A viikii question

[dangermousie]

I am just curious how many of you still watch kdramas on viikii? The reason I am curious is because I realized that since their licensing spree, I completely stopped watching kdramas there. I still watch twdramas or mainland ones but I never bother with kdramas there. For older dramas, I can get them elsewhere, and for current ones (which is the one thing I was using viikii for) the licensings restrictions made viikii useless. Half of them are 'license pending' so you can't watch them but, more importantly, there is little point starting even seemingly open ones because you never know if they will go into restriction in the middle and leave you frustrated. What's the point? And the restriction periods are either indefinite or months-long - I can get faster subs elsewhere and they won't be streaming either.

I went to my patterns pre-viikii actually - waiting for proper sub-groups and usually only starting an airing drama when there is a large amount of eps already out.

But what's your experience?

I don't like coming empty-handed, so have a couple of new Athena pics:





So very Bondish.

I know I owe replies - I promise to get back.

Comments

[smothered-pith.livejournal.com]

Hi! lurker here :)
Love your lj btw. Always entertaining and interesting.

I'll say this about Viikii. When I first started watching current dramas it was my 1st choice for subs. It saved me hours of craziness when I was obsessed with Smile, You.
But like you, with all the licensing issues last year, I started to look elsewhere. Mostly, I'd just watch raws and check on azntv when the new episodes came out. Occasionally I'd find some on dramacrazy.net and that'd solve my problem.
Heh Lately, I'm picky about the currently airing dramas I check out but so far I still use Viikii for those. Like Coffee House and Bad Guy :)
I'm not sure how you go about dlding and syncing subs like I've seen others do and I haven't got the patience to do it either so streaming always works for me.

Those Athena shots look positively scrumptious. I'm not so into spy dramas and all but I might actually follow this one. Or hope you screen-cap the good stuff like with Bad Guy ;)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

If you need a quick tutorial about dling/syncing, let me know it's very easy. :)

And I certainly plan to cap Athena :)

[lightsjustright.livejournal.com]

i use viikii right now for new releases that i'm currently following such as bad guy, hotaru no hikari 2 and the new matsujun one that has a long name i can't remember for the life of me. but that's because i am SO obsessed with these and i don't know any place that does them faster. especially bad guy which is normally completed by the next day after it airs.

for kdramas that are already finished, aired, and available in other streaming sites such as aznv, then yeah. i wouldn't use viikii. but honestly they are the fastest subbers that i know of. could you reccommend others?

also the comments are pretty lulzy on viikii and i admit to enjoying them.

but then there are things that i can't find anywhere like the nodame final movement 2 film. *sob* waaant it soooo bad. which makes me appreciate subbers on the net a lot as well as wishing it would be out already. sigh.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

No, viikii is fastest (though dramacrazy is v.v. fast for jdramas).

I just hate streaming in general so try not to stream if I can help it.

[village.livejournal.com]

I actually don't use Viikii as much because of the quality of the streams more than anything else. Like you, I'm just back to my old habits. Some of my really old habits actually, like, I watched pretty much the last half of DwL and Autumn's Concerto on youtube. I'll go to the usual streaming sites (dc.net, dramafever) if I don't feel like downloading or waiting for subs but for pretty much all the current dramas I download them.

Although, I got impatient the other day waiting for BG subs and watched an episode on viikii. It's actually in "HQ" on the site so if I start it again, I'll probably finish it there.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes, the quality of streams drives me crazy (which is why dramafever is good).

[timescout.livejournal.com]

I never got to the Viikii train as I don't like watching stuff streaming, besides the quality of the vids is usually atrocious. These days I prefer to wait till a good amount of episodes is out with subs and then marathon. Seems to work the best for me. If I'm really desperate I just watch them raw first.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's my approach too.

[linfer.livejournal.com]

I am just curious how many of you still watch kdramas on viikii?
Not anymore. Chuno, because near the end I couldn't wait for softsubs anymore, and Kim Soo Ro, but simply because it was the only way and now even that isn't possibe anymore. *grrr* And I can't watch this drama raw, it drove me crazy enough when I watched "Chuno" on viikii with subs half done.
Otherwise I prefer downloading plus softsubs, because streams annoy me way too much.

Before Kim Soo Ro I was never in the situation that a drama I was interested in wasn't subbed by another team besides Viikii. So next time I might wait until someone picks it up before I start watching a new drama. It's too frustrating.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

KSR will probably have DVDs with subs - period dramas usually do.

[linfer.livejournal.com]

Though they're extremely expensive and I'm reluctant doing this without knowing about the rest of the drama. Since this drama started out as being very awesome, I doubt it'd suck in the end, but well, you never know. *gg*

[amandioka.livejournal.com]

I don't use viikii anymore for the same reasons as you... if it's not "license pending" it's "translators only in your contry" and I also went back to waiting for WithS2 (because they sub almost 90% of the kdramas I'm interested in) for subtitles.
Thankfully I'm only following Dong Yi right now and its sub team on W2 is very fast, sometimes we get subtitles 2 days after the episode aired... but next season I'll be intested in many dramas and I'll have to wait for at least 4 episodes to be subtitled before I begin watching I think...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Re: Dong Yi subbers - wow, that IS fast.

[jennyhime.livejournal.com]

I use to but not really anymore because of the license pending and other blah blah blahs that I have to read.
But I do still watch TW draman there and the occassional Jdorama there.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's how I am.

[att123.livejournal.com]

I usually watch airing dramas on Viikii if they have them only because they're faster than the subbing groups. My computer is really crappy so I have to watch streaming.

But it is an incredibly frustrating process trying to watch dramas that way.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

:( That sucks

[shinystory.livejournal.com]

I still do. I watched "Cinderella's Sister" on Viikii. And even "Tamra the Island," which was such a shame because it had a lush scenery and beautiful shooting.

But it is frustrating, specially if no other subbing group picks up a drama I would love to watch.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yes, I always hope a proper sub group picks things up.

[bae-mac.livejournal.com]

Hello there Su Ae! First pic of her that convinced me that she's right for the role. :D