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SopCast 3.2.9

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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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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.

 
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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.

What's new in this version:

Version 3.2.9 fixes a bug that crashes browser when playing H.264 channel.

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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"

    by stiklus on August 13, 2010

    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
    I. Violation of the Constitution and other administrative laws and regulations

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  • 4 stars

    Version: SopCast 3.2.9

    "found very helpfull"

    by dave57251 on August 9, 2010

    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"

    by JoseUSA on July 18, 2010

    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"

    by leighsydneychina on June 16, 2010

    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"

    by ALI10121974 on June 9, 2010

    Pros: SIMPLICITY USE

    Cons: LITTLE channels

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  • 4 stars

    Version: SopCast 3.2.9

    "easy to use"

    by ronjean.hilditch on April 1, 2010

    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"

    by torpeykevin on March 27, 2010

    Pros: its great for sport

    Cons: i do not dislike it

    Summary: I like wacthing sport on my p,c

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