I have Keyhole TV and watch Japanese TV all the time, but the audio quality is so bad and the video quality is unwatchable, that I feel this is impeding on my immersion. I find myself watching old anime episodes or dubs over and over instead.

I have tried searching for Japanese TV or internet TV and nothing relevant came up. Does anyone know any way of watching Japanese TV, like an equivalent of BBC iPlayer and 4OD in the UK and Hulu in America?

Thank you.

Short answer: no, I don't know, but I really want to find out also.

Long answer: I have heard that there is another KeyholeTV type program that performs about as well, that there are a handful of tv and radio stations that stream their programs (I've sampled them - boring stuff and infomercials, mostly), that some people who live in Japan stream their tv onto services like justin.tv, and a handful of people who don't mind saturating their internet connection connect a Slingbox and let a friend or two watch what they have.

I'd love to find a group that provides raws of a typical day's NHK or similar mainstream channel, commercials and all. Ideally, just a set of 24 one hour video files. That would be enough to keep me going for a loooooooooooooong time.*


*longcat keeps good time!

I would like to know as well. Actually I'm in the works of just buying a few channels cuz I do have satellite at home. One of my friends said that you can get a foreign channel for 10$ a month per channel. Also you can get more but it depends on your plan.
(In Canada for Bell)

You might be interested in trying out:
http://nippontv.studiolegend.tv/default.php

The problem is that it's $20 a month, or $150/year, and you only get 5 channels. 日本テレビ、TBS、　フジテレビ、テレビ朝日、and テレビ東京

You can do a one-day trial with a disposable email (otherwise they'll send you messages now and again asking you to pay for an account). However, you can only watch テレビ東京

You could try opening this in VLC or something: mms://119.242.73.151:57879/
That should be what they're using for テレビ東京

Also, an excellent resource:
http://mezhatesyou.blogspot.com/2008/09/...reams.html

I dont' know if they all work, but the ones I tried at mms://stream.gundam.eu worked

Asriel Wrote:Also, an excellent resource:
http://mezhatesyou.blogspot.com/2008/09/...reams.html

I dont' know if they all work, but the ones I tried at mms://stream.gundam.eu worked

OMG. I tried just the first one on that list, but the quality is amazing compared to other things I've tried over the last couple years!

That is very good!

By the way, isn't there some kind of new web-streamed TV thing happening for home viewing in Japan? I can't remember where I read about it.

Eh, or is that already common. No idea how television works.

James Bond in Japanese... Good times. (playing on wowow right now)

Asriel Wrote:Also, an excellent resource:
http://mezhatesyou.blogspot.com/2008/09/...reams.html

I dont' know if they all work, but the ones I tried at mms://stream.gundam.eu worked

WOW awesome quality and these are dated from 2008 hope they will work for a long time.
thanks allot!

When I turned TVtokyo on some guys were playing football in a slippy/gooey field lmao! gotta love japanese tv xD

also some weird gajin guy that got freaked out because of kanji and started to sing the english alphabet with some weird life-sized dolls o.0

Glad you guys like it.

If you're interested in hunting down others, all I did was google:
"japanese tv mms:"

Asriel Wrote:Also, an excellent resource:
http://mezhatesyou.blogspot.com/2008/09/...reams.html

I dont' know if they all work, but the ones I tried at mms://stream.gundam.eu worked

This is amazing!! Exactly what I needed! Just tried the first one on the list in VLC and it is unbelievable quality! As good as any anime I've downloaded!

Thank you so much!

どうも有難うございました！　

maybe i'm retarded but i can't get the mms:// links to work... can somebody explain?

In VLC, you're going to want to go to "Open Network" and put it in there.
Other programs might have something like "Open URL" or similar.

You'll put the whole thing in, including the mms://

is there a way to run it in windows media player? I got windows 7 if that matters at all

I'm not on my Windows 7 right now, but I think simply doing CTRL + U should do the trick

yeh that was right... unfortunately it seems to be running a little sluggish on me right now... despite my 10mb connection.

Edit: i tried a few channels and some work better than others.. thanks!
Edit2: lol i figured out my problem, had my pc overclocked too far... everything crashed, when i rebooted and tried it again everything worked fine

ちなみに, just going to gundam.eu plays some channel

Asriel Wrote:ちなみに, just going to gundam.eu plays some channel

I've never heard of ちなみに before! Is it the same as 所で?

Edit: 所で, if you use the Convert/Save option at the bottom of Media in VLC you can save what you are watching for later! 便利だな！

Wow, great resource.

For those that like to use MPC (Media Player Classic), just go to File->Open File-> and paste in the stream address into the file name block. It'll start streaming.

Seems that MPC works a bit better than VLC.

yeh, i'm using media player on windows 7 and it works perfect

Now you guys have me wondering if I can somehow get this to work with Media Center and get it to stream to my TV... Hmm...

wccrawford Wrote:Now you guys have me wondering if I can somehow get this to work with Media Center and get it to stream to my TV... Hmm...

That would be the best thing ever for immersion!!

Just found out that if you have a hombrew enabled Wii you can view mms streams with mplayer-ce on your TV. Going to test it now.

If you have the right cables, can't you just use the TV as a 2nd display and stream it that way with Media Player Classic or VLC? I used to run an S-cable from my notebook to the TV all the time to watch anime.

Kewickviper Wrote:Just found out that if you have a hombrew enabled Wii you can view mms streams with mplayer-ce on your TV. Going to test it now.

You, my friend, are awesome.

kendo99 Wrote:If you have the right cables, can't you just use the TV as a 2nd display and stream it that way with Media Player Classic or VLC? I used to run an S-cable from my notebook to the TV all the time to watch anime.

I actually already have my PC hooked up like that, but it's sometimes a pain to drop whatever I have on-screen currently to watch something else. Using the TV as another 'tuner' for the internet is my preferred option.

Edit: And honestly, I'm looking for a better way because I want to use that computer differently now... So many options!

All I do is paste the mms addy into the URL bar in Firefox.

Edit: If you have Linkification addon installed (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/190) it will automatically convert those into links.

Can't seem to get Animax to work. ;/