KeyHoleTV is very stable and have most of the major channels, but the quality isn't optimal.
I was wondering if any of you know of any paid services that offer higher bit-rate streams?
what for
Not any specific show, I just enjoy watching Japanese TV (yeah it’s 99% shit I know, but that’s what’s fun about it right?) And I wouldn’t mind paying for it, if I can get better service.
The Japanese Culture & Eontertainment board on the d-addicts.com forum has a few threads with information about both free and pay services, but I'll give you the highlights of the free ones:
freshverse.com
Used to have a high-quality Flash stream and require an invitation; as of right now, registration is open and all of the available streams require Microsoft Silverlight. The channels available are NHK G, NHK E, Nippon TV, TBS, and Fuji TV. Quality is not good, but it is better than KeyHoleTV.
tvants.com
Requires download of a Windows p2p application, but it also works in wine. The channels are usually misnamed: the one labeled TV Asahi right now is actually TV Tokyo, the one labeled TV Tokyo is actually Nippon TV, and the one labeled NTV is actually Fuji TV. Those are the only ones available right now, although there have been others in the past. The quality for Nippon TV and Fuji TV is slightly below that of freshverse.
INSTANT REVIEW : Closer
A movie about 4 people who know how to cheat on each other.
Natalie Portman still sucks at acting.
INSTANT REVIEW: Star Trek
Somehow this didn't trip my nerd rage-o-meter. It may be watered down, but it's not a bad movie.
INSTANT REVIEW: Inglorious Basterds
Jews are so great, Hitler sux XD.
INSTANT REVIEW: Funny People
One of Adam Sandler's better movies. But not as funny as the name implies.
INSTANT REVIEW: Once Upon a Time in the West
I hate westerns, actually I never watched one, find them too boring. But this movie is amazing, completely changes my opinion of westerns.
INSTANT REVIEW: Coraline
Gorgeous visuals, cute characters, but the plot feels like a tech demo, or a video game really. If you liked Avatar you may like this. Main character is quite fappable.
INSTANT REVIEW: Traxx (1988)
You know what I think of your cookies?
<10 second fart>
That's what I think of your cookies!
INSTANT REVIEW: Avatar
I am getting in the habit of writing instant reviews in this thread for movies that everyone has already seen.
INSTANT REVIEW: Where The Wild Things Are (2010)
What the fuck, this is a kid's movie, why are you beating the shit out of each other?
The movie "Densha Otoko" (Train Man) is to be shown in several countries in East Asia, including Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, following sales efforts at the recent Cannes Film Festival. The movie is based on a supposedly true story that played out on the Channel 2 web site, Japan's most popular BBS. It tells of an "otaku" (nerd), played by Yamada Takayuki (21), who comes to the rescue of a woman (Nakatani Miki, 29) being groped on a train. Not knowing how to pursue his newly found love, he turns to the Web for help and advice. The love story was turned into a best-selling book and has the subject of a lot of publicity over the last year, and has publishers scouring the Web looking for the next big hit. The biggest question that remains is whether it's really a true story of innocent love triumphing or just a clever marketing ploy. The movie opens on June 4.
Look. If it was a work of fiction, the Japanese users of 2-ch would respond to the publishing of the novel. Since they did not, i'd assume it to be true. You think too much, thread starter.
Anyhoo, i'm still going to watch the movie.
lalala~
epic story. if true or not. it let's us hope.. ;_;
here's a link to a translation of the original densha otoko posts.
http://www.rinji.tv/densha/
That's really fun to read after watching the movie. They did a great job being faithful to the actual thread, train man's emotions, etc.
oh wow. this board is just plain awesome. plain, but awesome. hehe.
i tried to disregard the spoilers, as i'm currently at the 7th episode... but it seems the F2 special never got any sub... any idea if there's anything out there?
oh wow. this board is just plain awesome. plain, but awesome. hehe.
i tried to disregard the spoilers, as i'm currently at the 7th episode... but it seems the F2 special never got any sub... any idea if there's anything out there?
Yeh, I've actually seen the drama. But there's a movie, not sure if that's any good.
WHO WINS?
>>95
Then again, Scrubs only has a few episodes left, if you consider the "activeness" of a show a decisive factor.
SCRUBS!!!!
House > Scrubs > ER > Gray's
Now that Scrubs is dead too theres only ER and House.
I'd just say House because he kinda reminds me of Dr. Cox from Scrubs, I still won't watch it though
How the hell do you compare two very sirous shows trying they're best to depict real doctors to a comedy. Dont get me wrong I love scrubs but really compare House to E.R. or Grey's Anatomy or something.
>>100
Nothing wrong against comparing medical shows. You know, shows that revolve around hospitals. Also grammar hurr durr.
"House" - the best medial show so far. It is comparable to "Boston Legal" of courthouse, legal setting. Yeah, I related Dr House to Dr Cox as well, but Scrubs is always something I want to go back. ER or GA never made good entertainment for me. Oh, Nurse Jackie is worth watching too, but she is so tough that she seems bi- to me.
>>102
I always say Boston Legal doesn't receive the love it deserves, so I'm glad you mention it. It's too bad that show was canceled, it was really good. The last season was hilarious with subtle jabs at their status and against their owner.
I like this show called "Generall scrub's hospital house"
in my opinion scrubs is the best cuz its got comedy with the occasional good drama to let you know its not just random comedy thrown at you. greys anatomy is just a rip off of scrubs. house seems pretty cool, never seen ER, but i just like scrubs cuz i've seen it. so i'd say Scrubs, then House, then ER, then far far behind would be grey's
Does anyone know any good Japanese Movies?
I just saw Kamikaze Girls and it was sooooo good.
Wild Zero is hilarouse
shark skin man and the peach hip girl anyone?
Try watching Akira Kurosawa's Ran. He's made very good movies, so check those out!
watched lot of movies like
ringu,dark water,juon,suicide circle,dororo,azumi,one missed call,shibuya kaidan,sword of alexander,battle royale,the machine girl,death note, ichi the killer,nana
How to enter Japanese baths
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ud-NmO8GKM&fmt=18
>>51
Really any of Akira Kurosawa.
Yojimbo and Sanjuro are good, although they're almost the same movie.
Rashomon is one of his most famous ones, especially from a film studies pov.
Ikiru gets away from samurai, and is good, but is also like 40 minutes longer than it should be.
学校９３年
hmm.... how about 1 litre of tears...
and taiyo no uta
Hinokio ^^
Yo doggs, did you hear that Rian Johnson (director of the excellent movies Brick and The Brothers Bloom) is making a new movie called Looper? I wonder when it's going to come out. IMDB won't tell me. :-(
>Yo doggs
Don't ever say this again, ever. You will regret it if you do.
When you want to burn a dvd video, with titles and such, what program do you use? I have Power Producer Gold, but It's extremely buggy. Anyone else recommend anything?
It's pretty amazing how it syncs up between Tonight Show hosts and James Bonds. Check out the video.
Any other disgruntled "movie guys" here? Let's share the pain.
I worked in an adult video store for a year. it was the best time. Free porn and extra cash.
During your campaign, how many public masturbators did you catch and how many unclean tapes were anonymously returned.
Rule One: All screen the original movie in the store on the day that the remake is released, you'd be amazed what this will do for your social life.
Does people still go to video stores, when there's netflix and well... torrents ?
Obviously. It's ignorant to think that everyone is as computer-literate as you are. Ask the average person on the street if they've downloaded any good torrents lately, and they'll likely just stare at you quizzically. Netflix has shipping time, and not everyone rents movies often enough to justify paying that much per month.
So yes, lots of people still go to video stores. They aren't doing quite as well as they were 10 years ago, but they're not going anywhere anytime soon.
I still work at a video store. Going on 3 years now.
I guess sometimes it can be cool.
But it's nothing like what people think. I don't sit around all day talking about film and watching films. Yeah, maybe if I worked in a small suburban video store. But we get too many customers and returns to be standing around doing nothing.
And most of my co-workers are dumb teenagers who think Twilight and Transformers are good films. I have nothing to discuss with them.
My manager used to be a cool guy who was really into old horror films. We used to talk all the time and there weren't many customers back then (probably cause he wasn't a good manager). But since he left and business picked up, it's just been an endless nightmare of complaining customers and piles of returns.
Internet Killed the Video Store. And a bunch of other stuff. A lament...
Oh, man. Hey guys. This thread reminded me about what I now consider to be the best rental store humor I've ever seen.
Check out the "Acts of Gord". Googling Gord will take you straight to it.
It's this guy who runs this video game shop (not exactly movies, but the crowd is similar) and well, awesome ensues. From what I gather it's more or less a compilation of real events and people.
Anyway, I like it a bunch. I'm probably going to read it again now.
Just wondering but how many of 4ch users first used 4ch because of densha otoko?
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I watched Densha Otoko because of 4ch. A long time ago actually.
Does anybody know where I can find footage of the Densha Otoko TV trailer, note I asked for the TV trailer not the movie one (which is flying all over YouTube) might I add.
u could try d-addict.com
I read Densha Otoko as as I was getting into 4ch. I can't recall which came first, or if it was causal. I guess I'll watch the movie sometime soon.
Why was post 40 deleted? Wasn't it a link to a translation of the original posts on 2-ch? What's wrong with that?
Tell me.
Do it.
>1
Tally me in for that. I just want to learn Japanese more than ever now.