Anime News

Fansub Production Time Down To Mere Hours
Date: 10/23/2005
ANS has learned the turnaround time for digital fansubs continues to plumet as technology becomes cheaper and more easily procured and as Japanese language skills improve in the rest of the world. The current record for quickest fansub turnaround is claimed by one group to be only around 1-2 hours from procuring an original broadcast video stream to net release. What's more time to see raw Japanese broadcast recordings dumped on the net has also dropped. These increased turnaround speeds regularly seen Japanese animation TV series air for the first time in Japan in the evening on one day and be released in fansub format before the same time on the same day in the USA for instance.
Source: Anime News Service