8 WAYS TO WATCH TV SHOWS ONLINE SHOWS

8 WAYS TO WATCH TV SHOWS ONLINE

1. OpenHulu.

Hulu’s a joint venture between NBC and Fox, currently in private beta. But members in the private beta have sneakily taken advantage of Hulu’s built-in sharing features and uploaded all the content to a public site called OpenHulu.com. You can get full-length episodes from both of those networks, and also from Bravo, FX, Sci Fi, Oxygen, and more.

2. television.AOL.com

video has all the content offered by Hulu and more. They’ve partnered with CBS to offer shows like CSI.

3. Comedy Central

It has thousands of hilarious clips totally free on their website from the Jon Stewart’s Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and a number of other programs.

4. Fancast

It is Comcast’s new TV website. It’s still in beta, but shaping up to be the best of the bunch. As America’s largest provider of cable television, they’re best suited to provide episodes from the most networks, which is exactly what they’re doing. You can track TV schedules, and find production information and resources for shows.

5. ABC.com, NBC.com, CBS.com, and AMCtv.com, and others.

Individual networks usually let you watch shows online on their websites. The problem with this method, though, is network websites usually only have the past three or four episodes available. You can’t watch old episodes or past seasons, like you can on Hulu, Fancast, or others.

6. BitTorrent.

This one has the unfortunate problem of being illegal. At the moment, there’s been no legal action against people who download TV shows on BitTorrent, but be warned that it’s an extremely insecure filesharing service, and by using it you could be caught very easily.

7. iTunes

It has shows from dozens of networks for $1.99 per episode. Why would you pay for a show when you can get it free on one of these other sites? Because iTunes supports putting shows on your iPod, which is just plain awesome.

8. Amazon Unbox

It is another pay website offering TV (and movies) for download. The advantage here is the high-res, DVD quality videos , which you can play full screen on your PC. You can also rent seasons of shows.