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Title: Watching TV on a mac
Post by: Noodles on September 12, 2007, 06:30:55 PM

I know i have seen a few mentions about you guys watching tv via your pc's. If any of you out there have a mac, what programs do you use/recommend. I think joost works with mac now, but you have to have an invite to download bbbbbbbbbb

Any suggestions.

Title: Re: Watching TV on a mac
Post by: Nolefan on September 12, 2007, 07:25:53 PM

joost is indeed the one available option at the moment. There are a couple of TV stations worldwide that broadcast live on the internet (some of the CCTV do that) and all you need is either quicktime, flip4mac or realplayer to watch them.

If you have one of the intel-macs, you can use TVUplayer on the windows layer through VMware or Parallels which is what I am doing.

Title: Re: Watching TV on a mac
Post by: contemporarydog on September 14, 2007, 02:41:45 AM

Joost is pretty piss anyway. It's just a bunch of made-up channels.

Title: Re: Watching TV on a mac
Post by: ybielsalohcin on September 14, 2007, 06:41:42 AM

I had been looking for a solution to get my fix of American mostly-hand-but-sometimes-football.  I'm about to download TVU, TVants, and Sopcast onto my Mac's bootcamped Windows and see which works best, and I found some torrent sites that have games soon after they're played.

Torrents are how I've been doing TV for a while.  You don't get the episodes as soon as they come out, but I like it that way.  I'll download 2-3 at a time and then watch them at once.  It's just as dangerous as DVDs with whole seasons, though; evenings tend to disappear.

http://streamednfl.blogspot.com/

There's a link with football casts.  Since it's on blogspot you'll need an anonymizer to get around the firewall. I recommend Tor.

I get most of my TV torrents from thepiratebay.org and isohunt.com