Zattoo is a proprietary peer-to-peer Internet Protocol Television system ("P2PTV") with current focus on European channels, licensed content, and Digital Rights Management. It is developed by researchers and programmers based out of Ann Arbor, with corporate offices in San Francisco and Zurich. As of December 2006, the product is in public beta testing. The player is based on H.264 (FFmpeg), and is Mac OS X, Linux, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista compatible. It needs a minimum downstream bandwidth of 400 kbit/s on the client side. The service is currently restricted to Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom, but is expected to expand to other European countries, (with Austria, Belgium, and Poland being at the top of that list[2]) then to Canada and the USA while adding fee-based channels to its list. It is also designed to only allow specific audiences to watch specific channels, thanks to geolocation of the IP address assigned to the user's computer (hence the restriction to a few countries for the time being). This restriction prevents, in theory, British users from watching French channels. While BBC world is available to Swiss IP addresses, it is not available to British ones. Users located outside the intended market can however easily circumvent this restriction by re-routing their internet traffic to an IP address located in the unrestricted zone.… More Edit
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Did you create this app?| Website: | zattoo.com |
| Developer: | Zattoo Inc. |
| License: | Free |
| Version: | 3.2.5 |
| Rating: | Features: Interface: Performance: Price/value: Overall: |
| Usage: | 2 months, 1 week, 1 day, 14 hours, 42 minutes and 33 seconds |
| Usage since: | 05 May 2007 |
| Platform Usage: |
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(34%) |
Like greg before, i use TVCatchup first and foremost, however for the times when there are the occasional issue, with bandwidth, or downtime (few and far between) its good to have a backup, and in the UK, Zattoo is that backup. OK, not as as many channels, but what it does provide (in the UK at least) is HD of the Big 5 Terrestrial tV channels.. Which is nice, saves arguing with the Wife when she wants to watch whatever reality TV show is on this week..
A good idea but very simple and not very customisable. Also very poor performance on certain networks
I used it for a while until TVCatchUp came along with a larger UK channel selection. If Zattoo was to provide more UK based channels then I may use it more.
If you are to lazy to move your ass to the livingroom for zapping its great. :)
Mostly I just watch news with zattoo, cause its only one click away...
a very easy to use free tv player. You have access to many popular european TV stations and you can open a tv guide to look at
Great - even greater with the swiss High Quality Channels!
This is absolutely awesome for me as i live in a horrid Freeview area - Constantly dealing with the fatal screen freeze. So watching something important like BB or F1 becomes bearable using Zattoo. rarely buffers and the quality is good enough to forget that you are using a stream. overall top marks