Satellite TV on Laptop via internet

I'm going to the caravan, camping and 4wd show in Sydney this week, to specifically look at Sat TV setups. Seem cheap enough at around $500 these days, just wonder about the longevity of the service though.

Fred.

As a followup, it may well be just a big scam. Google provides the answer in most cases, with many sites all saying the same thing, with none really feeling safe.

An interesting posting on this website which hosts many of the free content the scams point you to:

http://www.worldtvpc.com/blog/free-satellite-tv-pc-is-a-scam/

Andrew

You can pay by PayPal so it may not be a scam.

However I am very suspicious as there are copyright issues. You cannot see genuine TV stations in the US or NZ and if you are in NZ, you cannot see OZ stations all due to copyright.

Also as suggested, you will stuff your NextG download quota fairly rapidly as a normal 30min program is a minimum of 90MB and as much as 500MB depending what program yo are downloading

For free, you can look at older programs on the ABC, 10 and 9 with maybe also 7 delving into their web sites and finding the "catch-up" or "video" section.

http://video.ninemsn.com.au/catchuptv/

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/video/downloads.htm#?vid=video1

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/iview/

http://ten.com.au/video.htm

Happy viewing

Stevesub