TVU Player
I know some of you might be sick of waiting for fansubs animes and are awaiting for raws instead but at time, you feel impatient too. Well, guess what? Now, you can stream TV channels from Japan on your computer so that you can actually watch them live! In fact, you can watch TV channels from all over the world (that is if it’s provided) and you have one more entertainment on your computer to keep you from being bored! Presenting to you TVU player!
Firstly, go and download the TVU here!
Install the program. After you finish with the installation, run TVU and you’ll the follow interface as displayed above. As you can see, it displays all the channels that are available on the right hand side.
To filter to the Japanese channel, simply change the language to Japansese
Upon selecting Japanese, the right side will display the channels available. Just click on the channel that u want to view, wait for it to load and there you have it!
Most of this season’s more popular animes are on TBS Channel, where you have shows like Macross Frontier, Code Geass R2, ToLoveRu, XXXHolic: Kei, etc. In fact, older shows like CLANNAD, Gundam00 and others were shown on TBS when they were will airing
It would be good if you refer to the official site of the shows to check out the timeslots. For me, I usually refer to mahou Showtime!
Since tonight is the night where many of this season’s show are going to air, I’m going to try and see if I can catch it live. Hope you guys will enjoy this application! In fact, hopefully I can improve my Japanese a bit more by watching more.
April 24th, 2008 at 15:32
goood shit!!!!
April 24th, 2008 at 15:45
nice
April 24th, 2008 at 15:56
I really should start learning Jap sometime.
Damn.
April 24th, 2008 at 17:44
Whoo that would be great!!!
Shoick!!!
I am going to try it out now
April 24th, 2008 at 19:14
This is interesting, to say the least. But I don’t understand Japanese and I have a bad Internet connection, so … I’ll pass.
Thanks for the heads-up, though.
April 24th, 2008 at 19:54
Ever since the Odex saga, I’ve been reading up on content distribution and control by big conglomerates, and it’s initiatives like TVU Networks that have been piping up my interests. I firmly support the disintegration of repressive and unconsumer-friendly business practices in favour of democratization of the consumers’ ability to watch what they want, where they want, whenever they want. [/dilbert]
[otaku]Nice up, bj0rN! V(^;^)V [/otaku]
[thepiratebay]Ups for you, bj0rN.[/thepiratebay]
For me, I’ll enjoy the free offer, until some other big companies decide to shut down TVU Networks.
April 24th, 2008 at 21:36
I went to the site, browsed the TV Guide and found some channel named “AutoCAD 2006 Tutorial” lol. Cool concept, Joost should do something similar since they have buku $$
April 24th, 2008 at 23:29
no MBS right now, so no macross frontier ):
April 24th, 2008 at 23:53
good shit! watching good shit! real time!
April 25th, 2008 at 4:08
Macross also airs at TBS but 1 day after MBS airs it, so might as well grab the raws.
April 25th, 2008 at 8:52
I was using a program called SOPCast, and it had live NTV, Fuji TV, and TV Asahi. Awesome channels them… until it went down. BOO.
I’m actually surprised TVU Player is still alive, but their streaming channels rapidly change as I noticed last year. You gotta hate it when you come to like some un-torrented Japanese show over there then some nut decides to turn off the channel streaming forever.
April 25th, 2008 at 14:14
Is this different than KeyHoleTV? KeyHoleTV is another program that streams Japanese TV live, but I haven’t heard very much hype about it, even though it’s been around for a while now. Anyone know about it?
April 28th, 2008 at 0:28
Thank god!!! Very good news indeed!
April 28th, 2008 at 0:32
anyway, what software you use to let you have note on your right hand side of your screen??
April 28th, 2008 at 11:35
it seems to me fucked for me
I can’t watch any channels and i can’t select japanese either….there’s just some list of crappy TV channels which can’t be watched 
Are there any other steps?
April 28th, 2008 at 11:48
KenesaiTsumi: Rainlender
exaltdragom: Maybe you installed at the time when they were having some server maintenance. Happened to several others too.
April 29th, 2008 at 0:10
bjOrN: Thanksz
Beside, my bandwidth really sux…When I’m watching the channel It always stuck…
how much is the speed for singaporean??
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:29
all i hope they have is at-x. it contains all, or most spring animes or other animes in japan.
May 4th, 2008 at 23:58
I installed it and noticed that some of the channels in japanese doesnt have sound. I dont know if the channel doesnt have sound because of some kind of protection?…TBS doesnt have sound.
May 5th, 2008 at 14:18
installが難しい･･･英語ばっかりだ･･･(>_<;;)
how to install “Fuji channel” or “Asahi channel”?
May 7th, 2008 at 13:08
Simply awesome. This should help a lot with Japanese study. Thanks for the info.
May 11th, 2008 at 21:37
Wooh, got mine to start up… Getting it to work now. Guess I’ll really have to work on my Japanese now…
June 10th, 2008 at 19:10
already gone D:
July 7th, 2008 at 10:56
er i downloaded the TVU and i click on the japanese channel thing and i don’t have the TBS channel… how can i get it?
October 5th, 2008 at 8:25
um… i cant see TBS on the list either, any ideas?