The coming of broadband, high speed Internet accession in millions of homes has introduced the use of video over those networks as a mainstream digital reality and led to the creation of phenomena such as YouTube. It has also baffled the television and movie corporate powers, who can’t decide whether to sue online video sites or meet to use them as new channels for distribution of their productions. In fact, some of each is occurring.
The movie companies are much touchier about the Internet, as evidenced by the one billion dollar lawsuit filed by Viacom against Google – now the owner of YouTube. NBC TV on the other hand, has looked to use the Internet in creative and productive ways.
Perhaps the most intriguing example is the sitcom “Nobody’s Watching”, a live internet TV aviate that was developed for WB Television and ultimately rejected. But when the pilot leaked onto YouTube, its popularity soared – and it has since been seen by one million TV audience on the web site. As a root of the online interest, NBC picked it up as a series – to be shown on YouTube.
meantime, other online entrepreneurs have developed broadband television outlets with astonishing reach. Beeline TV (top-liveinternet-tv.com) has a channel lineup that includes an alphabetical lineup from Albanian to Turkish TV. Between feeds from those two countries is television programming from Croatia, the Netherlands, Japan, the Arabian newsfeed Al Jazeera, and dozens of other Stations of the Cross including many from the U.S. While the streaming can be somewhat spotty, the concept is remarkable and appears to be whirl product with little concern for copyright threats.
Internet TV Access (top-liveinternet-tv.com) offers a software package that supposedly makes hundreds of TV channels useable free. Their lineup includes external channels and domestic specialty channels such as “Classic TV” that replays oldies you might have missed the lead off time around. TV4U has a care lineup – 2640 internet TV channels from almost everywhere.
As with every Internet product, where there is content there must be an online index. One of the more large after is Find Internet TV (top-liveinternet-tv.com). You can await this website by family unit, by language and by country to see what’s available in online television.
It’s also interesting that video streams from thousands of worldwide television feeds are being made available online. They must be satellite feeds that are pulled off the birds and fed into internet servers, because very few television networks are operating online feeds of their own at this point.