A Complete Guide to Watching TV on the Internet

Links, sources and the best streaming services all listed below.

 
Watching television on the internet may not be the best thing you’d want to do if you own a Plasma or an LCD TV set, but the internet is host to a variety of television channels from all over the world for you to watch. 

Enjoy live matches of your favourite sports teams, or popular television shows and educational, news and music channels all on the internet. Read this guide, full of links and sources.

Watching TV Shows on Websites

Here is a list of some of the websites that show the latest episodes of all television shows currently running. You can watch them online, on these websites itself without having to do anything secondary:

Cucirca – A very popular website with over 26,000 RSS subscribers. Watch the latest episodes of your favourite television shows on the website itself.

 
FreeTVOnline – Free TV Online is another website that hosts episodes of all the latest television series, and the all-time popular ones.


TV Show 7 – Another free website to watch television shows online.



Joost – Joost is another platform to watch television shows online. It also features an interactive community. Participate and get suggestions on what to watch.

 
Free Online Episodes – A website that brings together the best sources of the episodes of your favourite TV shows. Read more here.

Download Media Players that stream TV


Miro Video Player – A media player that can play ANY file format in High Definition and also offers thousands of TV shows to watch online. It also helps you download YouTube videos in HD. A simple interface, and a completely free application.

 
Boxee – Another player that brings together your personal media files and also opens up the web for TV services to watch. Boxee also features a community.

Watching Sports on the Internet


MyP2P + Specific Media Player

To watch sports, simply head to MyP2P and find a listing of all the live streams on the internet. To play them, however, you may need the specified software next to the stream link. Click the link provided to check out the list of software and also download them from there itself.

TVU Player, Sopcast and StreamTorrent are recommended ones, as most sports matches (and everything else) are on these players.

For Live Streaming (without downloading any players) - These would be the streams where you would get a download link to hosts like Justin, Ustream or other live streaming sources. Obtain them from MyP2P itself.

Finding TV’s online streaming links


MyP2P – One of the best sites for listings of TV events and where to watch them.


ATDHE – Another alternative to find sources.

YouTube



YouTube is a great service (that actually needs no introduction) to find a variety of videos, clippings and lots more in your selected fields of interest. Find a list below of how you can store YouTube videos to view them offline.

Downloading from YouTube (Web services)


DownloadYouTubeVideos – Provide the URL, obtain the download link of the YouTube video.

KeepVid – KeepVid is another website, where you simply enter the URL of the YouTube video and download it straight away.

Downloading from YouTube (Freeware)


VDownloader – A software that helps you download videos from YouTube, MySpace and many other websites.

 
Video Download Helper (Firefox Add-On) – An add-on for users of Mozilla Firefox web browser. Detects, downloads and also provides options to convert the video into many formats. Simple and light. [Learn why Firefox is essential in internet browsing today here]

Alternatively, drag the Download Video bookmarklet from this post to your bookmarks bar to instantly download a video when on a YouTube page. It also works with other services.

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