Nice Trailer, free episodes + community sounds like a dream to me! will stay a dream because i´m not from the US, but buy 80% rc1 dvd´s… To those who can take part in this community: ENJOY!

I will watch Anime on this exclusively. I either watch on FUNimation Video Portal or…………………….. Download…………………………… (Sorry gotta have my Zetsubou Sensei and Bakemonogatari)

Count me there. But untill funi has all the titles I like I sadly have to watch some shows other places or like Mario said, download them. Sorry. 
But I still be hear. 

Good trailer, but to be honest, it goes way too fast. By the time I read what is going on at one slide, the next one comes. It was hard to process it at the rate it was going.
A teaser of what the site looks like would be good too. Looking forward to this.

Hey dragon0, have you seen Phantom yet? That show is Made of Win! You should try that out if you haven’t. I recommend Phantom to all!!!

Looks great! Although I could barely keep up with the speed of the trailer.  Too much, too fast. But what I could catch sounds awesome. I just hope I’m able to play the videos because right now I can’t get more than 2 minutes to play on the Funimation videos before it freezes and fails.  Can’t wait to check out this new site whenever it officially opens.

No offense but that trailer is just words. There are no screen shots or demonstrations of features so I have to say this isn’t a good trailer. It tastes good but it’s not filling, you know what I mean?

And I am a bit concerned about all the “betas” going around. Is the Video Portal getting a final version any time soon? Will Shodojo? With the increasing emphasis on the net, I’m a bit worried that so few of Funi’s recent efforts have gone beyond beta-test mode.

Not trying to be a downer, I just want to see success and beta isn’t success. It’s a prelude to success at best and a failure unto itself at worst.

Dragon0 I will check that out. Its playing now I see, I’ll look at it later tonight. Did you ever watch all of Index??
<I was writing an Idea here but after I read it over it was stupid> (It was for ShoDojo)

Yes Mario I did watch all of Index. It was really good. Hopeing for a 2nd season. 
(good luck with your idea)

> What countries will this be available too out of interest? Give the UK some loving!
I was going to say I’d expect the site at least to be available even if the videos were not, but then I remembered another anime portal form another company (darned if I can remember what it was called) which didn’t allow you any further than the front page if you weren’t from the US. I doubt that will be the case here and I fervently hope it won’t be (not that I need yet another social networking site to forget to visit :p)

All of the content on Shodojo will be free right? (including the actual episodes/OVAs/Specials/Movies etc)

@ Baby Naruto: So far this hasn’t really been addressed but so far Funimation hasn’t done much on the net that required payment. If there is a pay-to-play aspect, it will probably be very cheap.

Actually, I kind of wish they charged a low annual fee for all of their online services just so they’d have a bigger budget for upgrades and maintaince. Maybe we’d have UK access restored and a better Video Portal already. (Sorry, I’m in Rant mode after posting a doozy on my own blog! Click my username to read it. It deals with money but not ShoDojo.)

Anyway, I’ve been wondering lately exactly what the costs of streaming licenses are anyway. There’s a part of me that longs to start my own anime company and nothing would make more sense than beginning with streaming/digital download-to-own deals in today’s market. (Ah dreams.)