Want to watch TV channels online? Of course you do! If you’ve been trying to find places to watch live TV channels online you’ve probably been fairly disappointed. There are plenty of free internet TV sites out there, but they are usually not anything most people would be interested in. The corporate sites like Hulu are useful, but they aren’t live! Then you have subscription TV sites where you have to pay huge monthly fees to watch TV channels online. In the middle of the two, are all the internet TV software packages that promise thousands of live channels for a small one-time fee. Is that possible? That’s what I wanted to find out.
If you’re wondering what the difference is between all of these “satellite TV to PC” software packages is, I’ll give you a hint. Not much. I tried a bunch of them and was surprised at the similarities. They all offer roughly 3,000 to 5,000 live satellite channels with no monthly fees. They usually cost around $30 to $50 dollars to download the software. Besides that, you’re basically dealing with similar channel selections and fairly similar setups.
So how do you decide which is the best one?
The price and the user interface are really the only deciding factors, I’ve found. My favorite of the bunch is iSoftwareTV. iSoftwareTV is one of the cheapest downloads and the user interface is fluid and easy to use. The channel selection is almost the same as the more expensive TV to PC software packages as well. You get all your basic news, sports, movies, etc. You also get a lot of cool foreign channels. It’s pretty interesting to see what people are watching in Iraq or China.
With almost any of these packages you can:
- Watch local channels online
- Watch premium channels online
- Stream local sports
- Watch local news live
- Watch foreign channels live
In conclusion, if you want to watch live TV channels online, the easiest and cheapest software solution is iSoftwareTV. Of all the packages I’ve tried, it’s the only one that I’m still using today. It’s an awesome and convenient solution for when you’re on the road.
Click here to check it out.
September 4th, 2009 at 5:47 am
You don’t get all local channels with this software but you can watch college football games online with it. Thats all i use it for but its worth the money. You’re right tho most of these softwares are all the same but this one is cheaper.
November 27th, 2009 at 3:05 am
I would just like to know how to stream it to my xbox 360, its the only reason i bought it. but it seems that their ad is bogus, bc my 360 does not find the software. I can run PlayOn, and Orb and my 360 finds those, but again, this software claims to stream from pc to your 360 but there isnt no evidence of that being possible.