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My Favorite Sites For Streaming TV & Movies

11 08 2008

When I am bored and have nothing to do, I usually watch a movie or some TV. With only one television in my house, it is very difficult to watch TV and avoid my family at the same time. Thankfully, one can watch television/movies from the comfort of his own… computer. While it may or may not be legal (usually the latter), the internet is a great place to find all of your favorite shows and movies. Listed below are my favorite sites for media streaming.

Hulu is a great place for TV and movie streaming. The video player has a full screen feature and the quality is very good for online. Their television selection is decent. They have many of my favorite shows: Burn Notice, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Arrested Development, and many others. Their movie selection is pretty weak however. One downside to Hulu is the ads. Each show or movie contains small video ads within the content. The ads are no longer than 20 seconds or so and are pretty reasonable. They can get annoying though after watching a few episodes featuring the same ad.

TV Shack is one of my favorites when it comes to video streaming. Their selection is very good for both movies and TV. The quality isn’t too good however and can tends to be pretty poor at times. Many of the shows and some movies contain Chinese subtitles at the bottom of the videos that tend to annoy when trying to read actual subtitles. Another bad feature of TV Shack is that each episode or movie comes from one link meaning if the video is removed, you’re screwed. But like I said, it has a great selection which makes it worth while. The videos are still watchable.

TV Links is a very popular video streaming site. The quality varies from video to video. One feature that is both good and bad is the lists of links for each show/movie. While multiple links are useful, they are unorganized and a pain to sort through. Also, most of the videos in the links tend to be dead or slow loading, but there is usually a good one in there. I recommend this site for watching movies more so than TV. It is easier to find one link for a movie than multiple links for TV show episodes.

Surf The Channel is another great site for both TV and movies. It has a great selection. This site may have the best selection out of the bunch.I don’t tend to use this site too often, but it works very well. It is organized very well and is very easy to use. The only thing is getting the loading to start can be tedious at times because all videos are hosted off the site.
David Movie is a great movie site. It often has movies that haven’t come out yet (although never any huge box office ones). I saw Charlie Bartlett on this site 2 months before it came out in theaters in perfect DVD quality.