dial up and just a plain old photo download takes forever. If you have dial up and want to see a video, it may be a mess for you. If you have a high powered computer, with a fast processor and an amazing graphics card, it may be able to compensate, but odds are that its gonna be a mess.

Fancast.com
Hulu.com
and there is a liveTV tool bar that can be used to access satillite stuff.

I hope it works for you.