More for european learners than anything, actually probably more for British learners.
While rather bored after finishing watching some UFC with my bros i started scanning the SKY TV A-Z looking documentaries on Japan after seeing a documentary on BBC about china, i thought maybe there'd be a world history documentary or something.

I found something better...

NHK World TV Channel 516

The programmes seem to be heavily repeated, but from what i can see it at least gives dailys news and things, not sure if every show will be subbed or not, im guessing a lot will be seeing as its a "world" channel, but needless to say, i will be checking this channel a lot.

Not sure if anyone has ever mentioned it before, i certainly have never seen anything mentioned and have never come across it before. Thought i'd throw this up here.

Sounds great! Too bad we don't have it across the pond It would've been great to have it on in the background.

I read an old article that said the channel would be in English but focus on more East Asian issues. Is this true?

Thanks for the heads up, never noticed this. There's so many channels on Sky i keep finding new ones. I just checked it out and it seemed to be broadcasting Programming with Japanese but English dubbed over it, so there's no way to properly hear the Japanese.

Musashi. Have you ever tried Livestation? I'm pretty sure you can stream NHK World, and a couple other Japanese channels.

You know I htought of this just now, while watching some BBC documentaries,;Amazon Abyss, Life in the Undergrowth. A Japanese documentary on wild life or whatever would be awesome to watch. 100 times more beneficial than drama and more or less the same level of langauge ability.

If anyone finds a resource on documentary avi's in japanese, I don't know what I'd do, but I'll do something

Halikadito Wrote:Musashi. Have you ever tried Livestation? I'm pretty sure you can stream NHK World, and a couple other Japanese channels.

Thanks for the tip! Downloaded Livestation just now, I thought it wasn't supported on mac

I found this. Was really excited until I found out it's all in English. I haven't checked out all of their content though, hopefully some will be in Japanese (doubt it though).

I have seen this channel. I caught some documentary about the terracotta army or something, it was subtitled so it would be easy just to put cardboard in the way or something. For a large part though the channel is mostly in English.

There's also the 'Nihongo Quick Lesson' shown on weekday evenings which is pretty bad, but some funny ham acting though.

http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/Japan.html
Beam means where you can pick it up.
Apparently animax iberia and nhk world are the only channels that can be picked up here in europe (in the americas too).
Of course one can also click up the site of the channel and watch it over the internets.

animax DVB-S2? hmmz, lets hope it works.

I think tokyocooney (from youtube) has a tv-show on nhk world btw

God this is terrible, "Cool Japan" is on and they're talking about how rain is described differently in different countries... Oh and it's dubbed... They could at least sub it so I could just listen... (not that it's very interesting...)

Oh hey, there are doing just subtitles of japanese speech now. English subs suck too though...

Would it not be possible for them to put something interesting on? To be perfectly honest farming does not interest me much...

Why sub part of it, but dub the narrator?

why don't you guys just use http://www.justin.tv/directory?order=hot&lang=ja

Is it possible to use a VPN to watch all the channels that can't be seen here in NA/Europe? Just a thought, since using that sorta allows me to play Monster Hunter Frontier without worrying about being a non-Japanese citizen. If that works for other things like internet TV surfing, that'd be pretty rad.

I don't know how fast it would be but you could use the VPN in this thread (free), http://www.onrpg.com/boards/62115.html

Might work?

bombpersons Wrote:I don't know how fast it would be but you could use the VPN in this thread (free), http://www.onrpg.com/boards/62115.html

Might work?

Eh, I'm using PacketiX already. I'll give it a shot. But I don't even know how to work Lyngsat to start with, so VPN or not, I wouldn't be really watching much of anything.

You guys could just use KeyholeTV:

http://www.v2p.jp/video/english/

Japanese TV streamed 24/7, about 20 channels, and completely LEGAL! not great quality though..

I've already got KeyholeTV, and some of the channels are kinda boring, mostly infomercials. One time I saw a commercial for both Naruto and Bleach in the same timespan and I thought, "Hey, maybe this'll show some anime", but there wasn't really anything but commercials on the channel I was watching. Quite disappointing.