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Joost.com is one of several websites that offer a variety of streaming TV channels
Do you watch a lot of TV online? Is your computer hooked up to a large display so you can get the best of both worlds? Are you sick of the writers’ strike and going to the web to catch up on old episodes you might have missed?
Online movie rentals and downloads are gaining momentum with the latest announcements from Apple, but we also like stuff that’s free. In that respect, online TV streaming is also proliferating, with an increasing number of people watching and having greater access to an increasing number of TV choices online.
You might be familiar with the networks’ own streaming video, on ABC.com or NBC.com, perhaps, but are you checking out Joost or Veoh or MeeVee as well? They’ve got tons of choices from the big four networks as well as other channels for you to see full episodes.
USA Today has a story with good, quick-read capsule writeups on eight websites that feature full-length video (some still in beta mode): Fancast.com, Hulu.com, Joost.com, MeeVee.com, Veoh.com, Myspace.com/primetime, Television.Aol.com and tv.yahoo.com.
The article sites numbers from market research firm Horowitz Associates that point to a doubling in the percentage of people who watched a full show online each week in 2007, from 8 percent up to 16 percent.
TV on DVD box sets have been a huge hit—people can get everything from “Sanford and Son” to “The Simpsons” and it looks like the boom is part of these websites too. Shows like “Miami Vice,” the original “Star Trek,” and “Picket Fences” are just a few of the archived options. It’s all part of why pretty soon there’ll be no more need for buying hard discs, when we can watch anything we want online.
You do have a point here. I have read a lot about this on other articles written by other people, but I must admit that you have proved your point here! Will be back to read more of your quality information!! stop snoring remedies
love Joost! don’t understand how they do what they do (show rights and all) but i am addicted. great interface and lots of content. good article. spread the word.
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I am sorry, but I still love going to (insert store name here) and buying a physical disc. I don’t feel like I would own anything if it was a digital file on some hard drive. What would happen if that hard drive gets corrupted? Did I just lose all my movies? I can deal with it with music, but not with a movie. There are extras on discs and commentaries and so many other things that would be crazy to do away with. Could you imagine Lord of the Rings without the extras?
I think that downloads have there place in rentals, but not in ownership of a movie.