RECOMMENDED: Live Station http://www.livestation.com/

Watch high quality TV and radio online

The Livestation player is a free, downloadable application that enables you to watch live TV and radio from the world's leading broadcasters, add your own and other's channels, chat and interact with your friends while watching.

Current player features include:

• Watch the world's leading broadcasters in high quality.
• Ability to add your favourite streams/channels to your player.
• Search and add viewer-added streams to your player.
• An easy to use, channel changing carousel.
• Chat to others, invite your friends to join in too. During the first US Presidential Candidate Debate, we hosted an instant live interactive discussion with Al Jazeera’s programme producers.
• What’s Hot, find out what other Livestation viewers are watching.
• Breaking news alerting system allowing you to receive desktop alerts from your favourite channels even when you are not watching.
• Channel selection and programme guide.
• Programme information overlay.
• Ability to scale player window from 50% to 200%.
• Full screen playback option.
• Always on top window setting.
• Volume control and mute.

Other functions, including support for subtitles and audio description, and many other interactive features, will be added in future releases.

Main system requirements:

• Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Vista, Apple Mac OSX and Linux
• Internet Explorer 6+ (Windows only)
• 1 Ghz processor
• 256 MB of memory
• A network of at least 800 kbps