PC TV
Published November 21, 2002
TVTonic delivers exclusive media files to your computer's hard drive, where you can access them immediately with only one click of the mouse. Each day, by utilizing your high-speed connection, new files overwrite old ones. As a result, your local drive is always being updated with fresh content, your computer maintains optimal performance speed, and you have immediate, full-screen access to the content you want.
It Plugs In
TVTonic is a convenient browser plug-in for Internet Explorer. Go directly from surfing the web to viewing your favorite entertainment in TVTonic.
Each TVTonic video sent to your computer is timed to expire after a certain period, so you never have to worry about running out of space on your hard drive. Read more about the file expiration dates for each TVTonic channel in What's On.
Your Mouse Is Your Remote Control
TVTonic stores video files on your computer and gives you easy controls that allow you to browse your entertainment channels. It's easy to find what you want and start watching right away. The files you want are right there on your local drive. Just click and enjoy a true on-demand experience.
Get the Big Picture
TVTonic's entertainment channels play full-screen video that scales to fit all standard screen resolution sizes.
Of course, you don't have to watch at full screen if you'd rather not. Switch back and fourth between screen sizes whenever you want. It's all up to you.
Video Controls
TVTonic features convenient video controls that let you manage the video files in TVTonic's entertainment channels. Get straight to what you want. Pause, rewind, skip forward and back. Stop, start and toggle. TVTonic gives you full control.
The TVTonic Toolbar
The TVTonic toolbar plugs directly into Internet Explorer (6.0 or 5.5) and allows you to view your account settings, jump from channel to channel and just get more from TVTonic.
You can move from channel to channel with the Go To pull-down, adjust your system volume with the Volume slider, and reduce your browser and display video in full-screen mode with the Full Screen button.
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- Published: November 21, 2002
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This one isn't a DVD service, more like a TV network, although the material is stored on your hard drive until it is updated.
TVtonic is some cool stuff. I really like the quality and the music is great. I can't wait until this replaces my cable service!
Thanks Paul - anyone else out there using it?
Actually I'd have to say this isn't as good as the description makes it out to be. For starters the quality is good but it's certainly not dvd quality. Next it basically just reads the rss of some sites and displays the video content, mostly vlog content. So it just downloads the Rocketboom video on your computer directly from Rocketbooms site. Then it plays it off your hard drive, hardly considered iptv. What's worse is that it installs several toolbars in to Internet Explorer, that's how the free trial is sponsored. It took a bit of registry cleaning to remove it completely, I'm not happy with it.
After some site searching, I found something close to IPTV - that being a service called FreeTube. It requires you to have windows media player installed, but from there your can just watch a few various channels in your browser. No special plugin or download needed, besides windows media player.
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So can you download unlimited DVDs and can you download them to your harddrive, or can they only be viewed online?