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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2000/XP/2003/7
- Date added: March 23, 2010
- Total Downloads: 3,388,991
- Downloads last week: 22,074
- Product Ranking: #9 in Video Players
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 84 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on February 27, 2009
Combining media broadcast channels and media distribution under one roof, SopCast is a lightweight way to check up on streaming video that comes from sources of a possibly dubious nature.
There are three main components to the program. Live Channels are streaming television channels mostly from China, Japan, and Korea. VoD Channels are videos-on-demand, and MyServer lets you broadcast media from their computers to other SopCast users. We couldn't get the VoD options to work, but the Live Channels pulled in cartoons from China, sports from Europe, and music videos from Brazil. You can add channels to a favorites list, adjust the screen size, and more. However, refresh rates were slow, and video playback often froze.
Users can log in anonymously, or create an account--which is required to distribute your own content. Although SopCast can be fun, stability issues and the limited broadcast channels might keep it from reaching a wider audience.
Publisher's description
From SopCast:SopCast is a simple, free way to broadcast video and audio or watch the video and listen to radio on the Internet. Adopting P2P (Peer-to-Peer) technology, it is very efficient and easy to use. Let anyone become a broadcaster without the costs of a powerful server and vast bandwidth. You can build your own TV stations comparable with large commercial sites with minimal resources.
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- All versions: 3.6 starsout of 84 votes
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- Current version: 3.4 starsout of 7 votes
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2 stars
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: SopCast 3.2.9
"Loyalty Oath in User Agreement"
Pros: It's free, and you don't have to sign up to be a user unless you want to broadcast. Considering the Users Agreement, I imagine that most users don't sign up.
Cons: THe User Agreement has what amounts to an Oath of Loyalty to the People's Republic of China.
Summary: The first point in SopCast's User Agreement amounts to an loath of loyalty to the People's Republic of China.
1. The channels content showed in Sopcast are all from the Internet. Registered users must not broadcast any content which is harmful to PRC. security, or disclose the country secrets, or offend the country, public or other civil legal rights and interests, including:
A. Inciting resistance, destruction of the PRC Constitution and the laws, administrative regulations implementation.
B. Inciting subversion of state power, overthrow the socialist system
C. Inciting splitting the country and undermines national unity
D. Incitement of ethnic hatred or ethnic discrimination, or that undermines national unity
E. Fabrication or distortion of facts, spreading rumors, disturbs social order
F. Publicized feudal superstition, obscenity, pornography, gambling, violence, murder, terrorism, abetting crime
G. Openly insulting other people or fabricating stories to slander others, or other malicious attacks
H. Damage the credibility of state organs
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4 stars
Version: SopCast 3.2.9
"found very helpfull"
Pros: it does whot it says on the tin
Cons: none so far
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4 stars
Version: SopCast 3.2.9
"Good but comes with a backdoor.trojan"
Pros: Very good to play and streaming videos.
Cons: Becareful with Ask.com. It with change you homepage and a backdoor.trojan. Must scan you PC with an anti-virus or spyware after download it.
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2 stars
Version: SopCast 3.2.9
"was good, now nothing"
Pros: It enables me to watch channels that are not accessible in China where I am working.
Cons: I can no longer access it. For some reason now it is always the same.
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4 stars
Version: SopCast 3.2.9
"SOPCAST 3.2.9 IS ONE OF THE PISTBEST programS"
Pros: SIMPLICITY USE
Cons: LITTLE channels
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4 stars
Version: SopCast 3.2.9
"easy to use"
Pros: best on the market when broadcasting
Cons: not always the game you want to watch is being advertised
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4 stars
Version: SopCast 3.2.9
"very very good"
Pros: its great for sport
Cons: i do not dislike it
Summary: I like wacthing sport on my p,c
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