Video Sites of the BigList

Sound & Vision HDTV Information

HDTV Forum

HDTV primer from ExtremeTech.

HDTV Calibrarion Forum has suggestions for picture settings for over 100 HDTV's.

CableCard Primer

HDTV Pub lists the shows in your area that are in high definition. Has advice, reviews, reception reports, forums, etc.

HDTV Magazine - reviews, advice, forums, etc.

HDTV 101 - is an HDTV blog with mostly news and rumor.

Are You Sure You Are Watching HDTV - from Audioholics.

How to Calibrate Your HDTV

Troubleshoot your HDTV - an article from Popular Mechanics.

AVS Forum - forums for all types of TV and video devices like projectors.

eCoustic's Video Forum

You say you're interested in movies? Check out the MovieWeb for synopses and reviews of all kinds of movies. The site also includes movie clips that you can download. Be sure to keep your newspaper handy because these files tend to be big, as in megabytes. Oh, and you'll need special Quicktime software.

Using a PC as a Home Theater PC

Shockwave is another video format that is popular. You can download it from this site.

GameLand is rumored to be a good ShockWave site.

Gspot is a free download that tells you what codec you need to view a file.

Codec Central has all of the popular codecs that you might need to view a file.

MPEG.ORG

MPEG-animations

Tivo Community - large forum for Tivo users.

Find A Video reviews video tapes.

DVD Resource

DVD Toons has reviews and previews of animated movies on DVD.

Video CD FAQ

The Video Detective helps you find that video that you can only recall had 'blue' somewhere in the title.

Live@ is a listing of live broadcasts over the Internet. They include Discovery programs, NASA broadcasts, sports, news, etc.

OnNow has a daily schedule of live Internet events.

HotWired's Animations has some animated short films.

The 1st Annual Internet Animation Festival has a bunch of animations.

Atom Films is a great video site with shorts and independent productions.

BijouFlix has shorts, cartoons, sci-fi, etc.

Bloomberg.com - live feeds of tv programs from about 10 locations around the world.

Peekvid free TV and music videos.

xiaoxiaomovie.com/ has a number of very imaginative flash movies with stickmen as the actors.

Streaming Sports Highlights from ESPN.

Comedy Central - has clips of comedy routines - mostly newcomers.

iFilm - short films, movie trailers.

Apple Learning Interchange - Quicktime educational films.

Whats On from Apple.

Windows Media - Microsoft's Windows Media Player site.

Ten Second Films - check out the winners of their annual contest.

FanFilms - crazy little films.

Dreamies - Bill Holt's very short movies - good stuff.

All Day Breakfast - funny and strange shorts and ads.

Demand Media - unusual film clips from the news and elsewhere - links submitted by the public

Stinking Badges - Stinking Badges tries to chronicle the entire 'badges' phenomena including the original film clip

Plants in Motion is a collection of time lapse movies of growing plants.

The Open Video Project has assorted videos including documentaries, shorts, commercials, etc. Kind of an eclectic collection.

Google's Video Search searchs for videos on the Web. You can also check out random video clips if you want to waste a lot of time.

Yahoo Video - similar to YouTube

G4TV - small screen, Flash generated TV programs from the G4 cable channel that you view in real time - that is, you have to watch them on their schedule.

Digital Life TV Computer techie material in a TV program that you can view anytime - free.

YouTube - collection of videos that have been submitted by the public - another example of a lot of imaginative and creative people with too much time on their hands.

vDiddy - collection of videos that have been submitted by the public - another example of a lot of imaginative and creative people with too much time on their hands.

Vimeo - videos like Youtube.

Viddler - videos like Youtube.

Veoh - submitted videos and some recent TV shows (full episodes).

OVGuide

Online Video Guide has all kinds of movies and TV shows - free.

Clicker helps you find TV programs on the Internet.

instantwatcher.com helps you find video including TV programs that are instantly available.

Chime.tv

is an aggregation site for video from sites like Veoh and others.

Livestation You need to download a bit of software to ply their broadcasts but then you get access to TV from all over the world. Mostly news stations.

How to Watch TV Online for Free - great collection of links to TV online.

Truveo is a search engine for online television shows.

is a TV guide. Plug in your locale and it filters its material for the provider in your area.

Webcasts 45 minute broadcasts in RealPlayer format, from the Library of Congress.

CNet TV

TV Bistro - TV on your PC from all over the world.

The 9 - 9 short videos of the day as voted by viewers.

Infections Videos This is a collection of the short videos that your friends send that are weird or funny or strange or otherwise outragious.

Streamick - TV on your PC from all over the world.

4TV - TV on your PC from all over the world.

In2TV - AOL's TV site allows you to download complete TV shows including the ads.

ABC TV - streams mostly current shows

NBC TV - mostly current shows

Sling - watch video TV and movies on your PC.

TVChannelsFree - watch TV on your PC for free with no registration required.

TidalTV - same as above.

Best Online Documentaries - about 500 online documentaries are presented in various categories. No clue is given as to how these were judged the 'best', but they're free.

Jazztube is a collection of jazz performances on video clips.

AOL Video Blog is a collection of video clips.

Remote Central has remote control codes.

Free Documentaries has free documentaries - full length videos.

Blinkx TV - searches for stuff on TV - audio and video clips.

Myth Buster Episodes - short videos of the experiments by the wacky Myth Busters.

Penn and Teller - links to a handfull of videos of them doing their thing.

TV on the Web - PC Magazine discusses various sites that stream TV.

Ruels's TV-PC Page - has a lot of info on watching TV on your PC including a list of tuner cards.

World Wide Internet TV - watch over 2000 channels of TV over the Internet.

Beeline TV - TV over the Internet.

Hulu - TV and movies streamed for free although you have to register to get some of the content.

Invision.tv - is a guide for what's showing on the Web.

Tekzilla - 15 minute video recaps of daily tech news.

DiggReel - 15 minute video recaps of top Digg videos of the week.

MakeInstandPlayer is free software that converts any movie media file into a self-executing exe file. You can sent the exe file to someone and they can play it without fear of not having the correct codec.

Dailymotion is a Youtube-like site in high-def.

GBPVR is free software that turns your PC into a DVR media center as long as you have a tuner installed.

InstantWatcher shows all of the movies that are available for instant viewing on Netflix.