Anime Network trouble

someperson · Post by **someperson** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 5:39 pm

News Article

So what do you make of this? Personally, I side with ADV
and signed their petition.

Rurounikeitaro · Post by **Rurounikeitaro** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:16 pm

I never liked Sony so I will be forced to side with ADV. I just want an anime channel on normal cable as soon as possible "This is being delayed almost as much a a Rareware game!!"

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:48 pm

I don't really "have a dog in the fight", so to speak. I favor whichever channel offers the selection of anime I like the most, along with whoever airs a greater amount of subtitled anime.

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:08 pm

it would be nice if that channel were available for Dish Networks, but Pegasis doesn't offer it in my area !!! - any other Dish Network Companies ?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:19 pm

Does Sony's channel play more than just ADV and TRSI titles?

generalhs · Post by **generalhs** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:33 pm

I wish ADV actually had a decent channel. Sony's sounds better.

rubyeye · Post by **rubyeye** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 11:53 pm

generalhs wrote:I wish ADV actually had a decent channel. Sony's sounds better.

I agree. The problem with TAN is that they only play ADV titles. There's a plethora of other/better shows out there from other companies.

someperson · Post by **someperson** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:11 am

rubyeye wrote: I agree. The problem with TAN is that they only play ADV titles. There's a plethora of other/better shows out there from other companies.

Mostly ADV titles (it's run by ADV

). If I'm not mistaken, they show (or have shown) Chobits (Geneon), Gravitation (Right Stuff), and Boogiepop (Right Stuff).

But that's only a few titles.
There's been a joint venture between ADV, Geneon, and Funimation so maybe more titles from those other companies will show up, assuming that Anime Network will be able to keep airing. The big reason why ADV shows mostly their titles is money (I'm just speculating here). It's cheaper to show there own titles than it is to strike up a deal with a rival company to show their anime. Plus it promotes their sales.

ADV may be a big company but compared to sony, it's pretty poor.

valentine · Post by **valentine** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:30 am

If Sony's channel shows whole series then I'm all for it. I looked into ADV's channel when it first came out, and they were showing the first 4 episodes of certain series several times a day for a whole month.

I kinda saw the channel as a ploy to get me to buy their series out of frustration. (misjudged their audience a little there, since I already owned eveything I wanted of what they were showing) But anyway, anything that would show consecutive episodes, even if it's only one a week, would rock.

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:09 am

Wow, possible competition between anime channels?

And here I thought we'd never even get one.