How To Watch TV On Your Mac Computer For FREE
- Are you tired of wasting your time flipping from channel to channel?
- Are you tired of not getting enough sleep because you stayed up too late watching hgtv for no reason?
- Do you really only care about watching a few shows and the rest just fill you days with meaningless crap?
- Do commercial breaks make you forget what you were watching in the first place?
- Or do they even make you angry enough to shake your fist at the television like a senior to a cloud?
Don’t let primetime television schedules determine YOUR schedule! Once you learn how to watch tv on your mac computer you will never watch television the same way again.
Now there are lots of websites out there that offer streaming television shows, but I am a fan of a quality program that is not subject to poor bandwidth connections and choppy grainy low quality picture. That is why this tutorial will show you how to watch top quality television shows on your mac computer.
Here is what you will need to get started downloading television shows to your mac computer for FREE
First, you will need a Bit Torrent Client. These are programs that are free and are used to help you download large files. They work by taking pieces of the large files from many different peers and putting together a whole picture from many smaller parts.
The best torrent software for mac is Transmission. Transmission is fast, convenient, and looks good too. This is the only torrent application that displays real time download and upload information on a badge overtop the dock icon. This is pretty convenient as you can always keep a close eye on how fast your download is going.
Because Transmission sometimes doesn’t pick up all of the trackers you need a backup plan. I like to use Vuze when such a time arises. I rarely have to use this client but it works pretty well.
I would suggest downloading and installing Vuze first, then Transmission this way you will be able to make Transmission the default application for opening torrent files. You can always change this via other methods but this way is easiest for right now.
Once you have downloaded your Torrent Application you are ready to get started shopping for you favorite television shows online for FREE.
Right now my absolute favorite website for getting televisions shows on my computer is EZTV. You should bookmark this site right now as you will make this part of your morning routine in no time.
Once you visit EZTV you will see how simple is. EZTV lists the television shows by their air date. You can also type in the search field for your favorite program and it will display results for the entire season depending on if they are still available (which they almost always are).
Click on your television show of choice and it will download your torrent file which will automatically open Transmission. Transmission will present you with a menu that lists all of the files in the torrent. Usually it is just one file or sometimes several depending on the type of torrent file. You can uncheck any files that you don’t want to download and then click ok.
Your Torrent will take a little while to download depending on the speed of your internet connection and the amount of peers who are sharing the television show torrent. More popular shows will usually take less time to download. For example I like to download The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It usually only takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete the download. This show is popular, is only 20 minutes long, and I have a fast internet connection.
Once your show is finished downloading you will need to watch it. Most of the tv shows downloaded come in .avi format. Quicktime should be able to play these files. I have downloaded the free Perian extension for Quicktime which allows it to play a ton of different file formats.
I like Quicktime in that it is a slick interface that looks pretty good. It also has nice effects when resizing the window pane and other nice experience things that make you feel like you’re using fictional software in a movie. I’m not really sure why but I tend not to use Quicktime all that much for playing my video files.
My default program however is VLC Media Player which is a free media player that plays everything and anything. VLC looks pretty good on a mac, it’s butt ugly on Windows but does the trick and once you’re in full screen mode it doesn’t really matter anyway.
So in the morning before you head off to work do a quick check to see what shows you want to watch that night and have them download throughout the day. When you get home all you have to do is hook up your mac to your hdtv and start watching the shows like they were meant to be watched – without commercials! You can also just watch it on your regular screen but the hdtv option is a better experience.
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