A community of 30,000 US Transcriptionist serving Medical Transcription Industry

Does anyone use internet TV?

Posted: Dec 3, 2009

I am thinking about cancelling my Direct TV because it is just toooooo expensive. Does anyone use any of the "internet TV" websites to download shows or movies? Are they free? If you pay a subscription, have you been ripped off? Thanks in advance

;

I watch shows I have missed over the internet. - ht

[ In Reply To ..]
I use casttv.com, most of them are free. They give you a choice of what site to watch them from. Also, some of hte major networks have full length episodes up for a while to watch for free (CBS, ABC, etc.). There is one site that has a lot of the shows on casttv that only let you watch 72 minutes every 3 hours, so you can only watch one show at a time. I have never looked into the "pay" internet tv sites. Casttv also has movies you can watch.

I have heard of that one - TV?

[ In Reply To ..]
Yes, I watch the Sons of Anarchy there every week while I wash dishes and cook supper. I am hooked on that show!!!! I usually get hooked on one show a season and that is it!!!!

thanks for replying

another one - to watch

[ In Reply To ..]
I have not actually watched anything but there is one I heard about for watching TV shows: www.hulu.com I just went in to the website and it looks interesting. May have to check it out as I am out of MT work right now.

Hulu - (sm)

[ In Reply To ..]
I just recently started watching Lost on Hulu. Right now, they offer their content for free, but may possibly charge for some of it in the future. They do have limited commercials, usually either 30 seconds or 15 seconds in length, although once (when watching a movie) there was one that was longer, maybe a minute and a half. I have to say, though, that I was very disappointed when I got to season 5 and discovered that they do not have the first 9 episodes from that season, but they get rights from whoever owns the content they are using and have restrictions. For example, I have also watched some Grey's Anatomy on there, and they are only aloud to have the latest 5 episodes available to view. We had disconnected our DirecTV before the season started and I had not yet discovered Hulu at that time, so I have not been able to see the first couple/few episodes yet. I have seen some sites that you have to download the content, and I am not really into doing that right now. It appears that at least some of them offer a free trial period and you are able to download only a certain amount during that time, and then have tiered monthly plans available for pay where depending on the level/price you choose will determine how much you are able to download in that time period. I have not spent a lot of time researching how it all works and the different sites available, but it has been nice to have TV available when I feel like watching something, since we only disconnected the satellite due to finances.

Oh, btw, I do not think that they are all created equally regarding quality of streaming video (versus downloading). I think there are two parts to it, one of them would be the site itself and the other your computer/internet speed.

Similar Messages:

Mar 16, 2010
Do you think it's really possible to fall in love over the internet and stay that way after meeting? ...

Feb 13, 2012
Anyone know of any great Internet and TV packages? I pay about $70 now for Internet and basic cable. The basic is not so great, but I really can't afford more than that. Does anyone know of better deals on the same type of thing or better within the same amount? I have cable now and think if I switch to DSL I would also have to get a different modem and router on top of any hook-up fees. Any ideas? ...

Aug 14, 2011
My old dinosaur TV died. We always hooked up the computer to the TV to watch movies and TV shows from free online sites. My question is....on the new internet-ready TVs and the Google TVs can you go to any website and watch free movies and shows OR do you have to subscribe to netflix or some other company to watch anything? ...

Nov 07, 2011
Anyone used Earthlink cable internet before? AT&T is who I have always used at my previous address but now they don't provide DSL to my new address. Earthlink provides cable internet though. Is Earthlink a good provider? ...

Mar 24, 2014
Pretty busy thread down there and I didn't want this info to go to waste. Count former President Bill Clinton among those who are skeptical of the new Obama administration plan to give up Internet oversight authority. At a weekend meeting sponsored by the Clinton Global Initiative, the former president talked in detail about why the U.S. should retain oversight over Internet domain names and addresses. “A lot of people … have been trying to take this ...

Oct 24, 2014
So what's your take on that? I think it would be a good idea. They've already been bound and determined to divide the country into two "colors" - red and blue. Maybe they SHOULD be allowed to become their own country. What do you think about that? ...

Nov 10, 2014
Obama moves on to the internet. He has a big 26 months planned for us. Link ...

Mar 03, 2015
Am not interested in a lake tour but something that might take a couple of hours that I will have to spare while traveling there. I would not mind something right in Daytona, not Orlando but would love if I could find something in between. ...

Aug 01, 2011
Did you see that where they said it was unhealthy to sit in the same position for 12 hours???? Isn't that what we do? The poor kid died of a pulmonary embolus and they said how it is unhealthy to sit in the same position for that long! What doctor ever cared about us? I have sat just trying to get a line count for many days even longer than 12 hours. Leg circulation and diabetes? ...

Jun 18, 2010
there is another source: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/68003 I am very much afraid if this goes through, transcriptionists would be severely affected. The way it is now, it's almost like construction, no work no pay. ...

Sep 06, 2012
A friend told the blonde, "Christmas is on a Friday this year." The blonde then said, "Let's hope it's not the 13th." ------------------------------------ Two blondes find three grenades, and they decide to take them to a police station. One asked, "What if one grenade explodes before we get there?" The other says, "We'll lie and say we only found two." ------------------------------------ A woman phoned her blonde neighbor and said, "Close your curtains the ne ...

Mar 13, 2013
After a minor boards software update, you may experience problems viewing MTStars MT forums (not General boards) in IE (Internet Explorer). We are working to fix this issue ASAP. We'll update again when we have more info. We are sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused. MTStars Support Team. ...

Apr 18, 2013
I don't care how, just go. ...

Jul 09, 2016
Last night I was watching TV when I discovered that my half my channels no longer worked. I have bundled service (internet, land-line phone, and cable TV), so I called my ISP, and they told me that they have a "new and improved" system now (sounds like Nuance, huh?) and I would now have to rent a box for each TV in my house in order to restore my fave channels. Um, no thanks. I'm not under contract, so I'm going to cancel my service and find alternatives. BTW, I've le ...

Jan 04, 2017
I need to switch to a new cable/Internet/phone carrier. Any positive or negative comments about CenturyLink or Xfinity/Comcast? Thank you in advance. ...

Oct 17, 2016
Really - these dirty tricks at the end of the political campaign are SO clumsy that they insult our intelligence. Wikileaks say they have activated a "contingency plan" prepared for just such an eventuality. It will be interesting to see what that might be. ...

Sep 29, 2016
will have wholly ceded over control of the Internet to UNIDO, (United Nations Industrial Development Organization). When it is far too late for anyone to do anything about it, history will someday record that Barack Hussein Obama hijacked public access to the Internet before leaving office. Why he decided to hand over control of the Internet, to an unknown conglomerate of “international stakeholders—held by the United States for all 18 years of ICANN existence—five weeks before ...

Jan 08, 2013
I was wondering if anyone here has U-verse with AT&T and if so have you had any problems with it. My internet provider keeps going up, and down and up and this month it is $20 more than last month for what reason? I have satellite television and like that now- used to have years ago and it was not that good so with the Uverse they also offer satellite at a reasonable rate to start. Any thoughts? ...

Mar 14, 2013
upgraded infrastructure could give high-speed access to the country's neediest. By Brian Fung Updated: March 12, 2013 | 11:04 a.m. March 12, 2013 | 6:00 a.m. WILLY D/FLICKR [Not discussed here is why any of us would need to pay for separate internet service. Yet another way internet access can be practically free to everyone--if we decide we want it to be.] Ten years ago, if you went to pick up a phone call, your voice would have been carried across the same ...

Mar 08, 2014
If you feel too much of your time gets sucked up by the Internet - use a kitchen timer, set it for however long you want to be on the Internet per day, and stick to it. I am doing this French online learning course, and I always look over at the timer, because I want to get my time in with my French. It's a big help. In fact, a kitchen timer is a big help with any amorphous task, writing essays, painting, reading. Although the one I have is noisy (tick, tick), so I kind of bur ...

Oct 19, 2016
My, my. Turns out Correa wants Hillary to win this election yet in his statement, he said it was because he respects other nations' sovereignty and doesn't interfere or support any candidate in foreign elections. Another LIAR? Of course! Ecuador playing American politics. He wants to get back in the good graces of the U.S. ____________________________________QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador's government acknowledged on Tuesday that it cut off WikiLeaks founder J ...

Jun 07, 2013
http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program/2013/06/06/3a0c0da8-cebf-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html# ...

Sep 29, 2016
The US government, much to the chagrin of Senator Ted Cruz, is set to officially relinquish the Department of Commerce's oversight of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as of tomorrow night at midnight. ICANN is a California nonprofit that has supervised website domains since 1998, essentially under subcontract from the Commerce Department. Under the Obama transition plan oversight by the U.S. Commerce Department would end and be replaced by a multi-stakeholder ...

Sep 24, 2016
for trying to prevent the Commerce Department from transferring technical oversight of the Internet to an international body. ...

Oct 06, 2015
An agreement that some campaigners have called the "biggest global threat to the internet" has just been signed, potentially bringing huge new restrictions on what people can do with their computers. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is the conclusion of five years of negotiations, and will cover 40% of the world's economy. Its claimed purpose is to create a unified economic bloc so that companies and businesses can trade more easily — but it also puts many of the central principles of th ...

Sep 28, 2016
This is irreversible." On Wednesday’s “Sean Hannity Show,” FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai (R) stated that the plan to “essentially give up the US oversight role…of the Internet” to ICANN is something that should worry anyone who cherishes “free expression, and free speech rights generally,” and could potentially cede oversight of the Internet to “foreign governments who might not share our values.” He further stated that such a move is “irreversible.” Pai said, “This ...