TVUPlayer is a program that allows users to watch TV on the Internet. This utility offers a list with hundreds of channels, with programs in different languages and of different categories. The program's interface is available in Chinese, Japanese, English, Korean and Turkish, but the program itself shows channels in any language of the world. You can search the list of channels filtering items by category, or language, or just searching by a keyword. When you're viewing a channel, you switch it into full screen and set the volume. You will also see an indicator that displays the quality of the signal.
TVUPlayer will play an ad every time you change the channel you are watching. These ads are shown in the language of the country you are using the service from. Some of these ads even allow you to interact with them.
If you buy a subscription to the TVU service, you will be able to record live programs, which will be saved on the TVU servers and which you can watch whenever you want. This service costs 1.99 dollars a month.
v2.5 [Aug 31, 2011]
The new TVUPlayer automatically starts recording on any channel you watch. While watching a channel, you can:
- Pause (center button): this pauses the current program, allowing you to come back and continue watching later.
- Resume: When you're Paused, the center button changes to Play - click this to continue watching your program.
- Seek (horizontal scroll bar right under the video): Click on the Seek button and drag it left or right to go backwards and forwards within the program you're watching. For example, if you drag it all the way to the left, you'll be watching what was on when you first started the channel.
- Skip Backward (double arrow to the left of the Pause button): Clicking this button takes you backwards 1 minute in the current program.
- Skip Forward (double arrow to the right of the Pause button): Clicking this button takes you forward 1 minute in the current program.
The recording that the Pause/Resume functions create is temporary; if you change channels, stop the channel, or exit from the TVUPlayer, it's gone.
