Can't watch tv shows from television network websites.

[Chris Mohler]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Mark <markfpyles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone:
>
> I am using a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop running Ubuntu 8.04 and when I go to
> websites such as tnt.tv or to twtv.com to watch tv shows I can't watch them
> due to the following error message:
>
> We're sorry, but only the following operating systems are supported at this
> time:
>
> Microsoft Windows XP/Vista
> (i386) Apple Macintosh OS X or later
> (PPC) Apple Macintosh OS X or later
>
> Please check back soon for support for other operating systems.
>
> Is there a way to get around this? Thanks.

Have you checked to see if any of the shows are on Hulu.com?  They use
a pretty friendly player.  There is a user-agent switcher add-on for
Firefox that might get you past some of those errors - BUT if they are
using some proprietary player, it still may not work....  If not, send
them an email and complain :)

User-agent switcher:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

Chris