It’s enough to start a small TV Player (about 10 Mb) in order to enter into hundreds of different channels.

TV Player set up

It’s enough to download the small Viviplayer and start it. This program is compatible with Windows, but it needs:

• Windows XP or Win 2000 (equipe with SP2)
• Source processor 300 MHz
• a 128 MB RAM
• 10 MB free room
• DSL Internet connection with at least 512 kbit/s up and downstream
• Windows Media Player 9 or 10

TVKoo interface

The channels list is in the down right position column, listed for their kind (and not for their nationality). Particularly we can find there:

• Cable TV Channels
• Cartoon
• Hot Movie
• Integrative Channels
• Music
• Opera
• Other TV & Movie Channels
• Test
• TV Shows

When you open the category menu you can enter into channels:

• If you click once you’ll be shown the preview on the little up right position screen;
• With a double click you can connect to the channel that will be then visualized in the central principal area.

For European and American users it is also available the English web control of channels, but sometimes entering the site is quite troublesome.

Not just sport on TVKoo

What can we find on TVKoo channels? Many things. A part from the famous CCTV (also available on PPLive), Chinese channels are famous in Italy  for the cases coolstreaming and calciolibero.com, as they provided links to live streaming of Italian championship football matches. You can also find other ones that broadcast the main world football matches and others important sport events.

Take care..

Even if the official site tries to reassure you about TV Player safety, you must pay attention that during TVKoo tests we found several times some malware (virus) in those web pages used for all channels lists visualization. Therefore, even if the application is a safe one, it can be dangerous anyway as it uses as sources virus or malware infected web pages.

We still don’t know if this one is a momentary situation or not. So, be careful!

This software is supplied in 2 languages, Chinese and English, even if some texts such as the name of some channels are not translated from Chinese in the English version.

Many of the sport events in Italy are paid for, can be watched for free on the channels provided by PPLive as well as sport events of others countries.

These channels obviously have the broadcasting rights in their own geographical jurisdiction but, clearly enough, in internet borders and geography do not mean much. Thus, by sending the streaming signal in the network, everybody can follow these events.

How it works

The PPLive set up file has a size of 5 Mb; once installed the programme icon appears on Windows taskbar. By double-clicking it, a small interface is open, with the video on the left side and a list of channels, many of which with indecipherable names, on the right.

In order to open a channel, one has just to double-click on its name, wait for PPlive to connect to the streaming and preload, and the video will start.

We tested some of them and, honestly, have been struck by the image quality, considering that the signal is a streaming via internet and underlining anyway that, in order to get a satisfying image quality, it would be better to support a streaming of at least 300k, that is to have a good connection supported by a good modem.

Channels and events

Obviously many, most of the channels are Chinese or from East Asia, but some of them have the rights to broadcast events which here are charged and, anyway, also programmes in many other languages are provided.