TV Japan

[drainer at mpinet.net]

Again Aaron hits the nail on the head. I forgot to mention about the 
copyright restrictions...

I am surprised that the network still exists at that price with the lack of 
variety offered.
As far as I know there aren't any other simple alternatives: JNET no longer 
works; there are a few Japan-based sites that stream video but you have to 
purchase a box and meet other requirements. The simplest way to get basic 
channels outside of Japan is to stream it through someone based in Japan :|

C'est la vie...

-d


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Gerow" <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 3:23 AM
Subject: Re: TV Japan


> We subscribed to TV Japan via U-verse over the last year (until we  just 
> made the move to Japan). Frankly, as I wrote about on my site  once, I 
> don't think it's worth it. If you are a big NHK fan, it may  suffice, but 
> if you are not, and especially if you like minpo variety  or dramas, there 
> is just not much there. In the end, we basically just  watched it for the 
> news, but even then it was often extremely  annoying. You pay $25 bucks a 
> month for this programming, but they  don't even get the rights for half 
> the sports footage they use in the  news. Thus half the time they do some 
> sports story, the screen turns  to a still picture and there is wording to 
> the effect that for  copyright reasons they can't show the image (you can 
> still hear the  audio). I've seen 5 minute feature stories where 3 or 4 
> minutes of the  story ends up this way.
>
> Also, one reason we got TV Japan was for Kohaku, but the broadcast 
> quality was so awful, it looked little better than internet live 
> streaming.
>
> Since we are looking into other ways to get Japanese TV, I don't think  we 
> will resubscribe when we return.
>
>
> Aaron Gerow
> Associate Professor
> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
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