Turned on the TV for the first time in a few days, only to find that Dish Network has replaced TV Japan with something called “Family Gekijyo”, which looks like utter crap. I scrolled through several days of listings, and found a whole lot of ancient cartoons and not much else. And I don’t mean good ancient cartoons.
They’re still charging me $25/month for it. Or, rather, they were until I logged in and canceled it just now.
Now to decide if I might as well cancel the whole thing. I don’t like surprises, and there was very little worth watching anyway. Time to investigate TV Japan’s new streaming service, dLibrary Japan, I suppose…
On a related note, the SyFy Krypton series isn’t very good, but at least in the latest episode the male lead does more than pout and brood. Still, no one in the cast is giving me a reason to care if they live, die, breed, or get bottled. Dark Matter had better acting and better eye candy.
On an unrelated note, the Bluray release of Testament of Sister New
Devil headlights highlights just how ridiculous that series was.
I hadn’t seen the OVA before, but that just turned it up a notch.
Honestly, Maria-chan is the only one whose figure isn’t udderly
ridiculous (until she transforms at the end and joins the rest of the
“more cowbell” club).
Started the free trial. Selection is currently weak (mostly historical dramas and ‘comedy’ shows), but a lot better than “Family Gekijyo”, and much less expensive. No idea how good their streaming servers are yet, and they don’t seem to have a FireTV version of their app yet, so I have to watch on a smaller screen for now.
I’ve been wanting to watch Doctor-X anyway…
Unrelated, “gosh I wish I could update the config on my Harmony Hub; if only their servers were up”.
I may finally break down and see if I can get a FireTV registered to my Amazon Japan account and stream with Prime. Hopefully it doesn’t require a full-time VPN, and just connecting ‘from Japan’ once will do. Haven’t checked to see if they enforce a billing-address requirement for streaming, or if it just works like the Kindle where you need to have appeared to come from a Japanese address at least once.
Worst case, my sister will be frequently visiting Tokyo as part of her new job…
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