Part of the thing I don't like about traditional general mediums like TV and DVD, is that, when content is distributed digitally on the web through sites like YouTube, or on another website, the signal is universal, and not hindered by regional technological blocks vaguely referred to as "region coding". With YouTube and Funimation.com, you can watch stuff at the same time as people in Japan and France, Britain, Canada, South America, and Germany. All the major players in animation on a world scale. Region coding on DVDs and "localized" signals or broadcasts of TV broadcasts blocks people in America from seeing what's really getting played on TV in another country instantly, and vice-versa. The internet is a truly international broadcasting tool, in terms of how it's used on sites like YouTube. Local and National TV is like Radio. We only see what's local. Not what's international. It sucks that its divided like that!
Take good old Huntik for example, just now being seen in Canada online.
Simulcasting just might be a solution to such a cultural-technological divisiveness problem.
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