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Watch Free Online Video Episodes of Your Favorite TV Shows

Here you'll discover amazing places with free video episodes of television shows.

 After the novelty of streaming video wears off, where do you find good viewing and interesting premium TV to watch? Especially, you need good free sources for online episodes of your must-watch TV shows, and classic favorites. This page also clears up the difference between live online TV, pre-recorded shows, streaming TV and downloads.

1. HULU Your first and best source to watch free online television shows is the website hulu.com. Here you can watch older full-length episodes from the current season of your favorite show for free. Hulu and most online sites usually won't show you brand-new, unaired episodes. A paid premium membership is also offered. Hulu provides video in Flash Video format.
   
   Hulu is a joint venture of 3 powerhouse entertainment companies: NBC Universal Television Group, Fox Broadcasting Company and Disney-ABC Television Group. Hulu carries free video of NBC, ABC and Fox programs and movies. In addition, Hulu carries shows from networks and channels such as Current TV, PBS, USA Network, A&E Television Networks: The Biography Channel, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, TV Land, Spike, Nickelodeon, Bravo, Fuel TV, FX, NFL Network, Speed, Big Ten Network, Style, Sundance, E!, G4, Versus, A&E, and online comedy sources such as Onion News Network. Hulu also creates original programs to air on the website.
   
   At this time, only viewers in the United States and Japan can watch Hulu free because of licensing problems. However, if Hulu is blocked in your country, Internet proxy services may help you watch Hulu.
   
   Hulu Plus is the monthly subscription package that enables you to watch Hulu on your iPad app. Hulu Plus is also available for the Android platform and the iOS platform. Hulu also provides web syndication services for other websites including AOL, MSN, MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo!, and Comcast's xfinityTV.
2. FREE TV SHOW WEBSITES To watch premium video episodes from your favorite TV show, go directly to the publisher's website. Here are some of the popular places for free online television videos.
   
   
   1. The Travel Channel http://www.travelchannel.com/
   2. The Discovery Channel http://animal.discovery.com/videos
   3. National Geographic channel http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/
   4. The CW Live Channel http://www.cwtv.com/ offers free streaming full episodes of Gossip Girl, 90210, Stupid Hype, Nikita, and The Vampire Diaries.
   5. The Bloomberg Channel http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/ has live television stream plus video episodes, news about stocks, quotes, finance, business, markets and funds.
   6. Fox News Channel at http://video.foxnews.com/ has Breaking News, Latest News and Current News from FOXNews.com.
   7. ABC Broadcasting Network http://abc.go.com/watch for episodes of recent TV shows
   8. NBC broadcasting network http://www.nbc.com/video/ full episodes of recent shows
   9. The NFL National Football League has videos of football commentary at http://www.nfl.com/videos
   
   

1. Discovery Channel TV shows

1. YOUTUBE No discussion of free online video TV shows and episodes is complete without mentioning YouTube, owned by Google. At YouTube.com this online site offers the largest online repository of free videos, including partial episodes of popular TV shows, previews and clips.
   
   Many of the major networks and publishers of TV shows have a YouTube channel reserved for their video episodes. The videos are usually not full-length, but from YouTube you can link to the website of the network or distributor for more videos. You can watch thousands of free episodes of TV shows from premium video channels like these.
   
   
   1. HBO has a channel on YouTube is at http://www.youtube.com/user/HBO HBO is the home of award-winning shows, documentaries, movies, sporting events and more. previews and episode clips.
   2. Nick Jr. is programming from the Nickelodeon television channel. You'll find 932 Videos from Nick Jr. on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/channel/HCH4VS2ak2GTI
   3. Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer is on YouTube with 64 videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/CesarMillan
   4. National Geographic Channel has 3871 free video episodes on YouTube that inspire people to care about the planet at http://www.youtube.com/user/NationalGeographic
   5. The Discovery Channel has 4969 videos on YouTube, with amazing stories from the world of science, natural history, anthropology, survival, geography, and engineering, at http://www.youtube.com/user/DiscoveryNetworks
   6. BBC Earth has 640 videos on YouTube. Their theme is that world is an amazing place full of stories, beauty and natural wonder, at http://www.youtube.com/user/BBCEarth 640 Videos
   7. Prehistoric Pets TV offers 544 videos from their reptile superstore. If it hops, wiggles, crawls or gives your mom the chills, you'll find it at Prehistoric Pets and at http://www.youtube.com/user/prehistoricpetstv
   8. Country Channel TV is a free online TV channel for people who love country life. Watch 60 videos about lifestyle, wildlife and, animals, recreation, equestrian and country sports on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/countrychanneltv
2. The IMDB, INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE, at imdb.com offers a variety of free complete shows, movies and full-length TV episodes. Imdb.com is owned by amazon.
   
   Go to http://www.imdb.com/features/video/browse/tv/ for free full-length TV episodes of Nashville, Grimm, and Beauty and the Beast. You'll also be able to watch free vintage TV shows, like Beavis and Butt-Head, Python Hunters, Hannah Montana, Revolution, Wolverine and the X-Men, WKRP in Cincinnati and Miami Vice. IMDB has an amazing selection of free vintage TV episodes. This website is worth browsing if you have eclectic viewing tastes. Although prices were shown with each listing, no charge was made to view the episodes.
3. APPLE ITUNES offers a selection of free tv shows, with full episodes to watch online. Recently there were 17 shows listed, including full length episodes of The Following, Hanging with Stephen Mangan, About Girls, Ninja Turtles, iCarly, Titanic: Blood & Steel, House of Lies, MaryMary, Happily Divorced, Hot in Cleveland, and Catfish: The TV Show.
   
   The selection of free episodes will change over time, and you do need an iTunes account to stream the free TV shows. To watch the free TV shows, go to itunes.apple.com. Then click TV shows in the left column, and on the next page click Free TV shows in the far right column.
4. AMAZON INSTANT VIDEO is another way to watch free online full-length episodes of TV shows. For Amazon Prime members, thousands of TV shows from the Amazon Instant Video catalog including The West Wing, Parks and Recreation, and Parenthood are available to stream instantly and free. You may already have Amazon Prime at $79 a year to get unlimited shipping of your orders. But, surprise, with Amazon Prime comes unlimited instant online viewing of TV shows.
5. NETFLIX provides on-demand online streaming media, including TV shows. When you sign up for a membership, you get a free month of streaming video, with full-length episodes of TV shows and movies that new members can watch online. After the first free month, the modest monthly membership fee takes effect, or you can cancel the membership. The catalogue of full-length episodes of popular TV shows has 7 seasons of How I Met Your Mother, 7 seasons of Bones, 8 seasons of The Office, Glee, Merlin, Sesame Street. Rules of Engagement, Transformers Prime, South Park, Supernatural, Family Guy, Spongebob, The Vampire Diaries, Psych, AFV, Law and Order, and Weeds, just to name a few.

How You Can Watch Free Online TV Shows

What television shows do you want to watch online? There are several ways to view episodes of your online TV shows.

1. You can watch live television broadcasts, just as what you see on your television set, whatever is scheduled for now.
2. You can watch many pre recorded television shows in categories like news, entertainment, sports, animals and wildlife, music, technology, games, and education. These video shows could be full-length TV episodes or else short clips or previews of shows. These are called by different names: "on demand TV" or "store and forward video" or "catch up TV".
3. Many websites offer a mix of live television shows with pre recorded shows and call them all "live video".
4. You can download a video file, save it to your hard drive, and watch it over and over whenever you want. It is illegal to download copyrighted video shows. It is also illegal to capture live video on your hard drive if it is licensed or copyrighted material. To find and download a tv episode you can use a service like iTunes or Google Play Store. There are also p2p or Torrents software packages to facilitate free downloads to your hard drive. However, it is illegal to download any movie, tv show, music or other copyrighted material using a P2P or a torrent site.
5. You can purchase a video file, usually a DVD of a television show, and watch it with unlimited viewings.

Streaming Online TV Shows

Online Video Streaming Technology. Do you want to watch episodes of television shows online or offline? There are two choices of technology: streaming video or downloads. Streaming video is multimedia that you can watch online even while a website is still sending the file. The client media player on your device can start playing the show before the entire file has been transmitted. 

Live streaming means that a show sent live over the online in "real time". It requires a camera for the media, an encoder to digitize the content, a media publisher, and a content delivery network to distribute and deliver the content. Your media player will display the live stream on the screen as it is delivered. Webcam shows are a well-known example of live video streaming. 

Streaming a television show, either a live show or a pre recorded show, is the most popular way to watch. You use a high-speed online connection, and a device like a computer. The show is embedded in a web page. Your web browser will automatically use free viewing software that is already on your computer, like Windows Media Player and Apple Quicktime or Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, so you can watch the show. You can also stream video to other devices like Kindle Fire HD, an online compatible HDTV, a Blu-ray player, or one of the many types of TV set-top boxes, tablets and smartphones. You may find that some websites require you to download and use their proprietary media player in order to watch their streaming videos online.

Why Watch Online Video TV Shows

The advantage of online video is the millions of different streams from free-to-watch channels. When you watch TV online, you have at your fingertips video from many countries and languages. You'll discover a wide range of material, some published professionally, and lots of amateur productions. You may find yourself watching the live screen capture of a Russian playing video games, a professional baseball game, a shopping network broadcast, and then a webcam of Florida alligators. 

The disadvantage of streaming online video is that fresh premium TV shows are scarce. You will not be able to watch cable television for free online. Another disadvantage is that your ISP, Internet Service Provider, may not provide the bandwidth necessary to display video flawlessly, and may even block your request for foreign videos. And not all websites have adequate servers and bandwidth to deliver streaming video to the user. So loading times can be very slow. 

On the secondary websites for online TV shows, illegal, unsavoury advertising or viruses may be lurking, especially in video downloads. Some scam and bogus sites do not deliver the content they promise. 

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