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2021 Streaming Services

In the pandemic we all have a lot of time to watch television. What are you watching? How are you watching it? There are more options out there than ever before. What are you using? Cable TV Replacements Everyone is giving up cable. If you still want all of those channel without paying extra charges…

Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime Instant Video is the streaming-video component of Amazon Prime. Like Netflix and Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime offers unlimited streaming of tens of thousands of movies and TV shows. The user interface on the web and on the apps are quite horrible! Something else that is horrible is the amount of buffering on the apps. On…

Hulu and Hulu Plus

Hulu is an American online company and partially ad-supported streaming service offering a selection of TV shows, clips, movies, and other streaming media on Hulu.com. Hulu subscribers can access episodes in HD (when available) from ABC, the CW, Fox, and NBC the day after they air, using Internet-connected computers, game consoles, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets,…

Netflix, The Old Reliable

Netflix is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers in all of Australia, New Zealand, South America, Japan, North America and parts of Europe (Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ireland and United Kingdom), and of flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States, where mailed…

Watch TV Using Modern Apps

You can turn your Windows 8.1 of Windows 10 computer into an Internet media player. As it turns out the tablet mode on 8.1 or 10 and the Modern Apps are perfect for television viewing. I have Windows 10 Consumer Preview installed on my desktop computer that is connected to my TV. There many Windows Modern…

TV In Your Browser

There are many source of video entertainment and information on the Internet that you can watch on your computer in your web-browser. Netflix The best Netflix instant streaming experience just got even better, with support for English subtitles, 1080p HD video and Dolby Digital+ surround sound. Works easily with your current Netflix unlimited membership. I…

How Players Work

Streaming players are small computers. They get media directly from the Internet without the use of a desktop or laptop computer.

Netflix

Netflix is a provider of on-demand Internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom and Ireland and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. It started its subscription-based digital distribution service in 1999 and by 2009

YouTube also has features films both box-office block busters and sleepy little independent films. Blockbusters usually cost $3.99. You pay through Google Wallet (Google’s online payment service). Many sleeper films are 99 cents. YouTube even has original films of its own. There are many independent, old or poor films for free but since they’re free films. It…

Digital Media

Back in January we looked at how to use RSS. What we did not cover was where to find media to put in your RSS aggregator. This month that’s what we’re doing. We’re going to learn how to find digital media.