New Way to see J-TV in US-A

[amnornes at umich.edu]

There's a new way to see Japanese television in the US, a big jump beyond the
limits of Dish's NHK or the fan-centered choices on Bit Torrent.

A Japanese company has created a kind of Tivo that works over the internet.
Basically, you have a set-top box that's hooked up to the internet. You can
program it to record anything that's playing on television in Hamamatsu. Their
servers in Hamamatsu deliver it to your box, where it sits on a hard drive
until you choose to watch it.

It can only record to their own proprietary format of DVD, but it sounds like
there were hacks for their first generation machines that provided a USB out.

And, of course, it's expensive: $85 a month, and more if you want NHK (sounds
like they make you pay the government fee---no using Kimigayo to get out of
that one).

Here's a review from the Tivo community:

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/archive/index.php/t-188225.html

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