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[meganbmoore]

Welp, DramaFever is apparently putting all their dramas on hold thanks to AT&T launching its own steaming service next year.  From the sound of it, this includes the currently airing dramas.  (Most kdramas will probably still be available through some streaming sites thanks to Viu, but cdramas will be hit harder.  I guess it's good that I'm behind on Age of Legends because it might be months before more episodes get subbed.)  DramaFever hasn't sent anything out to subscribers as far as I know (I haven't gotten anything, and neither have a couple of others I've spoken with.) so maybe it will be a bit less dire than it currently sounds.

I remember when DF shows suddenly left Hulu with the TimeWarner buyout.  I had completely let my DF subscription lapse and it was a few weeks before we knew DF was officially gone from Hulu, making me very behind even by my standards.  This is also why I'm only just getting to Six Flying Dragons, which was the first show I noticed not being added to Hulu.  (Jumping into a 50 episode sageuk I have no issues with, but weeks behind on all other kdrama premieres and just coming off a 50 episode sageuk made it a slightly different matter...)  IIRC, at least Hulu got the remaining episodes of the shows they already had tough.  But I could be misremembering.

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[china_shop]

Meep! I mean, I have faith that fans will find a way, but the subbing thing seems like it could cause flow-on problems. /o\

[meganbmoore]

Viu still subs most kdramas (pretty much all of them except the ones Netflix gets exclusive rights to) you just have to go to avistaz or the less-legitimate streaming sites for those subs.

[china_shop]

That's good to know -- thanks.

[thistleingrey]

hmm, interesting. There's also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kocowa, which I haven't used even experimentally so far, though I receive their email newsletter thing.

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, that's who Viki gets most of their subs from these days. As I understand it, it won't affect Viki any, at least.