TV!

So today I'm going to point you in the direction of another nice timewaster of a website. Alloftv.net is a website where you can basically watch TV on your computer. As of today; alloftv.net contains 514 shows and 12290 episodes. But who cares? If I want to watch TV, I can just turn on my TV, right? Well, yeah, but not all these shows are going to be on. My favorite part of alloftv is that is has some great old shows that you won't find on TV. Remember "Are you afraid of the dark"? It is on the website, free for you to watch. Or the X-Files, or Legends of the Hidden Temple. Some really cool old shows make it worth checking out. There are also new shows, so if you missed last week's episode of Lost (assuming there was an episode last week, I don't know I don't watch it) there is a good chance it is up on alloftv. The legality of all this could be questioned, is it piracy, etc. Well, I would answer that by comparing it to Pandora. Pandora is not piracy because you cannot download the songs to your computer. Likewise, you can't download the shows from alloftv. The owners of the website cover themselves further by pointing out that none of the shows are hosted directly by them, so they are not at fault for the content that they link to.

As I see it, the pros:

• LOTS of shows and episodes
• Really cool old shows not on TV
• New shows that you missed episodes of
• No downloading -> no waiting
• Right on the computer -> watch TV anywhere you can get online
• Few Ads
  

Cons:

• Sometimes there are missing episodes of a series, or only a few episodes, not always in chronological order

Overall this is a great website, I guess part of the Web 2.0 concept. The new york times actually mentioned it. Definately check this website out for a good time.