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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 9th, 2008
  • Comments: 4

FanCast watch TV Shows online

Fancast is a service by the cable provider Comcast who streams dozens of popular tv shows from Battlestar Galactica to The Office and The Unit free on their website. The service is available to viewers with a US IP only which means that everyone else will not be able to view the tv shows unless they hide their IP with a service like Hotspot Shield.

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Categories: Music and Video

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Dec 11th, 2007
  • Comments: 10

Watch NBC Shows in Veoh

NBC offers two official ways to watch their tv shows online. The first is NBC Direct which forces uses to download and install DRM infested software that adds the permanent MediaAgent.exe process to your system wasting resources even though the NBC Direct client is not running.

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Categories: Entertainment, Music and Video

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Nov 11th, 2007
  • Comments: 1

NBC Launches Direct Video Downloads

I’m a bit puzzled by the recent launch of NBC’s Direct, a video downloads website just a few weeks after launching Hulu together with News Corp. Direct Video Downloads sound nice at first glance which is exactly what users would like. Instead of watching the tv episodes at Hulu online they can now download the videos and watch them whenever they feel fit to do it.

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Categories: Music and Video, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 30th, 2007
  • Comments: 1

Play TV Shows online

If you ever wanted to be a guest in one of those famous tv shows such as Deal or no Deal, Who wants to be a Millionaire or Blockbusters. WeDigTV, the World’s first TV2 Network, lets you play these shows and a couple more blending show footage with interactivity.

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Categories: Entertainment, Games, Music and Video, Online Services

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 30th, 2007
  • Comments: 6

Joost 1.0 Beta is out

Joost has released yet another version of their acclaimed Internet TV client that streams prerecorded TV shows to the users computer. The new version has one feature in particular that was well overdue. Joost can now be updated from within the client. Users do not have to download and install new versions from the Joost website anymore.

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Categories: Music and Video, Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 1st, 2007
  • Comments: 2

How much would you pay for one tv show episode ?

NBC recently tried to raise the price that users had to pay for one tv show episode from $1.99 to $4.99 which was rejected by Apple. NBC then decided to stop offering shows on iTunes and accusations were ping-ponged between both parties.

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Categories: Music and Video

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 23rd, 2007
  • Comments: 2

Vid2c another watch commercial videos online website

What are you normally doing when you miss an episode of your favorite tv show, no matter if its 24, The Sopranos or Pinky & the Brain ? I know what you are doing. You are looking for a way to view the episode before the next one is aired which can be quite a problem if it is either a daily show, no reruns are in sight or a new show without DVD releases.

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Categories: Music and Video, The Web

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