Watch TV Over The Internet
It has been a while since we last covered applications or services to watch TV over the internet. One of the popular applications at that time was the TVU Player which back then offered channels like ESPN or ABC. This has changed a bit since then and the main reason for many users to use TVU Player are the sport channels like CCTV5 which use to stream live sport events like Champions League, the European Leagues and other cups quite a bit. Even the fact that most of these are Chinese productions with Chinese commentary does not seem to bother most users. It is definitely better than not being able to watch the event at all.
TVU Networks, the maker of TVU Player, have created a web platform as well which can be used to watch the very same channels on the website without having to download and configure their PC TV client. An add-on was required to make the service work in Firefox and the same happened when trying it in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. After that it worked perfectly though.
The interface lists the channels on the left side. Don’t expect to see many popular US channels in the mix with a few exceptions like the Comedy Channel. The majority of programs offered are in Chinese though. The channels can be filtered by language to only display channels in a selected language. That filter is not working correctly. Selecting English from the language selection will also yield different language channels. Not many though but still noticeable.
