Free, legal, online TV on your TV set

Step 2 Compile a set of TV channels you like

Surf the web looking for online streams of TV channels you like. A few tips:

• Look for a web page with TV streaming, right click on the playing stream, chose "Properties" and copy the ".asx" url. This url with ".asx" ending will point the windows media object embedded in the software to the TV stream.
• Check which channels (ie streams) work properly. Some times you get a "Buffering..." message so often that watching the channel becomes tedious.
• Don't expect to find streams from big private channels like HBO or Warner or Sony giving out their TV transmissions for free... anyway, lots of TV channels are available.
• Make a txt file with the list of streams you found. This will be read by the program in order to load all the streams, so you better make an ordered file. For example, I made a txt file with three fields for each stream:

- Channel Name

- Name of a bmp file with the logo of the channel

- URL pointing to the corresponding stream

I also prepared a bmp file with the logo of each channel, so that the program displays that instead of a name... much better, right? You can see examples of the txt file and some logos bellow.