Reviews of ChrisTV Lite

1. 
   fbischoff

   Reviewing 5.30 (Mar 7, 2009)

   Chris TV contains Trojan Horse relevantknowledge. It installs anyhow, It does not uninstall. It starts a local proxy to monitor and redirect your internet traffic. It may do more evil things. It restarts automatically whenever you kill the process. I hope renaming the c:\Program Files\RelevantKnowledge directory will get rid of it.
2. 
   Morningdove

   Reviewing 5.30 (Feb 26, 2009)

   The photo above is not ChrisTV Lite. The Lite version doesn't have a control panel. Settings are made from a context menu (right click) on the screen. After testing ChrisTV PVR I was quite surprised at the extent to which the Lite version has been crippled. I believe the Lite version of this program is intended only as a "come on" for you to buy one of the pay versions since it has been so extensively stripped of features.
   
   Feature wise, the KM Player and PVR are in the same ball park except for the cost. The downside is the KM Player doesn't have a TV setup wizard so it *will* take more effort to configure properly, but you *will* save $45 euro.
   
   ADDENDUM: I forgot to mention keyboard shortcuts are available for the common functions in addition to the context menu, but changing channels using the keyboard is frustrating. Active channels are placed consecutively in a list starting with number 1 and that is the number you enter, not the TV channel number. Since not all channels are active, the numbers won't agree. To watch channel 95 I have to type in 57. (I believe this is true of all ChrisTV versions.)
   
   ADDENDUM 2: Even after declining to install the Relevant Knowledge spyware, immediately after installation the rkverify.exe process was running in memory. After rebooting and restarting ChrisTV, the process was gone and the file could not located on the computer. I did, however, find it inside of the ChrisTV installation file in the RK folder. I seriously question why this file was running, if only one time, since RK was declined during installation. This would explain why some people are getting AV alerts when installing ChrisTV Lite.
   
   One final complaint: a "nag" line is annoyingly displayed across the top of the screen each time the program is started and remains there until the channel is changed.
   
   My rating of ChrisTV Lite is 0 stars.
3. 
   mtnsteve

   Reviewing 5.30 (Feb 16, 2009)

   Well that didn't go well.
   
   First it said I would have to update to a paid version because it did not have support for my TV Card with MPEG Hardware Uncoder (Hauppauger 150 card) then I got a screen from my Antivirus saying it was trying to install a Trojan, then it locked up. I also found it had installed a program called RelevantKnowledge, you can opt out but it's real easy to miss.
   
   I tried it on another computer. This time it installed, but I never could get a proper image. It had bands at the corner and bottom and I could not get the interface to show like it does in the picture (perhaps you have to pay for that?).
   
   Two systems, 3 TV cards. no luck. It may be me, but it's not worth my time any longer.
4. 
   HOT786SOHEL

   Reviewing 5.25 (Jan 12, 2009)

   good
5. 

   Reviewing 5.05 (Jun 28, 2007)

   Recently I was looking for a simple, free program that can display what's coming through my capture card, and I couldn't believe how hard it was to find one! There were some Windows Media Center clones, but they were complicated, and they wouldn't do a simple thing like just show me what's coming through my capture card. Then somehow I found ChrisTV Lite and my problem was solved!
   
   The viewer program that came with my capture card is junk, and it would crash and take the computer with it sometimes. I looked for open source alternatives, but came up basically empty-handed. Well, at least I found this freeware, even if it isn't open source. Another program I use, VirtualDub, is open source, and can display video from your capture card in capture mode, but it doesn't do a true fullscren (it still shows a border with some program functions). That's where ChrisTV comes in. I haven't tried the tuner on it, but for displaying my DVD player, VCR or video game system hooked up to my capture card, it works great and has a full screen mode that makes your monitor act just like a TV.
   
   ChrisTV Lite has a lot of features and it definitely works good enough to deserve a 5, especially for a free program! Please keep this free version going, and if you ever decide to stop it in any way, please make it open source so it can continue to be enjoyed and worked on!

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