Overview

Readon TV Movie Radio Player is a smart application that streams internet TV channels and radio stations from around the world on your personal computer. This free-of-cost application lets you watch thousands of international TV, latest movies, news & weather reports, and radio channels. It enables you to record music from radio or MTV channels into MP3 files, moreover, you can also record TV into various video formats. As part of parental control measures, it allows you to set its own shutdown time as well as set a password to restrict children from watching inappropriate content.

Installation

Installation process of this application is simple and neither takes much time nor involves any third-party adware or tools. The application’s exe file can be run with or without de-compressing its downloaded zip folder. The only information that you need to give during installation is the application’s destination location and whether you want to give application’s access to other users or not. Following operating systems support this application: Windows XP/Vista/7/8 (32-bit and 64-bit).

Interface

The interface of Readon TV Movie Radio Player leaves you wondering how can a not-so-eye-pleasing application be intuitive at the same time. The reasons for its inelegant look and feel are the advertisements shown on its main screen and the old-school look of all the fields (including search fields and channel table). Despite of all this, it is an easy- to-use application and anyone with less or more technical experience can use it without any trouble. The right panel of the window displays the search criteria fields and the list for all the channels – TV, Radio, and Live Sports. The channel being played is shown in a new window which can be viewed in regular or full-screen mode.

Pros

• If you do not have a cable connection at your place then this smart application fills in its place as you can view national and international channels on personal computer with your internet connection only
• It has abundant TV channels of different genres such as kids, music, general, news, education, and lifestyle, and which belong to different parts of the world including Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Egypt, France, and many more countries
• Around thousands of international radio channels can also be listened and another bonus feature of this application is that sports lovers can watch live sports on it
• You can watch latest movies on it and even the ones being currently played in the cinema
• Increase the collection of your favourite songs as Readon TV lets you record them from TV and radio channels to MP3 files. However, you can enjoy this feature only after installing a VLC plugin (application will itself ask you to install the plugins whenever required)
• Parental Control measures can be taken to restrict specific audience(s) from watching adult  channels or to allow limited use of the application; ‘Adult Content Filter’ lets you set a password without which such content cannot be viewed and ‘Automatic Shutdown’ lets you decide when to auto shutdown your PC
• By installing the required plugins, you can play numerous games with the help of Flash game search engine
• This application provides an easy viewing experience as you can watch channels in full-screen or regular screen mode, plus you can preview any channel in a small window before deciding to watch it
• Its channel database remains updated all the time, so that you can be entertained by the latest TV and radio channels

Cons

• Unpleasant Interface and the advertisements shown on main screen
• Some channels (TV and Radio) are not available for watching
• Quality for some of the TV channels is not good enough

Alternatives

TV from TVexe is an easy-to-use application which lets you watch over 1700 live worldwide channels on your computer in following genres – music, news, education, sports, and shopping channels. Online TV Player is an application with which you can watch over 800 free internet TV channels and listen to above 1500 free radio stations from around the world on your PC. Another favourable alternative is Internet TV which is an internet TV tuner program and it can receive over 2000 online international channels of daily and live broadcast.

Conclusion

Readon TV Movie Radio Player enables you to watch TV channels and listen to radio stations from across the globe on your own computer and all you need is a good speed internet connection. Besides all this, it is loaded with other useful features of searching online games, recording music, parental control, latest movies search engine, and more. Except the issues in its GUI and some related to quality of few channels, this free application is a good piece of software to own, so one need not hesitate in using it.