Well I've done more testing and I think I'm ready to start doing high quality broadcasts (we're talking great audio/video quality and 30-60 fps, baby!). I'll be ditching livestream in favor of justin.tv.

I'm not entirely happy with this as justin.tv has an annoying logo in the corner but after watching a bunch of stuff it pretty much becomes background noise. Also the archives will not have the justin.tv watermark as that's just something idiotic they put in the embedded player and isn't actually recorded as part of the video you'll see later (whenever I get around to doing any of them - GAH!). Everything else in the player fades away, why they don't make their logo one of them I'll never understand.

Another thing is they have a 15 to 30 second video ad before you start playing. Now with ad-blocker plus with the EasyList (English) subscription in Firefox I've never once gotten an ad. However I also have a justin.tv account so that might be the difference between myself and say packrat who always seems to get them despite his having ad blocker plus.

The other annoyance of the justin.tv embedded player is it does not auto-start so you'll have to press the play button and it always has its volume at half despite my customizations which should work but don't. I don't know why justin.tv has to be such a dick about their embedded player but they are but it works well despite these small grievances.

I originally wanted to host all this on my awesome connection but it would seem I don't really have enough bandwidth to support such an endeavor (I couldn't count on streaming more than say 4 people on my server). Also with livestream gone so are the silly youtube videos that play when I'm not broadcasting live. I could always manually play a few silly clips before and after the show to compensate for this though.

However, change can be good and I look forward to seeing how well this works for you guys. Please let me know if you have any issues with the stream tonight. I'd really like to see as many folks as possible to get a good stress test and of course varied feedback.

Hope to see you tonight as we finish Guu Final and continue our romp through R.O.D TV. I'm currently looking into the future line-up. I'll have more on that later.

I got some interesting results on Tuesday in regards to audio quality. I'll be trying a few more tweaks tonight.

We'll be starting Cromartie High tonight. I believe I'll be watching it in Japanese with English subtitles. I might do an additional screening of the same episodes dubbed in English later for comparison. It does have a good English dub.

Anyway I'll see you guys probably in like 30 min to an hour.

Due to drink-on this Saturday I will not be having a weekend show. However, next weekend I should be able to start a new show that I've been bugged to watch for years. Hopefully it will prove its worth as being as awesome as its been foretold.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! So excited.

Yes, I know you are. =)

Also in the meantime you'll be happy to know that I am encoding broadcasts 44 to 50 for the archives. Hard to believe it's already been that many.

As a note to myself I need to rebroadcast 46, 51, and 52.

Alright the episodes I have encoded are available in the archives now. I still have to add the chapter bookmark timing thingies but they're perfectly watchable in the meantime so those who may have been boycotting the show cuz you couldn't catch up here's your catch up in bulk.

oh lol hello time i forgot about you

okay i'll be starting the show in like 45 min to an hour

sorry~ see ya soon~

Attendance was piss-poor on Tuesday. That's partly my fault for starting so late. Well I'm probably gonna start in like an hour tonight. Hope to actually see people stick around for more than 10 percent of it.

Ok, since you asked... suggestions for whatever slot R.O.D. TV was in (and I'll hold the mecha since you know what).

Black Lagoon (Was on the Simulwatch list, before it died)
Darker than Black (Chinese Electric Batman season is fun, Magical Girl Sniper season is ok)
Tetsuwan Birdy DECODE (RIP AND TEAR. Also, has Norio Wakamoto in it for back to back with Mechazawa)
Last Exile (an all around amazing show)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (Soooooo much better than the first FMA. Maybe too long though?)

I've been meaning to ask. Did they watch any anime besides Baccano? I know they were planning on watching Trapeze but I'm not sure if they did or not. Did they even finish watching Baccano?

I don't think so. Last post in the thread is from August, and they hadn't finished Baccano! at that point.

So I was thinking perhaps we could take a bit of a breather from extended or multi-season series, and delve into some of the more obscure and one-off anime shows or movies. I'm thinking stuff like what Studio 4°C, Robot, or Grasshoppa! churn out.
I have a few specific suggestions (and can provide content if necessary).

I'd love to know what you're thinking there, pack. Also do you consider 26 episode shows multi-season? I guess you could. I just seem to default that as a one season show for some reason. Bleh.


Anyway we starting Zegapain soon. Just wanted to give people the heads up before I start the stream.

Well from talking around it seems that Tails may have finished Baccano with diss and lurker privately and opted to not mention it anymore in the forums since they are easiest to contact in chat. In that case I will eventually have to run Baccano and possibly Trapeze in the future for more people to enjoy.

In the meantime I've taken a suggestion from Taco. Tonight we will be starting the broadcast of Katanagatari and I think it fills the artsy/interesting slot perfectly. It ran all of this year with one episode released a month - one 50 minute episode with all the high quality trimmings you'd expect with such a release schedule. In any case I'm looking forward to it. As these are 50 minute episodes I will only be showing two episodes of this a night. So look forward to this show for the next three weeks which will bring the 2010 year nicely to a close.

Hope to see you guys in a couple hours for one heck of a show.

For those on the forums. We have started.

We will be starting shortly. I'm actually home early today because of the snow on the roads~

New feature I will be implementing is a private twitter announcement. This is for those of you that like getting updates via twitter best and perhaps have that shit linked to your phones or something. Please request a follow for the account linked below:

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We will be ending Cromartie High tonight. I will have to look around for a new comedy replacement. Feel free to make suggestions.

Hope to see you in the stream soon~

Hmmm nobody signed up for the twitter. Not sure if people are interested in that yet or at all. Oh well...

Anyway more Zegapain tonight. Shit's gonna be crazy. Maybe. I've never really watched it before. But there should be cliff-hangers. I think... maybe...

Anyway hope to see you guys in the stream in like 20 to 30 minutes. =)

Oh, there will be cliffhangers all right.

And I'm not going to make anymore comedy suggestions since pack seems to hate everything I come up with.

I'm actually thinking of showing 2x2=Shinobuden for the next comedy. It's been a while.

Still, I'm open to suggestions.

Though I made the suggestion earlier in chat, I was wondering maybe Index or Railgun if some of the other people who sign in like it.

Totally down for Squid Girl though if that's played sometime. Oh, and maybe even Ore no Imouto or something like that.

Did you ever look at Arakawa Under the Bridge? Although I've never seen 2x2=Shinobuden, so I'd be fine with that.

It's really late to start a full show so I'm gonna have to cancel tonight. Sorry.

I have decided 2x2=Shinobuden will be the next comedy. Xard, I have downloaded Arakawa Under the Bridge which I've heard good things about (despite half the subs being kind of so-so).

Instead of our usual programming we will be doing a special Christmas anime extravaganza! This will be a nearly 5 hour event with plenty of merriment to be had. The key feature that will be shown in the middle is the late Satoshi Kon's Tokyo Godfathers. Be sure to tune in! =D

Alright well I'm waiting for folks to get into the stream. We'll be starting soon enough.

Don't suppose whatever you played is archived, is it? I could sure go for that Love Hina winter special for some massive nostalgia.