Enjoy Free Satellite TV On PC

Nowadays technology advance so fast that you are able to watch satellite TV or listen to your favorite radio station from your computer at home. All you need in order to do that is to buy a PCTV card for your personal computer. There are two models for PCTV, one that it can be installed inside the computer and one that remain outside but it needs to be connected to the PC through a cable put in the USB port of your computer.

You can enjoy digital television programs and radio shows while staying at your computer. Some cards use the computer's infrastructure to decode the satellite signals. Other models allow you to watch TV in a separate window, while the computer performs other tasks, due to a special built-in processor. Through these cards, you receive Broadband Internet via Satellite. Any requests to the satellite are made through a telephone line, but the reception travels the satellite dish with a speed of 40MB per second.

First, what you need in order to watch satellite TV on your computer is a processor that is at least Pentium II 333 MHz. Then, you will need to have an operating system like Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP and hardware consisting of a sound card, a spare USB slot and a CD Rom drive. You can use different program to visualize the TV shows, like Windows media player, Real player, or Quick Time player.

There are many ways to connect your PC to a satellite dish. You can use something like Hauppauge 3000 or the Internet cable. The connection can be made via the satellite box that runs an aerial lead from the RF output socket of the Shy Digibox to the input aerial socket on a standard PC TV card or USB TV adapter. Direct TV and Dish TV consider using a connection via their proprietary satellite TV receiver box as ideal.

The advantages of using these services are clear. You do not have only a personal computer, but a TV and a radio. Imagine how many things you can do, some even at the same time: you can watch a movie or a show, you can listen to music when writing e-mails or you surf through various websites. You can also download and record your favorite programs or music.

Author : Frederic
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