1 post tagged “television”

This Saturday I visited my host family and did lots of fun things. One of the least interesting was setting up my cell phone for watching television. They broadcast television over 1seg here, so I can watch for free. But since the feature was hidden behind 4+ "please press OK" dialogs, I wanted native speakers to do it for me to make sure that I wouldn't agree to something that would cost extra.

Anyway, it's been a mixed experience so far. I've only gotten reception of one channel from my room, and it's not a channel I'd normally watch: the current show features two women embroidering their purses and sharing them with what appear to be neighborhood friends, and the previous program was a cartoon grandmother sharing her cooking secrets.

Despite this, what I love is that there is closed captioning for all of this. It scrolls by faster than I can read all of it, but I can catch some known kanji this way, and can also quickly scan it for the sentence structure based on particles and spacing.

Just another plot to up my exposure for this last month before I go.

Edit: Here's how it works while the phone is docked, which is convenient for home use.