Over-the-top media serviceAn over-the-top media service (also known as OTT and over-the-top television) is a digital distribution service of video and accompanying audio delivered directly to viewers via the public Internet, rather than through over-the-air, cable, and satellite television service or Internet Protocol television (IPTV) provider. The term is synonymous with streaming platform.
Video on demandVideo on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access television shows, films, and videos digitally on request.
HBO MaxHBO Max is an American subscription video on-demandover-the-topstreaming television service, a proprietary unit of Warner Bros. Streaming on behalf of Home Box Office, Inc., which is itself owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) through its Streaming & Studios division. The platform offers content from the libraries of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery Channel, HBO, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, Animal Planet, TBS, TNT, Eurosport, and their related brands.
U-Next HoldingsU-Next Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japanese holding company headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Originally founded in Osaka in 1964 by Mototada Uno as Osaka Usen Broadcasting, it launched cable music broadcasting, a commercial background music cable broadcasting service for stores. In 2000, it changed its name to Yusen Broad Networks and launched an optical fiber broadband service.NetflixNetflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming media service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres. It is available internationally in multiple languages.
Streaming televisionDistribution of television content via the public internetStreaming television is the digital distribution of television media content, such as series and films, over Internet-based streaming media platforms. In contrast to over-the-air, cable, and satellite transmissions, or IPTV service, streaming television is provided as over-the-top media (OTT). Television content includes productions made by or for OTT services, and acquired by them with licensing agreements.
Toei CompanyToei Company, Ltd. (東映株式会社, Tōei Kabushiki-gaisha; an acronym for Tōkyō Eiga Haikyū (東京映画配給) lit.'Tokyo Film Distribution'; ), simply known as Toei Company or Toei (東映, Tōei), is a Japanese entertainment company. Headquartered in Kyōbashi, Chūō, Tokyo, it is involved in film and television production, distribution, video game development, publishing, and ownership of 34 movie theaters.
Japanese languageJaponic languageJapanese (日本語, Nihongo; ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language.
TV TokyoTelevision station in Tokyo JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as TV Tokyo, is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network. It is owned and operated by TV Tokyo Corporation, itself a subsidiary of the TV Tokyo Holdings Corporation, in turn controlled by Nikkei, Inc. It is headquartered in the Sumitomo Fudosan Roppongi Grand Tower in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo.
EbookAn ebook (short for "electronic book"), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", some e-books exist without a printed equivalent.
Hepburn romanizationHepburn (Japanese: ヘボン式ローマ字, romanized: Hebon-shiki rōmaji, lit.'Hepburn-style Roman letters') is the main system of romanizationfor the Japanese language. The system was originally published in 1867 by American Christian missionary and physician James Curtis Hepburn as the standard in the first edition of his Japanese–English dictionary.
Tokyo Broadcasting System TelevisionJORX-DTV (channel 6), branded as TBS Television (TBSテレビ, TBS Terebi), is the flagship station of the Japan News Network in the Kantō region. It is owned-and-operated by Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Inc., a subsidiary of the TBS Holdings. TBS Television is one of the "five private broadcasters based in Tokyo." TBS produced the game show Takeshi's Castle, which is dubbed and rebroadcast internationally.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.