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Recently I have discovered a practical service, that offers watching a number of television channels via internet. After a short registration process at zattoo.com there are different versions of the basic-software for download supporting either Windows, Windows Vista, Mac or Linux. After installation and registration, a window showing the chosen program appears and another one displaying available channels. Sometimes the screen needs some time to build up but all in all I am really satisfied with the result. One should also not forget that this is still a beta-version and a free service moreover.

Some time ago I have seen Joost (HP, Wikipedia) which is another service for internet-television, but comparing them I indeed prefer Zattoo. It offers several news-channels live and uses a small software that can easily be run with other programs. Joost does not support live-television but on-demand-content only and also inlcludes resource-intensive extras like a chat-tool. As somebody who doesn`t own a television set I appreciate the possibility of having news from CNN, Al Jazeera or France 24 in the background during computer-work.

Overview of the channels featured in Zattoo
Channel (Genre - Language)
Comedy Central (Comedy - German)
Das Vierte (Entertainment - German)
DMAX (Entertainment - German)
DSF (Sports - German)
Entertainment Channel (Entertainment - German)
Giga (Entertainment - German)
MTV (Music - German)
Nick (Cartoons - German)
Tier TV (Special Interest - German)
TV Gusto (Special Interest - German)
VIVA (Music - German)
Al Jazeera (Information - English)
Canal 24 Horas (News - Spanish)
CNN International (News - English)
France 24 (News - English)
luxe.tv (Special Interest - English)
SF Info (News - Divers.)
sumo.tv (Entertainment - English)
Telezüri (General - Swiss German)
The Poker Channel (Special Interest - English)
TVE Internacional (General - Spanish)

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This is the private blog of Joachim Dethlefs, german journalist and student of slavistics from the town of Hamburg. Here you will find a lot about Media, Blogging, Slavistics and Germany.

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