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Top 5 Android Apps to install for Streaming Shows and Movies!

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The Low Down!

I’ve recently been looking to to stream all my favorite shows on my Android device and thought this would be a good chance to help others in the same process.   So here they are!

CBS Interactive, INC

I can watch several of my all time favorite shows like How I met your Mother, NCIS, CSI, Big Bang Theory, Under the Dome, The Good Wife, and even an old Favorite the Original Series Star Trek!  Everything you Might need to watch and more from one of the Biggest I’ve seen yet.   The Streaming part of this can be questionable, but I am hoping this is a WORK IN Progress, since they released this recently for the Android, IOS, and Window 8.   I can only hope!

Crackle — Movies and TV

Crackle, is constantly changing and adding some new and old series to their lineup.   I can’t give tell you who is going to be on their but they have some great Anime Series and Science Fiction Series that you might like to check out!

The Discovery Channel

The Discovery Channel has several that you might want to add to your favorites.  The Ones that I am quite happy with are Mythbusters.   There are a ton of other series you should check out but I just love the Mythbusters episodes and they are my main pick right now!

The History Channel

This has some great Shows and topics that you will want to check out including The Bible, Only in America With Larry the Cable Guy, and The Universe!   Although I don’t watch all these, it has some great shows and specials and stuff that is constantly being added.  I am constantly checking to see what else is being added on each month.

Hulu Plus (Download the App)

You will need a Subscription to Hulu Plus for $7.99 a month to use this on you tablet or even your phone but The main reason I am considering this is because of Doctor Who and Maybe a few others but that is the main reason.   Hopefully Hulu will be getting new episodes in fall but only time will tell! oh And on a side note, you should also install Netflix if you decide to go that route also.   They have some great streaming episodes and movies that you might want to watch on your android device also!  

These are USA Streaming only but you can obviously get around that by using a VPN service like VPN4ALL.  You can stream these and other sites or Apps with the free VPN4ALL app that you can get from the Google Play Store!

Know of any Android Streaming apps you recommend, leave a comment and tell everyone which ones you think are best!

ThePirateBay might be blocked in the US

Paul

I was looking around on Google and thought I just for giggles check out the Piratebay complaints. I tried going to the site and here’s what Popups:

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[ad#ad2-right]I tried on OpenVPN and my Local ISP, It keeps saying that. I then tried on my Cricket Modem and it tells me the connection has been interrupted, like something stops the connection in the first place. I can ping it and I can Tracert the Site but I can’t even view it. I would like to know if Anyone else is having this problem also. Although I’ve not checked Thepiratebay.org complaints for quite some time because I’ve been so busy with my website. If you want to watch your favorite shows check out these sites like Hulu, CBS, NBC, ABC, ABC FAMILY and TNT.TV for free. I am just curious as to what happened and does this have anything to do with Net Neutrality?   Anyway I wanted to talk about this and see what people are saying.  Anyone know what is going on?  Let’s talk about this and help everyone by saying what you know.   I don’t know if Thepiratebay.org is down but I do wonder if someone is preventing people from getting to the website.   I’ll update when I have more information.

CBS Confirms the Axe of Layoffs for CNET

Paul

CBS throws the gauntlet and says in a statement :

CBS Interactive continues its integration process, which now calls for the further combination of several portions of the division into unified groups oriented around similar content. This important move allows us to better align our premium content for our audiences and our advertisers, and also results in reduction in certain areas that are now duplicated in the new organization structure. We believe these moves are necessary to continue building CBS Interactive into the most creative, most efficient, most profitable and fastest growing Internet company in the media business.”

[ad#ad2-right]Now I can Only guess as to what they will re-organized but if it is anything like Jeff Gerstmann and how we heard people might resign over that little fiasco. I’d give the likely hood of several people from Gamespot and Probably even more people from C-NET. I don’t know who they will lay off but I do know they are going to re-organization. You will probably have to pay for content from them in one way or the other. This is somewhat not un-expected due to the Economic Stress we are currently in and Probably will be for some time.

If I hear what happens I’ll will update my post and all.  If you want to check out the other lay offs in the technology industry please feel free and click here.   I am sure to have more in the coming months.   Time is the only constant and will always be moving forward.

Western Kentucky Shooting.

Paul

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (CBS) ― Western Kentucky University was on lockdown Wednesday after someone reported seeing people with weapons in a building on a satellite campus and police later received reports that shots had been fired on the main campus, more than a mile away.

[via Wcbstv.com]

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Having been one of the few to live in Kentucky,  I wanted to let people know about this little development. According to Transworld : Western Kentucky University: Shots Fired on School’s South Campus, Armed Gunmen Still Loose.

I would like to hear what all happened.  So please talk about this.  Please remember to pray to all the people involved and ask that we keep a calm hand in this!!

*UPDATE*

5 students taken into custody on Western Kentucky campus

  • Story Highlights

  • NEW: 5 students taken into custody for questioning; police end campus lockdown

  • NEW: No shots fired, contrary to initial reports, university’s vice president says

  • NEW: Altercations originated at social event Saturday, continued Wednesday

  • Authorities believe altercation began at South Campus Building and moved

[Via CNN]

HD Ware in Downloads!

Paul

Although, I think HD is the same thing as Blu-ray.  Most people now a days are looking into the the download section instead of having a DVD.  So here is what I think they missed.  Some things you might be missing is that Hulu has decided to take on the cause and start publishing the HD videos.

Having seen, the devastation of the format war. Engadget talked about this same little thing.   Either way I think we only begun to see the relevance and cost of downloading.  We’ve got two different formats trying to get on the bandwidth of your local ISP.  Here’s where it get hard.  Which of the two would you rather download, a 8 gig or a 20 gig file.  Then you have to think of how much time it will take to download the file so you could watch it.

As you can see it gets so hard to download all these types of files when you could stream it.  Yes you could download it but downloading it takes time.  Why not watch it in relatively short time, like 10 minutes or so!! So I thought I throw out a few ideas on stream this HD without having to download it.

Hulu

As with Anyhting else, You can have standard definition videos and High Def Videos come from this little site.  It takes so little time going to site that you to can find some really good videos at this.  This show That I used as an example.

Hulu HD

CBS

Having been using CBS for all my standard def and high def experiences.  I’ve found that this site is also just as good as Hulu.  Although I think Hulu is the best there is, this is definitely second on my list!!


NBC

NBC has so many shows coming to there fall line up, I actually have them on my list also for third.  Although they will never compete with Hulu due to the fact they have server and lag issues they have been really nice to go to when I need to find a program that I’ve missed or wanted to watch.

ABC Family

ABC Family has so many good shows on that are original and also very nice to watch.  Most of these others that I’ve listed. The one that I like is:

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Fancast

This is the the last one.  It’s called fancast.  They actually have like a variety of networks linked into this little site.  They have NBC, CBS, and Hulu which is really good.  I like to go here to find some of the ones that others don’t have.  Let me show you one  of them that you can only watch at fancast.

Farscape

I am sure there are others that you can only watch there on Fancast but that one is the one that I’ve found that I can only watch there.  You can even watch trailers there to.  If you know something that I’ve missed please leave a comment.  I want to find out more free streaming sites.