Get 'er Done! Yeah Right!

Since we got the DVR with our cable I have found that I started to schedule my favorite shows to record and then watch them in my spare time. I also do this with new shows so I can watch them later. This is good. Especially if you need to waste your time and not be very productive.

Well, I have now found a newer and much better way to waste time and be even less productive. (Chris is not happy about this.) I have now found online streaming videos. No not YouTube or the like. This is actual TV stations with movies and cartoons and such.

Some of the links I have found are to: Beeline TV . At Beeline you can choose from bajillions of stations from around the world. Well, actually 238 stations today. There is also StreamKick TV that has a lot of links to stations to watch. Then there is FreeTube. If you go to FreeTube and click on the Entertainment tab on the left sidebar and scroll down a bit you can find some good cartoon stations streaming classic cartoons from the 40's and 50's.

Perhaps my favorite site is America Free TV. At America Free TV the have 15 channels streaming various types of entertainment. All of it clean, from what I can tell. Their cartoon channel plays a lot of Merrie Melodies and Popeye. I've seen Three Stooges on one of the movie channels and I watched "Meet John Doe" last night.

A couple of other sites worth going to are In2TV-AOL Videos, TV4U, Entertainment Magazine On-Line, and for classic commercials try Classic TV Ads. All of this is available 24 hours a day which means I can waste the entire day.

Each of these sites use one or more viewers. Some use Windows Media, Apple Quicktime, or some other embedded viewers. Depending upon the viewer and the web-site you may or may not be able to watch the program full screen. And, you may or may not be able to watch without commercials. Some have you watch an ad at the beginning, end or at various spots in the program. And then others make you watch on a small screen and they keep advertising up on the page around the viewer. None of this matters to me. I can tune out the advertising if there is a show I really want to watch.

In many cases much of what I find online is better that what I get off network television. Let's face it, most network programs stink. I'll take most programming from 50 years ago anyday. With one exception. I love to watch shows about how things are made. Enter How It's Made and other shows that are similar. That's OK. I have them covered also with Cool Stuff Being Made.

Now I need to get a larger monitor and better sound and I can just pitch my 42 inch LCD HDTV I bought recently. Won't Chris be excited???

© 2008 Barry T Horst


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