Saturday, 19 June 2010

TV on your PC

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of SeeSaw. All opinions are 100% mine.

I have been watching TV on my PC for a while now and I have used three different methods:
  • The first was through a 'Freeview' box which is fed through a SCART to composite lead, and then a Pinnacle 'Dazzle' USB video converter. This works, but the solution involves some relatively expensive hardware, and the results in terms of picture quality are not really that great...
  • The second way was through 'peer-to-peer' services which don't cost anything, but do involve downloading software (and seeing as the service is a bit on the 'dark-side' you wonder whether the software is trustworthy..). Once you have your software, there is quite a good choice of stuff to watch, but the time it takes to get a feed and the widely varying quality of broadcast can leave you very frustrated.
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  • The third way is a service called SeeSaw which offers both free and 'rented' broadcasts from broadcasters like the BBC and Channels 4 and 5 along with other independent studios. SeeSaw has a stunning Comedy Section with the likes of 'Only Fools and Horses', 'Men Behaving Badly' and 'Alan Partridge' on offer, they even have some World Cup content too.
Watching SeeSaw is perfectly safe and legal, which is more than can be said for peer-to-peer broadcasting, not only that, but the quality is far and above much of TV content that you can currently access online.If you are already using 4oD and Demand5, you can also pick up that content for free on SeeSaw, and you can then share what you watch with your friends on Facebook and Twitter. Suffice to say, that the Freeview box has been put to better use, and the peer-to-peer software has been uninstalled, as they are not a patch on the quality of viewing offered by SeeSaw.

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