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Ok, first of all I need to clear a few things up.
This has nothing to do with Sky in any way. You are not watching Sky Sports or indeed any available UK channel so when you see adverts on eBay or anywhere else offering such a service, they are telling you a lie or breaking the law (if someone is actually streaming from the Sky feed).
Normally these services are on offer for a fee - such as £2 per match or £6.99 for a full season.
What you are paying for is normally a link to a website that is streaming the match and the quality is appalling.
Here is how to get live football matches on your PC for absolutely nothing and it is completely legal. I posted up how to do this earlier in the week but it appeared that the thread I responded to was simply just someone spamming Betfair members and the thread was rightly pulled.
I hope this thread isn't pulled as there is no reason why it should be - the sole aim is to help fellow forum members watch live football who don't have access to Sky or they want to watch a match not covered by Sky or terrestrial tv.
You need a program called "ppStream". This program acts as a gateway to the broadcasts and I'll explain how it works in a moment.
You have to go to -
http://www.ppstream.com/bin/ppstreamsetup.exe - this will download the program - which is totally safe from spyware etc. - and you must install the software. Once it has been installed all you need to do is open it and a little icon will appear in your tray next to your PC clock in the bottom right of your screen. The program is Chinese as are the broadcasts, so if that's a problem for you - you can always listen to the radio.
When the program opens, you'll see a list on the left hand side, this is the available channels, but as they are in Chinese and your PC isn't, all you'll see is complicated looking symbols. Don't worry, it is fairly straight-forward.
The channels that show football are as follows -
GUANDONG SPORTS - shows live Premiership football matches on a Saturday/Sunday/Midweek and this is the channel in your list that looks like - ¹ã«ÌåÓý - you'll see it no problem.
ESPN - Shows live Premiership games as above but with English commentary, however the quality isn't as good as Guandong Sports. It looks like - ÉÂÎ÷ÌåÓý - on your list of channels.
Star Sports - Shows all sorts of live sport including tennis from the ATP tour, athletics, boxing (including World Title fights from all over the world) and the channel looks like - ÎÀÊÓÌåÓýÌ - or StarSports - it depends and changes sometimes between the two. This channel is in English.
Goal TV 1 - Broadcasts Man Utd TV, Live French League, Live SPL matches and can be found under - GoalTV1
Goal Tv 2 - Broadcasts Chelsea TV, Live French League, Live SPL matches and can be found under - GoalTV2
CCTV5 - Shows Live Bundesliga on a Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon. International matches and various matches from all over the world - can be found under - CCTV5
All you have to do is double click on the channel name and it will open automatically - you need to have Windows Media Player for it to run. To watch full-screen all you need to do is double click on the screen. It works best (obviously) with broadband and 1mb is fine. You have to give it a minute or two to load up and once the feed begins, it will stutter for about 20 seconds but just give it time to settle and it will run perfectly with no buffering or stuttering.
The quality is superb.
I hope this helps those who want to watch live football and at least you won't have to pay anyone anything for the privilege.
At this moment on Goal Tv 2, I'm watching Spurs v Chelsea!
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