Thursday, January 7, 2010

Satellite TV on Your PC - No Hardware Required

Remember when you were a kid and someone told you about the stuff that would be possible 'one day'? Growing up in the '70s there were certain points on the time line of my future that I really believed were going to be worth the wait. Jet packs to get around town; the meal in a pill; or even the one about world peace.

As a whole, we haven't really come as far as the futurists promised. Another case of marketing making promises and not clearing them with engineering. That hasn't changed, either!

But, while we do still have to load airplanes through a single door, drive our oil-spewing cars, and eat swiss chard, there have been some huge leaps, technologically speaking. Heck, my grandma remembers hearing the first time a car engine started and here I sit with 3,000 channels of television on my laptop.

That last sentence was NOT a typo -- 3,000- channels of television on my laptop.

This product is CERTAINLY the 21st century that my comic book heroes referred to way back when I had a head full of hair, a face full of pimples, and free time to, well, watch 3,000 channels of television.

Radio stations from Romania; soccer from Sweden; game shows from Greece; home shopping channel from Hungary; news from New Zealand; or even music videos from Macedonia. This software (which costs less than $50 for LIFETIME SERVICE and NO MONTHLY CHARGES) can literally take you around the world without having to ever board an airplane through that darn single door.

I downloaded this program 2 weeks ago and it has opened my eyes to a world of viewpoints that I might never have considered. The Satellite TV channels are easy to navigate and the response time is just like your living room box - but with a vocabulary that your old SONY won't ever understand. It allows you to search for channels by country and/or by topic. It is easy to find sports, news, and TV shows. It is quite fun to view TV shows from around the world. You might even see the next big thing, before Simon Cowell makes it the next big thing.

They offer a money back guarantee so you can try it out risk free. I find that to be extremely 21st century, and dare I say, perhaps even 22nd century. Some packages you spend your money, take a chance and if you're not satisfied you are out of luck. With Satellite TV for PC you download it, give it an 8 week workout -- and return it if you don't love it. I'm not giving mine back, but you might have more of a life than me.

I'd write more about it, but it's 3:00 PM in Luxemburg right now and my new favorite show, Luxemburg Ice Dancing, is about to being. And honestly, it's just not the same if you miss the opening.

Pick it up right now (link below) and quit paying that monthly $90 cable bill for a lousy 100 stations!

100 stations... geez, what is this, 2004?

Barry Friedman is a four time World Juggling Champion (stop laughing -- it's a great gig) who spends a lot of time on airplanes. He loves to write, play with electronics, read books, use software, and raise his child. When he gets something new he usually writes a review that promises to carry a two-laugh minimum.

His review home page is here: http://www.productandserviceguide.com

His juggling life (yeah, the one you were laughing about) can be found here:
http://www.raspyni.com

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Monday, April 14, 2008

How To Watch Satellite TV For Free On PC

You can watch satellite tv for free on PC in recent years all thanks to advancements in technology. School going kids and the younger tech-savvy generation are downloading live streaming video of satellite TV channels like never before. We will learn why it is a great idea to watch satellite TV on PC or computer and explore two methods to watch satellite tv for free on PC. Why Is Everyone Switching To Watch Satellite TV On PC?

Just some years back, we could only watch satellite TV using our television sets and satellite dish setup. All of us know that the installation of a satellite TV dish system can be tedious and not everybody enjoys. Rather, most people try to avoid if they can. Satellite dishes can be gigantic monster fixtures as huge as a few meters and make our homes ugly and look like a TV station. If you watch satellite TV on PC, it does not require the installation of a satellite dish before you can watch satellite tv for free.

Ok, those who hate to set up satellite dish then go to the satellite TV service providers to install their proprietary satellite dish. They work better and are neater than those ugly DIY jumbo satellite dishes. And they are free if you sign up for a long term contract with these service providers for one or two years depending on their contract terms. But problem is you are tied to the contract and have to pay monthly subscriptions for the entire contract period. If you wish to terminate the contract, be prepared to cough up a tidy sum of payment. You can watch satellite tv for free on PC without being restricted to any contract because there is none at all. There are no monthly charges for watching satellite TV as well.

Two Methods To Watch Satellite TV For Free On PC

There are two popular methods to watch satellite tv for free on PC. One is using a PCTV card and the other using a PC satellite TV software.

PCTV Cards are TV capture cards that come in two types of installation. One is internal which must be installed inside your computer and the other is external which are break-out boxes (BoBs) that are attached to your PC using a USB port and cable. Internal PCTV cards are cheaper than external cards. But no matter which one you use, be prepared to fork out anything between $100 and $300 for a quality card from ATI TV, Plextor, Hauppauge, Pinnacle, IO Magic PC and other established brands.

PC satellite TV software is a hugely popular way to capture satellite TV on PC. Since it is a software application, it can be downloaded online and installed directly onto the computer without any external hardware. This PC application allows you to get more than 3000 free satellite TV channels from across the globe. The variety of programs range from LIVE sports, TV news, entertainment, documentaries, movies to kids channels. This software is a steal at $50.

Read up for more information at my satellite TV blog on this amazing software to watch satellite TV for free.

Davion is a successful webmaster, author and fan of TV shows. Discover how you can instantly watch satellite TV on PC, tuning into hundreds of LIVE world channels of news, movies, music and kids program at http://Watch-Satellite-TV-On-PC.blogspot.com.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Watching TV on PC

There has been a big trend these days on watching TV on Pc. This is a convergence between computers, internet (broadband) and the television universe.

Most of the people are using PC-TV to watch their favorite: sports, movies and many other programs not always shown on the local TV channels. With the emergence of Broadband, the quality has improved enormously, bringing high-resolution and crystal clear sound. We are talking here about PC TV-via-the-Internet and not TV Tuner card.

IPTV - Internet Protocol Television - is around the corner: BT and Microsoft having recently announced a partnership to deliver a range of services covering sports, entertainment and news direct to your home via the internet.

But you do not need to wait for this IPTV or Venice Project (by Skype creators).

Today there are many sites, proclaiming to provide you the necessary software and know how for enabling you to watch shows that otherwise wouldn't be available.

We have checked several of them. The first question is that real? Yes it is. In addition the cost is very low.

There are many sites offering you such a service, not all of them are good, but few are worth your money.

The one we consider to be one of the best is called satliveonpc.com. They are offering you a subscription of one year at a very low price and they give you all the needed software and instructions.

They have also a lot of updates. Weakness, they are not always Apple compatible.

http://www.satliveonpc.com/

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