You’ve Got (Japanese) TV In My Skype

Don’t know how many of you ever saw a TV ad for an American chocolate + peanut butter cup treat (Reese’s ™), but it went something like this: Two people trip. One’s carrying a chocolate bar, the other a jar of peanut butter. One says “you’ve got peanut butter on my chocolate.” The other says “you’ve got chocolate in my peanut butter.” That’s kind of what I thought when I saw VoIP Relay’s post Watch TV in Skype. Pretty kooky. Maybe not as kooky as using an iPod to run Skype, but up there.

Haven’t tried the iPod thing but I just tried the TV-over-Skype thing. Two of the six channels listed work, but not if I call them directly from my contact list. Instead, I went to the Skype-me TV page that VoIP Relay listed and clicked on each Skype-me button (scroll down the page). There are three Taiwanese channels as well. One Japanese and one Taiwanese channel were working.

So lunatic TV junkie that I am, I currently have a Skype TV channel running (I understand some Japanese) and another window running CNBC TV off of a Hauppage PVR external TV box (via cable TV feed). It’s a good thing that these Skype TV channels only run for 3 minutes else I’d get no work done.

How about you? Got any fun ways to use Skype or other VoIP soft phones, or VoIP software in general, to do something else? Anyone heard of any Sightspeed TV channels?