I don't know if anyone has posted about this before but I came across a cool site for watching… - Feed Post by Razernok

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  qixzie

  Soo.. i first stumbled upon some weird Disney program containing some weirdly looking bunnies. Then i found some tel sell program, which was weirdly fun and interesting to see (then again i find all of those Japanese advertisement breakｓ weirdly interesting ._. ..). After which i found a show of some guys reviewing pachinko machines, cuz ehmm apparently there are some real differences between those things ._. ? I found some anime, so that was nice :D. And finally i found some ecchi girl applying soap to some skimpy swimsuit..
  
  日本のテレビは変ですねぇ．．．

  December 23, 2017 at 8:27am
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  Razernok

  I'm guessing you liked the service then :P

  December 23, 2017 at 9:30am
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  IJamLegend

  Thanks for this, man!
  I used to use an app called Niji for this but that died and there was seemingly nowhere else to watch live Japanese TV on the internet.

  December 23, 2017 at 10:53am
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  Razernok

  IJamLegend, no problem dude.

  December 23, 2017 at 2:58pm
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  mog86uk

  After Niji died completely, I switched to AbemaTV - https://abema.tv
  
  AbemaTV is very good, but it's its own online TV network rather than the normal channels you'd find on a TV. Still, it is legit and completely free to watch live. And also, the 24 or so channels it has do cover pretty much everything—anime, drama, news, sport, documentary,... The only problem is that it's designed to be watched only in Japan, so you need to use a Japan VPN to access it.
  
  FUJITV is much better, since it has the proper TV channels you'd find on Japanese televisions. It has 65 channels. It great that it also let's you watch anything that was broadcast in the last 7 days (you can pay for a Premium subscription to AbemaTV to have a feature like this on there too though). I'd not really checked FUJITV out as it's pretty expensive. However, I hadn't realised it is designed to be watched outside Japan, meaning a VPN is not needed at all.
  
  I bought a Japan VPN for something like $50 a year to watch AbemaTV ($0/year) on both my computer and Android phone. I used it quite a lot at the start, but now I hardly make use of it at all (although this is mostly because I got annoyed with the nine hour timezone difference.) FUJITV is awesome and very tempting to get, but it's $260 a year... ^^;

  December 24, 2017 at 9:04am
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  qixzie

  I would so have been all over it if it was like half of what it currently is. Maybe i'll just give myself a lil Christmas present this year and see how i like it for more than a day..

  December 24, 2017 at 10:30pm
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  IJamLegend

  you can watch it free with a little tinkering (≧▽≦)
  https://youtu.be/nyTiWWu82-w

  December 25, 2017 at 11:46pm
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  qixzie

  #WhyYouDontDealWithSecurityClientSide

  December 26, 2017 at 12:29am
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  mog86uk

  @IJamLegend, I'm not sure how I feel about circumventing the free trial timer. I could already have done this myself if I wanted, since I frequently write userscripts to tinker with websites. But doing this seems even worse than cracking software licences (something that doesn't directly take money away from the software maker but simply doesn't give them the money they are due for having their product). As this instead is an online TV streaming service, it would mean continually using their server resources without contributing anything towards the cost to them you're incurring.
  
  Niji seemed a bit dodgy, but at least they intended for people outside Japan to be able to use it. However, even using AbemaTV via VPN doesn't feel like a good thing to do. The reason AbemaTV is free is probably because they rely on advertising on their network. Seeing as I don't live in Japan (going against their Japan-only region restriction) their advertising to me is unlikely to be beneficial at all (since you have to live in Japan to be able to purchase most of the things being advertised). This is another part of why I don't watch it as much as I'd like to.
  
  I definitely don't think I could be ok with bypassing the demo restriction on FUJITV. It would be nice if they bring out budget subscription packages—maybe less channels, time limitations per day, no catch-up, etc.—a budget subscription that would be a more suitable price for people learning Japanese who want to just use it occasionally for a bit of practice. ^^

  December 26, 2017 at 8:48am