Download ZiggyTV 3.5.2 Free streaming tv channels

ZiggyTV is a software tool that allows user to download, watch or listen to music, videos, movies, tv shows, live streaming of various Tv channels and you can also add your own broadcasting server and stream live own videos.

You have to admit to this being a killer combination as it is very close to the essence of entertainment. Generally, you have to call on different applications in order to benefit from all these, but there is one software that gathers them all under the same roof. Although the name is Ziggy TV, the application provides myriads of radios all over the world as well as some of the most entertaining games you can play at the office if there is no eye on you.

The application incorporates all these three sources for making the most out of your pastime without fumbling on the Internet in search of something to kill some time with. The paid version ($19.88/1 year) offers unlimited HD movies, music videos and TV shows download, over 2000 games, music downloads as well as unlimited technical support and free updates.

It goes without saying that running the application requires an Internet connection and the larger the bandwidth, the better. Main application window wraps up all the fun in three easy to use modules: Watch TV, Radio and Games. Suffice to access one of them and you will be displayed a list with the most popular items for each category.

TV channel list is quite something, offering stations from around the globe, live-streaming from important ones such as Fox News or Sky News, TV shows and generally all television related content, but there is one catch: not all of them are available outside the US. Actually the best of them are restricted to non-US use due to copyright laws. Thus, stations like MTV or Fox On Demand will not play unless you have an US IP address.

Still on the downside, lots of the channels listed will actually display weblinks to stations that offer the content for free or just run video content free of charge on the official website. In the case of ESPN, the same videos can be watched either in Ziggy or on the official website. The same goes for the vast majority of movie stations in the program.

In the case of radios things are not as complicated as the application is simply a medium for different radio stations streaming. There is plenty to choose from as there is a good cover for all the genres, from the urban jams, love music or reggae sounds to the goldies of the '70s or some other decade, jazz tunes, country, new age or techno. Any user can find a favorite in here with the utmost ease as Ziggy can display them by genre, by country (although not all countries are covered), or location as well as sort them out alphabetically, by users' vote, quality or rating.

Games section is composed of myriads of arcade games ready to entertain you all day long. These are old games, but entertaining nonetheless. JewelQuest, Bubble Shooter, Drag Racer, Age of War, Mah Jong, Super Mario, Texas Hold'em, Chess, Flash Sonic, Street Fighter 1, PacMan, Taxi Driving School, all these are old ones you can still get a kick out of. Sure, nowadays generation won't appreciate them properly and their interest in them would be quite undeveloped, but it is a great collection nonetheless.

Just like in the case of TV and radio stations, the games can be arranged by genre, type, country or sorted according to the most popular in the list, alphabetically, by vote, rating or quality. However, not all criteria is relevant and listing them by countries will not provide you with results at all times. During our testing doing this caused nothing but trouble as the application would not respond to country selection. The same behavior was recorded with radio stations and the only section to react was Watch TV.

Setting the application up is piece of cake as there are only four options to configure. When switching from one module to another (e.g. Watch TV to Radio), you can be prompted to decide whether to keep the TV channel/radio station/game playing or not (there is such an option for each module, so this covers three of them). Users can allow for "R" rated content to be displayed or not.

Balancing the services provided by Ziggy TV and the cost of the application as well as the way it works, I would say there is much to be improved. Some of the stations feeding you live streaming are part of TVU Networks, a P2P solution for online TV streaming, used by TVUPlayer. The same station powered by TVU Netoworks will not play in both Ziggy TV and TVU player (this is just a heads up).

Ziggy TV is simply a container for online services, either free or paid, from where the user can choose what to watch. US users may have a blast out of it provided that enough bandwidth for smooth streaming is assured, but for the rest of the world, access to some TV stations/services is restricted.

The Good
It gathers plenty of online services that can be accessed with a single click by the user, at the same time providing a set of arcade games to nostalgics.

The Bad

The application fails to provide the user with a search function for specific items and category, genre, country and sorting are the only ones to help in case you're looking for a station or game. Not all countries are covered when it comes to TV stations over the world.

Some online video streaming services may take a lot of time to load or they may be down and with others the same free content available by accessing the online page is accessed via Ziggy TV.

The Truth

Ziggy TV would be an extraordinary application given that all content would be properly streamed to users' computers. Provided all of the above mentioned the application does not rise to it annual subscription, especially for users outside the USA.

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Joe Biden to Use Justin.tv to Stream to the White House From Abroad

by Amar Toor

When Barack Obama speaks, he gets the attention of every media outlet known to man. When Joe Biden speaks, he gets Justin.tv.

Biden, who's currently touring the Middle East, is scheduled to give a speech later in the week at Tel Aviv University in Israel. Because he's not with Obama, though, the official White House camera crew didn't make the trip with him. Without the crew, live-streaming Biden's speech on the White House Web site initially seemed impossible, since, according to The Hill, such a feat is difficult to pull off with a non-White House camera feed. Luckily for Biden and his fans, though, Justin.tv will be picking up the slack, and will stream the video live on its site. That's right: the same Justin.tv that, back in 2007, gave everyone the chance to watch Justin Kan's every waking moment, and the same Justin.tv that controversially broadcast the overdose suicide of a 19-year-old.

Since its inception, though, Justin.tv has expanded beyond lifecasting, and has now become a bona fide hosting platform, with millions of daily viewers and users. It just so happens that the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv is one of those users, making the arrangement plenty convenient. Playing Ed McMahon to Obama's Carson may not be the most glamorous job in the world, but you'd think the White House, in all of its technological splendor, would've made more of an effort to internally stream Joe's speeches. Considering how notoriously loose-lipped Biden's been in the past, though, perhaps the move was way more calculated than it seems

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So I'm back from holiday, and I need to catch up on a couple of weeks of American Idol. The older shows I found via file-sharing services and watched on the laptop last night; the most recent are safely stored in the cable television's digital video recorder, so I'll settle on the sofa for those tonight.


But with so much reality-TV flummery still to get through, I won't have time to catch the live airing of Modern Family, ABC's great new sitcom. Happily, that's available on Hulu.com, with a fraction of the irritating ad interruptions, so that could be a treat for the weekend. I'm giving up Gossip Girl, but if I change my mind, I can always pop to Apple's iTunes to buy it and watch it on the iPhone on the way back from work.

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How do you watch TV?

With so many ways to find, and places to watch, television, these are rich and exciting times for viewers. Now we can build our own television schedule around the other things we want to do, instead of having to build our lives around broadcasters' schedules. These are bewildering times for rich television industry executives, though, and every day seems to bring new upheavals.

Yesterday came news that Google, the billion-dollar gorilla of the internet, is trialling a new TV project with the No 2 satellite broadcaster in the US, Dish Network, which will install Google software in set-top boxes. The very mention of Google gets media owners hot under the collar, since it already creams off $24bn (£16bn) a year from ads sold against internet search queries, including searches of media providers' own content, as thrown up by the likes of Google News. Now it wants to start making it easier to search for – and within – the television shows available on Dish Network, and move into the lucrative area of selling television ads, something that has previously been the preserve of the broadcasters and cable firms themselves. It's an experimental project that Google and Dish Network have going, not one they are ready to discuss publicly, but ambitions of Google in this space have long been big.

It opens up the opportunity to sell more targeted ads to television users – ads which might, therefore, be more effective than existing, massive TV ad campaigns. That's the business ambition. For it to work, the viewer must be getting something, too, and that something will be much more easily searchable and accessible television on demand.

This is the internet and TV colliding. Or, as the industry calls it, converging. James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research, says viewers are desperate to bring the everything-on-demand philosophy they have got used to on the internet to television. His firm estimates that 9 million Americans already connect their laptops to the television to watch videos – everything from camcorder clips, through YouTube and Hulu (a broadcaster-funded venture similar to the BBC's iPlayer), to movies downloaded via file-sharing services.

"Internet-connected television is already happening in the US in larger numbers than people are aware. It is just that people are doing it in a DIY capacity. This is not rocket science any more: you walk your laptop into the living room and use a VGA cable to connect it to your TV. But while it is not rocket science, it is not drop-dead simple either, so the fact that 9 million people do it even periodically is amazing.

"To my mind, the consumer has voted. Now it's up to makers of devices and providers of content to give people what they seem to want – and people will reward whoever does it easiest."

Although things that have become common currency in the UK – such as clicking the red button on the remote for additional content, or watching shows you missed via the iPlayer – do not yet have widely used equivalents on this side of the pond, the US is marrying online and television worlds in other ways. Digital video recorders (the equivalent of Sky Plus) are much more prevalent, built in to about half of the nation's cable boxes or available for purchase separately from the firm TiVo, allowing viewers to record TV shows to watch at their leisure – and to skip the ads. The makers of these DVRs are racing to make them more sophisticated. TiVo last week launched a new box that doesn't just record television but also has built in access to online music service Pandora (like the UK's Spotify) and Google-owned YouTube, which has augmented its diet of home video clips in recent years with lots of professional content, which broadcasters offer from streaming on YouTube in return for a share of the ads. The cable firms, meanwhile, created Canoe Ventures to set common new technical standards for set-top boxes, in the hope of launching new internet-like services and offering better ad targeting.

Robert Broughton, an analyst at the research firm Screen Digest, says: "The internet-enabled set-top box allows the collection of viewing data on a dynamic basis. You don't have to rely on audience panels any more. But all this comes with controversy. Will people want to have their data collected in that way, and will they agree to have adverts targeted at them using that data?

"Most likely, this will be a multi-stage process, starting with location and demographic-based targeting, not too dissimilar to the way TV ads are sold at the moment. And once we get down to postcode-based targeting, and people are used to that, then no doubt there will be the introduction of more – let's not say, 'invasive' – let's say, 'dynamic' ad targeting."

With so much lucre available, the race is filling up with new players. Even the television manufacturers are getting in on the act, building internet-connected TVs and stuffing them full of whatever media content they can license from the content makers. Sony, which not only makes TVs but also owns a giant film studio, has a headstart. Comcast, the cable firm, agreed last year to buy NBC Universal, a broadcaster and film studio, precisely so it can marry content with its formidable distribution network.

And then there are the new players. Games console makers, most notably Microsoft, creator of the Xbox, have been negotiating licensing deals for content, including live sport – taking advantage of the fact that their consoles are already connected to the living room TV. Boxee, a little technology company, is flogging its own device that creates an interface between internet content and the television, and Netflix, which began by sending DVDs to its members through the post, now does the same for its online movie streaming. Apple TV, another box for under the TV, from the maker of the iPod, is an also-ran, but with a powerful and bold parent that hasn't begun pushing it hard. The question is whether this will all create a frustrating echo of the early days of the internet, where service providers first tried to keep their customers in a "walled garden" of pre-ordained content, instead of letting them range over the whole internet.

"Everywhere you turn, someone is offering you 10 or 20 per cent of what you want to watch," says Mr McQuivey. "The winner will be the one that can deliver the best end-to-end consumer service."

CBS Sells Out of Online March Madness Inventory

CBS says it has sold out its ad inventory for March Madness On Demand, its upcoming live streaming of all 64 games of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.

“There is no inventory left,” said Jason Kint, CBSSports.com svp and general manager. “I will still take advertisers’ calls, but I’m not sure what else we could sell at this point.”

Kint said that despite a still-tough economy, the ad market had improved versus last year when the network took in close to $30 million in additional online ad revenue for MMOD. According to Kint, more advertisers have signed on this year versus last, including both brands that are advertising during CBS’s broadcast coverage of the tournament and several Web-only advertisers.

For this year’s tournament Coke and AT&T are returning as charter MMOD sponsors, though previous sponsor Pontiac has been replaced this year by Capital One.

Though Kint declined to discuss specific dollar figures, he said that he expected ad revenue to exceed last year’s high-water mark for MMOD. “There is not a lot of scarcity on the Web,” Kint said. “But when you are talking about live video that is DVR-proof, there is a ton of scarcity. This is a great case study for cross-platform selling. The NCAA tournament is unique—our success comes from when TV is not available.”

Besides Web streaming, CBS is once again delivering live games to Apple iPhone and iTouch devices via a premium MMOD application. This year the MMOD app runs for $9.99 (up from $4.99 last year)---but the app works on both 3G and EDGE and networks (last year’s app only ran via Wi-Fi). CBS also offers a free "lite" app, which features video highlights, news updates and scores from tournament games.