| The first thing to understand about Satellite TV | | | | needed for most Satellite media players to work. |
| software packages is many of them include the | | | | Anyone can download the free Windows-based |
| merchant's specially designed, preloaded, hi-tech | | | | software and plugins which includes the Microsoft |
| Satellite media player. You know the ones merchants | | | | .Net Framework, WMP (Windows Media Player) and |
| claim they poured in $100,000s to develop. Well most | | | | Realplayer to name a few. The free media players |
| of them are only compatible to Windows-based and | | | | just mentioned all have special codecs needed to play |
| Vista computers and very few Satellite TV for | | | | video and audio media files or better known as |
| MACs. The reason for this is they are not standalone | | | | movies, music videos, etc. Therefore, this explains |
| software therefore they rely heavily on free | | | | why many of the top Satellite TV software and |
| independent licensed software that also contains | | | | most software on the market today don't offer |
| very important codecs. What this says is the latter is | | | | Satellite TV MAC software. |