Ok, we’ve heard what you guys have to say and are actively changing what we’re doing on TWC. Free 30 will be getting TV MA shows from now on.
We’ll be getting rid of some of the PPV stuff (you probably know which one) and will be focusing on other things, one of them will be getting free 30 users back on track.
Rai wrote:
[quote]Ok, we’ve heard what you guys have to say and are actively changing what we’re doing on TWC. Free 30 will be getting TV MA shows from now on.
We’ll be getting rid of some of the PPV stuff (you probably know which one) and will be focusing on other things, one of them will be getting free 30 users back on track.[/quote]
I don’t watch any TAN stuff on VOD, but it’s nice to see you guys are listening to the feedback and doing what you can to make things better. B)
This is good to hear. Since my budget is very tight the next several months, my anime purchases will be minimal. I will be watching a lot more VOD. Thanks guys! 
I don’t even really care all that much if they rerun things a couple times now and then, I figure there will be times when not every single show is going to be something I like or want to see, or want to watch again. What I do object to is the same thing run multiple times in a row, or with only a short gap - if you run it so it ends in December, let it alone until May or June, for instance. Surely there is enough of a library of shows between new licenses and older things that can be done.
Nor do I mind a 2-3 episode teaser, even with some editing when it’s TV-MA, to try to entice me to buy a series. Although it would be nice to run a title screen that it’s a teaser and you aren’t running the whole thing.
But the PPV is inconsistent even from hub to hub, someone in Texas might get a 24 hour rental for $3.99 while I get it for 48 hours for $4.99. Five parts of a series ends up costing $25 to watch. If I wait for an RSI sale I can buy the whole series for $35-$45 (26 episodes) and have it forever to watch anytime. Kind of makes it pointless to spend more than half that to see it ahead of time. In the case of Elfen Lied, I already own it, so I wouldn’t pay to watch it again - it’s also fairly old and a short series, so I can go out and buy it again for about what it would cost to see it PPV.
For that matter, if the PPV model could work where I could rent it basically for twice the length of time of the show for a buck, I’d be a lot more likely to watch or at least try a series. But that may be a TWC thing. When I have time for TV, I sit down and watch something then, I wouldn’t rent it planning to stop or watch it later, the parts aren’t that long. And at a buck if something did come up where I couldn’t watch it through it’s not a big deal to rent it again.
The fact that no one can look at a damn calendar when they do the schedule and they have to take shortcuts when a month has an extra Thursday in it, is a little asinine. Now this month they handled it pretty well by having a couple shows go from two per week to one per week. What happened with Allison & Lillia was crap. At the worst case, never should a new show be dropped, especially at the end of a run, while a rerun continues - or if that does happen, then it should be delayed, not dropped completely.
I also wouldn’t object to TV-MA shows being on a seperate channel somewhere, and still free. As long as that’s consistent too, having three locations for one channel’s programming is a little silly.
I m a little late to jump in, but, here is my view on this situation. AN VOD on TWC is being pushed from “Cutting edge” to “Entertainment” several month ago. even if “outrageous” package even existed or still exist,I can’t even find it now. Also so called TVMA shows,like “high school of the dead” and possibly others are available on Hulu. I I don’t actually considered the F-bombs or other altered curse words as a big deal in dubbed version.
Outrageous On Demand is a channel, and is grouped with Howard Stern and a couple of other adult PPV channels. With my service it’s found in the 400s, with the free VOD channels in the 500s (Entertainment On Demand is 551).
That said, even I found the “free stuff here, some pay stuff here, some pay stuff over there” to be very confusing.
Starting this month, January, Anime Network is no longer putting shows on PPV.
As far as Entertainment on Demand, Time Warner decided to cut down on the number of Video on Demand channels they had and merged several channels together.
Anime Network on Demand is now on Entertainment on Demand instead of Cutting Edge.