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                                                         March 6, 2018

  I don't do internet "streaming" myself,
  I much prefer to do my own buffering by     And later I archive the
  saving media files to my hard               media files to DVD-Rs.
  drive first, before playing them.
                                              Though it's not very often that
  I gather a lot of folks out there           I actually watch the videos
  feel the need for high bandwidth to         again..  Sometimes I listen to
  watch high-def video without hangups        the sound files:
  during streaming... I couldn't care
  less, myself.                                        SOUND_CIRCUMSTANCE

      I think some sites are using
      streaming as a form of copy              I have, by the way, later
      protection, to discourage                bought official dvd releases
      folks from "piracy"...                   for stuff i've seen online.

      This seems ridiculously lame                "Japan Video" over in San
      and easily circumvented, but                Francisco has made that
      people being people, for all                relatively easy, even for
      I know it mostly works.                     things like korean dramas.

          If you want to save media
          files to disk, you should
          look for a browser extension
          to do it.  "Video Download
          Helper" works well-enough
          with firefox, though it's
          interface is fairly clunky.


                                                   MENAGE_EXISTENCE
I've been watching a bit more anime of
late, I think because of the animedao site:

           https://animedao.com/
                                                    For live comedy/dramas
  It's much like a number of such                   I've tended to go with
  aggregator/front-end sites, but it has            places like "goodrama.to".
  a relatively low degree of bullshit,
  and it works reasonably well with video                 It has some gotchas
  download plugins like VDH--                             you need to get used
                                                          to, but it's workable.
    I would really like to be able                        And it doesn't seem to
    to say I like crunchyroll.com,      I've left         slam you with bitcoin
    but it's not suitable for           my crunchyroll    mining operations or
    anything but streaming, so          subcription       anything like that.
    I've all but given up on it.        running for
    I used to use it quite a bit--      years though--
                                        supporting the
       I know most of you out there     use and all.
       have sequestered yourself in
       netflix land, but their anime                One of these days
       offerings are remarkably lame.               I'll give viki.com
       I did a search over at a                     a try.  I still need
       friends place the other day,                 a good source of
       and next to "Mushi-shi" there                bollywood films.
       wasn't anything worth
       watching.
       
                                                               (Sep 13, 2018)
       
Oh while I'm doing site                      More on crunchyroll vs animedao:
recommendations, have you folks              At present, crunchyroll has gotten
heard of "youtube"?  I find                  a little more aggressive with it's
some people are so stuck on                  paywall plus trial offer approach,
netflix they've stopped looking              but then I know it's a legit site:
for things at youtube, but                   they kick money to the Japanese
there's often quite a bit                    anime industry.  On the other
there, if not always quite HD.               hand, they *still* require a flash
                                             player, which seems increasingly
Some of it seems to be                       primitive.
more-or-less "gray market"--
I can never tell if it was                   AnimeDao on the other hand works
pirated (and perhaps ignored                 out-of-the-box, and as mentioned,
on purpose), or freely                       plays well with the firefox video
released temporarily in hopes                download plugins. It is, however,
of drumming up interest in it                a little more "gray market",
(before yanking it away                      using the dodge that they're just
again)--                                     indexing videos up at third party
                                             sites:
There's also some youtube
competitors out there, (which                  "Unless otherwise stated, all
you can find via search engine                 video content is uploaded by
video searches), and one                       and hosted on the servers of
should not neglect the mighty                  third-parties, so called Video
archive.org, either.                           Sharing Websites, such as, but
                                               not limited to Veoh, YouTube,
                                               Dailymotion and Myspace Videos."


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