can anyone attest to the viability of this TV channel software?

[Omega Man]

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[Petef56]

Originally Posted by Omega Man Watch TV on PC - Watch Over 3000 TV Channels On Any PC

I do not have first hand experience, but I was curious and just found some info that might help determine what it's about.

The review below seems to say the channels are mostly free broadcast channels, old outdated movies, old TV shows, News & Politics. For example, I get my TV (about 50 channels, 20 of which are ok to watch) over the air free using an old fashioned TV antenna and it sounds like similar programming. So, if you'd be satisfied with that type of thing then you might like it.

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In other words, there are various free over the air broadcasts available via satellite and TV Antenna. It sounds like this company tapped into all the free stuff and converted it to something that could be broadcast over the Internet.

---pete---

[David M]

There are some that are based outside of the country that are questionable as to their legitimacy and legality. This might be one of those. I don't know, but it might be worth getting some truly independent reviews of this one before handing your credit card number over to them.

[Force Flow]

I doubt it's legit/legal.

It's expensive and a big headache (legally speaking) to broadcast content from one country in another. Very few shows ever make world-wide distribution, and even fewer networks even try.

[David M]

I just got a warning from McAfee listing this site as a "threat". McAfee did not provide any other information than that. (McAfee was free...heh )

Given that, I would not click on the link in the first post. It may be "drive by" malware, meaning you get malware just by clicking going to the homepage, which is what I did. I am now doing a malwarebytes deep scan. So far Malwarebytes has not detected any malware on my computer.

The mod team might consider deleting the link in the first post or just delete the whole thread.

[MaxRat]

if you want free Internet TV then get Joost or Boxie... they both work well and even the limited Internet TV inside Windows Media Center isnt half bad

[glc]

We aren't going to delete it, but everyone should now be forewarned.

[David M]

I finished the scan and Malwarebytes did not detect any malware on my computer.

[Petef56]

Originally Posted by David M I just got a warning from McAfee listing this site as a "threat". McAfee did not provide any other information than that. (McAfee was free...heh ) Given that, I would not click on the link in the first post. It may be "drive by" malware, meaning you get malware just by clicking going to the homepage, which is what I did. I am now doing a malwarebytes deep scan. So far Malwarebytes has not detected any malware on my computer. The mod team might consider deleting the link in the first post or just delete the whole thread.

Dave, I'm the one who reported to the mods here about a "Windows Antivirus 2012" fake alert on the other thread Titled "Nato Riot..." but I had also clicked the link you are reporting on but I don't recall if it was in the same session. All I know is that I was in the "Nato Riot" thread, I clicked the second link, and about 30 to 60 seconds later as I was waiting for the video to display, a simple text window popped up with the fake alert. I shut down my PC, restarted it and ran all my scans which all came up clean. So I may have picked it up here, within this thread but it didn't trigger until much later.

---pete---

[David M]

Pete, I'm the one who got a warning from McAfee that DT4PC.net might be malicious....so I reported the alert. It had nothing to do with the Chicago riot website.

[Omega Man]

The link in question came directly from an ad from a legitimate website such as Facebook. I don't have any problem with you deleting the link however, I have the answer to my question. It seems like it's junk in more than one way.

[David M]

You can still get malware by clicking on links on legitimate websites.