Russian TV on a PC?

[groovlstk]

Hi all,

My fiancee would really love to watch Russian TV programs when she arrives here. Unfortunately I don't have the option of changing my cable plan to a satellite dish, and my current digital cable, despite offering channels in Vietnamese, Indian, and many more languages, doesn't have a Russian channel.

Does anyone have any experience with watching Russian TV on a computer through broadband?

[ccarten]

My wife has probably found a dozen of them and tried them.  What do you want to know about them?  We have Comcast cable internet running at about 6mps, so speed is not an issue with us. 

She has found them from free to $40.00 per month.  Depends on what you are looking for.  I have gone as far as connecting a laptop to the TV and watch it that way.

My wife's parents are almost always here watching our 18 month old, so they watch Russian TV on the Internet pretty much every day.

Clay
ccarten@comcast.net

[catzenmouse]

Elena uses this quite often. http://www.corbina.tv/

It's a freebie.

Clay, Would you mind posting the options you have found. We'd be very interested too!

Ken

[ccarten]

Some of the ones my wife recommends are:

http://www.memocast.com/ is a free one.

http://worldstreamtv.com/web/ is $16.00 per month, has TV, radio, ability of record to watch later.  This is the one her parents are currently using.

www.jumptv.com offers stations from all around the world, except the US.  You pay for packages.

http://www.etvnet.ca/ is one of the more expensive ones ($40.00 per month), but is VOD, can watch series, movies, etc, from beginning to end, pause whenever you want.

Clay & Tanya

[groovlstk]

Thanks for all the good info. Any idea on getting a broadband broadcast of the insipid Russian reality program DOM 2? It's one of my fiancee's guilty pleasures, but we haven't been able to find it online, yet.

[START2]

Groov,
 My wife is a Dom Dva fan too. Where we live all she is able to do is get on line to read it. Everyday has the new episode. BTW, Welcome back.

[jb]

Here I signed up for,  http://inklineglobal.com/index_noflash.html

A one time charge of $29.99 for the software and TV from everywhere.  I think there are 15 or 16 Russian channels.

[Michelangelo]

JB~ Do you also use DirectTV or Dish?  Or is the internet TV good enough?

[jb]

The wife watches very little Russian TV, the PC for Russian stuff works well for us.  Mostly she watches American cable TV, very often with the subtitles turned on so she doesn't miss something subtle.  The link I posted above will cost $29.00 initially for the software, after that it's all free.  But Russia doesn't broadcast that many channels anyway.  It's a crapshoot.