TVUnetworks
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| TVUnetworks | |
| Type of Company | Private |
|---|---|
| Founded | unknown |
| Headquarters | Shanghai, China (based) and Deleware, USA (incorportated)]] |
| Key people | Paul Shen, Chief Executive Officer [1] |
| Industry | Computer software Publishing Peer to peer |
| Products | TVUplayer |
| Website | tvunetworks.com |
TVUnetworks is an Internet-based P2PTV company based in China. The software they produce is called TVUPlayer, which uses peer-to-peer technology to distribute TV stations from around the world [1].
The legality of this application is not known. As the list below suggests, there are a number of channels carried by this software which could breach copyright laws. TVUnetworks claims that because they broadcast the commercials with the content they show, that their player is within the copyright rules. However most companies that have channels that are featured on TVUplayer have demanded to be removed from the player because TVU is not allowed to show their content without their permission.
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[edit] Channels
[edit] Sports
- ESPN (US) (currently down)
- ESPN2 (US) (check the website[1])
- ESPN (Asia) (currently down)
- Star Sports
- CCTV-5 (China)
- NBA TV (check the website[2])
- O-TSN (rebroadcasts various US games and soccer games on some weekends)[3]
- CSTV
- Telecapri (Italy)
- WCSN
[edit] American
- FOX - KTVU Channel 2
- NBC - KNTV Channel 11
- CBS - KPIX-TV
- Comedy Central (Pacific)
- NASA TV
- Nickelodeon (Pacific)
- Telemundo (Spanish)
- The CW - 23 WNLO
- USA Network (Pacific)
- NBC - WMTV 15
- FOX - WTTG 5
[edit] Other Countries
- DW-TV (Germany)
- CCTV-1 (China)
- CCTV-4 (China)
- Hunan TV (China)
- Network Ten - TEN-10 (Australia) (Down until 15th December)
- CTI TV (Taiwan)
- HuaYu TV (Hong Kong)
- Phoenix Television (Hong Kong)
- Xing Kong (Hong Kong)
- Xin Zhi (Hong Kong)
[edit] News
- Bloomberg
- Class News (Italy)
- Fox News
- MSNBC
- NBC Weather Plus
- Sky News
- CTI News (Taiwan)
- Phoenix Infonews (Hong Kong)
- CBN (China)
[edit] Movie
- Hollywood
- CCTV-8 (China)
[edit] Lifestyle
- Fashion (China)
[edit] Music
- Channel V
- E-Music (Harik)
[edit] TVUplayer
TVUplayer seems to be partly based on VLC media player but does not refer to either the GPL or to the VideoLAN Team, making it an illegal use of open source software:
- 110 of the 111 files present in the /plugins folder are taken from VLC media player 0.8.4a for Windows.
- libtrivial_channel_mixer_plugin.dll present in the plugins folder is probably taken from a nightly build of version 0.8.6 of VLC media player.
- activex1.dll in the activex/ directory is probably taken from a nightly build of version 0.8.6 of VLC media player.
[edit] Version
- Stable Version V2.3.0 (Released Date: Nov. 17, 2006)
- Beta Version V2.2.1 Beta30 (Released Date: Nov. 2006)
- Beta Version V2.2.1 Beta23 (Released Date: Oct. 2006)
- Beta Version V2.2.1 Beta21 (Released Date: Sep. 2006)
- Stable Version V2.2.0 (Released Date: Aug. 2006)
- Old Version V1.5.12 Beta
[edit] System Requirements
- Windows XP or 2000 with Windows Media Player 9,10 or 11 and Internet Explorer 6 or 7.
