My wife, Judy, and I are residents of Minnesota, but from mid-October to Mid-April, we’re snowbirds who travel in our motor home around whatever southern region of the U.S. strikes our fancy that particular year. It’s a fun lifestyle that fits our independent, free-spirited natures well, but like everything else, one that also is not without “gotchas” from time to time. We had an opportunity to face one such challenge recently, and this is how we overcame it.

When you travel around in your Recreation Vehicle (RV) a lot like we do, one of the things you don’t get to take Tadacip with you wherever you go that you get rather attached to, while at your permanent home, is your local television programming. We do subscribe to a satellite television service, and yes, the vast majority of the television feeds that are available via cable or satellite or broadband services are available to us whether we’re on the road or at our Minnesota lake home.

But over the past several years, consistently receiving free public broadcast signals with sufficient quality such that you can reasonably enjoy watching the programming, well, that is another matter. Early on you could subscribe to your local network programming and have the signals beamed to you along with all the other satellite services you were buying. Then, technology advancements and local area programming expansions led to restrictions and limitations on who could receive what. In effect, satellite “broadcasting” became “spot casting.”

Then, executive branch regulators and elected legislators, influenced by special interests, combined to place even more restrictions on the public. They redefined even more narrowly who could qualify to receive local and national network programming from their satellite service provider, and who had to do as best they could with whatever signals there may be floating about in the nearby airspace that they could pick up on an antenna.

But even that wasn’t enough, essentially declaring that any American foolish enough to travel in their RV or to choose to live farther than maybe 60 miles from a signal tower must be satisfied with watching their favorite public broadcast TV programs complimented by whatever degree of wavy and snowy interference there may be accompanying them. Oh no, it was agreed by these illustrious leaders that, rather than force these folks to watch their intermittent analog TV transmissions, transitioning to digital signals would be better yet, as then they wouldn’t get anything at all!

Now, you may think that the preceding discourse is a bit over-exaggerated, but really, not all that much! When TV stations transmitted their signals using analog technology, the signals could travel maybe 100 miles, deteriorating over the last 50 miles before disappearing altogether. Those on the outer reaches would get quite frustrated, to be sure, but they did get some reception. With digital technology, the realistic distance for viewing is perhaps 60 miles, and it’s either all or nothing. Furthermore, analog signals can bend some – over, under and around obstacles. Digital signals, however, don’t fare so well when they smack against such things as mountains, hills, buildings and trees.

Well, to shorten my tale, this snowbird season has been a particularly trying one for us. Consistently receiving digital signals transmitting major network and local programming over the air has been very difficult to achieve. Then, this past week, it became impossible. Enough is enough.

I began seeking other options in earnest.

One in particular quickly arose to be the leading contender, watching TV on a PC, or laptop, or through one or the other, on a bigger screen TV.

Before investigating positives and negatives further, however, I needed to establish the legality of the option in the first place. To start that off, I did a quick search of Google and found that there were nearly 62 million results returned for the keyword phrase, not what you’d expect to find if it was illegal. Second, Google was happily accepting Adsense ads and payments which, again, is not what you’d expect if it was illegal.

Next, while shopping for a new laptop at Best Buy, I noticed every brand and model I looked at running Microsoft’s Window 7 included some upgradeable TV watching capability. Same for the Macs running the latest OS X version. How likely do you think that would be if it was illegal?

Last, I looked to see what some sellers of these types of products and services had to say about their legality. The responses were essentially the same: 1) It is 100% legal, 2) No illegal satellite or TV descramblers, 3) no illegal software is ever used, and 4) no illegal downloads.

The main drawback that I found was that a broadband cable/DSL internet connection with 128K minimum speed is recommended for receiving optimum performance. However, it does work on a 56K dial up connection as well. You just need to wait longer for the TV channels to buffer, or download.

The Levitra advantages that I found, on the other hand, were many. Being able to watch TV on your PC or laptop seems to be especially ideal if you:

1) Travel a lot, are on the go, or are on vacation;

2) Do not have access to cable or satellite TV in your area;

3} Want to see some great programming that your current TV provider doesn’t offer;

4) Want TV channels from all over the world in many different languages;

5) Want an alternative to your cable or satellite TV service; or

6) Just want to SAVE MONEY what does viagra do to men from the high cost of cable and satellite TV service.

Whatever your motivations may be, it definitely is worth your taking a more serious look into it. I invite you to go and watch the video review of “Watch TV on PC” that I have posted on our website and blog and decide if it is a good choice for you, too!`

Author Bio: James Nelson has accumulated almost 40 years of successful business experience, and much of it has been based on the maxim, “Do what you do do well, then find others who can do the rest best!” You can learn more about “Watch TV on PC” on their website and blog at http://www.jujamvideoreview.com/watchtvonpc.html . Mr. Nelson is currently President of JuJam Enterprises Incorporated.

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