Free Satellite TV on PC? - Comments Page 5

EUROPEAN SOCCER - answer to the post by Ranjit:

Ranjit, and all other European soccer fans: your best bet to watch the English Premier League or UEFA Champions League is Setanta sports (http://na.setanta.tv/na_index.htm). It is available through DirecTV cable or Dish Network (http://www.dishnetwork.com/content/whats_on_dish/a_la_carte) or even on your PC through Setanta by Broadband (http://play.www.setanta.servecast.net/setanta/us/default.aspx?aff=1). It is about $15 per month.

Satellite TV stinks. The only channels I watch on TV are the Independent Film Channel (IFC) and Sundance Channel. There is a free opensource non-malicious software download at http://www.getmiro.com. Its called Miro. It's a video player, rss aggregator of video, video downloader, and bittorrent software. Its available for many operating systems. I'm using it on the linux operating system, Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 You may remember this app as being called Democracy Player a while back. It basically plays video. It downloads video blogs. It plays episodes from the blogs. It downloads bittorrent files. Its not Satellite TV, so before ditching your Cable or TV Satellite Receiver you might want to try it out first. I use it as an addition to my Satellite TV receiver from Dish Network. Maybe one day I'll ditch the Dish. Make sure to download it from http://getmiro.com though and don't pay money for it because anyone trying to charge you for it would be scamming you. Sorry about the length of the post. Beleive me I could go on and on.

I downloaded a free program from a developer and its ok, its not satellite as you say. But I want to point out one thing in some of your comments, you are telling people if you watch things like the simpsons and other programs on free TV you say its illegal, thats is completely false. I use America Onlines Winamp Pro that I purchased and according to AOL it is completely legal to view or download the streams they offer.

EDITOR'S NOTE: If you are viewing video streams that AOL offers, then fine. One assumes that AOL has been given permission from the copyright holder to do so. But that doesn't give you carte blanche to view ANYTHING with Winamp Pro. Winamp is a just tool, it can be used for good or evil. Purchasing Winamp does not give you any special rights, and it's also possible to view the AOL videos with many other viewers.

What disappointed me was that I had to search so long and hard to find this page. I mean it seemed pretty obvious that this tv4pc was a likely scam but extensive searches on Google never showed anything. I saw this page listed on Yahoo but it was far down on the list of results.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I found the link pretty close to the top when I search for "free satellite tv on pc" at Google. But it IS sad that the top hits are all links to the bogus software.

Do you know if this site.. sattelitetvcube.com for $49.99 you can get free TV on your computer??? I was told by someone that they are a SCAM...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Yes, just like all the others. BTW, I didn't correct the typo in the URL, that's so the site doesn't get any undeserved links.

Thanks for your website. I tried a couple of demo's and any godd sites , ie. ESPN, Discovery and such never laoded. NASA was quick and pretty neat. But NOT Sat 2 PC is not worth the trouble (unless you are Yao Ming wanting news from back home. Thanks for the warnings.
BTW I'm cashing your DTV payroll checks and donating them to poor webmasters. ; )

Whew! I'm so glad I found this site. I knew it was too good to be true! LOL. There were two different sites (satellitetvtopc & Satube.com) for tv on PC and the wording on the ads were similar. Even the so called "feedbacks" were almost exactly the same! Shame on those scam artists!

Is there a Satellite TV on PC version that works on for Mac?

Hi Bob! Thanks for the info! You save a few people some money with your page. Don't pay attention to those two who assumed that you work for DTV. Nobody can please everyone. Anyway, do you have any info on streamtvnow.com?

EDITOR'S NOTE: It looks like another one of those "sharing" sites where people can make their video streams available for others to view. Definitely not 100% legal, I can't imagine it will be long before they are forced to shut down.

I have always thought these software programs to be little more then just a directory for free internet tv feeds from around the world. Many of which are listed on the satellite site, www.lyngsat.com. It makes sense that if a channel can be received free using a dish and free-to-air type of receiver box, then they probably provide a free feed via the net too (and most do). Some claim to offer free games from major league sports like the NHL and NBA. I suspect this untrue as well. I do have an observation to ask Bob about: If you are trying to keep people from buying these ripoff programs, then why do you have Ads from Google (at the top of this page) that promote them?? If the links Google provides goes to these scammers, then you should take them off.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I understand the problem. The Google ads are supposed to be relevant to the content of the page, and in an ironic way, even those scam ads are. My hope is that people will actually *READ* the article and understand why they should NOT believe the hype.