KeyholeTV: watching Japanese TV in real time

If you're living outside Japan and very much want to see what's NOW (complete with commercials for the full experience), without resorting to something expensive, bugging a friend overseas or hoping somebody will upload to some torrent site, KeyholeTV is for you. Keyhole gets many regular channels, but the lineup occasionally changes depending on when you visit - you may even find American or other foreign channels. Sadly, the sound and video is rather lousy, and sometimes it's not synched up right. But hey, who can complain? It's free!

First, download the program from here

When it's all installed, open the program. It should look something like this:



The name of the channel is over the word ENABLE. Click on what channel you'd like to see. Once it's open, double click if you want a bigger screen.

For your reference:

オダイバ - Fuji TV
よむよむ - NTV
アカサカ - TBS
ロッポンギ - TV Asahi
テンノウス - TV Tokyo



It's pretty easy to use. To check the TV Guide, go here or here - keep in mind, if you want to sit down and watch something specific, remember the time difference and plan accordingly because this is absolutely LIVE.