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Post by Lance Uppercut on Feb 8, 2024 14:09:11 GMT -5
www.theverge.com/2024/2/8/24065940/funimation-shutdown-crunchyroll-digital-librarySays funimation, but sounds like just their app/website/streaming service. I’m out of the loop, does the original company still exist? As in the company we know for producing and distributing dragon ball to the us ? Anyways, yeah sounds awful their digital library not totally carrying over. Hope this reminds people why physical is still important. We keep losing things everytime the wwe network changes hands.
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Post by Cyno on Feb 8, 2024 14:23:21 GMT -5
The Funimation dubbing studio and distributor changed their name to Crunchyroll a couple of years ago. This sounds like one of those things where Sony, their parent company, is consolidating everything and doing it in an unsurprisingly customer-hostile way.
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 8, 2024 16:11:24 GMT -5
The Funimation dubbing studio and distributor changed their name to Crunchyroll a couple of years ago. This sounds like one of those things where Sony, their parent company, is consolidating everything and doing it in an unsurprisingly customer-hostile way. Pretty much this, yes. |
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Feb 8, 2024 17:24:44 GMT -5
I feel like removing digital content even after you paid for it and then asking double the normal price to see it again via subscription is the modern day version of kidnapping someone and holding them for ransom.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 8, 2024 17:35:38 GMT -5
I feel like removing digital content even after you paid for it and then asking double the normal price to see it again via subscription is the modern day version of kidnapping someone and holding them for ransom. From what I’ve read, Funimation never sold digital downloads, you just had the ability to access content you bought on DVD from their streaming library without being a subscriber. So as long as you weren’t one of those douches who would buy a DVD, claim the digital copy and then sell the DVD the next day you should be fine. |
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Post by burdette25159 on Feb 8, 2024 19:25:44 GMT -5
I feel like removing digital content even after you paid for it and then asking double the normal price to see it again via subscription is the modern day version of kidnapping someone and holding them for ransom. From what I’ve read, Funimation never sold digital downloads, you just had the ability to access content you bought on DVD from their streaming library without being a subscriber. So as long as you weren’t one of those douches who would buy a DVD, claim the digital copy and then sell the DVD the next day you should be fine. And those anime DVDs are going to raise in price on ebay |
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Feb 8, 2024 19:29:08 GMT -5
From what I’ve read, Funimation never sold digital downloads, you just had the ability to access content you bought on DVD from their streaming library without being a subscriber. So as long as you weren’t one of those douches who would buy a DVD, claim the digital copy and then sell the DVD the next day you should be fine. And those anime DVDs are going to raise in price on ebay They’re anime DVD’s, they weren’t reasonably priced to begin with. I don’t know what the market was like in the US, but here in Canada 3 episodes on a DVD started at like $50 and a season or series started at $150+. It was not a cost effective hobby until like 2010 or later haha |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Feb 8, 2024 19:32:40 GMT -5
And those anime DVDs are going to raise in price on ebay They’re anime DVD’s, they weren’t reasonably priced to begin with. I don’t know what the market was like in the US, but here in Canada 3 episodes on a DVD started at like $50 and a season or series started at $150+. It was not a cost effective hobby until like 2010 or later haha Imagine being a fan back when it was VHS and laserdiscs. 3 dubbed episodes of Ranma 1/2 on vhs was 25 bucks plus either 5 for shipping and waiting up to 5 weeks or free shipping and wait 2 months for the Record bar store in the mall to finally get a copy in. I dropped 70 bucks I thinnk it was for Akira on Laserdisc. Pretty much after vhs the only anime I got on DVD or Blu ray is Robotech and Speed Racer. The rest I will stream before paying the high prices. |
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 9, 2024 2:47:37 GMT -5
Can they please move Steins;Gate's dub over to Crunchyroll now then? It's been very jarringly absent for a long time.
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