ReviewSaurus - The Techie Dino!

Question : Is your service completely free ? Do you even show paid streams to the users for free?

Answer : Our service is completely free, and also all the television channels which can be found on the website are free video streaming available to everyone on the internet. There are no paid channels, which we can't show due to copyright issues. All the channels can be found for free on various websites on the internet, for free. Our website aggregate and organize by category and gives the possibility to watch them much more easily. We also always provide a link to the broadcaster website in each page.
Streamick.com doesn’t broadcast or reply any video content (at the moment), all the video streams comes directly from the original broadcasters. Some of the channels that you might thought to be paid channels (like hbo or espn for istance) are streams which come from Asian (Chinese, Taiwanese) broadcasters. These broadcasters have obtained the rights to transmit these channels over the internet from the original network, but since the internet is worldwide, this means that we can also watch them, for free.
The visitors will never have to pay a single penny because the website was build with their help, submitting new TV feeds through our platform system. With the platform system each visitor have the possibility to send a free video stream he found on the web to be included in the directory. Each new TV feed submitted goes through a validation process which requires voting from other users and a final admin review. The platform is also the place where all the TV streams which aren’t working no more are stored. The unworking streams are reported by the users of the website, again with a voting system. I found this automatic system really efficient, much more then an admin manually deleting/adding unworking tv channels.
The website also features a "Streamrank" system, which we can rank all the TV channels mainly by the number of hits and by some other parameters. This also permitted to create the "Cloud view" page, which gives a wide view of what's popular and working in that moment.

Question : Does the channel show exactly what is shown on that particular TV at that point of time or is it all controlled by the channel owners?

Answer :Usually the channels shopw exactly what is shown on that particular TV at that point of time, but many of the channels listed exist over the internet only. All the control of the video streams is in the hands of the channel owners.

Question : I noticed that the channel viewing quality gets adjusted automatically, for e.g. if I switch on ABC NEWS it starts at 320 kbps and later it goes down to 140 kbps.....so, is it controlled by you and the technology you are using or is it done by the channel owners or if you can explain me how it works?

Answer : The automatic bandwidth alignment is a default windows media player feature. When the receiver can't accept all the load of data given, the source of the video stream automatically decreases the bandwidth to avoid an overflow of data on the receiving computer. The same happens when the source doesn’t have enough bandwidth to serve all the requests, so it gives only a fraction of band to each of the channel viewers. This broadband channels usually works on huge CDN (Content delivery network) and they don't have many problems of bandwidth, but it is limited, indeed. Usually these adjustments are due to the limited or busy bandwidth of the receiving device. At the moment if you have at least a 500Kbps DSL connection everything works fine. (NOTE FROM REVIEWSAURUS : It worked for me at 256 kbps)

Question : What are your future plans or ideas on which you are working at this time?

Answer : Our next main goal is to build our own Peer2peer TV platform. with the help of a content delivery infrastructure, we will be able to build a system, similar to bit torrent, where with a single video seed from a server we can easily deliver the video stream to an unlimited number of viewers, allowing a lot of free-to-air satellite channel broadcasters to deliver their contents through the internet in the most scalable and economic way possible. This will take some time ad the help of some investors, but when done I’m sure it will succeed.