Over the last year or so i have been trying to watch all my news and entertainment over the internet. I stream news, netflix, hulu, and peer to peer downloading. There are many devices ike Apple TV, Roku box, xbox, playstation, and many more can now stream from the internet right to your TV. Your cable box is probably the most least technically advance device in the modern household. The cable companies have the monopoly and no competition so they have no need it keep making new devices.
Here are some great online streaming news channels
Al Jazeera English LiveStation.com
CNN Live BBC World News
LiveStation.com is a great site that has a lot of the major news broadcast from around the world. With all the things happening in the middle east and asia watching Al Jazeera is a lot better that CNN, and not only because they are focusing on local things. It is hard to explain why but i feel that the US media like CNN and FOX are all about ratings. I feel that the focus is on the host of the show and not the news. Whether it is Pierce Morgan, Anderson Cooper or Larry King i think that the focus is on them and not the news. The show becomes them telling us the news.
You can even stream Hawaii News Now. witch is good. But i have to say that they had horrible Tsunami coverage this last weekend. During the Tsunami warning the local news had no good footage of anything. For 4 hours we watched only 2 camera shots, A night vision traffic cam in Waikiki and the back of some house in Diamond with a flood light. And that was absolutely it!!!! are you shitting me? We live on an island surrounded by water and they could not get one camera guy down to any beach or even on a roof in Waikiki? What about the Harbors or Haleiwa. Al Jazeera had better coverage of what was happening in Hawaii and they were showing what was happing in Japan at the same time.
My point is that the old system run by the cable companies is coming to an end and unless they keep up with the outside world they will be overtaken by companies like google and apple that can offer the same products and services practically for free.
I agree with that. My mom, for example, only pays for basic cable now because anything she wants to watch, other than local shows, she can watch on the internet.
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