Use your fast broadband connection to watch TV on your PC

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Use your fast broadband connection to watch TV on your PC

July 20, 2007 in | Permalink

Screengrab Were you one of the many people who decided to upgrade their broadband from a 2MB to a 8MB service, then wondered why you bothered? Torrent-based files don't download any quicker, most remote servers can't deliver the content to your PC as quickly as your broadband can accept the data and if you try and download on a Sunday afternoon or around 6pm, your connection might crawl to a halt anyhow, particular if you're with and ISP that has a high contention ratio.

Miro 0.9.8 is a player that enables you to watch TV on your desktop. The best thing about Miro is that it will play just about any video format, encoded with any recent codec. It contains support for YouTube and use Bittorrent technology to stream the videos from various locations.