is fine but they are excluding a part of the audience. FUNi should offer both in all of their titles.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Top Gun



Joined: 28 Sep 2007
Posts: 4563
PostPosted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 1:10 pm Reply with quote
hikaru004 wrote:
People who download are downloading English subtitled for the most part. If FUNi is doing this to combat the fansubs that are still in distribution, then FUNi needs to put more subbed stuff up there.

But are they downloading it subtitled for the most part because they have an honest preference, or simply because the vast majority of downloadable anime out there is subtitled...particularly the just-released episodes that most people would be watching in the first place? Personal preference obviously has some impact, but I highly doubt you'd see every single Naruto fan drop the series if, by some magical turn of circumstances, the only way it was available was in dubbed form. It's really a matter of convenience.

Note that I'm not arguing that FUNi shouldn't offer streams of both languages, as far as it is able to. The technology exists, so such a request seems reasonable. At the same time, though, the dubbed version of the show is FUNi's primary product, so if the option exists to only make available one version, it only makes sense that they would go with the dubs.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Reply to topic    Anime News Network Forum Index -> Site-related -> Talkback All times are GMT - 5 Hours
Page 1 of 1

 


Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group