Re: Watching TV Online

  • From: "Jack Lowe" <akronjack1982@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 14:21:45 -0500

Hey!  Thank you!  that sounds like fun.  I'm not looking to do any serious 
TV viewing on my computer.  I just want to play around with it.   Jack
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: Watching TV Online


> Oh yeah.  There's paid and free services.  The quality is only as good as 
> the
> streem.  Usually you only get up to 100k sometimes as much as 500 k.  I 
> use
> smartstreems.com and click on live tellivision.  stations can be sorted by
> alphabetically or by country.  However, use your jaws find command, 
> because they
> don't seem to believe in hiperlinks and don't name the links 
> descriptively.
> Everything is accessable and most of the streems work, it's just not as 
> user
> friendly as you would like it.  There's another site I found by googling 
> for
> online tv. and it was  database of all broadband tv.  I'll send the name 
> of it
> later because it was better organized, more hyperlinks.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jack Lowe" <akronjack1982@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Watching TV Online
>
>
> I'd like to be able to watch TV from other countries.  You can find all
> kinds of streaming radio.  I just wondered if there was any streaming TV
> stations as well.  I only wanted to try it for fun.  Jack
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sean McMahon" <smcmahon@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 1:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Watching TV Online
>
>
>> Are you talking about watching tv using a streemed broadcast like those
>> found on
>> smartstreems.com?  No those just use a regular media player no tv cards.
>> TV.
>> cards I think are only used to watch tv through your computer in place of
>> your
>> tv set.  I.E. you hook the tv card up to your cable or satellite or 
>> antena
>> directly.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jack Lowe" <akronjack1982@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 7:42 AM
>> Subject: Watching TV Online
>>
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>> I know that this isn't a Jaws question.  But have any of you ever tried 
>> to
>> watch
>> TV online?  Do you need some kind of TV tuner card for your computer to 
>> do
>> this?
>> And if so, how jaws friendly are the cards, or the internet TV servers.
>> Well, I
>> guess it's kind of a Jaws question after all.  Thanks.  Jack
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