Live TV on your PC

 Zattoo lets you watch real TV on your PC. Real TV, as in live TV from major channels in Europe just like on cable or satellite or even over the air. Channels like CNN, EuroNews, MTV (in German) and France2.

How the heck can they do that? Zattoo retransmits live TV channels via licensing agreements for each country they launch in. Right now the majority of the channels are German, followed by Spanish, French, English and Polish. They have one Arabic channel, Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English. In March, they added BBC Alba, the Gaelic channel which is a digital TV channel broadcasting Gaelic programming daily from 17:00-23:30, in case you want to brush up on your Gaelic.

Zattoo carries more than 200 channels, but due to geographical content licensing issues that dominate the TV and content landscape today, they can't show all channels in all geographies. Zattoo is free, all you have to do is download the player and if it is available in your country (currently not Italy), you can start watching right away.

An estimated 80% of Zattoo’s eight million registered viewers already have TV from cable, satellite or over the air. Zattoo serves as a second screen when those viewers are not in the living room or when the TV is already in use, as well as when users are multi-tasking on their PC or commuting to/from work.