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- jeremythomas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+100isn't it funny how the future of TV doesn't involve a TV?
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -0/+70they will do what everyone else does. Make it free and build up a customer base then charge for "premium content".
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -6/+49now, if we could just get more women to watch World Cup at work...
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43That's exactly what your boss needs. You jumping up from your desk, taking off your shirt, and running around yelling "GOOOALLLLL!!!"
Awesome. - biffen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38Yeah, the medium matters less and less. Content is content is content.
- qniverse, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30Some channels are pretty laggy, but ESPN works pretty well. Here's to hoping that this becomes huge and more channels become available. And stay free.
- vypergts, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Cool site, reminded me of this one that is similar and was posted to digg a while back: http://www.channelchooser.com/
- Durinthal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21The more the merrier. World Cup for everyone's office!
- akira117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Download dead here....
Found mirrors: http://www.filemirrors.com/search.src?file=TVUPlayer.zip&size=5298984 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Ah, the pitfalls of the digg... massive response that can cripple servers and put start-ups into debt with possibly huge bandwidth bills. On the flip side, if you survive, you've gotten some nice exposure...
- ElectricKetchup, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I watch TV with a projector and even though it's not an old CRT TV set, I still call it "TV". I think it's the television part of it that makes it TV. If you can watch live videos coming from somewhere else with your computer, it is a TV!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13wowuld be nice if there website used a torrent like protocol, so that sites being dugg to death actually have more bandwidth.
- shakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13icravetv.com did this a decade ago and got sued out of existence.
- racerfan, on 10/12/2007, -14/+27Need a version for OS X!
- iggee85, on 10/12/2007, -12/+25and linux
- tom151515, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12This uses the sopcast engine for streaming channels via p2p. You can get several other clients that do similar things some with more channels some with less. The best ones are pplive, feidian, mysee and tvants. You can find them by searching google.
- akira117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Here's another:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Internet-Radio-TV-Player/TVUPlayer.shtml
Here's a torrent if all of those die.....
http://www.torrentspy.com/torrent/765494/TVU_1_5_12_20060210
Commercials in Chinese about KFC are funny! :7) - jollyroger814, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12streaming in HD i believe would be pretty tough for their bandwidth and yours
- fatdog789, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17As those annoying Mac commercials would say, "Can't you do that?"
I think this is another thing we can add to the list of stuff that Macs can't do. - klpowell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Very Cool hopefully some tv networks will realize this is a good way to reach alot of people without the need to pay Cable operators to air their stations.
- mnolan770, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Downloaded last night and watched the Braves/Sox games on ESPN with only a few hiccups. Promising service until the television industry sues it out of business.
- helfire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11need an xbox media center plugin!
- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I've been watching free TV for years. *adjusts the tin-foil wrapped coathanger on the back of the set*
- OdepiTy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7It needs a better interface, more channels, and HD
- bitcloud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Wow, I just this minute downloaded it after trying to find where to stream world cup games from...
Too bad it works using 1 peer & many clients.. its just going to get worse the more popular it gets... the authors should try and implement some kind of torrent type serving method whereby the more delay you put on the broadcast, the more seeders you can download the data from (when you download a chunk of data it instantly seeds that chunk, so its essentially doing what bit torrent does, only you can watch it as it downloads, and it seeds the chunks as it downloads it..
Anyway, that said between joga firefox extension, elink's world cup stats software and this prog, I'm set for world cup.. Aussie Aussie Aussie! - symalik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7because you can watch tv when there is no tv around
- awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I just downloaded it, and because someone said ESPN worked well, I turned it to that.
Just as I did that and it finished buffering, an iPod commercial turned on. I already like it. :)
Actually, it's not that great (that is, it's slow and has a limited selection). I'd rather just watch the TV right next to my computer. Still, it's a nifty idea and the torrent-like distribution is a very nifty idea. - brhad56, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9"wowuld be nice if there website used a torrent like protocol"
you don't know much about the server side of a website, do you. Copying all business logic and database data to everyones machine would not be a very good idea. - abdielou, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I use TVANTS to watch the FIFA WC 2006 games. It uses p2p technology to stream TV. ESPN, CNN among others can also be watched. Some of the channels are on chinese.
[chinese]
http://www.tvants.com/
[google translation from chinese]
http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://mirror.tvants.com/&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtvants%26hl%3Den%26hs%3DoMd%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official - djrobo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Very easy to use, and works off of the same principle as bittorrent. If enough people get on this thing the lag could dissapear.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Just mentioning this for fun:
I surmised a conspiracy when the Family Guy DVD was leaked onto the internet months in advance. In the middle of the show is a short but obvious advertisement for Tivo. The leaked DVD meant TONS of FREE WORLDWIDE ADVERTISING for the company. Now who could have stood to profit from a leaked, free copy of this DVD? Hmmmmm?
I saw an awesome lecture by an Australian law professor who discussed the matter of pirating television. He proposed that, instead of having that annoying station identification logo on the bottom right-hand corner, networks put a bigger, even more annoying product logo andor slogan. This would mean worldwide advertising for the client, and huge viewership since the broadcast would be free to watch, free to distribute (thanks to bittorrent), and legal to share. Everybody wins except the broadcasting networks. - TravisS, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14Yes, Mac OS X version is much needed, this might be worth me booting into bootcamp
- keithzd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think the TV industry is on the ground floor. Notice how ABC and ESPN are both there, because they are the same company which of course is owned by Disney. While some stations may be against new technology like this, others realize it is the future and will be the ones that get it going.
- adodaro, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14My thoughts, exactly!
- dmsteg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Not being chicken little here but can anyone vouch for the legitimacy of this site and it's software?
Not trying to poo poo on every body's parade but all of these TV stations can be directly accessed via a simple link in any old web browser if you knew the URL. And anybody with any inclination can gather up these links (there are several digg posts that provide many of them) and whip a nice little exe that so far over 2000 digg users would salivate over (yours truly included) and download without thinking of the ramifications.
I'm just sayin... - tsar04, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3yeah, about a 1 minute delay on comcast too.
- akira117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Almost a minute of delay exactly on espn 2.
(I have direct tv) - jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What channels would the Oil/Hurricanes game be on? I didn't see one.
- starquake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I don't think it's the same as bittorent when more people using bittorent increases bandwidth. Bittorent can improve bandwidth because a lot of people keep uploading when the download is finished. In the case of video only recent data is being downloaded and uploaded too peers. Most people have less upload then download and so the bandwith available will still decrease instead of increase.
Correct me if I'm wrong! - ipodman715, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Another mirror: http://files.mirrorme.org/c9f78950be91
- pr0t0, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9
Or you could add it to the list of things this particular content provider can't do. I mean honestly, if you can't build a web service that's platform independent...wtf are you doing? - cwl157, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i'm only getting 17 stations is that what you get?
- metalrock76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here is a screenshot.
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/1126/screen0pp.jpg - migsims, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Been using it for a while... hoping it would keep quiet... every time something like this is dugg someone gets sued, and out the window goes the free content...
- armenianeagle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can already watch ESPN online for free from ESPN360.com, but if your ISP is not supported by them, there is a way around that. Check out this article: http://www.tinytimtechnology.com/blog/2006/06/19/espn-360/
- clueless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4here's something cool i found... you can record the incoming live stream by going to http://localhost:8901 and clicking on save. and then you can watch it later with vlc.
- camix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, this is pretty cool. One of the reasons I wanted a Slingbox (http://www.slingmedia.com). Nice to be able to watch tv no matter where you are as long as you have internet access.
- c0d3b0y, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3double click the video to expand it to full screen
- snifer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3TvAnts is the best P2PTV software i've tested. It has a lot of channels (in fact, you can make a channel from any mms stream) and a more powerful interface.
A good advantage over tvuplayer is that you can see the bitrate of each channel, so you can choose to watch only those channels that are below your upload speed limit. - mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The site said:
"Unlike the typical video on your PC or IP-based TV efforts undertaken so far, TVU will offer a "TV" like experience on your PC. The video quality will be equal to or better than typical digital cable channels and you will be able to switch between multiple TV channels just like on a TV."
Such an exaggerated and false statement. My digital cable doesn't buffer or staggers and take 5 minutes to change a channel. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and blame it on my comcast cable Internet connection. -
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