Life In 19x19

I'm happy to announce that Baduk TV at Go Game Guru has got to the point were we can now reduce the price to just $20/month for English translations.

In addition, we're trying out a new day pass, where you only pay when you want to watch, as an alternative to a monthly subscription.

Click here for all the details.

This made my week, (re-)subscribed

Looks like a Christmas present.

I'd subscribe right now if I could pay, for example, through google wallet (formerly goggle checkout)

I have no idea whether they impose draconian restrictions to businesses, though.

[Edit: I don't know anything about this kind of businesses so I might go wildly wrong but google wallet might have the same transaction fees as paypal 2.9%+030$.]

Expect a likely new subscription in the near future!

BTW, I think it's worth a word of thanks to the first subscribers who have shown gogameguru that Baduk TV is a viable enterprise here in the West, and made it possible to for it to be offered it to a wider audience. Thanks!

I agree with daal. Thankyou to them too.

Alguien wrote:I'd subscribe right now if I could pay, for example, through google wallet (formerly goggle checkout)

I have no idea whether they impose draconian restrictions to businesses, though.

[Edit: I don't know anything about this kind of businesses so I might go wildly wrong but google wallet might have the same transaction fees as paypal 2.9%+030$.]

google wallet isn't available outside of the US which would be pretty sad for a lot of people wanting Baduk TV English!

I agree paypal isn't a fun company but its one of the very few that allow payment from so many different countries.

badukJr wrote:google wallet isn't available outside of the US which would be pretty sad for a lot of people wanting Baduk TV English!

I use google wallet and I live in Spain.

Also, I didn't say they should remove the option to use paypal, just that they should consider adding other options for people who won't use paypal.

Baduk TV wrote:$1 trial ends Friday, December 21, 2012

As an introductory special, we’ve been offering the first week of Baduk TV English for just $1, when you order a monthly subscription.

That offer ends this week, on Friday, December 21, so this is your last chance to take advantage of it.

If you want to join, you can click here to subscribe to Baduk TV English right now.

If you subscribe you can cancel it after one week ( even at the time of subscribing ). If you don't cancel you are charged $20 a month. Be sure to decide in time otherwise you will pay automatically.
It is worth a try and it will certainly help you through those depressing christmas days.
The "Becoming a 5 kyu" lessons and the "007" lessons ( punishing trick plays ) are really good. ( I guess up to 1 kyu KGS). There are six of them each now and their number will grow weekly.

Alguien wrote:

badukJr wrote:google wallet isn't available outside of the US which would be pretty sad for a lot of people wanting Baduk TV English!

I use google wallet and I live in Spain.

Also, I didn't say they should remove the option to use paypal, just that they should consider adding other options for people who won't use paypal.

Yes, its possible to use outside but it is not officially supported. Since gogameguru is outside of the US it does not surprise me they don't use something that is not officially support when dealing with their livelyhood.

I will indeed sub when I have some money

Alguien wrote:I'd subscribe right now if I could pay, for example, through google wallet (formerly google checkout)

We tried Google Wallet/Checkout with our Go shop awhile back. At the time it was frustrating to integrate because Google gives merchants some ridiculously small amount of time for their shop to return shipping rates (which you don't know ahead of time because you don't have an address yet). And if you don't return the rates quickly enough it defaults to rating everything with USPS, which kind of sucks for everyone when you're going to send something to Europe, from Europe...

Generally I like Google's stuff, but this is one thing I wish they'd change. When I did a search on this issue I found that people have been complaining about this for about 5 years, so...

We haven't seriously considered it for Baduk TV yet, because we're still working on setting up credit card payments (that don't require PayPal). I've been testing that, but it's not ready to go into production just yet.

We do have direct credit card payments working in the Go shop already (in addition to PayPal, bank transfer, and check/cheque as payment options).

We definitely want to get an alternative to PayPal up and running as soon as we can, because at the moment people in Germany still can't subscribe using PayPal, even if they want to. According to PayPal support, it's because of some Byzantine requirement PayPal has about only accepting 'instant' payment methods for recurring subscriptions. So currently everyone in Germany has to email us to arrange payment. Why German credit cards aren't regarded as 'instant' is a mystery to me.

Anyway, a PayPal alternative is coming soon.

May I ask, how many hours of tv do you upload weekly to Baduk TV English?
thanks!

salerno wrote:May I ask, how many hours of tv do you upload weekly to Baduk TV English?
thanks!

On average it would probably end up being about 1.5 hours per week at the moment. We were doing more earlier, but we don't currently have enough translators to sustain that kind of pace.

1 hour of video is about 12 hours of work on average (translation + syncing + editing).

There's a lot more information about it on this page: http://gogameguru.com/get-baduk-tv/