Recently it is much said that different information technologies approach and even completely integrate, television and broadcasting pass to digital formats, and the Internet provides access to the most various information in any format, including — audio and video. And this is true, and often development of technologies even overtakes hopes and expectations of ordinary users. For example, for a long time there is an opportunity to fully watch TV online.
For the solution of this task there are two main ways.
First, thanks to distribution of broadband access to the Internet, many providers together with a data service offer the clients an opportunity of transfer of a TV signal in a digital format. On the party of the subscriber everything looks very simply: the ordinary-looking small box connected on the one hand to an Internet cable, and with another to the television receiver, makes available to it dozens of TV channels in magnificent digital quality.
However there is also other way to watch TV online. Even if your provider does not provide such service, on many websites it is possible to find online broadcasting of TV channels. For example, on the website http://guzei.com/online_tv/ of such channels more than one thousand are transferred. It is possible to browse them as directly in the browser on Internet pages, and by means of the videoplayer. There are specialized programs for viewing TV programs from the Internet, but it is possible to use also the normal videoplayer, the majority of which (including standard Windows Media Player) support a possibility of viewing a video stream from the Internet.
Thus, already now most of Internet users has an excellent opportunity to enjoy favourite TV programs, not only without using the usual radio teleantenna, but even without TV, from the screen of the monitor at all.