Thursday, September 08, 2005

internet - Free soccer and movies on your screen

After my first entry, I have been testing some of the upcoming P2P TV streaming services and have become more enthusiastic. Now the movie industry is going after the more established services like Kazaa and Bittorent, the P2P services goes undergrond and more specifically: they have gone underground in China.
P2P services establish a network between users, allowing them to share each others bandwith to watch whatever you might want to see. It is an ideal way to circumvent firewalls, financial or otherwise.
The services depend on the number of people using it, the more, the better the service and that is obvious one of the weak points of the upcoming services. Further, since they originate from China, they have a preference for rather boring Chinese movies and TV-channels. HBO is available though, although with Chinese subtitles, and SopCast offers also ESPN and different European soccer programs. Just expect those services to expand. SopCast is the best now, although they offer only a few channels, it did not screw up my computer, like PPLive did a few times.
Still useful if you read some Chinese, but I expect that will change too very soon.

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