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Jared Moya
October 7th, 2006, 05:22 PM
Looking for a cheap and easy way to watch TV from your home PC? Can't afford cable? Well TVU and the TVU Player offers free P2P streaming of many of your favorite cable TV channels. From FOX to the USA network, from Comedy Central to the Cartoon Network, it has all the "pillars" of cable TV without all the bills.

TVU uses a central server to stream all the TV broadcasts, but also relies on the TVU client program to redistribute it to other PCs. "But unlike BitTorrent," PCMag writes, "...there is no real indicator pointing to where TVU's streams originate, and thus no real way of telling whether TVU is simply offering a tool to distribute multimedia content or actively breaking copyright laws. Several of the channels use TVU's logo instead of the channel logo, however." Technology semantics aside, its FREE CABLE TV and it works like a charm.

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/7694/TVU%2C+Free+P2P+Cable+TV


*UPDATE* They are currently rotating TNT and HBO on the Test Channel 10134
infoseeker
October 7th, 2006, 08:10 PM
i think until now adult channel is not yet updated????
Jared Moya
October 7th, 2006, 08:43 PM
The Italian channel has "soft porn" if you're interested in such "things." :)
Mels_Smileys45
October 7th, 2006, 08:57 PM
Weird things. Tried it out a few minutes and could not get anything to play. Maybe I should turn emule off.
Jared Moya
October 8th, 2006, 02:27 AM
Weird things. Tried it out a few minutes and could not get anything to play. Maybe I should turn emule off.

Uh, yah. :) I have to turn off Azureus when I run it, but its pretty cool. Used it to watch Saturday Night Live earlier tonight.
Manton
October 8th, 2006, 03:02 PM
I don't see the test channel (10134) in the list of available channels. Did they remove it?
Jared Moya
October 8th, 2006, 08:52 PM
I don't see the test channel (10134) in the list of available channels. Did they remove it?

If you run the TVU stand alone player, not via the Vidoo site, it will be listed at the bottom if you scroll all the way down. I think admins running TNT in it right now.