Toon Zone Talkback - Hulu.com and Joost.com Now Offering Free Streaming Anime

Hopefully for One Piece fans, this is something that can be more acceptable than airing it on FUNi YouTube channel. That is if they can get it on Hulu.
 
Whoa. I hadn't even heard of this place, but that's a pretty impressive start there. Looks like a great opportunity for me to check out Mushi-Shi, at least.
 
That's really cool. I think I might rewatch a couple of favorite Death Note's for the heck of it, and might even check out some Astro Boy for myself.
 
Subbed Naruto on Hulu.com? This is pretty much the biggest digital distribution news ever. As long as they keep adding episodes and don't take any down, this is going to be a significant step in the right direction. And I'm saying that as someone who can't even view Hulu.com in his country.
 
Great. I like Hulu and now they've got anime. They have some on Netflix, too, but I guess that's only available to subscribers and anyway the selection is limited.
 
I'll just repost here what I posted in another thread on another forum about this:

Okay, first off, I'm not pleased that this service is region locked considering that I live in Canada. I'm hoping Hulu will provide additional viewing for Canadians in the near future. Next, ad supported streams is a wise move considering that sponsorship can help bring in the revenue based on viewership and thus, help with supporting the industry through promotion and licensing. However, I still can't help but think that people can just slide the playback bar to skip the commercial breaks and thus, get back to their show.

One more thing about this service is it is doing something that had me pondering one important possibility: making television viewership obsolete.

Now, television right now isn't going anywhere but with the growing popularity of watching full episodes of shows online, I can't help but think that people in the future may just choose to ditch the ol' boob tube and resort to the CRT tube instead. Is this the future of entertainment viewership?
 
Hulu has a good habit of tossing in shows by the season, and the video quality is gorgeous, even at full screen. Which is why I'm glad Funi is looking at other means to online distribute than youtube.

I think they have a small tv airing-uploading ratio, seeing as how they give new Monk a week to air before uploading, so hopefully I can stay current on Dub Bleach.



That's what I've done for the past month. One commercial interruption. I don't miss the alternative.

Monk and Bionic Woman FTW. \o/
 
If they can put up classic Toei anime on their site in the future, I'll be all over this like flies on dung!

That is...if it becomes available in Canada.
 
Well, anime's TV presence is dying so this is the alternate route.

If they really commit to it it should turn out great. I figured anime would be the first type of show that companies would really commit to making online-only, since it is cheaper to license and sub/dub an anime series than produce something from scratch, and anime has a huge online fanbase already.
 
Right, my bad. |:/

I also wonder if Zatch Bell and MAR become online successes with these services, will they resume dubbing the remainder of the series?
 
wow, this is basically what everyone has been asking for.

this = future of anime distribution. No more cable networks that make fun of your show and put it in crap timeslots.
 
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