Watch cable TV on your PC for free!

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Welcome to the first of the “Cool Tech” posts at pimpmypagerank.com. This is the start of the diversification of this blog.

I discovered this little gem yesterday. It is a way to watch cable TV stations via peer to peer on your PC. I’m not sure how legal it is, but seems to work quite well on my 1.5Mbit connection, so you people in countries with “real” broadband should see excellent performance.

You can download the client from http://www.tvunetworks.com/downloads/index.htm (it’s a slow download, but worth the wait.

Those of you on download limits with your internet connection will want to be careful, some of the higher quantity channels will chew through your quota quite quickly.

Because the channels are served via a peer to peer network, the stream of a particular channel can take while to settle down, but it appears that the longer you watch, the better the quality gets (less buffering / jittering etc.)

This is a great way for those of us without cable TV to get our fix of US sports and world news