This short article is about the great opportunities of online media streaming. While all of us have been through the tradition of watching TV through cable or satellite, we are still not able to enjoy what we want to watch at that particular moment.

Until now there are many sites that provide free online media streaming, such as YouTube, Hulu, Google video, and many others. They provide a wide selection of movies, short films, television shows, and news but all in some type of audio and video format. Even if your a sports fanatic you go on ESPN’s website and they will also provide video clips of previously recorded sessions for you to catch up on.

Just picture sitting at home late night having nothing to do, why not hop on a site and watch a favorite show or a movie right at your fingertips. Some sites will have a full series of shows and full length movies for you to waste the night away and joy is that you can watch it at anytime of day. While some sites provide a sore eye view, you may have to pay a small fee to watch a high quality picture but it still has more benefits and paying a much higher price for cable and not having the choice of picking your own television show does seem old fashion.

Just to get you started on the steaming media wagon, click on the link below and prepare yourself for countless hours of enjoyment and relaxation.

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Mobile phone technology has come a long way in recent years. In fact, at the rate things are going, mobile technology now lets a user do most operations normally done on a personal computer. Android technology is a particularly good example of this. Similar to a computer, the software used in mobile devices includes an operating system, middleware and key applications. Features of Android phones include application frameworks, Dalvik virtual machine, integrated browser, and optimized graphics, SQLite for structure storage, media support, GSM telephony, bluetooth, WIFI, camera, and GPS.

With all these amazing features, every Android phone provides excellent streaming capabilities. Video streaming of sports events, movies, music and other media footage is an extremely popular activity. The advanced technology used by Android allows excellent Android video streaming capabilities.

The best way to get Android video streaming is to use Tversity and NSWPlayer. If you want to try this on your Android phone, there are some items that you will need to ensure the technology is properly utilized. Tversity must be installed on a personal computer, NSWPlayer must be installed on your Android phone, and a handbrake encoder for converting movies to lower resolution to optimize progressive playback. Once you have installed the items needed, there are some things to look at before you begin encoding your video. It is important to keep the video in high quality while making it the smallest size possible. It is also important to ensure the bit rate matches the resolution size. Once this is done, your video is ready to encode. Setup your handbrake encoder to minimize resolution and optimize playback quality. Remember that the speed of the whole process depends upon your personal computer’s hardware specification. Next step is to set up Tversity for streaming. Go to the Transcoder section and under “when to transcode” select “never”. Then go to the general settings section, and under home network enter in your computer’s IP address, that way your phone has access to your video files.

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Our definition of television has changed over the years. It used to be that you could only watch TV on your TV. If you wanted to watch a movie back in those primitive days you actually had to drive all the way to the store to buy or rent a DVD. Thanks to high speed internet we can now stream movies and TV from the cloud to all sorts of devices from phones to computers (and yes, even on your TV). Now that video streaming has proven to be insanely popular, dozens of online streaming services have come onto the scene, all competing for your attention and your money. That raises the question: which one is best?

Describing all of the streaming services available would be next to impossible, but here is my top-5 list of the most popular services out there.

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