internet tv

[yvesj]

hi.i like to know if i cant use internet tv daily because all i need is news at noon and at 6 and at 10 and a few program here and there .i don't want to espend any money on cable because to me it a waist of money for what you get .thank you .
yvesj

[fink]

I've seen about a half dozen different sites and programs offering internet television and all of them (and others, so I've read/been told) are pretty bad.

Most are very low quality streams with lots of pixelation, are badly buffered or off the air completely, and perhaps most annoyingly from countries that speak neither English or (in your case) French.

The one thing they do have that might be of use for you is a fair number of free news channels but again most are not English and fewer are in French.

They say they offer thousands of channels, unfortunately most are from Asia, eastern Europe, China and the middle east.

[SpywareDr]

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[yvesj]

thank you .i do get my best french new that i use to watch when i was paying .i do get cnn .fox 8 fox 11 eyes witness new .a llitle bet of loose it for 30 secounds or so .but it will play for 2 to 3 minutes with out interuting .you see like [lcn] in french even if i take the basic on cable i will have to pay extra to get it .so now it free .but what i wanted to know do i have enuff bandwish to last the month with out running out .i do not want to loose my internet in the midle of the month .i need my computer every day or i will turn nuts with it .there is all kind of free channels if you really want to check them all out .but even if i take a sub i will only watch the new any way .so if i cant use it all month long i will buy a 32 lcd tv and hook it up to my pc .do you thing if i do that that my video card is good for that tv .let me

[yvesj]

by the way it is only on eyes witness new that i loose it a bet here and there .all the other are running perfectly .and there are all live .so cant not ask for better .and i do have about 10 program to play with .but i did create 5 desktop icon for my top 5 channels

[fink]

You would have enough bandwidth to watch as much news as you like on most Canadian hispeed ISP's. I don't believe that there are any that cap less than 50 or 60 gigs/month.

I'd suggest either having a look at your contract or calling them to find out if you are capped at all but watching news three or four times a day won't use a lot of bandwidth at all.

But if you do a lot of other file downloading you could reach a limit, if it exists, at some point. P2P programs like Torrents are bandwidth hogs.

I watch lots of streaming sports, comedy and news media and I've never come close to hitting even 40gigs/month. I average around 25G. But I don't use any P2P programs.

[yvesj]

thank you fink.i say about 4 to 5 hrs a day .so i should be all right .but i will find out this month lol .no movie .no game so be be all right .why pay 40 to 50 dollards a month and only watch the same thing .first the new they have i never watch them to begain with .if you want what you want you have to pay extra .so the hell with them .as long that i have internet am happy .

[fink]

As far as whether you can plug your computer into a tv, I don't know what video card you have but most have at least S-video out and any new tv will have S-video in (audio will need to be patched separately).

It's not as high quality as watching it on a computer screen but it's ok. I do it to watch online sporting events all the time. It's not great for reading text... hard on the eyes.

[yvesj]

thank .is there a way to know what video card i have in my pc. so cant you switch from my 19 inc monitor to the tv with out onpluging my computer monitor or vis versa .

[fink]

If there's an S-Video jack on the video card you can have both at the same time.

Looks like this.. (bottom one)



If you look in device manager it will tell you which card you have.

In XP (and I assume Vista too) You can open Device Manager by double-clicking on the System icon in Control Panel, choosing the Hardware tab, and clicking Device Manager then open the Display adaptor entry.

[yvesj]

ok there is what i found .
INtEL[R] 946GZ EXPRESS CHIPSET FAMILY so is this what it is .sorry am new to that when i go in there lol .
let me know .i will look tomorrow to see if i have the same pluging

[fink]

This is where to look....

[yvesj]

this is were i got what i send you .intel[r] 946 gz express chipset family .so i guess am out of luck i don't even have one .what do you thing .i click on the plus on disply adapters to get that .so if i have to buy one wish one do you thing i should buy .to get the lcd tv to work

[fink]

It appears to be an onboard/built-in video card. Have a look and see if there's an S-video jack output.

[yvesj]

It appears to be an onboard/built-in video card. Have a look and see if there's an S-video jack output.

no there is any thing like that at the back of my pc .so what do you thing if i buy this .if not i will buy a 24 lcd monitor 349.99 that be it .
see the picture