John W. wrote:
> necoandjeff wrote:
> 
>>John W. wrote:
>>
>>>For those interested, there's a short article in the January
> 
> _Wired_
> 
>>>about using a broadband connection to watch international
> 
> programming.
> 
>>>The technology is TV2Me and is expensive; see www.spaceshift.net.
>>>John W.
>>
>>Something to consider if they ever shut down bittorrent.
> 
> 
> I've got a few Japanese friends here that are MDs and I'm going to
> propose they do this. I figure it's probably very illegal to go this
> route and sell the service, but there shouldn't be anything wrong with
> a few friends doing it.
> 
> I've also contemplated running my inlaws satellite into their computer
> and then using PC Anywhere to watch TV; but I've never used PC Anywhere
> (or anything of that ilk) and I don't know how slow that'd be.
> 
> Can you tell I'm craving Japanese TV? Maybe I miss all that New Years
> crap after all.

During my last trip to New York City, I read an ad in a local Japanese 
newspaper for a service similar to the one you have linked. The company 
maintained a DVR in Japan which could then be piped into the 
subscriber's home. It had a low monthly fee rather than the high cost of 
your linked system, and had the advantage of the company maintaining the 
remote DVR than placing a burden on the user to find a location to drop 
it. The downside is that the service was only available in a few select 
markets at the time I read the ad (NY, LA, and SF, IIRC).

If you have a yen for Japanese TV, you can get TV Japan through Dish 
Network or (I think) some cable systems. I have it through Dish. It 
costs $25 a month. It's mostly a mix of NHK sougou and kyouiku, but they 
throw in a few shows from the commerical networks, too. I watched 
Kouhaku live this morning. I think TV Japan is the best way to go.

- Kevin