computer science

Rakuten TV

Rakuten TV is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rakuten TV rather than just read about it. In short: Rakuten TV is a video-on-demand (VOD) service owned by the Japanese technology conglomerate Rakuten. In Europe, the service is operated by Rakuten TV Europe, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, while in Japan, it is operated directly by Rakuten as a separate service.

Key takeaways

Rakuten TV belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Rakuten TV to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Rakuten TV from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Rakuten TV is a video-on-demand (VOD) service owned by the Japanese technology conglomerate Rakuten. In Europe, the service is operated by Rakuten TV Europe, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, while in Japan, it is operated directly by Rakuten as a separate service. Rakuten TV is a video-on-demand (VOD) and free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) platform, providing movies and TV series for subscription, rental, and purchase as well as FAST channels with a mix of local and global content. Since 2019, the platform has provided users access to different content via TVOD, AVOD, SVOD, and FAST. Rakuten TV's VOD catalogue includes content from studios around the world, including Warner Bros., Disney, and Sony Pictures, local distributors, and independent labels producing both locally and globally oriented content. Similarly, Rakuten TV's distribution of FAST channels includes both its own Rakuten curated channels as well as FAST channels and TV channels operated and curated by its partners around the world. Rakuten TV's content can be streamed from most devices, offering a similar service to Netflix and other streaming services. The company is headquartered in Tokyo and Barcelona and currently operates in Japan as well as several countries around Europe; Aaland Islands, Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, North Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Ukraine. In Japan, the video streaming service Rakuten SHOWTIME changed its name to Rakuten TV on 1 July 2017 and has been operating under the new name since then. Rakuten also operates another global video-on-demand (VOD) streaming service called Rakuten Viki which is headquartered in San Mateo, California with additional offices in Tokyo, Japan, Seoul, South Korea, and Singapore. Rakuten Viki focuses on distributing content from parts of Asia to the rest of the world. This includes drama, variety shows, and animation from Japan, Korea, mainland China, Taiwan, and Thailand.

History In 2010, the service was launched in Spain under the name Wuaki.tv, and later expanded to Andorra. By 2013, it had entered the markets in Britain, as well as Italy, France, and Germany later that same year. In June 2012, e-commerce company Rakuten acquired the company, previously known as Wuaki.tv. In July 2017, Wuaki.tv changed its name to Rakuten TV. Rakuten took over the user base from TalkTalk TV Store (previously Blinkbox) including migration of user purchased titles, in June 2018.

Rakuten Sports On 11 June 2019, Rakuten announced the launch of Rakuten Sports, a new live streaming and video on demand (VOD) sports entertainment platform to expand and deliver sports content to several countries around the world, after eleven countries across Europe. From November 2019, Rakuten Sports provided the subscription streaming coverage of Davis Cup for two seasons 2019 and 2020, also as the part of main sponsorship, starting from the 2019 finals.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rakuten TV

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rakuten TV claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rakuten TV before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rakuten TV ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rakuten TV

In research: Rakuten TV appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rakuten TV in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rakuten TV is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2010 establishments in Spain, 2012 mergers and acquisitions, Companies based in Barcelona, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rakuten TV outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Rakuten TV in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Rakuten TV means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Rakuten TV out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Rakuten TV in simple terms?

Why does Rakuten TV matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Rakuten TV?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Rakuten TV.