Macross streaming on Disney+ (under the "Star" label; Star/Hulu of D+)

[kajnrig]

Don't mean to double-post, but I have a question for everyone:

After listening to some of the M7 songs on Youtube, it's as I suspected and the M7 music is actually fine, just the audio quality in the show was incredibly crap. Mylene's vocals especially were barely audible, and everything overall was pretty muted and flat. Was this the case for anyone else, indicating that's just what to expect from the stream, or is there perhaps a problem with my setup? (All other shows/movies were fine, BDs sound fine, games sound fine, etc.)

[DarkNousjadeul]

On 12/5/2024 at 12:21 PM, SSK said:

Talk about a failure. About 20 countries got something (high estimation) when Disney+ is active in more than 120. And a deafening silence from both the service and Big West.

What would these 20 countries be?

[SSK]

23 hours ago, DarkNousjadeul said:

What would these 20 countries be?

Australia, New Zealand, UK. Ireland, Canada, the US, and some Asian countries. I don’t know how many exactly, but I believe it’s between 10 and 20 countries overhall.

Edited March 18 by SSK

[Big s]

On 2/26/2025 at 9:36 AM, kajnrig said:

Don't mean to double-post, but I have a question for everyone:

After listening to some of the M7 songs on Youtube, it's as I suspected and the M7 music is actually fine, just the audio quality in the show was incredibly crap. Mylene's vocals especially were barely audible, and everything overall was pretty muted and flat. Was this the case for anyone else, indicating that's just what to expect from the stream, or is there perhaps a problem with my setup? (All other shows/movies were fine, BDs sound fine, games sound fine, etc.)

Hadn’t checked on this thread in a bit, but I think Mylene got the Jason Newsted treatment. She tends to be low in some mixes, especially the early episodes before they found their groove. but other episodes she seems a lot louder. I kinda wonder if they were trying to show a difference in sound from when the show first started to when the band kinda got its groove going.

[jvmacross]

https://time.com/7282543/trump-foreign-film-tariff-international-movie-production-us-hollywood-china/

So how would this even work?

So if Disney is paying X to BW to make Macross available on their D+ streaming service....would it now cost double the amount of X to be able to do so?  If so....I doubt it would be worthwhile for Disney to continue offering it on D+.....

[Big s]

2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

https://time.com/7282543/trump-foreign-film-tariff-international-movie-production-us-hollywood-china/

So how would this even work?

So if Disney is paying X to BW to make Macross available on their D+ streaming service....would it now cost double the amount of X to be able to do so?  If so....I doubt it would be worthwhile for Disney to continue offering it on D+.....

It’s a 100% mark up on China, but Japan would probably fall under their other foreign tariffs for films. But I really don’t know how all this would work on something that isn’t physical, like a toy from a different country. A lot of the tariff stuff seems very up in the air, more like a concept and I don’t think that the majority in our government (doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum) understand that anime doesn’t come from America and that the vast majority of animation is done overseas.

I also don’t know if they’d consider stuff already released here free of the tariffs or how they’d really enforce something that could be sent over digitally. I also don’t really know what the effect of a movie trade war would be. Some of our films have to be altered to be shown in other world markets, like China and they could just start outright banning our films altogether. Our big budget films might need to make all their money back from U.S. box offices if things get really rough and pretty much every comic book movie would never make their money back. Same could be possible with streaming. Like if Netflix couldn’t get that last season of Stranger Things out to foreign countries.

[jvmacross]

24 minutes ago, Big s said:

It’s a 100% mark up on China, but Japan would probably fall under their other foreign tariffs for films. But I really don’t know how all this would work on something that isn’t physical, like a toy from a different country. A lot of the tariff stuff seems very up in the air, more like a concept and I don’t think that the majority in our government (doesn’t matter which side of the political spectrum) understand that anime doesn’t come from America and that the vast majority of animation is done overseas.

I also don’t know if they’d consider stuff already released here free of the tariffs or how they’d really enforce something that could be sent over digitally. I also don’t really know what the effect of a movie trade war would be. Some of our films have to be altered to be shown in other world markets, like China and they could just start outright banning our films altogether. Our big budget films might need to make all their money back from U.S. box offices if things get really rough and pretty much every comic book movie would never make their money back. Same could be possible with streaming. Like if Netflix couldn’t get that last season of Stranger Things out to foreign countries.

Dunno....but think it said 100% tarrif on all foreign produced material....not just China....

 

[Big s]

2 hours ago, jvmacross said:

Dunno....but think it said 100% tarrif on all foreign produced material....not just China....

 

If it is, those streaming charges are gonna go through the roof 

[jvmacross]

14 minutes ago, Big s said:

If it is, those streaming charges are gonna go through the roof 

...either that or fans can say bye-bye to Macross and anime in general on US streaming services...and that's just the Japanese anime stuff....I personally am not a consumer of anime or even Macross on D+ (I have all the shows on BD)....so if I have to subsidize D+ or any other streaming service to keep 'foreign' shows on their platforms, I will definitely be hitting the cancel button for several streamers...

[rsvictor1976]

25 minutes ago, jvmacross said:

...either that or fans can say bye-bye to Macross and anime in general on US streaming services...and that's just the Japanese anime stuff....I personally am not a consumer of anime or even Macross on D+ (I have all the shows on BD)....so if I have to subsidize D+ or any other streaming service to keep 'foreign' shows on their platforms, I will definitely be hitting the cancel button for several streamers...

Are we going back downloading fansubs again?

[Old_Nash_II]

6 hours ago, jvmacross said:

https://time.com/7282543/trump-foreign-film-tariff-international-movie-production-us-hollywood-china/

So how would this even work?

So if Disney is paying X to BW to make Macross available on their D+ streaming service....would it now cost double the amount of X to be able to do so?  If so....I doubt it would be worthwhile for Disney to continue offering it on D+.....

Disney can now buy HG and produce their version of Robotech. Or buy BW and make their version of Macross. Whatever the outcome, it will be a defeat.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, jvmacross said:

...either that or fans can say bye-bye to Macross and anime in general on US streaming services...and that's just the Japanese anime stuff....I personally am not a consumer of anime or even Macross on D+ (I have all the shows on BD)....so if I have to subsidize D+ or any other streaming service to keep 'foreign' shows on their platforms, I will definitely be hitting the cancel button for several streamers...

I doubt it would affect older stuff, but as far as the new series or other anime, then it could be a problem 

 

35 minutes ago, rsvictor1976 said:

Are we going back downloading fansubs again?

Maybe 

 

23 minutes ago, Old_Nash_II said:

Disney can now buy HG and produce their version of Robotech. Or buy BW and make their version of Macross. Whatever the outcome, it will be a defeat.

unfortunately, the animation budget would be way too high that way. Even at the height of the 80’s when there were tons of American Awsome shows, they were almost all actually animated either in Japan or some other Asian country to keep the costs down. I’m all for America giving animation a go again, but it’s definitely not gonna be something doable for a few years.

[Shawn]

If any of this stuff actually gets implemented and it increases the costs of watching foreign films on streaming services, they will of course do what cable tv did-
break things into subscription packages.
For each of services we'll have a US streaming package, then a foreign streaming package as an additional cost for the users that want it.
Just hope each service isn't too expensive with those extras fees. I watch a lot of the cool stuff on TCM.
Guess we just need to wait and see.
 

[Big s]

2 hours ago, Shawn said:

Guess we just need to wait and see.

Pretty much. This all may just blow over