Saturday, October 29, 2011

Android TV App 3 - Watch Live News, Music, Sport, Movies, Business, Entertainment, Kids And Educational TV Channels

This is a live TV App for Android with large collection of TV channels from different countries and languages. This app has high definition TV channels and you may love the kind of video quality you would experience with this Android TV App. With this TV app installed on your Android phone, you would be able to watch live TV shows from every corner of the world, no matter where you are and what time it is.

This is the third of the best TV Apps covered here. If you have not read about previous two wonderful and free TV Apps then you can read about them at - Android TV App 1 and Android TV App 2

Best Apps For Android TV theChanner
theChanner - An Android TV App  : This Android TV app not only comes with a wide range of free TV channels but it also comes with integrated social networking features. You can navigate and look for the TV channels by given language, alphabet, country or category. If that is not sufficient and you want some more then you can even search to find the TV channel that you are looking for. You can save your frequently viewed TV channels as favorite and can access those easily.

First Look At theChanner Android TV App : When you first launch theChanner app it prompts you with login / registration screen. It allows you to skip this step if you are very eager to go ahead and try the app first. Tap skip button to proceed using TV app or log-in by providing credentials. Next it will ask you to select your country for providing you channel suggestions. Select your country and proceed. This would display the first screen and one suggested TV channel would be played for you. It may take few seconds to start TV show depending on speed of you internet connection.

Android TV App theChanner - First Screen
Android TV App theChanner - First Screen
Top half of the screen shows you live TV channel while bottom half of the screen shows you social networking information, user ratings and other information. You can use the features from the bottom half of the screen to post messages to your favorite social networking sites. At top of this screen you would see the name of TV channel being played.

Live Android TV With Full Screen Mode : You can simply rotate screen shown in above screenshot to watch the same TV channel live in landscape mode. This automatically hides social networking features and whole screen is occupied by the live streaming of the TV show.

Android TV App - Live Streaming
Android TV App - Live Streaming
As you can see in screenshot above, whole screen is occupied by streaming of live TV show. You can see that picture quality of this app is very good. You would enjoy picture sharpness and sound quality as well. You can tap the screen at any point of time and it would display the user controls. Tap the stop user control to stop playing TV. Tap "next" or "previous" arrow user controls to watch the next or previous TV channel. This feature is very handy because you can switch TV channels directly on this screen using "next" and "previous" arrow controls. This is very similar to how people generally change channels on their TV.

Android TV App Menus : You can rotate your phone to switch back from full screen TV playing mode to the previously shown portrait mode. On portrait screen you can tap the TV screen to display app menus.

Android TV App - Menus
Android TV App - Menus
These menus are displayed in form of button overlays as shown in screenshot above. You can tap "Pause" button to stop playing TV channel. Tap "Info" button to see the information of the currently selected TV channel.

Tapping "previous" or "next" button would change the TV channel. You can read the name of  previous and next TV channel below these buttons.

One of the menus is "heart image with plus sign" on it. Tap this menu to add or remove current TV channel to your favorite list. You can see the list of your favorite channels by tapping just heart shaped menu which is labeled as "Favorites" menu.

Tap search menu and it would display search screen with text box. Enter the text in to text box for searching TV channels that you are looking for and tap magnifying glass icon next to it. This would display the list of matching TV channels.

Android TV App - Channel Listing By Language : Tapping "TV List" menu icon displays the screen where channels are grouped by language, country, category etc. Various grouping terms are displayed as tabs at top of this screen. Tap the language tab and it would display language list as shown below.

Android TV App - Channels By Language
Android TV App - Channels By Language
As you can see in screenshot above, there are TV channels grouped by various languages on this screen. You can select from English, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Creole, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Netherlands, Parsian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Valencian and Vietnamese.

Android TV App - Channel Listing By Country : Tapping the country tab displays the channel listing grouped by countries.

Android TV App - Channel Listing By Country
Android TV App - Channel Listing By Country
On this screen you would find almost every country name. Tap the name of the country and it will expand to display the TV channels for the country. Screenshot above is showing where "United States" is tapped and is expanded to show the TV Channels for US.

You would find here list of TV channels from "United States" and can select from 7News Boston, Bloomberg US, C-SPAN, Fox 11 LA, Fox 4 Dallas, Fox 5 New York,  Fox Chicago News, Miami TV Models, Smile of a Child, TV Scuba, TVKnob 7 FLX Movie, TVU Live, C-SPAN2, C-SPAN3, Fox 5 Washington DC, TVKnob 10 Lifestyle, TVKnob 5 Comedy, Cal Poly Pomona Classic Arts, Channels 125, JCTV, KTBS 3, Miami TV Life and Health, MNN 4, NASA TV Media Channel, NTDTV, TBN, Tele Miami, The Church Channel, TVKnob 4 Sports, Access Sarasota TV, CCM, Clark County TV Channel 4, Dakota Media Access Channel, Dunedin TV, ETCTV3, MNN 2, stpeteTV (WSPF), WEWS NewsChannel5, Miami TV, Mission Viejo TV, 17 Access Sacramento, AMGA, ATL 26, Catholic TV, CBN Espanol, CBN News, CBN TV, CBS News 2, Channel 27, Channel 77 Miami, City Cable 5, Connecticut Network, CSU TV 11, E2 Channel, Enlace Juvenil, EWTN, Fairfax Channel 16, Fort Myers CFM-TV, Fox 6 Alabama, GBN TV, GMU-TV, Greek Voice (WZRA-48), HCGB Channel 622, HSNtv LIVE, HTV Hillsborough County, KAMU-TV, KBSV TV, KCLV Channel2, LA CityView 35, LA36, MNN 3, NASA TV Education Channel, News 4 jax, OCTDC 13, OCTDC 16, Olelo Focus 49, PCMA TV199, SFGTV2, Superchannel WACX, TCT, The Healing Channel, The Word Network, TubTub, TV33 WHPR, TVKnob 11 World, TVKnob 12 Business, TVKnob 3 Music, TVKnob 6 PTTV, TVKnob 9 Education, Watchmen - WBPI-TV 49, WBAY Weather, White Spring TV and WTAP Weather.

You can see there is large list of TV channels from United States. You would find similar collection of channels for other countries as well. This should give you an idea about how large is collection of TV channels available with this Android TV app.

Android TV App - Channel Listing By Category : Tap the category tab to see the list of categories by which TV channels are grouped and can be accessed.

Android TV App - Channel Listing By Category
Android TV App - Channel Listing By Category
As shown in screenshot above there are various categories by which you can access the various TV channels quickly. Tap the category to see the channels for it. You can select from Art/Culture, Business/Financial, Cartoons/Children, Education, Entertainment, Games, General, Leisure, Lifestyle, Movies/Films, Music, News, Politics, Science, Sports and Weather. Above screenshot is showing channels for Business/Financials.

You can download this TV app from Android market and start enjoying live TV on your Android phone. As mentioned earlier this is the third of the best TV Apps covered here. You can read about previous two wonderful and free TV Apps at - Android TV App 1 and Android TV App 2

If you like this post then you may would like to read about more such exciting and wonderful Android apps here in earlier posts. Bookmark this url and keep coming back to find and read about more such coolest and best apps for Android.

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