Difference between revisions of "Digisub"

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Digital videos with subtitles, or Digisubs, refers to a grey-area of online video redistribution.  
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''Digisub'' refer to digital subtitled videos, most often distributed online. They were made more reasonable from higher bandwidth, larger hard-drives and cheaper CDr technologies of the late 1990s and 2000s, following the RealMedia and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivoactive VivoActive] videos of the years prior. Digisubs follow the earlier phases of fansubs copied on VHS tapes, most commonly made with Amiga's JACOsub or the Windows Substation Alpha. For more history and detail check the english wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fansub Fansub page].
 
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== (Makeshift) History ==
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Anime made it's way from Japan to the United States and elsewhere via VHS tapes, subtitled by fans and copied by other fans. VHS degradation made later generation copies harder to read, and the limited interest in anime kept the concerns of IP theft to a very minimum.
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Somewhere in the mid 90s, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VivoActive VivoActive] videos of anime were passed around, but they were about the size of a postage stamp. We don't really want to remember that era. 
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Jump ahead to the New Millennium, with faster internet speeds, larger hard-drives and such.  
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* I'll continue this later - I don't want to forget where I was going with this =)
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--[[Paul Sittig]]
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Latest revision as of 08:10, 11 February 2007

Digisub refer to digital subtitled videos, most often distributed online. They were made more reasonable from higher bandwidth, larger hard-drives and cheaper CDr technologies of the late 1990s and 2000s, following the RealMedia and VivoActive videos of the years prior. Digisubs follow the earlier phases of fansubs copied on VHS tapes, most commonly made with Amiga's JACOsub or the Windows Substation Alpha. For more history and detail check the english wikipedia Fansub page.