TVU: Free Cable on your PC

[AnotherGreenWorld]

Has anyone heard of this before? I just found out about it...

http://www.tvunetworks.com/

[YDogg]

1. I found this, FWIW.

http://www.buzzshout.com/shoutblog/category/companies/tvu-networks/

[YDogg]

2. And this.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6132672.html

[Ian David]

3. Ooh. This does NOT look trustworthy. n/t

[YDogg]

4. It does seem rather sketchy.

[Nomad559]

8. TVU Networks Is safe to use

TVU Networks has been around for about two years, the TVU Player uses P2P technology to spread the bandwidth.

:)

[Ian David]

13. The p2p technology is what makes me nervous. It's a MAJOR security issue. n/t

[coco77]

15. Who is supplying it the CONS?

[BlooInBloo]

17. No it's not.

[rusty charly]

5. Not for Mac

[Nomad559]

10. Veoh TV has a player

for Macs

Veoh TV
http://www.veoh.com/veohTV/getStarted.html

:)

[Nomad559]

6. Veoh TV Is good

I also like Joost.

Veoh TV
http://www.veoh.com/veohTV/getStarted.html

Joost
http://www.joost.com

:)

[silverweb]

7. Thanks for this thread.

Being outside the U.S. and voluntarily TV-less, I appreciate any on-line access I can find.

I've been using _TV Links_ for a while now and am generally pleased, although I can't always find what I want. Thus, all supplemental sources are welcome.

:hi:

[BlooInBloo]

9. Yah - Like I'm really gonna download their spyware-rootkit "player". NOT.

[AnotherGreenWorld]

11. Does it have spyware?

[BlooInBloo]

12. I don't know. Why don't you download and install it, and let us know? lol!

EDIT: I *do* know, however, that things that look too good to be true invariably are.

[AnotherGreenWorld]

14. Comments on other blogs say it's clean of spyware, adware, viri, and the like.

So does this site: http://www.fbmsoftware.com/spyware-net/Application/TVU_Player/

[BlooInBloo]

16. Sweet. Let me know when you've tried it...

... Also, I noticed that most of the "channels" are at 300kps. That's pretty much useless for watching inet video.

[Sanctified]

18. Nice find.

I just installed it on my PVR which is only used for recording TV shows and did not find any viruses or spyware on the machine after the install. It's pretty slick with a nice listing of available stations I was hoping that there would have been at least 1 Japanese TV station though.