Sunday, October 13, 2013

Watch Over 2500 Live TV Channels on your Mac

Lazy days, there’s nothing wrong with that, but how many times have you sat down to watch TV just for the sake of watching TV? Without a specific program in mind, even? Now, you’re already in front of the TV with a drink and a snack, surfing channels and trying to find ANYTHING interesting. A few hours later you come back down to earth, having just watched something absolutely mindless, only half-interesting, that you never would have cared about seeing under any other circumstances except for the fact that it was on.  It’s not the notion that this generation watches more TV than previous ones that is alarming, but rather it’s the fact that we’ll watch things simply because they are there. How many channels do you have access to? The average cable package is roughly fifty channels, give or take, which frankly isn’t enough these days to satisfy the diverse tastes we’ve all got. Most people are spending over a dollar a day for cable TV access, which doesn’t sound like much but it can add up very fast, especially when you simply aren’t getting the value you should be from cable companies. On the Internet, we all know how easy it is to find content that is specifically suited to our personal interests,  it’s practically flying off the screen at us, so why have we been so willing to settle for less when it comes to TV?




There’s a certain group of people who NEVER settle for less. They have expectations from their technology. These people are Macintosh users, but what does this have to do with TV? Well, it seems like a big part of Apple’s turnaround in recent years really started with the iPod. Apple brilliantly filled a need that existed in the marketplace for users to take control of their entertainment experiences. You don’t need to listen to the radio and hope that a couple songs you like just happen to come on when you have an entire library of music in the palm of your hand, right?. Again, what does this have to do with TV you may be wondering? There’s a new piece of software exclusively for Macs that brings together the Mac user’s yearning for a better way, and also offers a solution to the typical brain-drain that occurs when we sit watching garbage on TV for hours. MacTV Pro is an intuitive piece of software with an easy-to-use interface (Would you expect anything less on a Mac?) which allows users to tap into literally thousands of live TV channels from all around the world. If we were talking about a PC program, the feature list would likely stop right here. But we’re not talking about a PC program, we’re talking about Mac, where “good enough” simply isn’t good enough. With MacTV Pro, you have an incredible selection of channels and they have all been sorted into categories so it is easy to find something interesting to watch. Not only that, but you can make a list of your favorite channels for easy-access. MacTV Pro is also portable, unlike typical cable TV services that, not unlike a pet rock, just kind of sit there. If you have a Macbook, you can take MacTV Pro with you anywhere. You can watch TV laying in bed, on the bus, anywhere that you have Internet access. Thanks to wifi, the Internet is now a lot more accessible than cable TV, so MacTV Pro opens up a lot of doors to places where you can now enjoy live TV. Not only that, but it comes with instructions that will show you how to connect MacTV Pro to your television set, effectively replacing your need for cable TV all-together.

MacTV Pro has the style and functionality that the world has come to expect from anything relating to Apple. The one aspect of MacTV Pro that may catch die hard Mac users off-guard is the price tag, as they’re often used to paying a premium in order to get the best. MacTV Pro is a one-time purchase, not a monthly fee. The launch price of MacTV Pro was announced at less than the price of just one month of cable TV service, making this a smart choice for Mac users and yet another notch in the long list of things PC users wish they had.