Thanks for the review. I just got an email from SmithMicro about this and I too have been spammed by them from a previous purchase. Your assessment is what I expected, but thanks to you, I don’t have to plunk down the $30 to find out. That really fringes on false advertising on their part — 1,000 channels and more than cable or satellite without pay-per-view, etc.

Thanks for that, I nearly bit! very little on the web about this actual software. Truth is there are lots of websites that make the same claims but are free, yet not even worht the price!
d

I got the spam to from the Digital River list,

I scoured the DTV4PC website for a full channel listing and didn’t find one so thanks for the review, saved me the $40 bucks. It did seem too good and then there was a link that said stuff like “Act Now” and “Two Free Gifts”

Man, this seemed like a great way to get off the cable tit. I wish there was a better way to get television shows and be legit, to bad this wasn’t it.

This is a very helpful review. I must say that I’ve downloaded & paid for one similar software. I did find another one or two available at “Download.com” for free, with a similar channel selection. (I don’t recall the names, because I’ve reformatted since then). I also use the free “Pando” software for downloading CNN and NBC daily summaries, which is a nice alternative to viewing the entire report live.

Phew! I wish you could package this review and send it out as spam. The SmithMicro spam was very enticing to me. Now that I’ve seen someone else’s experience, there is a collective sigh of my soul at the thought of not plunking down $29. Well . . . not today, anyway. I think we’re all tired of paying $79.99 for cable and dish. But, if it were only $29.99 one time, I’m sure the broadcast networks would find a way to block it — just ask Napster.

Thanks for this review. I received the offer from Ashampoo, and the link brings you to various dtv4pc pages. This one seems to start out at $19.99 but you can add things (programming packets?), each being an additional $9.99.
http://www.dtv4pc.com/oneshop/ash/wp/e/

I was about to bite on this offer. You saved me 20 bucks.

I just purchased it through Ashampoo after trying it ,it seems to me you are being too generous in your review, most channels did not access and the ones I would like to watch as live (European news) were looped shows several days old.

Got his from digital river… It sounded good and I am glad to have not been taken in..

dtv4pc looks like a scam to me.

see what happed to this guy…
http://www.thesqueakywheel.com/compl…laint19060.cfm

I decided to give it a try — since downloading I’ve had numberous glitches with my other applications — maybe the System A1 that is downloaded with it and is busily building vitutal computers in my system is the problem — or some sort of incompatibiltiy with Norton — or just more VISTA strangeness. I’m a novice at this stuff but am getting ready to delete it all and see if that helps. Frankly, the lure of watching Bloomington IN local programing is just not enough to make it worth taking up space.

Whew! Thanks for doing for us what I was about to try. Two years back, I too bought similar software which included a System A1 clone as well. I too went through Beth’s experience and suffered a similar fate, including system degradation, storage waste and the Norton twists-and-turns roller coaster ride. So I too had to flush out and readjust both my PC and my then brand new laptop.

I got my offer via WNBC-TV affiliate WeatherBug’s ad (guess they don’t care what they advertise either). But after previously wasting some hard-earned cash and suffering recovery anxiety, this time I Google’d for reviews. Thanks everybody for sharing your valuable, appreciated info., stories and opinions.

Drat! I should have Google searched DTV4PC before I got suckered…
I would have seen your website earlier. You’d think by now I would be more savvy to scams!
To make things worse, these clowns haven’t even sent me the so called ‘license key’ to get their software to work, inspite of their website indicating I didn’t need one when I purchased it.
Of course, no response to my Emails…what a jerk I am

Thanks very much for the info. Saved myself $30 and some frustration. Thanks again for this great info.

Thanks so much for your review.
I was just about to bite, and buy this just to see if it could work for my use. Too Bad its a scam, like others I’m tired of the price of cable for mostly junk stations.
Thanks again you saved me time money and frustration.

Thanks for your review I recieved spam from ashampoo.I figured it was not worth it but you confirmed it.

Everyone Please “BEWARE” that on Ebay there is a sellar selling a similar junk for $2.99 . U get two software program

!. TVU
2. Satellite TV 4 pc

Both of these software works just like DTV 4 Pc..

On the adverstisement thats where I saw the ad for DTV 4 PC

When I open the DTV 4 PC site I saw that they are sell TVU as an add-on for $9.99 what a JOKe!

When I tried to close the sight an IM box opens and a virtual agent tries to give DTV 4 PC to me at a discount price $15.99

What a CRook!!

You saved me too….and I apreciate it!

Thanks, you just saved me $50

I am always a total sucker for this stuff…Of coarse I bought it! I wanted to convince myself that it wasn’t worth the money, I thought maybe, just maybe, I could cancel cable. .

I have got my refund request in the works. Let’s see how it goes.
-Adam

Got the same tease for DTV4PC from Ashampoo today — the price is down to $19.99 and I almost went for it in a sort of “what the heck” moment. Glad I decided to check it out further. Thanks for the savings! I think I’ll donate it to a local charity for Christmas…

If anyone is still interested in this, you can get it – at least right now – for $15.99 at
http://www.dtv4pc.com/ep/buy_e.php?crcat=dtvexitpop&crsource=delfin

I appreciate the review very much. Even for $15.99, I cannot make up my mind if it is worth it since I have cable TV in the US. This would be of interest to me mostly for international channels.

Thanks for the review, it’s saved me $30.
You can find all of these channels and more FREE on wwiTV.com.

Tommy

Saved by the review just in time. Put that 50 bucks in the rainy day jar! THANKS

I had put in a request for information at PC World because I could not find anything about this either. Still gettting those SmithMicro emails! This is very helpful and eyeopening – I was definitely suspicious of this and you confirmed what I needed to know.

thx for the info. saved me the head ache

I’ve only had it for one day, but so far I’m happy. I’ve been doing without cable for several months since I’ve moved, and don’t pick up any channels at all, so I’ve been getting by with Netflix and computer news. I miss CNN and other news programs, and this seems to work well for my needs. I only paid $20 for the most basic program, and to me it’s worth it even if I can only watch CNN. I’ll let you know if I change my mind, though.

Yeah, I almost bit too. I’m interested in knowing how Emichel gets along with it though as I live in Europe and miss watching tv in English, though it seems from everybody’s experience that there aren’t any worthwhile stations available. I got the offer through DAP. The site claims you can watch NBC and CBS, that there’s video on demand and such. Anyway, I hope you can let us know your experience after a week or son, Emichel. Who knows, maybe they’ve improved.
Thanks

I watch TV on my PC for FREE. Google Joost and download. Enjoy!

This proggie is bogus. I got scammed out of $12.95 on Ebay for something very similar – and 99% of the hosts were unreachable, and what I could reach was, crap.

If you’re a news junkie and like foreign news, try http://www.jump.tv. They have Al Jazeera in English, and a bunch of other stuff. Some are priced per month (from $4.95 to $9.95) but they have lots of free, foreign-language content too, and it runs in Media Player – nothing to download. Happy trails!

Thanks for saving my $30
God bless you

Try Rus” program that will probably be better than spending the $19.99 they want for DTV4pc.
Thanks for the review.

I happened to get this thru email from reputable SmithMicro. I almost went for it, but it sounded too good to be true. Thanks for all the comments I read in this column and saved me $25 and a lot of aggravation.

This is for sale for $19.99 AR in Micro Center’s paper ad.
Thanks for the review. When I saw the ad I figured I’d search around.

Thanks for taking the time to tell everyone the facts.

Ditto to all the thanks and saving comments above! Need more blogs like yours!

[...] popular and in-depth review from Chris at RGBscan.com has attracted a lot of praise for its straightforward and detailed [...]

I’m a little surprised that so many would object to receiving emails after doing business with a company and call followup “spam”. It’s seems a bit like complaining about commercials on free broadcast tv or radio.
I’m not trying to start an argument or raise anyone’s vitriol, but this type of software is the wave of the future.
After 20 plus years in radio, tv and advertising, the most baffling element of all this is that the entertainment world has not tumbled to how much commercial money could be made by providing quality programming in this venue. God knows, there are millions of us who are tired of the cable/satellite monopoly.
As to the software, I’m comfortable with putting up the 20 and waiting for the world to find us.
At least there’s no monthly fee so no 800 bucks a year to watch constant repeats of “hits” from the last decade.
Thanks for the time, no offense intended.

Thanks for your honest and practical report on DTV4PC……….
A friend asked me to check out same for him and I am happy to advise not to bother with this program……..
I have FTA Satellite and most of the programs coming from the over 3,000 channels are worthless too………’
If any new legit software pops-up,please let me know….

Thanks again…….

William

Today (Feb. 6, 2008) I received similar offer-spam today from buy.com weekly deal, $27.99 and 20 mail in rebate. Thanks for all your comments I was about to buy it. I did not I am so glad. Thanks to all of you. From the previous reviews I tried wwiTV.com, http://www.joost.com, and jump.tv try to get channels from Mexico (I live USA, St. Louis) , there are few but none of them widely known, only locals and not best I believe. Quality of that fee TV not good either, delays, streaming, slow the PC, etc. Thanks to you all!

Often you can get your credit card company to do a chargeback and get your money back if its a scam

Thanks for the review it was for sale for 9.99 at deals2buy…..Thanks for saving many peoples money….

Thanks for the heads up, it pays to google search before purchasing new software online. I almost bit too, glad I found your site, many thanks!

Spam from Watch Internet TV. A BIG thanks to those who have paid money to explore the scam and saving the rest of us lots of money.

Was just about “hooked” Glad you were out there to reveal the bait.
Jim

Thank you for your review. If you could cash in all the money saved by people like me you’d get rich quick.
I also fell for the one on e-bay and deleated it within a couple of hours. Load of rubbish!!!!!!
Dee

Well done for this excellent review. It’s bang on the button as far as I’m concerned. I bought a siminlar promise from info@satelite-tv-software.com called Satellite TV Software 2007. Very disappointing. All rubbish channels as described in the review of DTV4PC. It was a $12 offer so hardly a risk. But a great moneymaker if yuo fool some of the people all some of the time. Wish I’d thought of it.

Now if someone brought out a channel that could correct lousy spelling……..

Hi and like many other people = thanks for this review. I live in the UK and got an email today about this offer. I wondered what UK channels might be available so I put the name in altavista which in turn brought em to hte review. I will not be buying………..thanks again, Bob.

Thanks, for this very helpful review. I too, along with my son was almost taken in by this scam with the hope that we could watch some sport channels for relatively little outlay. We would have been very disappointed!! I will not be purchasing this. Thanks once again Bob!

Well my question was if it play hd .The thing that troubles me is when a site has no contact information.So I run from the site if no contact because it smells of somethigns wrong .

Thanks! I’ve been wanting to cut my cable TV down to basic because there is so little I want to watch. About the only channel I would miss is CNBC, which I have on in Picture In Picture mode while working on my computer all day, so I can keep up with financial news, which is sort of a “hobby” and helps keep me from losing my shirt at times. As long as that one is avail. on this, I can proceed to cut back on my monthly cable bill.

For you guys that have gotten suckered its also on Ashampoo, many of these are pretty much just scams and if you do download scan the software with as many anti virus and anti spam stuff.
You also might like to know that you can get the original type software from TVU for free from http://tvunetworks.com/ careful there are many spoof copies, this was also “sold” by Ashampoo in Germany and so on and so forth.
As far as I can work out they hijack programmes and then sell them on.
There was another guy in the UK and I tracked him down address and all got the download hits (about £400,000) and he lived in a council house in Kings Lynn. Notified the UK Norfolk police and because they are possibly the most corrupt in the UK they did nothing.

G’day. That’s what I call a review. I received the offer for DTV4PC via Ashampoo and thought “this looks OK, it’s from a reputable firm…”, nearly signed up but thought I’d better do a search for comments about the product. Eighty percent or more of all comments says this is a shonky deal, a real furphy, not to be touched by a forty foot pole. I’m an old bloke (76) looking to keep the grey matter active and enjoy my PC, but thanks to you and similar I wont be touching this. Thanks mate, have one on me.

Thanks very much for this review. Ive wasted too much time and money trying to connect to tv over the internet mainly for premier league games. I reckon these scams are set up by Rupert Murdoch to convince us that Sky is the only real option!

i just got taken for 49.99 by dtvfotpc. i am not able to even get into a program to download. boy do i feel stupid. is there anything i can do to recover my money? i am going to call my visa now.

i use torrents to get everything free so no money wasted just google what u need and put torrents behind it.

thanks a lot for this review. this fish almost took the worm.

Watch out for this BS TV. I was dupped for the NHL Playoffs and no where in the comminucation with this comapny is there any product registration code. I called them and they can’t asnwer my call-Leave a message. I called Visa and I have to take up my dispute with merchant.
I was taken. Please dont be a sucker like I

I had my offer through DTV 4 PC and decided to check them out as rather than being just a one-off payment of $30, there seemed to be three $10 add-ons which covered two years. So I hit the back button in order to find out which channels were in which category. I was immediately offred a one time only 20% reduction. Having read your review and other people’s problems, I think that I can afford not to take up their offer.

thank you so much for taking the time to give us your comments it is guys like you that really help idiots like me to not throw our money to the wind.
I will not purchase this item but I have to admit I was seriously tempted unil I read your review. Grateful thanks once again

WoW I just got anE-Mail from africa and won the Coca Calo 600 Lottery all I got to do is send the the Tax money and I ,m in like Flint and then I can afford DTV4PC …Nice report on the scam ..and you can pritty much get it all for free on line …wish there were internet cops for scams like this …Oh yeah there is its called common sense never buy anything from email without reading the reviews…well I had my fun Good luck everyone .good luck Slider…don,t forget to vote

This ones free and does everything they claim theres does that they charge $29.99 for, it has the american version of the sci-fi channel which means shit commercial breaks every 5 mins but at least its the coolest channel on the net…….http://www.tvunetworks.com/

Thanks a bundle for the review! It saved me the money!
And thank you PIERCED6966 for the name of a free version.

First, thanks for excellent review, I had an Ashampooo email too.
Second, I have used the free WINAMP for a while, and it DOES have some VID/TV feeds (not many good/active ones) – but it sounds like it may be on a par with the other “cheap” offers like the ones selling for $15 or so. At least it is free (and the music feeds and player are good).
THIRD: HUGH JORGAN – do you REALLY beleive you have won an African Lottery – or is this just a wind-up?? If you REALLY beleive you need to send “tax money” – “admin fees” etc – STOP NOW and use your brain. Please GOOGLE “advance fee fraud” – and save your cash – YOU HAVE BEEN DUPED. TD

Thanks a lot for this comprehensive review. I was tempted to buy, because i am living abroad an wanted to watch national television among some other channels. However, now i am convinced not to spent this 30 dollars

I know that “if it sounds too good to be true it probably isn’t any good” but I was about to go for deal.
Thank you so much for taking the time and expense to examine and report on this product. I really do appreciate it.

Add me to the list of people who are gratefull for your review. I became suspicious when I asked a simple question re: money back gauruntee ( sorry ’bout the spelling) and the automated agent did not understand. Thanks!

Thanks for the review. I cut down to basic cable because tv was wasting too much of my time, but now I really miss CNN. I can’t find anywhere to watch it for free and wonder if this DTV4PC might work for me.

Matt I read that you wanted to record TV from your PC So go to the Hauppage Website

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr350.html. There you will find various ways you can set up your PC for TV. This DTV4PC is the biggest ripoff!! Don’t throw your money out.

Got mine from Factory Direct Deals (don’t know how I got on their list). Thanks for taking the time to review this product. Saved me $30 + S & H.

thank you for the info. you just saved me some money and alot of head anger. thank again milty.

Thanks for the comments. Sorry I did not read this before. It would have save me nearly forty dollars US. Nearly all channels listed are unavailable. Perhaps because I live in Jamaica and not in the US. I feel ripped off. I have just been scammed but I hope my comment will save others. The truth is that DTV4PC is not what it says. You will be greatly disappointed!

What a scam..why would you pay when you can just use http://www.freetube.us.tc – which lets you watch all those tv channels for free. No download, no bullshit.

These satellite tv programs are all scams – just check out the site I mentioned and you’ll see you can get it legally for free.

Thank all the poeple who commented on DTV4PC which appears
to be a scam

There are 2702 TV Channels available free without any special software
on your PC using wwiTV.com. Most are local TV’s of various countries,
and are usually not live, and very low band width, good enough for only a 2 x 3inch display.

Try them on: wwiTV.com

Thank you. You saved me $28.95. I was suspicious from the beginning. We are interested in watching german and french channels live. The company does not spell out any details about receiving foreign channels. I am glad I googled this company.

Thanks,

Las Vegas

This is why the PC is for internet and TV (plasma, LCD etc) was made to be watched (cable and satellite). for TV! At least it’s exercise to go from computer room to the living room.

Computer geeks (like me) should accept that as fact (at least for now) no DTV4PC has not cracked the code!

Thanks you saved me $50 they were trying to still from me….

THANKS A LOT….NOW I CAN GET THAT HAMSTER MY SON WANTED…INSTEAD OF WASTING MY MONEY!!!!! (he he)

WoW! Amazing..I am really glad i found this!! I was secs away from ordering! Thanks a billion

Thanks for saving me $30. I will just stick with my 12,000 programs available via Instant play with the Roku / Netflix Player… (If you are already a NetFlix member I recommend the $99 box for the instant streaming stuff since it does not increase your monthly fees at all…)

I just received that offer. Thank you soooo much for your very detailed review. I hope someone designs this type of software that really works.

Thanks also, filtered thru their add and figured it was BS. Appreciate the verification.

Thanks so very much for your review. I normally do not pay attention to spam. That one sneaked in my regular mail. I almost bit, but decided to see if there were any reviews. I found yours easy on a search. You saved me $30. Thanks again!!!!!

Thanks for the review. I got another choice to buy the software from http://www.1TVPC.com which is 29.99 for the premium TV plus free movies on demand. I have been using it for a while, then came across this article. You guys should have bought this software 1TVPC since it is different from 2 things:

1. Premium TV channels which are streamlined with third party platforms. Those channels are live and broadcast via Internet with peer 2 peer platform. It has Fox, ABC, HBO, ESPN, ESPN2, Spike, Scifi and even playboy.

2. It has FREE thousands of movies on demand. You may not believe it. The in theater movies are camcorder version. Those guys record movies in theater and then post it for users for free. I watched some interested movies like Batman for free which are more worthy than the price I paid.

I never tried out the DTVPC yet but this software is enough. I just love ESPN channel and Movies on demand. On Friday and Monday I got Wrestling on USA network and CW. That is all I want. I just shared some thoughts here. You can ask them for the channels you want, or if you need to clarify something. Their website is http://www.1TVPC.com

Thank you! I almost ordered this. I appreciate your review!

Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. You could save me 30 bucks.

Thank everyone. You just saved me $49.97. I can’t afford cable any more and am only getting little bits of news from web access on my cell phone and what comes in via the off-air antenna on my tv. i’m going to check out some of the sites suggested above. You all rock!

Isn’t the internet wonderful, you get the good, the bad and the ugly. I saved 30 dollars today. Lot’s of info to follow up on Thanks

I had visions of the “disconnection from Satellite.” I have a computer connected to my TV for internet access already. I knew if I looked for reviews I would find one that was informative. Laplink bundles it in a 6 program package for $49.95 if you respond in 48 hours.

The purpose of this product is to access 1000 channels. Is reads like the DirecTV, 568 channels Ad. I only watch about 7 channels for $59.95 a month. The other channels are useless also.

You reviewed the product without beating it to death. Seems like a pretty honest review so I will go with it.

Thanks for the heads up!

JUST REMEMBER the old saying if its sounds too good to be real then it is.

Thanks. I got an email this morning from leftmanque.net. I’ve gotten burned before, though, so I remembered “if it sounds to good to be true….” Before I bit I decided to do a search and I found this. Thank you so very much. You just saved me $50.00!!!

Hey Chris,

Thanks for such a comprehensive review about this software, which I got from Ashampoo via e-mail. The enticement was that it would only cost me a one off payment of $19.99, found you review via google and that save me the money.

My thanks also to the 2 people who posted links to free TV on internet, I have bookmarked them and will try them out later.

I got taken in – one of those, born every minute types I guess – but I still haven’t figured out how to download the application – on thier site the download button only asks you to purchase not download – Grrr – serves me right.

I got taken in too. It’s a bit of rubbish. Save your money.

Thanks for this review…I almost bit, then did a little searching for more info.
I found several bogus ‘reviews’ of various programs that I found to be obvious advertisements for their respective program. It was refreshing to read a genuine review.

I’ve previously downloaded 2 FREE programs that seem similar…Livestation & TVU.

I ended up uninstalling TVU because of the no-name blahblah programming. There was no sort by category feature & I didn’t have the time to look through every station for something worthwhile. If you have the time, you may want to check TVU out though.

I’m keeping Livestation though. My local cable dropped G4 from its lineup. No longer able to see a japanese show on G4, I found it on Livestation…worth keeping…free access to that one channel.

If everything in life could be this easy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so!!!!!!!!!

It sounds like this outfit is offering what is free to all at:
http://wwitv.com/portal.htm

I just got one trying to refund my money through credit card, it is as you said scum and nothing but lode of rubbish never work, this was my biggest mistake I ever done .

Thank you for blogging this review! I was investigating whether on not this would be a useful product. I am effectively $30 wealthier and it’s partly your fault!

Great Review…

If you have cable, or can afford sattelite, this is still not an option. If you are living abroad, with no cable acces, this is definitly a way to survive.

I´m surprised some folks are calling this a SCAM (not talking about Chris, who did an excellent and judgmental-free review). This is no scam… It’s the beginning of the future. Of course, if you want to compare it to a almost 30 years of experience Cable industry, it still is no match, but believe me, this is the future and its getting better every day.

As I said before, for people like me who live in no-cable and no-dish service (the no-dish is refutable, you can always take a decoder to any part of the world, but you need very big dishes the farther south you go, and then there is a point that satellites are so down in the horizon that they are blocked by buildings and mountains…)

So, its not “the” solution to unplug your cable, but it is a way to get some TV. My big question is if this is the “best” or if there is something else (even if I have to pay) better that will enable me to watch normal US TV (you know, LOST, Desperate Housewives, Saturday night live, etc) ??

thanks for the infos, like you said there is not much information available on this company, especially by them lol! One day im sure tv will be all you can eat over the internet but its not quite there yet i guess. thanks again.

You did a great service taking the time to write this review. Their spam was quite tempting to bite at, but I found your review and this saved me some money.

thank you thank you. i wish there were more of you.to safegard us gullible lot.thanks for saveing me money.

thanks as always this DTV4pc was to good to be true. was not going to buy it but sounded interesting. peace

If you want a Great FREE product with TV watching try website http://www.hulu.com or even http://www.themediamall.com\playon , if you have a console like xbox or PS3 you can connect with playon and watch tv shows and movies right there. This product is a SCAM, low quality and thats only if you can connect to the channel.

As they say ..if it’s too good to be true..it’s fake. Saved myself $3o. I just decided to do a search on this item. So glad I did. …..

Great review. I have a question that I wonder if anyone can help me with..I am looking for a way to watch cricket on my computer. Are there any sports channels from India, Aussie or other cricket playing nations on the DTV 4 PC? I spent $30 to watch one series on Willow TV, but if I could get it on here or something similar I would be psyched.

Thanks

thanks for the review. I too am now $30 richer. Product seems like a great idea, and probably is the future of tv, but not just through this company.
thanks again for helping me save some cash

try joost …http://www.joost.com/home
offers much the same fare, but is FREE and lot of the frames / content quality is quite high……..(from the founders of SKYPE)

This is just a collection of video streams that one can get for free by just visiting the appropriate web sites. The software is buggy, loaded with glitches and I think it has some spyware although I’m not 100 % sure. The video quality is poor at best. Save your money. Just like some others have said, “if it sounds too good to be true then it probably is”.
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/361/RipOff0361980.htm

This program really sucked, and their guarantee is bull*****, I do hope that these frauds do get what they deserve, to bad I found out a little bit to late. But still thanks for the info.

Thanks for your info You just saved me 29 99 .

You just save me $29.99, Thanks for the info.

This program is pathetic!! Wish I had read all this before I bought it. It didnt’ take but a half hour to realize I had purchased crap! I played around on it a day and then tried to get a refund. I got no response. I tried again and again…..no response and never a refund. Bogus guaranttee and completely worthless product. You’d think there would be a way to report this company.

Well thanks to ypu guys ( and ladies) i will not buy this,
but this consept cant die, some one needs to make a real dtv 4 pc, one that streems at a higher rate and has a better full screen cappability,
i have my comp hooked to my big tv, i love it , watching movies, youtube and what not, i think they should just make a webpage that is like this, like a youtube site for tv, but the real prolbem is that it is not live, you should be able to watch it on your comp as good and well as you do on your tv,

but ageain i guess this program only applys to ppl who dont have cable and have dsl. (like me)

now im downloading this on i found on a sharing site, it is sadlite tv for pc elite, i found it for free so i figure its worth trying but im assuming it will be of the same quality

this good thing needs to work better, faster, free’r

Thanks a lot for the review. Indeed, you are saving people a lot of money. You know the saying, if it is too good to be true….

Thanks, I almost bit. Alex the comment before said it best, if it’s too good…

dgrjazz

This is a very good article with complete information. Thank you for spending the time reviewing this. It was very helpful.

Thanks, I was really considering buying it, because I am so tired of the price of cable, thanks for saving me 30.00 bucks

Thanks for the review. I got it free, as Christmas gift, and now I will not even bother to try it!

I kept getting emails about this offer although I can’t remember if they were all from the same source. But I would usually just press delete. I went to the site once and it did sound too good to be true so I never bothered with it. I got another email today from DigitalTV4PC_hk@itvinternetvwindow.com and decided to check the site out again. Since I have some extra cash and we just had a small dispute with our satellite service provider I thought why not give it a try. I told my husband about it and he said to first check online for some reviews and I found this site thank god. Now I usually the one who ALWAYS checks everything out online first and actually got him into the habit. But this time I think I was just frustrated and almost made a big mistake. Thanks a bunch. P.S. your descriptions of the channels is hilarous!

P.S.S. Just F.Y.I for what its worth when I clicked on unsubsribe in the email it went to a website called 3bsoftware.com.

Peace

Hi thanks for the opportunity to read all the above reviews. I also was almost taken in today Ashampoo (a company I have received decent software from in the past) they sent me an E.Mail re: this software…. it sounded so good I could hardly believe it The “hardly” part of me searched and found your and other reviews. I too will NOT be downloading this software AND I will be thinking AGAIN when I receive an ASHAMPOO E.Mail in the future….. so they too will be losing out on my custom for sending me such rubbish advice.. Ggreat review and lotsa v/good comments here. Jak

Not only did I bite but I bit the whole enchilada. $49 bucks to include the extra channels. Within 24 hours I was requesting a refund. They say they guarantee for 30 days. Don’t believe a word of it. This has got to be the worst company for communication. I have been requesting a refund every day since January 3rd and not one communication has been received from them. I am also getting spammed by their advertisements for the same program. Does anyone know if there is any legal means of getting your money back from one of these scams. I’d read this first. I thought I’d try it since it had a 30 day money back guarantee, but sorry I did.

Thanks
Great Job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your commentary is a true public service. I am a relatively unsophisticated user and almost bit.
Thanks again,
Ron

Chris, thanx for testing the waters for the rest of us — I was nowhere near ready to buy, and now am not even curious.

Best!

–A

Thanks for the review. I must admit, I almost bought but then quickly changed my mind. What did it for me was when I searched their website for a list of channels and could not find a list of their more than 1,000 channels they offer. Its a bad sign when a company won’t tell you exactly what they’re selling you.

I was turned off immediately when I went to their website and the chick started yapping. Glad I found your info. I got their ad on a free tv service site. The free site is much better than the b.s. they are trying to sell- channelsurfing.net Thanks for posting your review.

I was spammed with DTV4PC. But I decided to check it out because I was looking at it for an overseas friend who gets very little American TV. She is upset because she thought that since she had a computer, she would be able to access her favorite American TV Shows. I was going to reccomend that she try them. I’m not doing that now! Thank you for the heads up before I sent her a reccomendation for this. I would have felt pretty bad if she didn’t like it.

Excellent write up and details, I have been receiving this link form a few different sources for a while and it sounded interesting. I always do a lot of research before I spend my hard earned money and this is what I wanted to know, what exactly do you get.
I think I will save my money on this one.
Thanks

Thank you. I too was spammed by http://jharkhans.info/sorys?e=2Oj5T5v.vURr5eYY8TYj&m=82459&l=0. I did a search to see if it was legit and found your info right on top of the search. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. You’ve saved me time and possibly money.

When I saw their ad, I was suspicious from the start. I thought, I’ll bet they’re doing something pretty scammy but squeak by just under the wire of the law. So I looked for a review, and you not only confirmed what I suspected but I laughed at how pathetic it really was. Thanks for posting this info. It’s saved a lot of people money.

Thanks a lot for your review, especially in these trying times, every penny counts!

Thanx for the feedback. I wasn’t interested in purchasing, so much but I was so impressed with the offer that I was wanting to promote it become and “affiliate”. I’m glad you posted this it saved me a lot of time and wasted energy.

Thanks you so much. My daughter and I can’t afford cable and when I read this ad, I thought it was the answer to our prayers. Then I remembered the saying, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” Just as some of your other posters mentioned, I too searched for a list of channels and hardly anything would show up. You saved us $30. Thanks again.

Has anyone purchased or used the latest version of this software? This DTV4PC review is years old and the recent comments on here are not very helpful. Necie, you said you didn’t buy it but you searched for channels? How?

I found another review on this site yesterday too
http://www.moviestreamblog.com/2009/02/12/dtv4pc-review/

They are saying the software is much better now and they seem to like it. Can anyone else confirm this?

Thank you Thank you… for this review… uggg I nearly bit as well…
as a single mother of 5 the 30 bucks would have been all too wasted!! thank you again..

woohoo! thank so much for this review! i’m so tempted to hit “continue order” button but then again if found this useful review way to go!

thanks man u just saved me from the exact scam u have mentioned

Got spammed for sure by Ashampoo with this one. Was always suspicious of that company’s products and marketing style.When they started advertising their products as magical, I had enough and unsubscribed.Obviously have to do the same with Smithmicro.

Thanks mate, It just sounded to good to be true. Your review here has just saved and lot others precious time and money. Was almost tempted to order before i decided to google for some reviews. Thanks once again!

I just got screwed. this is one big scam and nothing can be done. That is why you have so many people taken advantage of this. Where is the FBI? I thought this would never happen to me.

Thanks very much for the info. Saved myself $30 and lots frustration. Thanks again from down under.

i love yu mmaaannnnnn!!!! we the public shud be smartr than this by now!weer waaaayyy to trusting.a lil synicism and skepticism is healthy.it keeps peepo honest.yu have saved thousands of peepo thousands of dollars cross the globe.hey maby if we had just sent it to YOU yood have enuff money to develope the software needed to solve this problm!hehehe keep up the gud work slim!cheers

I unfortunately purchased this farce, reviewed it and decided I didn’t want it. There is a request for a refund, which I filed and haven’t heard back yet. I also contacted my card company and told them about the false advertising part and they said I can have it removed from my account. It seems that is what I am going to do. I would suggest you all do the same. By the the way, all those add ons that ashampoo offers are 100% free downloads and they are trying to sell them. Good luck getting your money back!

As you can see the scam never stops. Thanks!!

I always scour the internet for reviews. The website looked like a good deal. The tip off for me is that there is no address or contact phone number for the company. A real company will have information and a return policy.
We use http://www.hulu.com and watch Lost and other series.
We gave the cable company ($90 per month) their walking papers.
We also installed a digital antennae on the roof ($100 at Best Buy) and added a digital box ($49) and get 30 local channels in HD.
Digital cable at 12meg from Cox is $44/month. We tried QWEST DSL at 2meg but it had to buffer often.
We are now on our 4th month of being (almost except for internet) cable free!

Thanks for spending the 30 bucks for this! I think you got your money’s worth. I’ll be saving mine thank you.

Thanks so much for saving me the money and frustration. I almost bought this! I knew it sounded too good to be true, though, so I googled for reviews and found yours. I suspect losing the $30 is the least of the problems downloading this junk would have caused me. I really appreciate your review.

Thank you. Two years after this blog was posted I also received an e-mail from them. I had purchased something similar in the past for $1.99. It was called BAmbi TV. It had a lot less channels, but it sounds the same. It was worth it for the kids- if you can’t afford cable. They had one cartoon channel and one early pre-school channel. Other than that a bunch of re-plays and channels that did not connect. If you want to watch some free movies try finding watch-movies.net.

One of my sites has a page where you can watch TV on your PC and I don’t charge a thing for U.S. Channels, UK Channels or Movie Channels. That site is http://www.exascape.com and no login required. It’s also available on another site http://ezcooking.ning.com or my forum at http://www.exascape.proboards75.com again, it’s free, but being a forum you’d have to join (for free). I didn’t buy the DTV4PC thing, but I’d be willing to bet it’s probably not much better than what I put together.

Thanks for the thorough info, Personally I think that all of the digital TV to pc companies are scammers. I got my email through Ashampoo.

I wish i had seen this review before purchasing it…. but i think you were a little to kind with the review, on my part i have been able to watch only 40%-50% of the programs that actually sound interesting because you cant connect and the program blames your firewall settings, the quality is poor, sound fairly good ….. its a rip off too good to be true

Hey, thanks! I was seconds away from buying when I decided to do a “review” google search. Now, if you could just get all of us who saved $30 to send you a dollar, you’d be as rich as that company!

check out this one……

Keep up the g00d work man!…

Almost bought it but then their automated “agent” tried to talk to me and wouldnt answer any of my questions. Na wont bother with this

Thank you for the review. I, too almost bought this. I was wary when I could not find a phone number for this co. anywhere. That was when I came across your review and customer comments. I am tired of cable prices and thought this might work. So, so glad I did not order this. I have Netflix, and at less than $19 a month, it is the best purchase ever.

Thanks for all the info was looking into it not anymore, thanks for saving my money for me! Be blessed!

I just got the ad in junk mailbox from 3B Software out of Arlington, TX. I’ve gotten shy of sending over the internet for stuff so I googled it. Thanks to all those who used their experiences to educated the rest of us!! These people are offering it for 29.99 and I admit the thought of reducing what I pay out to the cable people was tempting. I also thought of the Napster experience and wondered how long this would last. Thanks again to all for posting.

Here is a free alternative that works great. Try http://www.hulu.com -You do not actually get full Channels but rather rebroadcasts of programs from popular channels in USA. You do have to accept watching some commercials (but not a lot). Their search facility allows you to pull up whatever you want. There is more there than what you could watch in one lifetime.