David75
Mon, 01-17-2011, 10:02 AM
I read about this here and there, was never really interrested as fansub translation quality is often enough and encoding is always better than poor under VHS quality butcher encoding...
But thing is, even in France things move.
For example, we've had "The World God Only Knows" in simulcast and HD streaming too. By simulcast, they mean 24 hours max after the Japanese first broadcast. Not too bad.
Now we have Fractale available.
After searching into the service, it's more of a budding thing, meaning it might stop anytime... but it's at least working and perfectly legal.
To top it all, they had an agreement with a TV channel aimed at geeks, that did broadcast "The World God Only Knows". That channel is called Nolife , yeah I know :cool: . Thing is, this is a very active french ADSLTV channel to promot J-music. I would never have known that groups like Uplift spice, The Back Horn or 8otto exist if they were not there.
Then I know that those offers come with heavy advertising, their catalog is small and will probably be restricted to a few shows per year. Still, it's better than nothing I guess.
After the DBZ, Hokuto no Ken and Saint Seiya era in France, anime has been "expelled" from our screens (almost totally, can't be sure as I stopped watching TV around that time)
It's nice we have new "free" alternatives, as you needed to watch anime either on pay channels or other sources.
We'll see what happens in the months/years to come.
But seriously, we needs ways of getting in touch with cultural material from other cultures/countries. And yes, TV shows, anime etc.. also are part of the culture.
I still think it's a shame we cannot easily access to shows around the globe, even in their original language... for free when the TV broadcast is, of course.
I'm also very angry a service like Hulu is so stricly closed to connections outside the USA (I know you can try to work around that restriction, but free alternatives aren't that good)
But who knows, maybe someday people will use their brains and remember earth is a small village.
But thing is, even in France things move.
For example, we've had "The World God Only Knows" in simulcast and HD streaming too. By simulcast, they mean 24 hours max after the Japanese first broadcast. Not too bad.
Now we have Fractale available.
After searching into the service, it's more of a budding thing, meaning it might stop anytime... but it's at least working and perfectly legal.
To top it all, they had an agreement with a TV channel aimed at geeks, that did broadcast "The World God Only Knows". That channel is called Nolife , yeah I know :cool: . Thing is, this is a very active french ADSLTV channel to promot J-music. I would never have known that groups like Uplift spice, The Back Horn or 8otto exist if they were not there.
Then I know that those offers come with heavy advertising, their catalog is small and will probably be restricted to a few shows per year. Still, it's better than nothing I guess.
After the DBZ, Hokuto no Ken and Saint Seiya era in France, anime has been "expelled" from our screens (almost totally, can't be sure as I stopped watching TV around that time)
It's nice we have new "free" alternatives, as you needed to watch anime either on pay channels or other sources.
We'll see what happens in the months/years to come.
But seriously, we needs ways of getting in touch with cultural material from other cultures/countries. And yes, TV shows, anime etc.. also are part of the culture.
I still think it's a shame we cannot easily access to shows around the globe, even in their original language... for free when the TV broadcast is, of course.
I'm also very angry a service like Hulu is so stricly closed to connections outside the USA (I know you can try to work around that restriction, but free alternatives aren't that good)
But who knows, maybe someday people will use their brains and remember earth is a small village.