How To Watch TV Without TV tuner | Windows Media Center
“Bravo..!”
Now we can convert our desktop (laptop) into TV without purchasing TV tuner
card.
Days
are no more when we were need to buy TV tuner card, now days we can watch any
kind of TV channels online over a website.
I
have been usually watching Hindi news, movies, and serials channels over
Internet and its superb..!
If
you are using Internet as a medium for watching TV channels then you can save
the cost of TV Tuner card and Dish TV.
You
must be fascinating whether all TV channels are available to watch over
internet, yes absolutely.
So
when you are going to give this a try?
Watch TV Channels
using Windows Media Center
Have
you own a Windows 7 desktop but no TV tuner..? Don’t worry..! You may
surprise to know that you don’t need in order to watch streaming video and even
trending TV programming on your Media Center desktop or just thanks to the
numerous plugins for Media Center currently available. Now, we’ll look at the
plugins that you can run with Media Center.
Plugins
that granting you to watch TV shows using Media Center is very popular,
especially those that gives access to the online site where leading TV networks
have grouped up to provide free streaming video. There are a numerous different
plugins to choose from, each one comes with their own feature set and fan base.
Which one you choose to install may come to its offerings, ease of use,
charges, or just personal preference.
The Hulu Desktop Integration 1.0 plugin offers an easy way
to hop between using Windows Media Center and the Hulu Desktop application, the
desktop software that complements the online site.
With
the Playon Digital Media Server, you can stream video on your
Xbox 360, HP MediaSmart TV, or any other DLNA-compliant device.
Boxee is
an open source media center type application that received a lot of attention
in recent days thanks to its ability to stream popular TV programming to your
PC or TV while also incorporating “social” elements like the ability to friend
other users, rate content, and make recommendations.
TunerFree MCE is a Windows Media Center
plugin that brings several of the United Kingdom's main TV providers (BBC, ITV,
Channel 4 and Five), as well as all of the BBC Radio stations to your Media
Center PC and extender.
As you can see, there are number of ways for
watching TV and movies with Windows Media Center even if you can’t manage to
invest in a TV tuner card at the moment. The options above are even free to
install and use. No matter which one you choose to install, you can be bet on
that it will make Media Center a great fun to use.
Watch TV Channels Using Websites
For couple of decades Television is the medium
of news and entertainment. Some years back television needed a large tube
(called CRT) and screen to see the broadcast of television channels being aired
through wired connections. After some years wireless connectivity created the
buzz and introduced wireless connections. Then advancement of technology causes
TV Tuner cards made it possible to watch TV channels on desktop and laptops.
That was the big achievement and on the other hand monitors were replaced with
LCD. And with the new development you can stream television channel broadcast
on your personal computers without any delay in streaming. As the growth and
developments for internet speed has become faster in growing countries it seems
like the future of TV on computers looks shining.
With a help of mobile TV you don’t need of TV
Tuner Card and so you can directly get streaming media on your computer by
catching any of the providers listed below. The TV online will make you free
from on TV channel since you are just paying bills for internet only.
Prerequisites for
Watching TV Online
The websites on
internet may require using latest browser with MS Silverlight or Flash
Player or Windows Media Player to view the channels. Your
browser should support the playback of the videos as you are accessing websites
through your browser. Don’t be worried browser will automatically encounter
this when required. Not sure about all but many of browsers do so.
Here are the
sources where you can stream channels over internet –
iDesiTV
(http://www.idesitv.com/)
When you concern
south Asia iDesiTV is the portal which provides live streaming channels. It’s a
straightforward, free service which allows watching of TV channels for free.
You might need to have Flash or Silverlight with your browser to view channels
in iDesiTV. these are the channels supported by iDesiTV – Sony TV, jaya max,
Star Plus, Star One, news 9, Zee TV, Star Gold, Imagine, ETV Bangla, UTV
Movies, Geo News, Ary Digital, Ary Music, PTV, Raj Music, MTV India, Makkal TV,
Sahara Family, NDTV Profit, NDFT Good Times, Geo TV, NDTV Kannada, Raj Music
Malayalam, vissa TV, Raj Music Tamil, Jaya Plus, Raj Tamil
News. To
watch any of the TV channel, go to homepage at http://idesitv.com/index.html you
will find the list of channels which is already mentioned above. Select any and
it will open in new windows and get connected directly in a moment, now enjoy
watching TV.
WWi TV (World
Wide Inernet)
(http://www.wwitv.com/)
The WWi TV is a
guide to streaming media available on the web for free. Actually this portal
was designed to allow users of personal computer and other device consumers to
easily find and access media content over the internet. Also several
third-party sites link to WWi which actually view the respective channel
online.
First click on
the language as you visit WWi homepage and it’d be the interface. You’d be then
taken to the portal page, select the country and category from list. A click on
the TV channel will take you to the broadcast page of channel, and will begin
instantly.
Fomny TV (http://www.fomnytv.com/)
Fomny TV is the
place where you can find live stream channel all over the world. You just need
to select the country ant it will shows you the list (you can select category
also in broadly manner). After clicking channel it might be connecting to
external link for better result. So this means they take you to the origin
source where you watch the TV channels. Now go to Fomny.com for
all the TV channels live for free of cost and Enjoy..!
MobileTV (http://www.mobiletv.net/)
Actually Mobile
TV is available for mobile users but as it is a web-based portal it makes easy
for the laptop and PC users to watch live streaming of the channels by
accessing the portal. The channels includes which I know are National
Geographic Channel, Discovery Channel, The History Channel, ESPN, MTV, Sky
News, NDTV 24×7, Nickelodeon, and few others. Without any registration or
download 36 channels are available straight from their browser.
Live streaming
has best quality and good clarity of audio at reception which I like the most
about MobileTV. The quality it gives I have not seen on any provider. Just go
to homepage and you can browse all channels from the window opens in the same
tab.
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