On Feb 24, 2011, at 8:05 AM, John Carmonne wrote:
I have a PM G5 that I want to watch live cable TV news and market channels. CNBC, FNC, MSNBC and CNN. I'm having trouble finding an internet service for this.
Yes, that's the way they want it. Now everyone pays for cable TV AND internet, a duplication of payments, but as soon as cable TV programming is available over the internet most people will drop their cable TV and only pay for internet, so as is the case with most things, it's all about the money.
If you have cable TV, buy a little USB adapter and pipe your cable. This is slightly complicated by the fact that many cable operators still provide analog "basic cable" and then charge premium prices for digital HD channels. Older analog USB adapters are much cheaper than newer digital adapters, and hybrid adapters that handle both analog & digital are similarly more expensive. There are plenty of the FCC mandated digital-to-analog converter boxes floating around cheap, so you can also use an older analog USB adapter with a digital-to-analog converter box, but this is a kludgy setup. I've used an analog Miglia TVMicro with EyeTV software on my G5 for cable TV access.
There are many streaming video sites like justin.tv that re-stream live TV of their members, but these sites are like a mob because there is no schedule, no guarantee any given live show will ever be streamed, but when events are large enough, someone seems to stream almost anything, and this particularly applies to live sporting events that are cable only events such as ESPNU, Versus, or other live sports cable channels.
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