Zenox Internet TV Player. Has anyone had any experience of these devices?
Are they any good?
Advice appreciated.

Peter

On Monday, November 14th, 2011, at 11:51:42h +0000, Peter asked:

Zenox Internet TV Player. Has anyone had any experience of these
devices? Are they any good?
Advice appreciated.

You may want to keep your eye on this forum thread for meaningful answers.

http://www.freak-search.COM/en/thread/6055370/zenox_internet_tv_player

On Monday, November 14th, 2011, at 11:51:42h +0000, Peter asked:

Zenox Internet TV Player. Has anyone had any experience of these
devices? Are they any good?

Incidentally have you asked yourself this question --

Why do I need to buy a USB device to do this, when
I could just run the software directly from the
hard drive?

Then when you have answered that question, think about whether
or not what is being sold is effectively a "scam" package for
the gullible.

http://www.mirrorreaderoffers.co.UK/item-pp-d4114/usb-internet-tv-and-radio-player/

peter wrote...

Zenox Internet TV Player. Has anyone had any experience of these devices?

An elderly neighbour bought a similarly advertised thing from a TV
shopping channel and asked me to install it for him. It was a total rip
off.
He paid £2.99 + £7.99 postage and for that he got a 512Mb USB memory
stick containing an absolutely dismal piece of software.
It was basically a just a listof links to online TV & radio stations
most of which were out of date and didn't work and some were unwatchable
poor quality rubbish being being illegally streamed from somewhere, the
player itself was useless.
All of the stations were already available just by going to the
broadcasters website.
I checked out the USB stick itself with USBDview from
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/usb_devices_view.html
and it was dog slow at reading/writing so wasn't even much use as an
overpriced memory stick, what a waste.
The old guy just wanted to watch the main UK channels anyway so I set
them up in his favourites and showed him how to use iPlayer etc.

Are they any good?
See above:-(

Any streaming TV/Radio player is only as good as its database of
stations.

For radio IMO the best is TapinRadio which has a huge categorised
station list and can record.
http://www.raimersoft.com/tapinradio.aspx

For TV my favourite is
JLC's Internet TV
http://www.jlc-software.com/?page=internet_tv.html
Not much experience with this, I use it for watching news channels now
and again, video plays in hte program itself or can be set to use your
local Media player.

--
Ken O'Meara
http://www.btinternet.com/~unsteadyken/