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Fancy a bit of TV?

By My status  on July 28, 2006 in Developer Blog.

As its Friday your probably looking out the window dreaming of your BBQ tomorrow.

To help take your mind of the mundane issues of work, why not watch a bit of TV. If you do it over Skype then your boss will even think you are working.

I just received word about this web website that streams TV via a Skype video call.

The streaming only lasts for 3 minutes before automatically cutting out, and the TV channels are from Tokyo and Taipei but that’s 3 minutes away from that debugger you have been looking at all morning.

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As the website is in Japanese its hard to fathom to much out, but each Skype account has several channels attached which you can change between by sending a chat message.

For example to change to channel 12 you send the message ##12#
To get the channel list you are going to have to visit the webpage, but the instructions are in English.

To give it a go, call the following Skype accounts.

dokotv1

dokotv2

dokotv3

active_test

active_test_2

active_test_3

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The quality is pretty good, so give it a go.

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Hi Lester

I have one that you can stream your video to the other Skype user when they call you. Best of all, the caller could select the video he/she wants to play. I really like to schedule a demo for you and I think you will like it.

yorkhwe | Tuesday, Aug 22

Excellent I love seeing demos.
I have added you to my contacts so we can arrage something.

lestermadden | Friday, Aug 25

Hey i've got some problems with this what channel does it go on when you start it??????
Wjen you first use it

aclaydon100 | Sunday, Sep 10

Hey i've got some problems with this what channel does it go on when you start it??????
Wjen you first use it

aclaydon100 | Sunday, Sep 10

Hey i've got some problems with this what channel does it go on when you start it??????
Wjen you first use it

aclaydon100 | Sunday, Sep 10

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