Pro-JECT (Jrock in the East CoasT)

Excellent news Pro-JECToids! My Dear buds at JRock Revolution has found a way for you to watch Japanese TV online!

Keyhole TV is basically a mini tv server that broadcasts the main channels in Japan. What does this have to do with Jrock? Simple, all the shows that are posted with artist performances and talk throughs on Youtube from Music Fair, Music Station, Music Fighter, Heyx3 (Hey!Hey!Hey!), J-Melo and the like you can watch through Keyhole without having to wait for someone to upload. Drama lovers can also catch new episodes of their favorite shows through here, same goes for movies! Keyhole is downloadable to Mac, Windows and Linux users.

These are the pros of this little tv, here are the cons: 1) The quality isn't that great and the sound can sometimes be distorted, but the picture can be decent as long as said show doesn't have a high amount of viewers. If the show does have high ratings like Heyx3, then the quality will lose itself a little, but you should still be able to see a okay picture. 2) Timing. Due to Daylight Savings, Japan time is a AM/PM flip + one hour ahead. For example if J-Melo starts at 6 pm Japan time, for us to catch the same show, we would catch it at 5 am EST. Vice versa for their morning segments, if Heyx3 is at 3 am JPN time, we catch it at 2 pm EST. So for some (if you so choose) you'll have to wake up in the wee hours of the morning to catch some of this XD. These cons may seem bad, but it's actually not that horrible. Trust me if you can watch bad quality vids on YouTube, you can watch Keyhole XD. I was able to catch Vamps live on Music Station yesterday morning (7 am to be exact) =P .

Anyways, in the next blog I'll put up the channel translations and some links for Japan's TV guides. Every week I'll try to post a weekly post on who is a appearing where and what channel along with the time translations . For those who recommend this to friends who are not on the East Coast, I'm not sure if these times will apply to you fully, My best guess is whatever time I give on a show, try to apply however many hours behind your are from the Eastern time zone and see if that works when you try to catch the show or check around to see how many hours you are from Japan and use the JPN time I posted and work from there. I posted a military time table chart for you to use. Even though it ends with 2300 hours, JPN time goes in to 2600 and such, so just count midnight as 2400, 0100 as 2500 and so on.

Also, we have Beeline TV, which is a alternative link for not only a couple Japanese channels, but Korean, Chinese and other channels from around the world are posted here. This site doesn't have the all the main channels like Keyhole, but it has a few that Keyhole doesn't have in its listing, so I'd say use both.  Happy Watching All!

*note* Due to the blog putting emocons in the website links, I'll put Keyhole, Beeline, and the chart in our Links section of the site.