I saw all the advertising for free satellite TV on your PC and thought to myself. Wow, that would be great. Sitting at work with a little window open in the corner of the screen and my headphones on. At home watching TV while my wife was hogging the only real TV in the house. Up until now its been downloads and dvd’s. Like most people I started my search in Google and found a mountain of applications and hardware devices offering me the moon on a stick. Some offered hundreds of channels from cable channels all over the world. I was more interested in films and documentaries then cable shows or Oprah Winfrey type affairs.
I know that some of you are very interested in channels that have a theme such as Sci-fi and Health & Fitness. This was also important to me and I filled up my desktop with every demo or trial I could find. Whenever I try to find anything new it seems that I have to spend the best part of a day or week sifting through all the garbage.
Most of the applications either offered a membership or a one-off purchase of only a few dollars. To me this was important enough to try some of the offers to see which ones gave me what I was looking for.
The ones that stood out from the very large crowd was “PC Satellite TV”, “Satellite TV Elite”, “Satellite TV on PC”, “Satellite TV for PC 2008 Elite Edition”, “TV on PC Elite”, “Digital TV 4 PC”. From what I could tell it seemed that many of the applications were in fact the same one and just rebranded.
The basis of this was the link finders. After great research I found that you have only three options for PC applications.
- Static List
- List plus updates
- Small dedicated list
The static list options are a complete waist of time. They are rebranded and sold for unto $250. They are basically a list of links to channels that you can freely find on the Internet if you spent the same amount of time as it takes to fill in the shopping cart and your credit card details.
The plus updates option is a strong one in my opinion. It has a list of free channels that you can find by yourself. Only the makers know where and when to look so it keeps everything unto date and available when you need it. I don’t mind paying for knowledge as long as it’s worthwhile.
The final options are the dedicated channels and groups of channels. You buy a package and sometimes pay a membership to keep viewing. The idea here is that a company has found channels with content. They then package these and sell them to people like us. The channels pay these packagers money to be able to advertise to a greater audience. So the lists are small and your enjoyment is interrupted continuously with adverts.
So for me it was only one option, I’m not going to buy a number of TV cards to put into my PC computers, I can’t do this at my office as its not my computer. So I opted for the updated list of channels without all the nonstop advertising. I spent a while looking at all the markets and found that there was a lot of resellers selling the same piece of software. So I went straight to the source satellite TV for PC at Sattube. I thought it better to get the support direct then go through a third party that is only interested in selling and not developing the product and audience experience.
At Sattube the software is simple and straight forward. You open the application and find what you want to watch. Its updated all the time and boosts over 4000 channels. For me it would be impossible to compete with that. To bookmark all those channels would probably take you about 50 years.
So for a free option then head to the channel providers one by one. Such as these:
The other option is the aggregation site such as these that put together small free films and left over’s from the major channels:
As I wanted to spend more time watching TV and less time looking for something to watch I opted for the Sattube approach. So back to my TV, please let me know what experiences your having with TV on the PC.
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