As we wrote in reviews for PPLive and TVUPlayer, television via streaming P2P is part of the future of broadcasting. The beauty of it is that anyone can broadcast anything that they want making P2P technology an incredibly democratic medium. The two previously-cited programs are good examples of the technology in action yet Sopcast (so called because 'SoP' is an abbreviation for 'Streaming over P2P') is arguably even better because it allows you to easily broadcast your own channels.

Thanks to the constant improvement of broadband connections, watching TV over the internet is now possible. The current trend is to use Peer to Peer (P2P) technology to stream media quickly to consumers. TVU Player allows you to watch major cable channels over the internet, by sharing your bandwidth with other users. TVU Player usually streams around 20 different channels, from a large American sports network to the major Chinese television channel and you can watch everything from gossip to movies or sports. TVU Player is extremely simple to use, you only have to double click on the channel of your choice, wait a few minutes for it to buffer, and start watching. Refreshing every now and then lets you check whether new channels are on offer.

As the world of P2P TV continues its expansion, new kid on the block is TV Ants. The increasing unreliability of its Chinese cousin PPLive means that increasing numbers of users are changing to this simple but highly effective alternative. The installation is fortunately pretty simple as everything is in Japanese – it s simply a case of clicking on Ok a few times and away you go. The channel list appears in a simple window and you can reveal more by clicking “Renew”. The channel list is a bizarre mix of Japanese, public and private channels. If you want to find out how American troops keep up their morale in Iraq, check out “TV Pentagon” (the US army s official channel) or if you re looking for something a bit more scenic, there s “TV Canada Tourism”.

Veetle is a project of Stanford University that brings you hundreds of TV channels to your browser - no external application is required. The good news is that many of these channels are useful (especially for sports fans) and the streaming quality is stable and high quality. The media player looks slick and refined and it loads incredibly quickly. You can watch CNN, Fox News and other custom made channels by users such as News 24/7 and lots of Japanese cartoon channels.

PPStream offers a high quality image (better than most other ones) and makes easy the usage, in fact, you only have to click on the desired channel and it will appear on screen directly. The number of channels is really high (just take a look to the right side). Choose if you want to watch sports, movies, series, etc. and this year that Olympic Games will take place in China, this channel list will be very interesting. It s a pity that the translation is not complete and the channel list is not understandable, because PPstream is one of the most complete P2P television programs. From the official site you can download more channels, but there s only a problem, the website is in Chinese, Do you dare?

P2P is not only for downloading programs, movies and music. P2P is much more than that and you can check it if you try a P2P TV program like this. Hundreds of channels, sports events, videoclips, programs and more are waiting for being watched by you. UUSEE is a very good P2P TV program that offers an amazing image quality and fluency. Those two features will surprise you and if we tell you that you'll be able to enjoy programs, movies and sports events that you can't watch on any common tv you'll love it. The only problem we find when we analyze UUSEE is that it's only in Chinese, what makes very difficult to understand menus and options. On the other hand we have to say that if you want to use it to view programs when you already have the link, you don't have to know any Chinese to enjoy it, just click the link and enjoy. Furthermore, if you want to explore channels, there re some channels in English and other languages, but you'll have to search for them. In short, UUSEE is a very good P2P TV program that would be amazing for us if it were in English.

Not many channels but it seems they broadcast a lot of good movies. Plus the channels have program schedule(the bad is that its in chinese language and time) I have just found it , so I am not quite familiar with it. Share your opinions.

Octoshape is a peer to peer streaming media server and client which uses peer to peer grid technology to minimize the bandwidth for any broadcaster to stream any material. Octoshape can be used to multicast stream audio (Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WMA) and/or video (MPEG-4, Nullsoft Video, or WMV and other codecs), or any other stream of data, over the internet. Octoshape uses peer to peer grid distributed bandwidth to minimize the load of the broadcaster's bandwidth where each listener/viewer will relay parts of- or the whole stream they download to several other nodes in the grid.

treaming television apps get better as new versions are released and PPMate NetTV is an example of what these programs are evolving into. A friendly interface and a load of original features mean PPMate is one of the most solid P2P streaming apps out there. It s easy to navigate around the PPMate interface. The screen is divided into two tabs: the player and the menu. On the side, you have a scroll down menu from which you can select one of the 940 channels available to choose from, with all sorts of categories covered, like sports, news, movies, and TV series. Channels you have viewed will be saved in the "Favorites" list and you can use the search-as-you-type function to find a specific show. There s also a ticker bar in the player view to remind you of upcoming programs, although unfortunately it appears in Chinese. We like how the main menu interface shows a thumbnail image of the program and you can select programs by clicking on the category tab. You have a little popularity marker next to each program. The more popular a show is, the better it will stream. You can also maximize your streaming quality configuring the XP TCP patch. Setting it to 256 or higher should guarantee you good streaming quality.

Based on TVkoo, we are able to set up high quality online TV platform with lower transferring cost of tolerated by wideband users. Since the server and bandwidth has been 80-300 times less, in most countries, the cost has been controlled to be USD0.3 – 4/year.clients. -easy and friendly interface with no modification of the PC operation system -The unique communication mode with own copyright, witch is not limited by ICP -intranet is not a barrier -the bandwidth saving could be 80-1000 times less with USD0.35 – 8 / year -No limit between countries / regions / ICP -supporting different languish automatically -channels preview possible -less buffering time to be 10-20 seconds -one client possible to watch