This bodes well for us

[Aaron Gerow]

This has been in the grapevine for a while, but I am still suspicious  
about how helpful this will be. The Japanese broadcasters are  
notoriously bad about getting their content abroad. We'll see about  
NHK, but the Fuji TV service, for instance, demands that you register  
at a set number of Japanese contents providers and see the content  
through those providers. (You don't just go to Fuji TV on the web and  
click on the show you want to watch.) I haven't tried to register at  
one of those places, but I wonder if that will be used to weed out  
foreign viewers. We shall see.

Aaron

On Mar 27, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Mark Nornes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> News that should warm the hearts of researchers and fans alike:  
> both Fuji and NHK are making new moves into internet distribution.  
> Fuji will be offering 30 programs (a combo of free, pay per view,  
> and monthly fees), and this starts on April 1.
>
> NHK will be doing something similar in December with 20 shows, but  
> it will also include more than a thousand older shows as well.  
> (They are clearly moving towards a full scale opening of their  
> archives sometime in the future, as is clear if you rummage around  
> in their website for long enough).
>
> Mark Schilling at Variety has the straight dope:
>
> http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982967.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1
> http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117982973.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1
>
> Markus