Reviews of ChrisTV Lite

1. 
   sn0wflake

   Reviewing 5.40 (Aug 11, 2009)

   henrypeck: Couldn't agree more. Version 5.10 works fine with my Hauppauge PVR 350.
2. 
   henrypeck

   Reviewing 5.40 (Aug 11, 2009)

   Went from something interesting to pure garbage
3. 
   Jtaylor83

   Reviewing 5.35 (Jun 16, 2009)

   Piece of Trojan/Adware/Ransomware. After the trial, you lose control of your PC until you pay the amount in euros. Smells like this adware was bundled with a payment system similar to MediaPipe (a piece of trojanware that Movieland/Moviepass/Muvipaz/Popcorn uses). For the love of God, this is NOT Freeware. It's Ransomware and it's adware.
   
   Do not download this crap or you will end up formatting your hard drive and reinstall Windows from scratch.
4. 
   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.
5. 
   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.

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