Free Movies, Videos & TV

When you have been looking around on the internet exploring your options on how you can watch your favorite TV shows on your computer, you might feel a little bit overwhelmed. All the services, software and hardware out there, may make you feel like you have to be a real computer freak to sort all this information out and make it actually happen. So here is some information on how you can make the right choice for yourself.

The first thing you need to do, just like with any other decision, is to decide for yourself what you want. Do you want to watch TV on your computer live in real time or do you just want to keep up with your favorite programs on the weekends or any other day which best fits your schedule and not the schedule of the TV guide. Also you need to ask yourself if you are willing to pay for the service. People may think that a paid service always tops a free service in quality, but with internet TV that is not the case. Once you have figured out what you want you can start targeted searching, opting out everything that doesn’t meet your wishes.

If you really want to watch live TV in real time, you have to search for software programs that provide that service. These programs need to be downloaded to your computer and when you use them, they will connect to the server and stream the information to your computer often using Windows Media Player. These programs provide TV channels from all over the world, up to 78 countries and a total of over 3500 TV channels. There is no lack of choice here. Some of these services come with a low cost fee and some will be free. The challenge is to search the internet on reviews to see if there is any difference in quality between the paid and free software. Maybe you don’t mind if you don’t have HD quality if the service is free or this feature might be very important to you. In any case, that is up to you to decide.

As well as streaming live TV to your computer, there are very many websites which provide a service of watching TV shows after they have aired and you can watch them on demand in your own time when it suits you best. These services often have a directory of every show you can think of, both current and past TV shows. It can be quite fun, and often funny, to take another look at a TV show you use to watch when you were a teenager. Also these services often provide the possibility to track certain current shows and you will get an email notification as soon as the next episode is available for you to watch. This way you will never miss an episode again.

Now you know what to do in order to watch TV on your computer. It is not hard at all. You just have to know what you want and perform targeted research. This way you make sure you get what you want for the price you want.

For all the people out there who are looking for a way to watch TV on your PC for free, there is a very good way to do just that. There are a lot of free services where you can watch TV through your computer, but a lot of the time, their servers get overloaded because there are so many of you trying to relax by watching your favorite show. Because the services are free, they don’t carry enough power to provide for all of the members at once. Joost is not one of them.

Joost is a streaming video site where it is possible to watch TV on your computer for free without having technical difficulties with speed. They have a database which contains over 15,000 shows and more and more shows are added on a daily basis. The shows in their database are the top shows like David Letterman, Hogan Knows Best, Larry King Live etc. You are able to make your choice from over 250 different channels which include the very popular channels of Comedy Central, Paramount Pictures, National Geographic and so on.

So what does Joost have that other streaming sites do not? First of all, there is the huge amount of programs and channels from which you can make your choice and also it is nice to have one central streaming site where you have all your programs together and you don’t have to switch sites every time you want to watch a different channel. The quality of the videos is close to excellent and the amount of time it takes to load a video is very fast. There will be no freezing or slowing down while you are watching. All you have to do to get started is to download the Joost media player which works on Windows as well as on Mac.

Other advantages of Joost are that you are able to skip parts in the show you are watching without delaying the connection or you can skip from one show to another very quickly and very easy. There also is the possibility of playing it in full screen or having it run in windows mode while taking care of some other tasks on your computer and still the connection stays stable. Navigating is very easy because there are different options. You can search by genre or just perform a search on keywords.

The movies you will be able to find on Joost are not the most recent releases. However, they have a database of movies that will bring back a lot of memories. And be honest, taking a trip down memory lane when you watch an old classic movie can be very enlightening.