Japan TV IPTV set top box?

Bokusenou Wrote:@gaiaslastlaugh Woah TVApp looks awesome! I've been hoping to find a NIJI replacement for a while now. No NHK Education, but it has regular NHK and BS 1. Majorly happy right now! Thanks a ton for posting this!

You're welcome. I'm using it for the second day now, and it's pretty amazing. High video and audio quality (the best of any such service I've seen). Again, not a lot of channels, but a good enough mix that if all you want is a stream of Japanese audio, you're apt to find something that you like. I woke up this morning and watched Kaneda Tomoko and Shiratori Kumiko get another talent drunk. Good times.

I stayed up way too late last night and took iHome TV Windows for a spin as well. (This is the Windows app version of their service - i.e., no separate IPTV device required.) A huge array of content - 42 Japanese channels, with the last seven days of each channel, broken down by show, accessible through a primitive DVR menu. I had at least one bad experience where the service seemed to break down completely (everything returned 電波が弱くなりました). Other than that, it was fine. The audio quality, however, is poor. Not static-y or anything, but everything sounds muffled. It sounds like they're reducing the size of the audio channel to conserve bandwidth. I think I'd want to sample some of the newer iptv devices, like the Uchi and the Maige HD3, before committing to this. For now, though, TVApp fits my needs just fine.