No more free anime on Crunchyroll

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1. littleneko 12
   Posted January 1, 2009 at 23:54 | Permalink

   I actu­ally paid for 3 months, will see how it turns out =D

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2. Other 7
   Posted January 2, 2009 at 15:53 | Permalink

   I thought that pay­ing mem­bers only get bet­ter qual­ity viewage on CR. Well there’s legit sites like Hulu, which has a bunch of Fun­im­a­tion shows and Veoh has a bunch of uploads. Also, every once in a blue moon, iTunes will have free anime epis­odes up. Oth­er­wise I’d stick to get­ting stuff straight from the fan­sub­bers since they usu­ally have their own IRC chan­nels, tor­rents or dir­ect downloads.

   I’d be more spe­cific but I feel more prone to play “iden­tity pro­tec­tion” for sites whom the cor­por­a­tions don’t want to com­pete with.

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3. Locksley McPherson Jnr 1
   Posted January 5, 2009 at 20:18 | Permalink

   Veoh is good for anime! I use is all the time! I have never used crunchy roll so I can’t com­pare the qual­ity but it’s just like You­Tube style I guess. some epis­odes will require Veoh TV, it’s just a quick down­load and plays Veoh streams quickly.

   http://www.veoh.com

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4. Gargron 484
   Posted January 6, 2009 at 20:57 | Permalink

   CrunchyRoll was, R.I.P., free and high-quality stream­ing portal, and although the HD videos required money the high qual­ity ver­sion was enough for a 19″ screen. I use Veoh (I have no other choice), but I can’t install any pro­grammes of it, so some eps are unavail­able for me.

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5. Kairu Ishimaru 59
   Posted January 9, 2009 at 02:52 | Permalink

   Oh crap. Now I hate CR.

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6. Aku 1
   Posted January 10, 2009 at 15:24 | Permalink

   Whut? That’s not true!
   Pay­ing mem­bers get 720p qual­ity and day one access to some of the cur­rently air­ing shows (non-paying have to wait a week for those shows), non-paying mem­bers still get all the pre­vi­ous qual­ity options and 480p, which is a step above the pre­vi­ous h.264 in terms of actual video-quality and resolution.

   Your post doesn’t speak truth. Crunchyroll is doing great stuff now (des­pite the unfor­tu­nate removal of all pre­vi­ous user-uploads =<)

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7. Gargron 484
   Posted January 10, 2009 at 17:47 | Permalink

   I updated the post and hope it will cla­rify my point of view. If what you say is though true I’m happy.

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8. Aku 3
   Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:24 | Permalink

   “But please check out the Anime Mem­ber­ship offer­ing – this will give you earlier access and HD qual­ity streams!“
   From your source ^^
   No more fan­subs and no more user-uploads, but everything will be view­able in the regions it is allowed for.
   Many older shows only have licenses for US out, mean­ing europe won’t be get­ting many of the shows, but any new stuff will be avail­able for stream­ing every­where with a one-week delay for cer­tain shows (Such as Naruto Ship­puuden). Pay and you get to watch right away (and in higher qual­ity), don’t pay and you’ll just have to wait a week. The haven’t even lowered the qual­ity from their pre­vi­ous offer­ings. In fact, every­one gets access to qual­ity even higher than their previous

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9. Aku 3
   Posted January 20, 2009 at 11:31 | Permalink

   Sorry, my bad, H264 and 480p aren’t always avail­able any­more. The anime is still avail­able, how­ever. I’m def­in­itely going to pay for a mem­ber­ship eventually.

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