Watch TV on your Computer for Free

[johnnymk]

http://www.tvexe.com

Bloomberg TV, CSPAN, some music channels, quite a few news channels and quite a few foreign channels are on this site.

For a $25 lifetime fee, you get a bunch of extra channels. I am considering paying the fee, but am going to wait for feedback before I do it.

Has anyone tried this yet?

[Bires]

Any spyware?

[modena]

cool site, checking it out now

[ArkiStan]

Everything is so short-lived in this world of ours that "lifetime fee" really doesn't have the same merit it used to. Nevertheless, for that price, it seems like quite a good deal, as long as it doesn't litter my computer with junkware.

[Jenny]

I wanted to see a list of the channels they offer but couldn't find one...

[bachviet]

I wanted to see a list of the channels they offer but couldn't find one...
Run the program and find out since it doesn't install. I tried it a little bit yesterday and some channels have pretty good quality.

[johnnymk]

Global TV Goes Streaming
07.13.05

By Karen Jones PC Magazine

Pay attention, channel surfers. An eclectic selection of live international TV channels is the program lineup at TVexe.com ( www.TVexe.com ). A free Microsoft Windows software application, TVexe.com uses broadband to stream news, sports, and music stations 24/7 from countries as diverse as Australia, Greece, Iran, Ireland, and Kurdistan. You can view over 300 channels, though the video quality varies.

Nir Romem, founder and developer of TVexe.com, says he designed the site "as an answer to the need to provide easy access to worldwide TV channels on the Web with good indexing." While you are viewing a channel on TVexe.com, it displays the broadcast Web site's URL, so you can go directly to, say, RAI Sport in Italy.

North American channels, such as Bloomberg News and C-SPAN, are available, but the majority of the selections are not top-tier. To get those, you can upgrade to TV PRO Plus Radio, which offers 30 more channels, including BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, MTV, and thousands of radio stations worldwide, for a one-time subscription fee of $25.

Though TVexe.com's image quality is spotty, Romem foresees many future broadcasts in HD DVD quality. "Look back at Internet radio or Internet telephony, and we see great progress over the last ten years," he says. TVexe.com will remain a free service as long as enough users upgrade to TV PRO to cover costs, he adds.

[Devhux]

I remember a few years ago, a similar idea was launched. Unfortunately, a lot of the TV networks forced that company out of business.

(Can't for the life of me remember what it was).

[brainsmile]

anyone have feedback on the channels?

[mcs328]

I remember something like this in the Got Deals forum except that gave you access to a lot of Porn channels. Anyone remember that?

[MikeD]

It's not bad. You have to upgrade to the Pro for it to be worthwhile...

Alot of local access channels and stuff like the Eternal Word Network. Bah...

[johnnymk]

Well, I paid the $25 fee because I couldn't find any reviews and figured that it wasn't much to lose if it weren't any good.

From what I can see, it is a compilation of a lot of free channels and radio stations you could probably find yourself. There is a bunch of MTV type of channels, lots of news channels from all over the world, radio stations with a lot of selections by category. Obviously, the music can be burned to CD which is a great feature. And I am sure that the streaming video could be burned in some way, possibly to an external DVD writer?

The resolution is good on some channels and poor on others. And it's a little buggy, depending on where you go.

Although I have only checked it out for less than an hour, I would say it's definitely worth the amount you would pay for cable or satellite TV for 2 or 3 weeks.