How can I watch TV on the web?

How can I watch TV on the web? by Jane Lucas

It depends on what you mean by watching TV on the web. As you're most probably aware, you can download episodes via peer to peer or bittorrent. This is on very shaky legal ground, and doesn't give you live programming. If you just want to watch TV, and not download it, there are better alternatives than torrenting.

You can watch TV on the web via a client, which streams the station to your computer. You need a client to do this as you do most of these types of things. If you were using bittorrent, you can't do that without a client, either. What Tv clients give you the ability to do is watch the programming without downloading the episodes to your computer. In fact, you can stream hundreds of channels, from all over the world, to your computer.

You find a lot of these free clients by just plugging the right keywords into Google. What you won't know, until you run the executable file, is if you've managed to get one that's free of malware and viruses. It's playing a game of chance with your computer. Most people aren't willing to take that risk. There are other clients that charge a small one off fee, and you're better off buying one of those to make the process risk free.

So how do you do it?
- Download the client and install it,
- Download any codecs required (these are the translators that let you run video and audio outputs in programs such as Mediaplayer, Real Player and Quicktime)
- Launch program, and off you go.

Cable TV programs can now be streamed directly to your computer.

If you want to watch TV on the web it can be done easily and cheaply without filling up your hard drive or bittorrenting. You just need to look for the right tool.

Check out my website "Legal Ways To Watch TV Shows Online"

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