{"id":628,"date":"2009-11-28T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/?p=628"},"modified":"2009-11-28T13:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-28T20:24:00","slug":"explaining-the-meaning-of-bs-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superfamicom.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/explaining-the-meaning-of-bs-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining; The meaning of “BS” in Japan."},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I’ve kinda tired of having to explain this every time someone asks, I’m now making a nice, hopefully somewhat big post on it.<\/p>\n

“BS”, in Japan, is a term which predates the Satellaview, and came around during the origins of\/early times of Satellite-Transferred programming in Japan.<\/p>\n

There doesn’t necessarily have to be any particular rule for what could have “BS” tagged on it, except that it must have been “Broadcasted” from a Satellite. The term, after all, is an abbreviation for “Broadcasting Satellite”.<\/p>\n

Wikipedia should have some highly educational articles on the history of Japanese Broadcasting Satellites<\/a> as well as service providers<\/a> and the like.<\/p>\n

To bring the point in further, quite a LOT of content in Japan has “BS” versions. I’ve picked out a bit of something which may give a bit of a chuckle, but also some insight into what was shown, and how long these services have been around…<\/p>\n

… Yeah, I picked a segment of a 1988 Ninja Turtles episode.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t<\/object><\/div>\n

\u65e7BS\u7248\u30bf\u30fc\u30c8\u30eb\u30ba\u300c\u52a9\u3063\u4eba\uff0c\u30b1\u30fc\u30b7\u30fc\u767b\u5834\u300d\u30001\/3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Surely the overseas visitors are LOLing now. No more of this, I’m already looking rather goofy.<\/p>\n

… ah, I miss this show. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I’ve kinda tired of having to explain this every time someone asks, I’m now making a nice, hopefully somewhat big post on it. “BS”, in Japan, is a term which predates the Satellaview, and came around during the origins of\/early times of Satellite-Transferred programming in Japan. There doesn’t necessarily have to be any particular<\/p>\n

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