A one-of payment provides the software package which comes with over 4000 Stations covering News, Movies, Sports, Music, Clips, Radio, etc. from all over the world including local, regional and international broadcasts.
What’s more, for a further modest outlay, you can watch all of these channels on a normal TV. All you need is a converter to take your PC video signal and reformat it into something suitable for the television.
The software is guaranteed to work anywhere in the world but the type of converter depends upon your local broadcasting standards.
As examples, I have searched the web sites of two popular suppliers; Maplins in the UK and Radio Shack in the USA. The resulting links are shown below. Obviously, once connected, these equipments will display everything from your computer, not just the satellite channels. This means that you can play your gaming, give presentations or watch your aquarium screensaver on your widescreen LCD (or whatever type of TV you own!).
Different types of solutions are available if your PC and TV are not in the same room. Copper cable can link the two, or perhaps buy a PC to TV converter that uses wireless.
You can open up your world of entertainment for a total outlay of less than £100 ($200) and there are no further costs to worry about. That’s got to be worth considering, especially as the outlay can be made in stages – get the software, consider your options, then get the hardware at your leisure.
These links relate to the information given above and work ok at the time of writing (July 2008):
SatelliteTube – “Satellite TV On Your PC” software
Radio Shack - Gigaware® PC to TV Converter
Maplin - KWorld PC to TV Converter
Footnote
Looking for a cheaper product, I came across an eBay store which is registered with eBay in both the
The addresses are http://stores.ebay.co.uk/ashopone and http://stores.ebay.com/ashopone
If you enter “PC to TV” (without the inverted commas) in their search box you should see a suitable item for approximately $15.
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