YouTube launches paid channels, in TV challenge

What a wonderful story, packed with good news! There is just one little problem, however — the pay to subscribe channels, such as Acorn TV, are not available in Japan. Whoops!

Just sad that Japan is so far behind on their broadcast access to the rest of the world. It can't be that their waiting to translate everything, but I'm sure all the media companies here want their slice of whatever new tech is going to make their jobs irrelevant. Mind you Japan may not care since they seem to be happy with the base 6 channels of the same variety show over and over again (I'm not counting the NHK-E which is great).

Three letters

V.P.N

VPNs work, but they sometimes have lag or stoppages as the video loads.

A DNS service like unblock-us.com or unotelly.com works for Hulu or Netflix. It may work for Youtube too, but I don't know. It is some kind of DNS services that bypasses the country checks and the data feed comes straight to your device rather than getting slowed down through a VPN server.

if they can get me a mix of things like HBO and other series with maybe a little decent (non round bulgy blushing schoolgirl anime getting hosed with lots of suggestion but the real stuff like death nothe, black lagoon jormungand and even hyouge mono) for a reasonable price (that means not a monthly xbox gold fee for instance but less) then i'm in , i'd still prefer ppv for microtransactions. Maybe it would save a lot of people the trouble of downloading game of thrones for instance if they can just flick a euro (or less) to watch it at exact airing time instead of having to wait for years before local tv picks it up

the third one is impressive thread.

"broadcast TV"

Whatever happened to the good ol' days of CBS, NBC, ABC and the public broadcasting station, lol

For $5 a month I can subscribe to Acorn TV (not available in Japan) and view a very limited selection of programmes.

For the same price I can buy a VPN service and watch iPlayer, ITV player, 4OD etc and see nearly all recent programmes.

Sometimes I wonder if these people really expect to make any money doing this.