psychopuppet wrote:
celestial_being wrote:
psychopuppet wrote:
First episode dubbed is up free on the Online Player
www.theanimenetwork.com/Anime/Book-of-Bantorra/Watch
Now we just need 2-13 up there for subscribers, sooner than 3 months or so from now.
Not going to happen. New episode every Friday from now through November 2nd 2012.
That's how the cookie crumbles around here. If you want to see it all legally dubbed before then the cheapest and fastest way is buy the two parts on DVD during the next Rightstuf Sentai sale.
Yep, because Sentai doesn't want to cater to people who would pay for the show but either can't have or don't want a physical copy, and they seem to believe that if people can easily stream the whole show that they won't buy a physical copy of it.
Sentai missed the "if watching it legally is more convenient than watching it illegally, more people will watch it legally" memo that other companies are following. It is painful to keep seeing full shows on vod without a good reason for them not being here. The technical and legal requirements have been met, the only reason Book of Bantorra isn't all here is because of tan's business "strategy", which I find to be pretty damn annoying.
When I look at it, I guess Sentai isn't loosing much money from me by not streaming the while show. I've already paid for tan, so no matter what Sentai streams they already have my money. Odds are that one of my friends will buy the DVDs and we'll watch them as a group, so Sentai gets one DVD purchase from "me" as well. I probably won't buy a physical copy though, not unless the show is incredibly awesome IMO (or the cast appears at cons near me, but that rarely happens) so Sentai has, most likely, lost a physical sale from me. So they get 130 bucks instead of 200. I don't think that'll phase em.
If I could stream the show, I'd buy it, provided that it didn't suck. If I have to wait for my friends to get the DVDs to watch it, then I won't buy the DVDs (with limited exception) because they've already been bought and I've already "supported the industry". It might not be the most rational stance around, but it's how I'm operating.
I'm not sure that the litany of streaming sites that are on Google are illegal per se, they seem to have some "legalese" disclaimer explaining that they are legal, somehow...
