TV on the Internet   1 comment

Posted at 3:42 pm in Home User Tips

Did you know that most of today’s primetime television programming can be found online and watched for free?! Some only require MS Silverlight or Adobe Flash Player.

www.hulu.com (Mostly NBC Shows, ABC, USA Network, Fox, PBS, Comedy Central, G4, Disney,  Movies)

www.fox.com (Fox Shows)

abc.go.com (ABC Shows)

www.tv.com (CBS and various shows)

beta.sling.com (Various Shows & Movies)

http://www.universalsports.com/ Catch Olympic Sports streamed mainly Live or catch them whenever on Universal Sports. Very cool!

Even our own local Public Access Channel is in on the action, @ urtvweb.com *Currently down for the time being*

Customers with Verizon and ATT DSL can access live and delayed sporting events via espn360.com

Advantages:

  1. No cable TV bill.
  2. Can watch/pause/stop @ anytime.
  3. Minimal commercials for the most part.
  4. Some content you can’t find on TV anymore or was only shown internationally.

Disadvantages:

  1. Not all TV programs are available online.
  2. Most programs do not appear until the day after and some expire/dissapear after so many weeks.
  3. Not all programs shown in entirety (for example, Saturday Night Live will generally have missing skits)
  4. Not all shows in High Definition online.
  5. Can’t do it on dialup.
  6. Can’t do it on your big screen TV (Well you could if you have a newer PC and TV that had an HDMI/DVI/VGA connection but that’s another blog post!)

Written by mark on July 23rd, 2009

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  1. Great article! A few more sites to add: joost (www.joost.com), cbs (cbs.com), casttv (www.casttv.com), youtube (www.youtube.com/xl), tvover.net (www.tvover.net)

    Jeremy

    23 Jul 09 at 5:36 pm

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