Where to watch TV on the web
Jun 26th, 2009 | By Emily Price | Category: Internet, Tips and advice, Web sites, podcasts and videos
Television as we know it is becoming more and more prevalent on the web. If you miss your favorite program when it originally airs and didn’t set your DVR or VCR to record it, chances are you can still catch it a few days (or insome cases just a few hours) later on the world wide web. If you’re new to watching television on your computer, here are some of the best sites to catch all your favorite television shows.
If you’ve been holding out on purchasing a netbook, now may be the time. HP has just announced a new HP Mini 5105, that takes the term netbook to the next level, and provides a lot specs that make it stand out from the competition.
It looks like Wikipedia, is going to start to allow users to add video clips to Wikipedia pages in addition to text. The new video option will allow users to find video of things they might be looking for an edit and embed clips on the site for others to view later on.
It looks like Activision may stop making games for the Sony Playstation unless prices start to drop for the console. With the high price of consoles consumers are picking up versions of games for the cheaper Xbox and Wii instead of springing for the high-priced Playstation and games.
Amazon’s Kindle is getting bigger.
If you like to watch YouTube on your television then a new version of the popular video sharing site YouTube XL is bound to be just what you’ve been waiting for. As you can imagine, the new XL site is extra large and has a new television-friendly interface to make browsing videos on your television a snap.
Netbooks have rapidly gained in popularity over the past few years, finding their way into the hands of business professionals who want a small notebook for travel purposes, and budget consumers who only have a few hundred dollars to spend on a new computer. Now that we’ve all become accustomed to calling them netbooks, Microsoft has suggested that our tine new friends need a new name all together.