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Zattoo

Use your broadband connection to watch live television with Zattoo

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Use your computer to watch television with Zattoo

Zattoo has developed a software program that allows you to watch TV on your computer. All you need is a broadband connection and a current operating system (Windows XP or Vista, Mac OS X or Linux). The service is legal and free of charge.

To watch live TV on your PC, go to Zattoo to use the web service or download the Zattoo Player, register, and get channel-surfing! If you run into any problems, take a look at our FAQ section.

Where can I use Zattoo?
Zattoo is available in Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK.

You can download the Zattoo Player for free and it also does not cost you anything to use Zattoo to watch TV.

Is Zattoo really legal?
Yes. Zattoo acquires the rights to retransmit the channels separately for each country we launch in. It takes a lot of legwork (read: flight miles and sizzling phone lines) to collect the necessary rights to transmit the channels.

Unlike the fast food world, the media world does not operate on a global basis, so if we acquire the rights to carry a French TV channel in Switzerland, for example, we do not automatically get the rights to carry it in France or Germany.

All of this does not deter us, of course. Chances are that we are talking to a broadcaster somewhere right now, as you are reading this. So stay tuned for more channels in Z-countries and a launch in countries that have not been put on Zattoo yet.

Reader Comments

Excellent!

I downloaded this superb piece of kit and within 10 minutes I watched The World's Toughest Driving Test on BBC3 followed by the news headlines on BBC News 24.

Posted by Steve, 16 Mar 2010

Zattoo

Maybe it's just me, but I have never seen the point in having tv on my pc when I have a television downstairs!

Posted by Steve Hamilton, 26 Mar 2010

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