After more than two years of development, the long anticipated successor of KWinTV has reached it's first public release. kdetv is an application to watch TV using Xv or video4linux compatible video cards. With this release of kdetv, Linux users can now enjoy a user-friendly desktop TV viewing experience. Features of kdetv include three view modes, a channel scanner, the ability to import the channel files of three other TV programs, teletext and closed caption decoding, and an easy-to-use graphical user interface. The application supports remote controls using KDELIRC, a component shipped in KDE 3.2.

kdetv requires KDE libraries version 3.1 or above, a TV tuner card with video4linux or XVIDEO-input support, and an ALSA or OSS compatible mixerd device.