With these, who needs a TV... almost.

As i'm sure on a daily basis you use websites like [Youtube] and [Hulu] for hours watching the countless videos and shows available at the click of your mouse. If you've missed your favorite show because of work or other obligations, these mega sites have come to the rescue. I'm not sure if everyone is aware of what these sites offer, so we should start there.



Hulu is a site that is fantastic for watching your favorite TV shows across several networks, or for watching older movies. They have advertising at regular intervals throughout an episode, but they are at normal break points that you'd find on TV, so a conversation isn't abruptly cut in half for poor advertising planning. All you have to do is type in your favorite TV series, ended or new, and it'll most likely be able to find the episodes for it! Now there is some delay between when it airs and when it'll be found online often, but that's for marketing and business reasons, so the broadcast companies get the money instead of everyone watching them at their computers the moment its released.

If you like non mainstream shows, like anime or some other stations not provided by Hulu, Youtube may be your savior. Youtube has a wide variety of shows categorized into genres. You'll be able to find tons of your favorite anime, cartoon, or indie shows by using their BROWSE feature. Often if you try to use their search for content, you'll find user uploaded content. Useful, but not always.



Of course, if you're not into tv shows but like videos, Youtube is your site. Since they cater to the upcoming artists, Youtube contains an almost endless database of user created content, with almost every genre or topic covered. If you prefer watching idiots fail at doing tasks you shouldn't try in the first place,watching a man being pole-vaulted off a chariot, or even less hardcore things like... [Kittens!], you won't be disappointed.

I used to use Youtube for all my anime needs, but apparently they've started some sort of "rental" program after the first couple episodes; you know, draw you into it and then punch you in the face while asking kindly that you pay for the rest of the videos with the dubbing instead of English subtitles. Fortunately I'm not opposed to reading the subtitles for my anime, but I know many people who hate it. Be wary of these infuriating rental programs. Worse comes to worse, I'm sure if you did a Google search for it, you'd find it elsewhere, but in a lower quality and resolution.

All in all, i can see this type of online TV watching to become an eventual norm, if it already hasn't made it there. Because of this capability, you'll almost never find me on a TV unless I'm playing a [video game] of some sort.