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.

A First Look At HBO Go: Curb Your Enthusiasm

TVErick Schonfeld
TechCrunch.com

Today HBO announced it will be making its movies and TV Shows available on the Web to subscribers through HBO Go, which up until now has been in private beta. HBO Go is part of the cable industry's TV Everywhere strategy to make TV content available online to paying subscribers. It contains 600 hours of movies and TV shows which can be streamed live and even in HD. HBO Go is available first to Verizon FIOS subscribers. Since I am a Verizon FIOS customer, I logged into HBO Go this morning and checked it out. (Despite reports elsewhere that it won't be available until Thursday, it is in fact now live). Below are my initial impressions and screenshots.The videos play decently and you can watch in HD, but if I wasn't already paying for HBO I certainly wouldn't pay for access to this site. The choice of shows and movies is just not that great. You can watch every episode of The Wire, and the final season of The Sopranos, but not one episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. You get a lot more in your cable subscription, especially if you get multiple HBO channels. The on-demand option is great, but essentially HBO Go is competing with much broader array of choices on the TV which can also be made on-demand through a DVR. There are some movies like The Watchmen and Taken, which I think I've already seen three times each this month on TV, and a spattering of older archived movies like Canadian Bacon, but for the most part the selection is worse than what you get on Netflix via its streaming option. I'm not sure I want to see The Chumscrubber in HD.The site itself is well-designed, image heavy with lots of entry points. You are greeted with a slideshow view of ten shows and movies on heavy rotation, including the movie Taken, HBO Series Big Love and The Wire, and a Dennis Miller special. If you have HBO, you can't really avoid any of these shows, so nothing special there except that you can stream it anywhere on your laptop. Tabs across the top allow you to explore deeper into movies, series, comedy, sports, documentaries, and "late night" (aka, HBO's hard-hitting sex documentary series like Real Sex). Everything is done in Flash, which makes it a beautiful experience, but it won't be accessible on an iPad or iPhone without converting the site into an appFor each series, you can choose any episode for at least one season, but some shows are missing. You can also create a watchlist to watch shows later. When I was clicking through the site, the streaming quality was great, but when I tried to switch to another show or movie the audio to Canadian Bacon kept playing in the background (which isn't necessarily a bad thing?I love that movie). My main issue with HBO Go is not the fact that it is behind a paywall (after all, that is HBO's business even on TV) or the site's look and feel. The site's navigation is clean, everything is easy to find, and the playback looks great. And moving part of its video library online is a smart move for HBO. My issue is with the selection. It's not just that 600 hours of rotating shows and movies is just a fraction of what HBO shows on TV in any given month. Managing 600 hours of on-demand video is resource intensive, so HBO has to set some limit. HBO is not Web video company. But Hulu or even Verizon could manage a bigger catalog, and even keep the paywall. TV is moving online, as this first step by HBO illustrates. But ultimately, I want all the channels I get through Verizon to be available for searching, managing, and video streaming on the Web. Verizon FIOS already lets me program my home DVR from the Web, but I can only watch those shows on my TV. There is still a disconnect between my computer and my TV, and that is frustrating. And yes, I want it all because I am already paying for it.

How To Spot A Good Free Movies Website On The Net

You have to admit it. Movies are one of the means that will entertain you especially if that is a free movie online. It also gives you the pleasure of escaping from reality. While movies can give us a break of our every day life, it also teaches us some important lessons in life to live by. Movies are one of the indispensable things that a person of the 21st century could not afford to lose.

In today’s world, the internet has given us the avenue of data sharing. Millions of information has been shared every day in the web. Of course, movies are not an exemption. With the advent of fast connections and broadband lines, sharing free movies online is not only a good thing which is happening in the internet today, it has also helped the movie industry to grow.

For many years, people conceived of free videos online as a form of piracy. But everyone should admit, most people are not grown out of those big screen showings. There was a survey around the internet on people who watch free videos online and how would affect their behaviour on watching the movie on the big screen. The result yields some interesting facts. Majority of the respondents say that although they have seen the movies freely through online free movie sites, still, they could not afford to miss the big screen where everything is bigger than life.
One thing that has made free movies online helped the industry instead of destroying it is that it has created a free publicity which the producers are not paying for it. This is one thing most movie producers are not aware. Instead of hiring some watchdogs to shut off those free movies and videos online, why don’t they encourage it? In this way, they can gauge if they are going it on to the top or just made a flop.

An interesting thing to internet users is how to spot the best free movies online. Perhaps, this is quite an interesting question. With lots of free movies online, you cannot just go there and enjoy yourself. A number of websites are not only disappointing; they are quite upsetting to movie goers especially for those who have locked themselves in front of their monitors. Here is how to spot a good free movie online.

Is the connection fast?

Before you open a movie, try to check out if the streaming is good. It is always an advantage not to be interrupted with your viewing. If you think you are getting a slow connection from the website itself, time to switch your browsers to another website. Although you are watching a free movie, you must admit the fact that you should also be getting the best out of your time spending for a movie.

Search on Some of Your Old Favourites

One way of testing the database of the website is to check your old favourite movies if it is available in their database. If you can find them, perhaps, the site really has an extensive library of film. Always make it a point that they will always have what you always want to see.


Free movies online gives one the advantage of seeing movies without paying. However, you must admit it, if you like the movie, you should be spending some money for the big screen experience. While those in the industry downplay the capacity of free movies online, however, they must admit to the fact that when internet viewers would not watch it for free, how much more if they will be shown in the big screen. Free movies online should be a gauge for the movie instead of being tagged as the enemy of the industry.

First look: Boxee beta

by Christopher Breen, Macworld.com

Until recently, Boxee, the social-media-centric media-center application based on the open-source XBMC, was available only to the invited and bore the “alpha” label. Boxee is now open to all and has matured to the point where its developers consider the Mac, Windows, and Linux versions worthy of the “beta” name (a beta version hasn’t yet been developed for the Apple TV). With that consideration comes a reworked interface, consolidation of local and Web-based content within that interface, more content, expanded social networking options, and big plans for the future. I’ve had an opportunity to play with the new Boxee for a week and these are my impressions.

Boxee's Home screen
The means for doing this are the Home screen and Global menu. The Home screen is divided into two areas—at the top of the screen are a row of icons that include Photos, Music, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, and Files. Below you find a Feed column that includes links to content recommended by your Boxee friends. Next to it, a Featured column offers pictures and links to content the Boxee people believe is worth your attention. And to the right of the Featured column is a Queue column, where you see a list of all the content that you’ve added to your queue.

When you select an icon at the top of the Home screen and press Return, you’re taken to a screen devoted to that kind of media. Media screens include a sidebar (which you can hide) that let you do things such as view photos as thumbnails or in a list; filter movies, TV shows, and music by genre; and search for specific hunks of media within that category—all your Michael Jackson music, for instance. You can also click icons to tell the world what you’re viewing or listening to via a Share command, add a shortcut, get more information about a TV show or movie (if Boxee has identified the TV show and movie and can provide that information), or add the media to your queue.


The Movies screen
To play media, just double click on its name. Play controls appear at the bottom of the resulting Now Playing screen. You’re welcome to leave this screen by pressing the Escape key—the music or video’s soundtrack will continue to play in the background. You can quickly return to the Now Playing screen by clicking a Play icon in the upper-right corner of the screen.

Boxee lists copy-protected music and video—such as the movies, TV shows, and non-iTunes Plus music you’ve purchased from the iTunes Store—but it won’t play it. Regrettably, there’s no feature that filters out this protected content.

To leave a media page, press the Escape key and the Global menu appears, which contains these same media icons plus a Home icon as well as Logout, Settings, Queue, Feed, and History icons. Select the item you want with the mouse or arrow keys, press Return, and the appropriate screen appears.


The Global menu
The changes to the interface are welcome but they don’t eliminate the hierarchical structure altogether. For example, if you want to add a folder full of media that lives outside your home folder, you’ll need to dash into the Settings window and dig down until your find the folder you’re after.

Media wherever
Boxee now attempts to erase the line between local and Internet media. For example, when you bring up TV Shows and type “Strangers With Candy” into the search field, Boxee will show you not only the unprotected episodes of the series on your Mac, but also any episodes that are available from Comedy Central’s Website. Similarly, you can move to the Movies screen, type “Love” in the Search field, and see titles that contain that word that can be found either on your Mac or the Web. You now access Hulu content this way rather than through a specific Hulu app.

Unfortunately you can search only by title at this point. So, if you’re in the mood for a John Wayne western, you’d better know the title of the movie you want to see.

Increased content
The beta version of Boxee has a lot of content—157 items can be found in its App Library. This includes such well-known sources as Netflix, Pandora, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Discovery.com, NPR, Shoutcast, and Vimeo along with a whole host of other sources. And Boxee is actively courting developers to bring even more content to the application.


Boxee's App library
One area in which Boxee has broken from other media player applications is in adult content. Within the Appearance setting there’s a Hide Adult Feeds And Applications setting (enabled by default).
This is an interesting approach but not entirely unexpected. Boxee serves as a conduit for streaming Internet media and this kind of content is available from any Web browser. Boxee is simply being forthright about its ability to deliver adult content and leaving it up to users to decide whether or not they wish to view it. Concerned parents should know that the Appearance setting also includes a Set Adult Content Lock that lets them password-protect this option.

Social interaction
Another thing that separates Boxee from Plex and XBMC is its social networking component. Content discovery (buzz-speak for “finding stuff you want to watch and listen to”) is increasingly important and Boxee’s attempting to take advantage of people sharing their tastes with others. Similar to Twitter and Facebook, you can follow other Boxee users and see what they’re recommending. Likewise, they can see what you recommend. Boxee also includes support for Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, and Tumblr so you can post your recommendations to those services as well. (Currently the social networking implementation is buggy and doesn’t work consistently.)


The Flickr app
When you make a recommendation, Boxee does its best to link to something associated with your recommendation. For example, I recommended Bleu’s A Watched Pot album and Boxee linked to Bleu’s Last.fm page.

Given the ability to view adult content, you’ll want to be careful about whose recommendations you keep track of. Should someone you follow recommend an adult video, a link to that recommendation (complete with thumbnail image) will find its way onto your Home screen. This could be a real problem if you use Boxee at work or have a Mac configured as a media center attached to the family TV. Fortunately, you can remove these recommendations—just stop following that person and the recommendations disappears.

Rough edges
You shouldn’t take the “alpha” and “beta” labels too seriously. In fact, the later alpha builds of Boxee were more stable than the first beta releases. But the beta builds are getting better. If you’re upgrading from an older version of Boxee, it’s worth your while to search your hard drive for any existing Boxee files (this includes preference and support files), delete them, and install a fresh copy. I had a lot of problems with the Boxee beta—video anomalies, content that wouldn’t display properly, and the application locking up when I attempted to quit it—after installing it over a copy of the alpha. Once I removed all traces of the alpha version and installed the beta, Boxee was more reliable.

Into the future
Boxee has big plans. The company showed off D-Link’s Boxee Box—a set-top box for delivering Boxee content to an attached TV—at a variety of private events as well as at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It also claims to be working to integrate Boxee into other devices in 2010. Additionally, it’s putting together the Boxee Payment Platform, a system that lets content providers sell their media via Boxee (and Boxee users to purchase it). Those frustrated with an Apple TV that consumes only content from the iTunes Store, pay attention.

There are a lot of companies playing in the media-center space, but Boxee is moving in some interesting and ambitious ways. If you don’t have a copy of Boxee, it’s free and worth your while to give it a try—rough edges and all.

U2 on YouTube

YouTube is continuing its push into the live video streaming realm, despite assurances it gave last year that it wouldn’t enter the space because it was too expensive.

The Google-owned video website has streamed the Outside Lands concert and an Obama press conference in recent months, but now it’s going to stream the Rose Bowl concert of one of the world’s most popular bands: U2

The live streaming event, which begins on Sunday, October 25th at 8:30 PM PT, will be available in 16 countries. The live feed will be available on the U2 Official Channel, and feature a live Twitter() feed of chatter about the concert, exactly like what the company did for its full-length viewing of Taxi Driver.

The world’s largest video website, in a conference call earlier today, explained that it is seeking to experiment in live video. Clearly, YouTube() sees some type of potential in this emerging market, as live video players Ustream(), Justin.tv, and Livestream have started to prove the viability of this market.

U2 on YouTube



A U2 concert is one of the best events to live stream, in our opinion, given the band’s massive popularity. The question we’re still asking is: What exactly is the company’s plan with live streaming? In the meantime, we want to know: will you watch the concert? Let us know in the comments