Cable TV on PC - PC TV for Free And How It Works

One of the revolutionary products in the IP based and broadband category now is the software satellite or cable tv on PC that allows users to watch quality satellite channels on their PC. You can watch Tv on your pc for real, I mean quality live tv channels.

Here you do need not rely on the TV set in order to watch satellite TV, the PC and the laptop have become a ready option. You simply install the software and some of the best brand of these software affords you a choice of over thousands channels to chose from.

However, from my experience, I have noticed then, that some of the stations pictures and transmission are good quality, and some have bad quality, some worked, and some did not, some kept blocking and dropping and while some sizable channels run smoothly. I decided to do a little research on how the program works. I started by monitoring the process from the task manager to see the threads and processes associated with each module of the program.

I observed that each time it loads the lists of available stations and to load a station or switch stations from one window to another; my firewall will alert me that one of the Satellite TV software's modules is trying to access an outside Internet IP address. This was repeated as often as I change channels or stations.

I also discovered that the module employs a media player depending on the one adopted by the software itself or bundle with it to grab public broadcast of stations from all over the world. The links of web sites that contain live TV broadcasts are pooled, and when you switch stations, you are actually watching it from another link.

You can actually find this list online, for free. When the software grabs the broadcast from the web sites with the help of the media player, puts it in a window on your screen, for you to watch tv on computer free of charge. (There is scores of these software on the Internet, i urge you to do search and read reviews before ordering for one.)

This explains why some stations have good and bad quality, some work fine, and some work very slowly, it all depends on how that channel is configured to transmit and the medium employ to transmit including the quality of the media format of the picture adopted. The quality also depends on the TV station broadcasting online, what Internet speed they have, and what Internet speed you have.

Now, this step is made much easier by a computer that has three things: access to a high-speed Internet line, a fast processing speed and a good graphics card and you will be able to watch tv on the Internet. Once the software is downloaded and installed with some hard drive space for the software and these are aligned then, you can start enjoying free satellite TV.

I think the price is worth what they offer, the benefit is you can see all the stations sort out in a list, and you are not bothered by the commercials, or you need to load the whole web site, you just watch the broadcast in a window at your leisure, so I recommend it to all who want that, but be sure to know how it really works, and not expect some extraordinary results.