We need to go back to fansubbing.
Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
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Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love stories like this. I wish my school still had clubs when I was a student. My computer science teacher was speaking fondly of having doom and quake lan parties in the computer class in the evenings for students and teaching staff and even apparently some parents.
Wait, are schools with no clubs now? What do people do to fill all the time?
I was from a third world country
Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
#293I haven't watched an airing anime ever. How good are fansubs? I found it very surprising that volunteers would write subtitles for free when I became aware of the phenomenon.
Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I won't pay to stream anime, but if Blu-Rays had subs as good as what dedicated fansubs can output (incl. a possibly optional more literal translation with honorifics) AND SSA subtitles somewhere on them to be used by computers, I'd actually buy them; if they aren't butchered QTEC crap ( https://github.com/LightArrowsEXE/QTEC ), of course.
I commend you for saying this, but this is akin to saying you would gladly pay me tomorrow for a hamburger today. It doesn’t pay the bills. Perhaps a group could assemble on Patreon or other crowdfunding to acquire rights to make their own releases if they wanted to be part of a market-based solution. Would you be willing to crowdfund such an enterprise? It’s one thing to say you’ll put your money where your mouth is…
I understand what you're saying, but I'm still showing my disapproval via my wallet and not giving money to people who do a much worse (and/or unsuitable for fans instead of the general public) job than fans.
The amount of laughably bad upscales making BDs worse than the previous DVDs is just the cherry on top showing that they truly don't care about anyone with taste or discernment; they should put the DVD masters untouched on BD and they very rarely do so (Di Gi Charat had that).
Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
#295I really wish we could have had a subs/dubs marketplace. There was no way to make it a proper business when anime was becoming popular on the net, but it would solve an infinite number of problems. Could it be done now that the distribution channels are more mature in Japan ? - Japanese distributors wouldn't need middle-men for airing their shows abroad. They'd just stop region gate it and let fans inject the transla…
> Japanese distributors wouldn't need middle-men for airing their shows abroad. They'd just stop region gate it and let fans inject the translation through their players. What does it even mean? The IP[1] holding single-purpose LLCs[2] have no means of distribution on its own. They commission sweatshops and license the artifacts to TV stations and streaming services. They can sell to Western streaming services like N…
Many IP holders belong to a group like Kadokawa, which straight own several streaming platforms (dwango/niconico is a perfect example of this)
Other groups like DMM or Fuji already have their direct platform where they also stream their own content. Except they fiercely cut it from foreign registration.
They all already accept credit cards, and could further cut H content from foreign audiences if needed.
If they wanted to, they could open it internationaly tomorrow.
Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
#296I really wish we could have had a subs/dubs marketplace. There was no way to make it a proper business when anime was becoming popular on the net, but it would solve an infinite number of problems. Could it be done now that the distribution channels are more mature in Japan ? - Japanese distributors wouldn't need middle-men for airing their shows abroad. They'd just stop region gate it and let fans inject the transla…
You couldn't do this legally without cooperation from the license holders, and good luck with that.
License holders have the means to do it themselves (and keep the money), they're already bound to streaming companies.
Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm frankly puzzled by this meme. Only Bakemonogatari is sensitive to timing, and not in a good way, the rest is a matter of habit and taste, so you can't improve it.
> the rest is a matter of habit and taste, so you can't improve it This statement is incorrect. All artistic endeavors are matters of habit and taste. You absolutely can improve at matters of taste
What? It doesn't work like that. At best, they improve(?) fashion, not taste.
Re: Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?
#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
They did the same thing to their developers a few years back from what I recall. That's why the app has bugs that haven't been fixed in years . For example the sorting options on your watch list are just garbage. They aren't remembered. And "recent activity" includes adding dubs in languages I have disabled in the UI - constantly causing old shows to pop to the top of the list making it useless. Back when they had so…
I will still never complain about CrunchyRoll's apps after using HiDive for a few shows. It can't even remember shows I'm watching, let alone keep track of watched episodes, and insists on rendering subtitles with TVs' closed captioning system.
That's very true. Crunchyroll is just sad because it used to be good and feel like someone involved cared.
Funimation lowered the bar so much I thought it couldn't go lower.
Who knew HiDive would prove me wrong.