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Want Anime Network on Your Cable System? 385

Posted by CmdrTaco from the yes-have-some dept.
ccnull writes "The Anime Network has launched a "tell your cable company to carry this station!" campaign on its web site. Just enter your ZIP code at the top of the site's home page (it looks like a banner ad) and you'll be that much closer to Samurai X 24/7. In case you hadn't heard, the network launched in late 2002." No support via DirecTV. I filled out the form already- I crave this channel.
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  • Is Invader Zim anime?

    Probably not. Ah well. I don't really watch any anime, except maybe Samurai Pizza Cats, so I won't be demanding anime network locally. :)
  • Too bad they're limiting what they show to those properties they own the rights to. Or at least, that's what I thought I read somewhere recently. And that would also explain why their offerings are somewhat limited.
  • But after I entered my Zip code, it gave the error "Not located: XXXXX"(XXXXX was a real zip code)

    Maybe I can do a write in for Orbitel.
  • Why do I enter my zip code to be taken to a form that correctly picks my cable company, only to ask what town and zip code I live at...?
  • Apparently my zip code is too long for their banner thingy...

  • Anime only? (Score:4, Interesting)

    by gpinzone ( 531794 ) on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @04:11PM (#5847553) Homepage Journal
    I would have rather Turner had spun off all of their anime and "edgey" shows into a Toonami network. It could have been a nice mix of stuff like the Adult Swim line up with hardcore anime shows mixed in. Anime is good, if taken in moderation.

    • Re:Anime only? (Score:4, Informative)

      by Xophmeister ( 602649 ) on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @05:22PM (#5848335) Homepage

      Over here, in England (and I guess the rest of Europe), Cartoon Network did exactly that: they call it CNX. It has the complete ToonAmi line-up, and then some; all the Adult Swim stuff (although it was never called that over here); and a load of other stuff that suits its (I hate to say this) key-demo' perfectly (somewhat questionable asian action B-movies, that Swimsuit Edition thing, etc...)

  • you call yourself nerds... (Score:4, Funny)

    by spudthepotatofreak ( 649917 ) on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @04:20PM (#5847662)
    Traitors!!!! all of you so called geeks who diss anime should be ashamed, and screw sports! yes this is a rant, it's my rant damnit! I would pay oodles for this channel and wtf is wrong with taco posting something he thinks is cool? somewhere you people lost the fact he is the founder of this site... i'm so sick of all of your complaints so what if they post dupes? can't you guys forgive a simple mistake... Going back to the topic this is "News for NERDS!!" if you want sports go to espn, this is a place for the things that we nerds value most, like hot anime chicks that don't wear many clothes and far off worlds that we can only dream about... *puts on his flame shield* and i love you kenshin!! :X :X

  • ARRRRGH! Can't enter Canadian postal code! (Score:3, Insightful)

    by mike449 ( 238450 ) on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @04:22PM (#5847688)
    The input box is limited to 5 symbols.

  • Theme Movie Channels don't seem to work (Score:5, Insightful)

    by sielwolf ( 246764 ) on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @04:24PM (#5847716) Homepage Journal
    I have several theme movie channels (Westerns, Mystery, Love Stories, Action, True Stories) and they are generally not as good as expected. Why? Because they can't get the rights to all "good" movies (since they are in high demand and thus expensive). Mystery shows The Avengers on weekdays but other than that is about two Columbo movies away from being Lifetime. I saw Predator on Action... quickly followed by The Fast and the Furious.

    Everyone seems to think "Yeah a channel that was purely __________ would rock! I'd so watch it all the time!" Sorry but it wouldn't be Akira followed by Princess Mononoke. More likely "What the hell is this?" then "God... this really sucks." Unless someone feels like throwing millions of dollars into a moneypit, I fear this will disappoint.

    The only pure channel I could see enjoying would be a kung-fu movie channel. Why? Because the unintentional comedy runs high in those films. The cheaper/worse the movie usually the more people like it. Of course there is a fine artistry to The Five Deadly Venoms and Shaolin Master Killer but anybody can enjoy the endless kick-to-the-genitals jokes and bad dubbing.
    • Nah. One of the best things about something like an Anime club/channel is the fact that you're exposed to something ELSE besides Akira or Speedracer.

      The problem is whether or not genre foo has quality content that is not overhyped yet is worth watching.
    • The only thing which might save the Anime channel from the doom faced by Themed movie channels is the same things that have saved Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Classics (themed movie channels). The corporation running the channel will also own the copyrights to the content. Therefore it won't cost them extra money to run the good stuff. Of course, not all Anime is owned by one corporation. The two big features that will definitely be missing are "Princess Mononoke" and "Spirited Away" which a
    • have several theme movie channels (Westerns, Mystery, Love Stories, Action, True Stories) and they are generally not as good as expected. Why? Because they can't get the rights to all "good" movies (since they are in high demand and thus expensive). Mystery shows The Avengers on weekdays but other than that is about two Columbo movies away from being Lifetime. I saw Predator on Action... quickly followed by The Fast and the Furious.

      You are assuming that this is a movie channel. There are many anime ser
    • Everyone seems to think "Yeah a channel that was purely __________ would rock! I'd so watch it all the time!" Sorry but it wouldn't be Akira followed by Princess Mononoke. More likely "What the hell is this?" then "God... this really sucks." Unless someone feels like throwing millions of dollars into a moneypit, I fear this will disappoint.

      The list of Animes looks pretty good to me

      Blue Seed, Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040, Burn Up Excess, Burn Up W,
      Dai-Guard, Excel Saga, Gasaraki, Golden Boy, Gunsmith C

  • Nobody's forcing you to watch it (Score:4, Insightful)

    by SuperBanana ( 662181 ) on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @04:28PM (#5847756)
    I have no interest of having this on my cable system.

    I have no interest in watching a fat, stupid, Marilyn-wannabe parade around whining, wasting away her dead sugardaddy's money...but you don't see me bitchin' about getting E!, now do you? I hate rap/hip-hop/most of the crap on MTV. The Home Channel bores me to death. Travel channel- eh. The ABC/Disney "family" channels make me want to puke within 5 seconds of accidentally switching to them. Don't get me started about the tractor pulls and Shooter's World on OLN.

    That's why smart people invented a feature that lets you delete/add channels from your TV's set of channels it scans through when you hit up/down.

    That's also why you pay specificially for some channels(gasp! What a concept!) If you don't want the Anime channel, then don't bubmit your zip code, don't effin' buy it...and if it comes with the standard package(highly unlikely), deprogram it from your TV...kay?

  • Seriously. TV has these two interesting features, CLOSED CAPTIONS and SECONDARY AUDIO PROGRAMMING.

    Why the hell can't they show anime with the original japanese soundtrack on the SAP channel? Then I could just set my TV to SAP and turn on the english closed caption channel. Instant subtitles for anyone who can't stand the horrible dubbing.

    If people would wake up and realize most anime fans hate dubs maybe I'd consider getting this channel or watching the crap that's on now.
  • But it's only abvailable on the internet on some channel called Kazaa. I forget which station that is, but they play really cool stuff!
    • Actually, Since AnimeChannel is a Video On Demand channel, yes. you could consider kazza as a distributed distrobution method for the ADV channel -- er the anime channel. and Yes, it's all dubbed, because apparently they get a 40GB hd to fill and that's it or something. they're extremely limited in the number of hours of programming they can carry with the current digital cable system they're on.
      If I were actually gonna do this 'anime channel' thing myself, it would have to be more than just the adv back
  • Nah, I won't be requesting this. The channel sounds cool and all, but my cable bill is already high enough as it is.

    If added on Comcast, they would then likely raise rates way in excess of what the channel actually costs them; worse Comcast in our area would likely have to remove another channel to make room for this one.

    On an aside, some friends say I should consider getting a dish, but there isn't much competition there either, and it's not the bargain it once was when one adds in all the "extra" charge
    • You only need the phone line for remote control PPV.

      For most people, the phone line is a "bad thing" Mine's never been plugged in! I don't like anyone with the remote in their hand being able to change programming. (i.e. the babysitter ordering a zllion PPV Pr0n when I'm out!) You can go online or just phone call if you want to change/order something. It's really easy. The phone thing is way overrated.
  • I want to pick and choose the channels we actually want, rather than get all the shit we have now. I don't want the fucking Golf channel, I don't want AMC; but I do want MTV2 and some "real" porn channels. Can I get that choice? No, because my cable company sucks ass! Petition all you like about getting your Anime, but in the end you'll still be paying too much for too little.

    I vote for Cable reform!
  • www.kazaalite.tk

    Multichannel TV? Hah! Five is at least one too many...

  • great! (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Trashman ( 3003 )
    But is it Edited/Censored? If it is, then it's no better than what Cartoon Network does and I don't want it.

  • What is wrong with all you people? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by DisKurzion ( 662299 ) on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @05:15PM (#5848275)
    Of all the topics on Slashdot, anime seems to get the worst rap. The most common diss is that it's a "crappy cartoon". This is as unreasonable as saying "Windows is a stable OS"

    Anime is more than just a crappy cartoon. You want a crappy cartoon, watch the disney channel sometime in the afternoon. Yes, some anime is bad, in fact, a lot of it is. Come to think of it, there are lots of crappy TV shows (reality tv anyone?) and crappy movies (fast and furious anyone?). With any genre, there comes the good and the bad.

    One of the best anime review sites on the web [animeacademy.com] If you take a look at rankings of most anime shown on american tv (cartoon network, most notably), you will notice that MOST of them are only in the 50 - 80 % range. The anime shown during the "adult swim" of cartoon network have a much higher average. I'll bet most of you anime dissers are judging the whole of a genre based on the anime with the lowest averages **cough**Dragonball Z**cough**.

    It'd be like me saying that all sci-fi movies are as bad as "This Island Earth".(Neglecting the fact that it is SO bad that it's funny)

    Broaden your spectrum, all ye naysayers. Either that, or stop posting under the anime topics. You're ruining it for those of us with an appreciation for the art.

    (And I would request the channel, but I'm stuck on DirecTV)
    (Yes, I would rather have subs. But dubs will do till they realize that I'd pay more for subs)
    • I think more of it is the Trolls who love to come out on topics that have rabid fanbases (Amiga, BSD, Anime, OGG). One of your replies [slashdot.org] is such a blatent troll that I doubt you'll even see it before it hits -1 land, but it is definatly representative of the kind of traffic Slashdot sees on these articles.
    • I know this is offtopic, but...

      This is as unreasonable as saying "Windows is a stable OS".

      I agree with most of the rest of your post, but you think that's unreasonable? I haven't had any OS stability issues with W2K, period. I haven't had any stability issues with NT4 either. The closest it comes for me is installing the wrong video driver, that's a user error on my part, installing the right driver fixed it.
  • They have Comcast listed, but they don't have Millenium Digital Media listed! COME ON! Hook up with some of the good cable companies!

    (Already emailed them)
  • Folks,

    We have to understand that Anime Network has just only started on its rollout!

    Thank God that Comcast--who is underwriting part of the cost of the network--is the largest cable system provider in the USA (I think). At least here in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Sacramento, CA area, due to the fact Comcast owns the cable systems, it means Anime Network will likely roll out as part of digital cable packages later this year. =)
  • Sorry, had to work in a hentai reference :)
  • I have noticed that many people are complaining that since all the good anime will cost too much and thus most of the anime will suck.

    Well I would be happy with that? Why? Most of us who have collections of Anime I'm sure already have the "good anime" on DVD. This leaves all the "crap" that we haven't seen or heard about. I would take my chances with seeing a rare anime that I never would have seen normally because of it's obsecure nature.

    But I'm sure for most people out there they will still have an

  • Reasons I won't watch it. (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Maul ( 83993 )
    Once again, I need to throw in that I find english dubs to be horrible. All of them. Don't even try to tell me, "Well Cowboy Bebop was a good dub." Because it wasn't.

    And that is probably what will primarily be shown (I heard that they were considering subtitled stuff LATE AT NIGHT, which doesn't do me good since I'm asleep).

    Second is the fact that they probably will mainly show things I've already seen. It might sound like arrogance, but I'm currently watching Wolf's Rain, Scrapped Princess, Last Exil

  • Does anyone know if the anime on this channel will be edited for content? Dubbing can be pretty bad, but what's worse is when they edit the stories for content. Many times the story lines don't make as much sense and entire scenes are cut out. Sometimes entire episodes. If this becomes mainstream, I truly hope they aren't edited shows. Course, american culture would have to accept more nudity and/or blood for many shows. Guess there's not much chance of that.

    Khyron

  • Anime Network (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Mikeman ( 30246 )
    What surprises me most is that I haven't seen any posts about the lineup. Just bitching about dubbing and ADV shows. While some of you may be upset that they're showing "A crappy dub of Kenshin that they're calling Samurai X" I say get over it. Yes, the dub sucks. What's important to me is paying a small increase on my cable bill rather than spending hundreds of dollars on DVDs just to watch a sub. Ok, the voice acting is sub par compared to the Japanese. I'll suffer through it, because the story is still t
  • While this campain looks promising .. it is sort of telling that Yahoo flags the campain email as spam. .. but than again my very much opt in email notification from my long distance provider is flagged as spam.

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