Saturday Night Fights on How to Box TV

admin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:59:09 -0500

Just a quick reminder to everyone out there that in about 10 minutes (2130hrs EST) on 8 Mar 08, you can watch a couple of great live boxing matches on How to Box TV:

1. David Haye vs. Enzo Maccarinelli - Cruiserweight unification title belt.

and

2. Olev Maskaev vs. Samuel Peter - from HBO -

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A different breed of matador has arrived in Mexico this week - of the heavyweight and lightweight persuasion. And comparing Maskaev and Peter to two bulls isn't much of a stretch. Yesterday the two weighed in during a production worthy of the Spring Break scene here in Cancun. Don King's style was certainly present as Corona girls and grandstanding abounded while the two heavyweights took to the scale, weighing in at 243 for Maskaev and 250 for Peter.

If you haven't setup How to Box TV - it takes at most a couple of minutes and it opens your computer up to live boxing events all for free. Remember, if you try it and the channel says it's offline - keep trying - it comes online at the time specified only.

How to Box TV - Free Streaming Boxing, Sports, Movies, and Other Goodies

admin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:10:09 -0500

Thanks to internet technology, live streaming boxing is available. Best of all, the price is FREE - it doesn't cost you a thing. Other than having to put up with commentating in Chinese (which is good I guess for those who speak the language), the quality and connection is excellent. I watch it full screen on my laptop - boxing and MMA on demand.

What is How to Box TV?

How to Box TV is basically cable on your computer. There are a number of channels, mostly sports, that are broadcast 24/7 from around the world. for boxing, channel CCTV-5 streams their content worldwide and carries various fights. To be honest, I think there was about a 6-10 minute delay on live boxing streams and actual events. Something I have no problem living with.

These channels are wide and varied. There are boxing channels, MMA-TV with 24/7 mixed martial arts action, HBO movies, Music Videos, and more. Take a few minutes, figure out how to use the system and you'll be pleasantly surprised. Only drawback is that a lot of programs may be in different languages - not such a big deal when you are watching sports, but movies are a different story.

So, How to Box TV is a new feature that I'm hoping you will enjoy.

What do you need to do to watch How to Box TV?

First, visit the event schedule and see if your match is scheduled for broadcast. If it is, click on the link in the calendar and you are good to go, otherwise you may have to go through the rest of these steps. Note that I do not necessarily have time to update the calendar with every event on, so you may have to do some browsing to find what you're looking for.

1. First, you don't need to be a How to Box member, but you really should consider becoming a member on How to Box, if you haven't already done so.

2. Much like flash movies at Youtube all you need is to install the Sopcast plugin. I know it works with Internet Explorer - and it is supposed to work with Firefox (I haven't tried it yet). Download it, unzip it, run the setup and that's it. You may get complaints from windows that the program is trying to access things -- this is OKAY. Allow it, so it can connect to the live stream server. I'm telling you, the program is not bad and doesn't cause a million popups to show up on your computer as you browse the net. The only ads you will see are in the player itself.

Alright it's installed, where is the boxing?

You have two options:

1. Go to How to Box TV and a player is going to load in your browser. Once you click the page, be patient, it takes a couple of seconds to show up. On the right are the channel listings and the left is your everday standard media player.

You'll quickly notice there are a lot of channels, most of them in foreign languages. All you have to do is click on one and the channel will buffer and start playing in the player. Again, not all of these channels are boxing channels, some are other sports, movies, music and so on and the list changes from time to time.

2. To find specific boxing events, check the boxing event schedule or the Upcoming Events block on the right side of most pages and click on something you are interested in watching. If you are close enough to the start time, a player will be on that page and the show will start. If you are too early or late, the channel may be off the air. So, ensure you pay attention to the time. The other option is to do a search on Google for "sopcast schedule" and find shows that way.

These are live streams and are not on demand videos and there is no PVR capability. You miss the start time, you miss the show. Assuming you've set your timezone correctly in your account settings page, the times you see on the boxing event schedule will correspond to where you live.

You can also access How to Box TV from the Quick Links block on the Boxing Blog and most other pages.

If you have any problems getting it going, just post your question in the comments below. Your question and the solution may be exactly what someone else needs to make things work - so don't be afraid to ask.

Enjoy the show.