They're not just reduced for free users, but reduced for everyone, even paying users. A rep says that it it's only "affecting certain users" on twitter and reddit but it looks like it's a rolling deployment, and he's trying to slide it into a piracy issue.
Rewrite was reduced to 900kbps from 3100kbps.
It's interesting to note that a couple months before this, Crunchyroll laid off most of its San Francisco employees in favor of working with an outsourcing company, Yopeso, due to its CTO being friends of Cruncyroll's head of product (according to an anonymous supposed former employee). According to anonymous sources on a Reddit thread a month or two ago, Crunchyroll outsourced a lot of the development of Crunchyroll itself to Moldova, while the few remaining engineers are working with Yopeso on VRV.
We don't often use Crunchyroll but Hsubs are ripped directly off of them, so the rips will have the lower encoding as well, and Crunchyroll usually gets to license most of the anime this season. What's also interesting to note is that Amazon is getting into the anime business at the moment, and while Crunchyroll has connections to Japanese animation companies it's not hard to imagine them jumping to Amazon if they receive a better offer, especially with the presence amazon.co.jp has over there.
(cont)
Parker Peterson
Lowering your bitrate by up to four times is a pretty big deal when you actually watch the anime, but it's unknown how many people would actually cancel their subscription to this because for the most part the average dumb consumer wouldn't notice and would rather blame it on the animation quality as they just see "1080p" or "720p" and think it's HD. The question is for them, "will reducing the costs by saving the bandwidth be worth it in terms of the hit in growth and userbase of our company?
This might incentivize the reintroduction of fansubs using TV rips as well, just because they would get better quality. This can also incentivize pirating in this case: If it's really easy to take the tv rips and encode Crunchyroll's subtitles onto them, what's the point of buying a subscription when you can literally have better quality stuff for free and much easier.
Anyways, your thoughts on this? How many people will Crunchyroll lose? What's the future of CR as a company? How will fansubs fare? Usually in Silicon Valley, when a tech company tries to outsouce its employees to some other country it almost never ends up well and its owners are just milking it as much as possible til it dies, but it's interesting to see how Crunchyroll will do. Honestly, every techie in SV or SF knows the signs of when a company is going to die and its owners basically stop caring because they move onto bigger and better things, and it's what CR looks like at the moment.
There isn't much of a big deal about this yet, and it looks like they might keep the lower bitrates, and if so expect lower filesize Horriblesub rips.
Austin Watson
Almost all of the anime I watch is ripped by Horriblesubs...this is terrible!
Chase Parker
...
Easton Lee
I don't think anybody in Sup Forums cares about it since they just follow the hate for CR by pissed off dramaqueen subbers like sheep.
Jeremiah Barnes
There's no difference and now i can get the 1080p faster thanks Crunchyroll!
David Thompson
Average user won't give a shit/notice a different just like you said, and I would make a wager they make up most of their users.
But who knows, didn't they fix Gabriel Dropout subs to some extent because of posts on the CR forums?
Justin Harris
reminder that when literally anything like this happens ever there is nothing you can do because the general populace is too dumb to have standards
Chase James
They care more about pizza than actually improving their service, so there's that.
Parker Diaz
As if having to look at all the ugly HS screenshots on Sup Forums wasn't bad enough before
Justin Gray
I'm not sure about the Gabriel Dropout, but in regards to the average user, it's a ripe time for other companies such as Netflix or Amazon to take advantage of Crunchyroll's dysfunctions and take up some market share. Especially if Amazon was able to snatch more titles per month, I think that the average user would rather pay 10 dollars a month for Prime (now with additional anime) than pay for a Crunchyroll with reduced quality and number of titles.
Lincoln Cruz
You can just extract subs from CR release and put them on raws.
Robert Nguyen
How many of these do we need today? Daiz sucks cocks Miles is a retard CR sucks
Liam Williams
When companies in SV or SF decide to outsource, it's usually due to higher up politicking and saying "I'm off to bigger and better things, and I really couldn't care much about this company/project any more."
Improving their service was never a goal for Crunchyroll, just making money; however outsourcing and reducing bitrates and overall quality means that they're willing to take a temporary gain in profits at the expense of long term growth. Most tech companies that do this usually die off not too long after because key engineers leave or get fired, and technical debt accrues so much that adding new features in the future become harder and harder.
Sebastian Williams
>streaming
Logan Bailey
Normalfags BTFO.
Adam Richardson
>This might incentivize the reintroduction of fansubs using TV rips as well
Hahahaha
Dominic King
Just wait until Netflix gets serious with Anime.
Isaiah Morales
Why is thos Daiz so hated? I only heard something about 10 bit but those played well on my pc and on my phone it took a bit more battery per episode.
Ian Bell
>2017 >outsourcing
Adam Wright
Isn't that what HS already do?
Jackson Perry
I'm super jealous of that guy. He gets paid to post drivel while here I am shitposting for free.
Mason Young
>there are people on Sup Forums who pay for this shit
Buyfags forever cucks as always.
Blake Adams
He defends meme subs and he always shills for that shitty website I'm not mentioning.
Aaron Baker
HS just straight up rips them from Crunchyroll. They're Crunchyroll's streams, almost bit for bit.
Juan Phillips
I can't wait for Dear Japanese People.
Isaac Rogers
He assisted hiro in pulling off a hostile takeover of Sup Forums He also staged a falseflag operation ddos-ing nyaa to frame tokyotosho
Jonathan Nelson
I got you
Aaron Gray
I'm pretty sure the horriblesubs file is fine, once the entire file is downloaded a played on a media player on your computer the issues you'd get from streaming it over the web are gone
Austin Thomas
I refuse to believe that there are people on Sup Forums who subscribe to cr when you can get it for free on nyaa, other than those hs folks.
Levi Barnes
He's a Hillary supporter.
Andrew Robinson
This post is frighteningly tech illiterate bordering on retardation.
Andrew Sullivan
So why should Sup Forums give a fuck? Streamfags are getting fucked and CR ''DUDE XD I SUPPORT ANIME'' fags are getting fucked.
This is good.
Mason Martinez
I would get mad but then I remember that there's never been a time in my life where meme subs weren't a thing, as long as you don't have subs spinning across the screen in neon colors I'll live
Jackson Ortiz
He's bald.
Andrew Collins
This. This is a thinking man's post.
Alexander Barnes
that's not how it works. that's not how any of this works.
Caleb Edwards
Well you better believe it because they are here.
Just laugh at them.
Bentley Cook
This is the average Sup Forums user in 2017
Charles Harris
I don't think anyone cares that, he has been hated for a long time now.
Parker Jackson
plz no. the less western curroption in anime the better.
Samuel Wright
Turns out that streaming is a waste of time. If Crunchyroll had been some kind of paid-private tracker instead they would have made money instead of burning it.
Adam Baker
>all those people out there thinking there was some sort of compression breakthrough when all the file sizes shrink for HS
Jacob Jackson
you are also a moron
Cameron Turner
...
Jack Stewart
sasuga Sup Forums
There are people on Sup Forums who can't into torrenting and/or complains about seeding, a thing that you don't even need to physically do anything about.
Gavin Thomas
ok I was actually talking out my ass, I use madvr though so you can't say I didn't know what I was doing at least at one point
Ian Mitchell
Who is this faggot?
>just checked his twitter
Im sorry for the Sup Forums meme word but this guy definitely look like a nu-male.
Disgusting.
Isaiah Bennett
I can hear the Sup Forums fags sighing
Blake Cox
Thanks, CR!
Kayden Howard
This.
Leave muh animu alone. You burgers are corrupted.
Jaxon Perez
He looks like a victim of radiation poisoning.
Jack Walker
That's what OP just said you Retard.
Jordan Scott
...
Asher Rogers
Why did you make this image blurrier? It's almost twice as big now too.
Justin Foster
So what, are you saying the horriblesubs files are going to suffer because of this?
Brayden Perry
You don't. You just use madvr because other anons told you to.
Nathan Robinson
CR PR dude.
James Lopez
FUCKING DAIZ DOES IT AGAIN. HE REALLY IS OUT TO DESTROY ANIME IT WASN'T A MEME.
IT WAS NEVER A MEME
Justin Sullivan
Fitting concidering he's cancer itself.
Cooper Miller
>my pirated material is of very low quality this is unacceptable >hahahha kys buyfags
Lincoln Bell
>Netflix
Eh, I'd rather have daisuki pick all the seasonal animu.
Tyler Perry
user I have a question. Do you see any difference between default mpc-hc and mpc-hc with madVR?
Camden Fisher
Not even surprised.
Owen Russell
Yeah but I compared it to other setups and it was my favorite so I sticked to that
Sup Forums is just like women. Mysterious as the ocean.
Christopher Martinez
It might. Or supply/demand and excess time would just have people sourcing the videos elsewhere while applying subtitles from CR since they're so easily obtained.
Benjamin Wilson
Your buyed material is also of low quality CR shill.
Matthew Rivera
you aren't funny
Charles Wilson
CR members are pissed off about this stuff as well.
Juan White
So, now we can be suffering the same fate as those who are watching Tokyo MX.
Jack Diaz
I am not a frog poster, but I need to be right now.
Bentley Collins
REMINDER that CR are where they are now because they started by ripping off fansubs.
Daiz also defends meme subs.
Thomas Torres
video banding seems to not be as bad during really dark scenes and I never see stuttering or framedrops if I use exlusive mode in mpc coupled with madvr
Jordan Foster
I'll take CR over Netflix anytime of the day. Netflix taking over anime in the west literally mean normalfags invasion.
Nathan Roberts
And you speak exactly like those /r9k/ fags whining about how women don't like nice guys like them.
Justin Wright
The human eye can't see past 8 bits images, 10 bits is placebo.
Gabriel Williams
I hope they die slow and painfully, I've hated them intensely since corruption and subsequent death of my favorite forums site a few years ago.
Nathan Sanchez
Put me in the screencap XD
Jose Davis
Expect 100-150 mb stream-tier torrents now.
Joseph Anderson
I wonder is horrible will stop using crunchyroll then
Kayden Bailey
You obviously are if you have this image save on your pc.
Gavin Gonzalez
They won't lose shit. Faggots are already paying for that garbage, they won't mind it at all.
Joshua Sanders
Based CRyify A/10 V/10
Alexander Miller
dumb frog poster
Oliver Reyes
Ohys-raws are shit though, so you'll have to wait longer for a good quality raw
Ayden Morris
Are you talking about MCAnime?
Dominic Edwards
This, while I'm sure some people will complain the majority are probably already used to eating shit.
Adam Powell
There is no point to HS if they don't use crunchyroll.
Xavier Moore
It's like the authentic Japanese experience.
Josiah Myers
So Sup Forums you gonna do anything or just complain while still paying for CR?
Christian Kelly
Well that's one way to reduce piracy- make your product so shit that people don't even want it for free
Isaac Sullivan
Getting into anime was a mistake anyway. If you're not dedicated enough to watch raws, you might as well move on with your life.
Adam Scott
Does this mean the return of actual subgroups?
Does this mean the return of GRANDO SPONSOR TOKYO DAY OH CHRISTMAS
Jeremiah Collins
WE WARNED YOU ABOUT CRUNCHY, BRO
Bentley Watson
I compulsively save images that are amusing to me. Now, I'd love to continue this, but the thread is shitty enough.
Oliver King
>he things subscribing to CR makes you a buyfag Hahaha, kill yourself.
Caleb Parker
I'm already watching raw, EOPleb.
Daniel Watson
I love anime.
Sorry Sup Forums.
James Perry
I hate it, but there's nothing to be done. At least there are still some that rip subs and release higher quality video. CR was always a mistake.