Tag Archive for 'Television'

Zattoo

Published
by
Simon
on May 3, 2008
in Internet and Video
. 2 Comments

zattoo.png Wow, Zattoo is amazing…! Thanks popey for the heads up. Zattoo is a peer-to-peer television streaming program. It’s got a selection of UK Terrestrial channels, BBC One, Two, ITV, Channel4 and Five and some other random channels to choose from. It’s quite handy for watching Neighbours without having to go all the way downstairs…! It uses IP Geo-location stuff to deliver you the channels for your country supporting a bunch of other channels in other countries in the EU. It occasionally blips but this the problem with streaming stuff, I suppose the more users who are watching a channel at anyone the better, since it uses magical clever peer-to-peer technologies to distribute the content. It’s another good demonstration of p2p technologies being used for everyone’s benefit :) It’s got clients for Windows, Mac and Linux which means it’s better than other similar projects like Joost which doesn’t support the same channels either.

(p.s. I’m also demonstrating the NextGEN Gallery plugin for Wordpress in this post.. Hence the web2.0 style full-size image if you click it, nice!)

What’s on TV?

Published
by
Simon
on April 22, 2008
in Life
. 4 Comments

Now there is something I always ask myself, is there anything worth watching on TV tonight? Probably not but I can never remember what night the Apprentice is on or when…

My quest to find a decent application or website for TV listings has been going on for a while now… But I think I’ve finally found something I like!

Radio Times

Yeah, the Radio Times website is okay but it loves pop-ups, which everyone else hates. I find it quite clunky.

FreeGuide

Available from Sourceforge, for Windows and Linux it’s a pretty neat piece of software that’ll has an annoying manual method of selecting channels which took me ages. It also takes ages to download updates from wherever their TV listings are sourced. It’s a good idea but no offence, it’s ugly.

TVEasy

If it’s only terrestrial listings you’re after, you might as well just look at TVEasy in the morning and be done with it.

Pog Design

If it’s only a few select shows you want to know about, including ones from America. This one is good because you can filter by show rather than channel but not everything is on there. It tends to be only popular shows, Lost, 24 etc..

But the winner, for me at least, has got to be…

TVGuide

It’s simple and looks pretty good, shows are colour coded by genre and best of all you can select what TV package you’ve got (Virgin in my case) and it’ll display all your channels so you don’t have to go through and manually select them all. Hovering over a show gives a bit of information about it.. You can extend the grid to show up to 9 hours of TV all on the same page and you can check out what’s on up to a week in the future.