gHacks technology news » tvu networks http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Watch TV Over The Internet http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/watch-tv-over-the-internet/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/watch-tv-over-the-internet/#comments Sat, 16 May 2009 09:02:05 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/watch-tv-over-the-internet/ It has been a while since we last covered applications or services to watch TV over the Internet. One of the popular applications at that time was the TVU Player which back then offered channels like ESPN or ABC. This has changed a bit since then and the main reason for many users to use TVU Player are the sport channels like CCTV5 which use to stream live sport events like Champions League, the European Leagues and other cups quite a bit. Even the fact that most of these are Chinese productions with Chinese commentary does not seem to bother most users. It is definitely better than not being able to watch the event at all.

TVU Networks, the maker of TVU Player, have created a web platform as well which can be used to watch the very same channels on the website without having to download and configure their PC TV client. An add-on was required to make the service work in Firefox and the same happened when trying it in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. After that it worked perfectly though.

The interface lists the channels on the left side. Don’t expect to see many popular US channels in the mix with a few exceptions like the Comedy Channel. The majority of programs offered are in Chinese though. The channels can be filtered by language to only display channels in a selected language. That filter is not working correctly. Selecting English from the language selection will also yield different language channels. Not many though but still noticeable.

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Other options provided in the interface are a search form to find specific channels faster and a TV guide that is available for some channels. The verdict is that TVU Networks provides free access to a working Internet TV platform that concentrates on non-English TV stations. It does however offer a great way for sport fans to watch their favorite sport events over the Internet.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/16/watch-tv-over-the-internet/feed/ 2 TVU Player 2.3 out http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/22/tvu-player-23-out/ http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/22/tvu-player-23-out/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:04:42 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2006/11/22/tvu-player-23-out/ TVU Networks have quietly released a new version of their acclaimed TVU Player which makes it possible to watch many popular tv stations from the internet. You can watch channels such as ESPN, ESPN2, FOX, NBC, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central using TVU Player. It does not deliver the same experience than watching the shows on a big tv though. Due to limited bandwidth the channels look fine if you keep the output window small, if you go fullscreen it becomes pretty blurry.

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I can’t see many changes in this version. TVU Networks are unfortunately not publishing release notes so I have to compare the old and new version by myself. The only change that I was able to find is a link to the program of that network that you could click on. Some stations are not there for the moment, I’m missing ABC for instance.

If you run into errors with TVU Player you should take a look at my tvu player faq which addresses some of the most common problems that are encountered. Please note that you do need a broadband connection for most channels, only the channels marked with low could probably be viewed without one.

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