Well, well what do we know … Licenses may differ in the different regions … That is one point. Singapore? Can be as well San Francisco or any other office of them, can we tell?
If you ever have too much time … There are some old threads and I do not see any difference to today. Do you?
What I was really searching for high and low was this information from Viki in 2019, yes, 2,5 years ago … Did something come out of it? Not really. Since back then it is either in the pipeline as they said or has it ended up as a barrel burst?
Wanted to leave a message there to bring it up again, but for some mysterious reason I can’t sign it at the Help Center. Anyone else? — update — suddenly I am signed back in at the HC without doing anything I guess the system went buggy
Wow. It’s like . . . I don’t know . . . teaching a child to talk and then having someone take it away, never to be seen or heard from again.
This is where the fantasy breaks down, that Viki is still an all-volunteer, student-run, everybody-is-on-the-same-level-enterprise.
It’s a fantasy definitely encouraged by Viki in order to keep fans and volunteers coming back. Otherwise their overhead would be astronomically high, and their subscriptions would be almost non-existent, and Viki would end up going the way of DramaFever.
Every time licenses expire, the hard work of hundreds of people literally disappears, and if Viki decides it’s not worth renewing licenses, well, too bad.
Yes I watched some episodes, you can see subtitlers translated it, if this is a production from one of the 3 networks “Kocowa” perhaps they decided to delay so Kocowa can air first… it’s would be ridiculous.
Also The Veil is posted on Viki’s main page as On Air but when in fact it will air in 9 days. (Under latest release)
It must be a “fight” among the producing networks and streaming networks, everyone’s trying to gather the most, the best, for most money likely as well… well it’s a business in the end.
I think that Viki may be in the situation some businesses get into. Maybe they are doing much better than anyone expected and have more subscriptions, but they aren’t quite at a point where they can afford to duke it out with other streaming services for all the content that they need to keep viewers happy.
And they can’t afford to hire more staff to keep track of certain aspects of the business.
I remember some time ago kocowa content airing on viki was always much later, content that was only in English, quasi a loaner from kocowa, and yes I said if… perhaps.
I can’t say much about it since my watching habits changed drastically over the past five and especially the past 2 years. I only watch one show at a time, that is fully subbed and finished airing. Only one time I broke this habit because of a special situation of a drama I anticipated with a certain actor, and he was switch so to be able to compare the portrayal of the ML’s character I watched it prior to being finish. That was the only exception so far.
So, if a drama was streamed later for whatever reason, I simply won’t notice that.
Interestingly, Secret Garden and Tree With Deep Roots are here right now. They were gone and then came back or was their license renewed as soon as it expired? They also have their old subs. So Viki does keep them. And it can get licenses again.
Not renewed as soon as it expired, I can’t say anything for the Americas.
For Europe/Germany I can say that:
Faith - was gone round about a year and then came back licensed
Cinderella Sister - was at least 6-8 years gone, now licensed again
Signal - was gone for I think almost a year as well is back with a new license
Jewel of the Palace - was gone - came back, is gone again LOL
Drunken to Love You - was probably 3 years gone, don’t really recall the time, but it is back as well.
Some dramas I think got re-licensed too:
W, Angel Eyes, Healer, Heartstrings, Kill Me Heal Me, I Remember You, Fated To Love You (Korea), Uncontrollably Fond, Hi School - Love On, My Princess, Lie To Me, Personal Taste, Mask, You Are All Surrounded, Shopaholic Louis (even with a different title), Princess Hours, Shining Inheritance, Rooftop Prince, Falling For Innocense, Sungkyunkwan Scandal (I am not sure if this one needed to be re-subbed, I know there was one drama that they saved faulty and the subs were gone, but not sure if this was it.), Coffee Prince, Don’t Dare to Dream, King of High School, and more …
Of course there are dramas who lost the license and never gotten it back, some channels got completely deleted and others never ever got a license for my region, but well … That’s life! Or like the French say - C’est la vie!
Well fan channels in general were deleted from all other countries too, like Thailand, Korea, Romania, Turkey, Russia, France, and now I do not recall the actual country, but it was from South America I think, … As they were not licensed and the laws got stricter.
P.S. there were many, many more from Asian, European and American countries. A lot was lost.
It’s a terrible feeling when you realize you can’t finish watching a show. Worse that they don’t even warn you that it’s leaving… at least give us a “leaving in 30 day” notice or something so we can binge it quick. 90 days would be better for those epically long Cdramas!!
Good idea! That’s definitely enough notice if they’d do 30 days & 90 days😃 I was on episode 19, it had only 24. Oh well! This was my second time watching it, but it’s been a long while ago since I watched it, and so, I was not rushing my watch.
I was wondering about Oh! My Sweet Liar. I can’t seem to find it anymore and I’ve watched it lol too many times to count. Any answer would be welcome thank you in advance.
