Free Internet TV

A quick update to tell you how to get free cable tv streaming from the internet onto your TV.
This relevant to me because I want to watch The Daily Show live election coverage (you can also watch complete shows on the website) and we don't get Comedy Central here in the sandpit.
First your going to need the Tvu player which is a Peer to Peer (P2P) app for tv, very similar to Joost used to be before it became a solely web based app.

One thing to be aware of is that when you close the player it will still be open in your system tray using up bandwidth, so remember to right click and exit from the system tray icon.

So now you have the app installed fire it up and select a channel, you will see the "signal strength" indicator, hopefully it will be nearly full, the channel should start playing.

Now for me to get it onto the tv, I simply ftp to XBMC/UserData/playlists/video on my xbox media centre (which is also now available on OSx, Linux and Windows and by far the best media centre ever, more on that later).
Create a new text file tvuplayer.strm with the IP address of the PC running the tvu player and the port 8901, it looks like this : http://192.168.254.4:8901 , making sure the file saves as a .strm file not strm.txt .
Make sure you allow the tvu player to get through your firewall and you should have a picture and synchronised sound, its not exactly HD quality but hay its free :)