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Three Different Ways You Can Watch TV On The Computer |
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Marc Sandford |
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Believe it or not, there used to be a time when the only way to watch TV was with a television set. Your choices were confined to safe homogenized programming which appealed to the 'average viewer'. Whoever that was.
If this situation describes you, maybe it's time to find out what you are missing. Check out the following three ways of how to watch TV on the computer.
1) One approach to watching TV on the computer is to download the entire movie for free onto your hard drive using BitTorrent networking. BitTorrent networking is a form of Internet peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and is a popular way to share movies on the Internet.
In P2P networking, a movie to be downloaded is first split up and distributed piece by piece among the people who want the movie. Then each person supplies the other with whatever missing piece that they need. This continues until everyone has a complete file.
The person that supplied the original intact file at the start is called the seed. The actual process of downloading requires that you install what is called bitTorrent client software.
One such client is called BitComet. Bitcomet is reliable and has been in use for several years. Next, you will want to look for a movie by using a torrent search engine such as torrentz.com. Enter your search query and hit return.
Click on whatever search result that you like. After this, you will find a page with the movie title and a 'Download Torrent' link or button.
Click on this and the download will commence. When the transfer is finished, it is your turn to become the 'seed' and to allow other users to share your complete file.
This is done simply by leaving your client software running for several hours. Note that this description is just an overview and leaves out some of the details of the process.
It's important to know that copyrighted material cannot be downloaded legally. People have been prosecuted for illegal downloads using P2P.
2) If you are interested in transferring the TV programs from your television set to your computer or laptop it can be conveniently done with a USB TV tuner. This is an external device that simply connects into your television and PC.
This external arrangement is quite different from the TV tuner card which is installed inside your PC. Signals from your TV's output ports are transferred to the USB TV tuner input ports.
The signals, which are modified by the USB TV tuner are then sent to your computer's USB port. Most USB TV tuners allow for fast forwarding, pausing, rewinding and storage of your television programming.
Many USB TV tuners can also burn TV shows to DVD. Prices range from $50 to $200.
3) A very quick method of watching TV on the computer with no learning curve or hardware is through the use of a special software download. The software gives you access to thousands of streaming TV stations directly off the Internet.
Other than the basics of having a computer with a fast Internet connection and a few common and free media players, there are no requirements. So that leaves us with the cost of the software itself which varies from $50 to around $100.
Now that you know what's out there and how to get it, its time to take action and try out few of these goodies for yourself. Hopefully this article has opened your eyes to the incredible entertainment opportunities available to anyone willing to take them.
Marc Sandford is a freelance writer and is active in Internet TV and video. Get the details on how to get TV on your PC at http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-get-tv-on-your-pc/. Don't reprint this exact article. Instead, reprint a free unique content version of this same article.
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