The Satellite TV for PC Scam Exposed

The chat on Satellite TV for PC craze is alive and well in the internet forums. You may have done a search late at night while surfing the net and found a site offering this service for $49.95 (nothing more to buy! Unlimited movie and music downloads!) and promising you’ll get 3000 de-coded channels from around the globe free and forever on your PC - just pay them a small fee and download the software. And never pay a cent for satellite TV to Dish Network or DirecTV!

Satellite TV without a Dish?

The first realization that should smack you right in the forehead when understanding that technology is this: How do you think you are going to get a satellite TV signal through a piece of PC software — and with no dish?

Satellite TV on PC Forum Exposes the Scam

I hate to break it to you: satellite signals come from the sky. You need a dish to get them. Satellite TV for PC offers then, some using PCTV cards and others with software alone, is a scam.

Beware of Scam Sites

Some scams sites offering satellite TV on your PC actually try to provide some kind of a product, but all that is delivered is a streaming signal from a server, no doubt pirated and illegal, downloading to your PC through your broadband or cable connection. These sites force you to pay a subscription before they let you see the quality of the TV signal, or the channels they “carry”. The free satellite TV these scammers are providing is a GUI of links to archives and channels which are broadcast on the internet for free already.

The only real thing attempting satellite TV for PC capture is a geek toy, the Hauppauge 3000, a $250 unit for your PC that snags freeware analog cable and OTA broadcasts, or can hook up to a satellite dish or a proprietary satellite TV receiver from Dish Network or DirecTV in which the encrypted DVB-S digital satellite and DVB-T digital terrestrial signals has been properly de-scrambled…with your paid subscription service. So there you go.

Get the Real Deal…Much of it IS Free!

The alternative then, to the satellite TV on your PC scam, is to subscribe to the real deal. Get satellite viewing with a monthly subscription to either DIRECTV or DISH Network and use their proprietary satellite TV receiver box. But wait! Not only is it less expensive than you think, much of it IS free! Both companies offer outstanding sign up bonuses which include 2 or 3 months of service free with a year’s paid subscription, a free dish, a free top-quality TiVo or DVR receiver with remote controls, and free multi-room installation. That beats dishing out money for the satellite TV for PC scam circulating on the web.