There is a Chinese program called BETV http://www.ibetv.com/ that stream Live Chinese TV channels (and others like CNN, BBC).

I wonder if there is a program that can stream live Japanese TV?

warakawa Wrote:There is a Chinese program called BETV http://www.ibetv.com/ that stream Live Chinese TV channels (and others like CNN, BBC).

I wonder if there is a program that can stream live Japanese TV?

KeyholeTV, but the quality isn't great.

Just watch the Japanese shows on youku or Tudou or YouTube wherever it's uploaded. Keyhole is shit quality and so it's hard to understand in general regardless of your Japanese ability.

Hint search with the tv show + 無料動画

howtwosavealif3 Wrote:Just watch the Japanese shows on youku or Tudou or YouTube wherever it's uploaded. Keyhole is shit quality and so it's hard to understand in general regardless of your Japanese ability.

Hint search with the tv show + 無料動画

I don't want video site as I have to conscious click and watch. I want a program so that I can have a Japanese TV on the corner of my computer monitor and practice listening unconsciously when I do other things.

well it would be only every 30 or 40 minutes (and some tv specials are like 2 horus long) or so and like i said the audio quality is shit so i don't know why you want to do that to yourself. maybe you should look into radio stream stuff too or podcast stuff since you're syaing you just want to listen.

also with youtube you can loop it, so if you find a long video of a tv show that wouldn't be a bad idea.

Yeah just use a streaming site or DL videos and make a quick playlist in VLC or something so they keep going. Either way like howtwosavealif3 said a program spans from 30 minutes to 2 hours. I don't see why it would be a burden to have to swap out new videos once in a while. Just have it prepared.

warakawa Wrote:

howtwosavealif3 Wrote:Just watch the Japanese shows on youku or Tudou or YouTube wherever it's uploaded. Keyhole is shit quality and so it's hard to understand in general regardless of your Japanese ability.

Hint search with the tv show + 無料動画

I don't want video site as I have to conscious click and watch. I want a program so that I can have a Japanese TV on the corner of my computer monitor and practice listening unconsciously when I do other things.

http://kuhu.tv/live-tv/japanese-tv.html

I know for a fact Shop Channel Japan channel works every time. It's like the Home Shopping Network of Japan. I've left it streaming for a few hours once so I know it will appeal to what you mentioned about having some Japanese in the background and occasionally glace at.

I just now looked through all the listed channels and the only other channels that are continuous stream are SeeBit TV and QVC (it's in Japanese not to worry ^_^). The rest of the channels are either limited videos (news) or they just plain don't work.

Shop Channel and QVC are all about selling products 24/7 and from the looks of it, SeeBit TV is just 2 Japanese women travelling around. Maybe SeeBit has more variety but this is based on watching the channel for 5 minutes.

If you have a bit of money to throw about (5000～円 per month） then you can use NTKTV to stream anything from the last 10 days of Japanese terrestrial TV. Quality isn't 100%, but its easily watchable.

squarezebra Wrote:If you have a bit of money to throw about (5000～円 per month） then you can use NTKTV to stream anything from the last 10 days of Japanese terrestrial TV. Quality isn't 100%, but its easily watchable.

It's the internet, I am SURE there a free version to that.

warakawa Wrote:

squarezebra Wrote:If you have a bit of money to throw about (5000～円 per month） then you can use NTKTV to stream anything from the last 10 days of Japanese terrestrial TV. Quality isn't 100%, but its easily watchable.

It's the internet, I am SURE there a free version to that.

It's true that there is probably an underground free version of it, but I have yet to find it.

If you have good programming skills and a low moral code, it wouldn't be impossible to use a Java decompiler on the NTKTV program and hack your own version. I think someone on d-addicts did it a while ago. I wouldn't suggest it though.

There's also WIST.TV, which is about $30/mo, about the same quality as NTKTV, but its just live streams, if you want to save it, you have to do that yourself.

warakawa Wrote:I don't want video site as I have to conscious click and watch. I want a program so that I can have a Japanese TV on the corner of my computer monitor and practice listening unconsciously when I do other things.

I like to use QVC for this type of thing, as I can just switch it on and forget about it, without wasting time deciding what I feel like watching. As it's a shopping channel, there are usually two or three people presenting at a time which results in a nice level of conversation.

If you go their main website, you can click on the "live feed" link, which has both a high and low quality version.

RawrPk Wrote:Shop Channel and QVC are all about selling products 24/7 and from the looks of it, SeeBit TV is just 2 Japanese women travelling around. Maybe SeeBit has more variety but this is based on watching the channel for 5 minutes.

You can watch QVC also on the website I provided in my previous post. Here are the actual links to the channel so you don't need to look through the list I posted on the link. I'll provide direct links to the other working channels as well.

QVC: http://kuhu.tv/live-tv/japanese-tv/144-qvc.html

Shop Channel: http://kuhu.tv/live-tv/japanese-tv/1858-...japan.html

SeeBit TV: http://kuhu.tv/live-tv/japanese-tv/930-seebit-tv.html

All 3 channels are live, continuous stream. Shop Channel has pretty good streaming quality

Someone who knows more information about NHK On-demand may be able to help you out. I'm pretty sure it streams all of the recent content on NHK on the internet, but I could be wrong. I also don't know if it costs anything or not.

The catch is that you have to have a Japanese ISP but that can be obtained through a proxy or through a private VPN.


Can someone provide more information about NHK ondemand?

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If there is something like twitch.tv in Japan that could be fun too if you like gaming. There are Chinese and Russian streamers on there, Japanese I don't know.

bizarrojosh Wrote:Can someone provide more information about NHK ondemand?

You can get NHK through NTKTV on a one-hour delay (http://www.ntktv.com/). It's been free for me so far, but I haven't used it extensively.

If you are serious about watching Japanese tv in high quality (720p), I recommend iHome. It is a set top box you connect to your tv with HDMI, VGA, or composite cables. You also have to plug a network cable into it. I bought one from aliexpress.com for about $300, and it is good for 1 year, after that it is $200 per year (~$16 per month).

What is nice is that it has 36 channels, and you can watch programs that have already aired for about the past week, sort of like a high quality version of emankai.com. There is also a recording mode that can be activated, but you need to plug in a usb hard drive, and you can only watch the recordings through the device.

The best program I've found and used is called Readon TV Movie Radio Player. It finds all the online streams of Japanese plus practically any other language on tv, its super useful.

http://readon-tv-movie-radio-player.en.softonic.com/

It isn't streaming but, http://www.youtube.com/leanback works pretty good for idling on youtube. Just type in a Japanese word and leanback.

gaiaslastlaugh Wrote:

bizarrojosh Wrote:Can someone provide more information about NHK ondemand?

You can get NHK through NTKTV on a one-hour delay (http://www.ntktv.com/). It's been free for me so far, but I haven't used it extensively.

Wow, this is pretty awesome. You can watch pretty much anything from the past several days that appeared on NHK.
In the screenshot on that website though, it shows other channels besides just NHK. Anyone know how to add the other channels?

Zarxrax Wrote:Wow, this is pretty awesome. You can watch pretty much anything from the past several days that appeared on NHK.
In the screenshot on that website though, it shows other channels besides just NHK. Anyone know how to add the other channels?

The only channel I have on NTKTV is NHK教育, what about you?

At long last, I think there is a reliable solution to the (free) streaming of Japanese TV.

I present to you: SopCast.
http://www.sopcast.com/download/

Once installed (be careful to disable the choice for the toolbar during installation), replace your favorites.xml, located where you installed SopCast, with this: http://pastebin.com/mQQTSY39

Once I installed this I instantly cancelled my $30/month subscription to wist.tv.
This (SopCast with Japanese channels) seems to only recently have taken off. Follow the relevant 2ch threads for more info: http://anago.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/software/1347364613/

Quality is very watchable (sooo much better than KeyHoleTV), and there's an option to use an external media player like VLC/WMP/MPC so you can customize the aspect ratio from the default 4:3. SopCast is based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, similar in principle to things like torrents -- so in general, the more people that use it and contribute bandwidth to the swarm, the better the overall health of the stream.

Using it the past few days, I have experienced zero stuttering/dropout problems with watching Japanese channels (which are listed in the favorites.xml I posted above). It contains pretty much every channel available on terrestrial Japanese TV, and the quality is better than wist.tv, NTKTV and other paid subscription services.

Guoguodi Wrote:At long last, I think there is a reliable solution to the (free) streaming of Japanese TV.

I present to you: SopCast.
http://www.sopcast.com/download/

Once installed (be careful to disable the choice for the toolbar during installation), replace your favorites.xml, located where you installed SopCast, with this: http://pastebin.com/mQQTSY39

Once I installed this I instantly cancelled my $30/month subscription to wist.tv.
This (SopCast with Japanese channels) seems to only recently have taken off. Follow the relevant 2ch threads for more info: http://anago.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/software/1347364613/

Quality is very watchable, and there's an option to use an external media player like VLC/WMP/MPC so you can customize the aspect ratio from the default 4:3. SopCast is based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, similar in principle to things like torrents -- so in general, the more people that use it and contribute bandwidth to the swarm, the better the overall health of the stream.

Using it the past few days, I have experienced zero stuttering/dropout problems with watching Japanese channels (which are listed in the favorites.xml I posted above). It contains pretty much every channel available on terrestrial Japanese TV, and the quality is better than wist.tv, NTKTV and other paid subscription services.

Just downloaded SopCast, I couldn't find any Japanese channel, there is heaps of Chinese and Romanian channels.

Guoguodi Wrote:At long last, I think there is a reliable solution to the (free) streaming of Japanese TV.

I present to you: SopCast.
http://www.sopcast.com/download/

Once installed (be careful to disable the choice for the toolbar during installation), replace your favorites.xml, located where you installed SopCast, with this: http://pastebin.com/mQQTSY39

Once I installed this I instantly cancelled my $30/month subscription to wist.tv.
This (SopCast with Japanese channels) seems to only recently have taken off. Follow the relevant 2ch threads for more info: http://anago.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/software/1347364613/

Quality is very watchable, and there's an option to use an external media player like VLC/WMP/MPC so you can customize the aspect ratio from the default 4:3. SopCast is based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol, similar in principle to things like torrents -- so in general, the more people that use it and contribute bandwidth to the swarm, the better the overall health of the stream.

Using it the past few days, I have experienced zero stuttering/dropout problems with watching Japanese channels (which are listed in the favorites.xml I posted above). It contains pretty much every channel available on terrestrial Japanese TV, and the quality is better than wist.tv, NTKTV and other paid subscription services.

This, is amazing. I thought NTKTV was the best, but having to manually start the next 1 hour segment was slightly annoying. But SopCast appears to stream... 24/7 without interaction?

when I download the favorite file off pastebin, it comes as text not as XML file.

warakawa: You paste the text from that link (http://pastebin.com/mQQTSY39) into 'favorites.xml' which is located in the same folder where Sopcast is installed. I'm not sure, but you might need to create a SopCast account first in order for the favorites.xml to be detected. Either way registering an account is pretty quick and easy so I did it early on.

Some other tips for SopCast users:

- You can specify an external player such as VLC to open the stream in, click the Options button. I found I had issues using VLC, but Windows Media Player as well as Media Player Classic all worked fine. Unfortunately when you change the channel in SopCast, you have to reload the external player, and I'm wondering if there is a way around this (I doubt it).

- It's best not to limit the upload bandwidth that SopCast uses, as this will hurt the overall channel health and probably impact your own stream's quality. Since the protocol works on a "mesh" principle (similar to BitTorrent), you should ideally be uploading and contributing back as much as you can.