New Way to see J-TV in US-A

[drainer at mpinet.net]

 I thought this had been around for the past year or so. Wasn't that company
under litigation?

-d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <amnornes at umich.edu>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 2:27 PM
Subject: New Way to see J-TV in US-A


> 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
>
> Markus