If regular TV doesn't float your boat and you don't have satellite TV, don't despair. You can turn to Internet TV.
Internet television is nothing new, but it's only now with faster broadband connections that it's becoming quite viable for the average home viewer to get some of this content on their PCs.
However, what we've discovered in the process of writing this article is that despite being around for a few years now, the technology for streaming TV content on the Net is still very much in its infancy.
There is generally no particular standard, the videos are pretty low quality, and not to mention a distinct lack of support from the big television networks of the world in providing content.Nevertheless, using our home broadband Internet connection, we went online and had a look at the world of IP-based television (i.e. television available on the Net).
AZUREUS VUZE
AZUREUS is one of the most popular front-ends for BitTorrent, which, while not in itself illegal, is usually the gateway to a lot of illegal content.
However, the makers of Azureus have recently been trying to clean up the idea of so-called torrenting, trying to turn it into a viable and speedy way to distribute legitimate high-definition content with the introduction of VUZE, the updated Azureus client.
VUZE still runs the internals of the open-source Azureus client, but the interface has been updated with a search feature that lets you browse and download legitimate and free HD content.
VUZE distributes content the same way you get BitTorrent content – click on a link on the browser and download the small torrent file, and wait for the file to download.
Currently, VUZE has a lot of free content, but is quite short on real TV shows – most are HD trailers and independently-created videos although there are a few shows that have been licensed to VUZE to show, such as BBC HD and Showtime!
Unfortunately, not all the content is available to users outside of the United States and the system still has a few bugs.
Plus, you can't immediately watch a show – you have to wait for the download to be fully completed before you can start watching and this could be hours or days from the moment you click on the link.
Nevertheless you can get VUZE at
www.vuze.com.
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