Internet TV continues to acquire attention over the past few years. As online bandwidth continues to grow, so has the access television programming on the Internet.

Total viewers for on-line video content has ballooned during the last three years. Now by using the most recent report from Neilsen showing that more than 137 million People in the USA watched some type of web video clip during December 2009, a growth of 10.3 percent against the identical month in 2008. These 2009 viewers likewise streamed over 10.7 billion videos in the month. It provides an expansion of 11.8 percent vs the same time span in 2008.

Now it's getting easier and easier to watch television , although only a very short time ago you'd genuinely have to search for your trusty programs, and usually come up empty, now a days there are plenty of avenues to locate TV programs and also films on the Internet with a quality which rivals the over the air versions.

Two gigantic leaps during the last 2 yrs have triggered the improvement. These have been in the computer design and manufacturing as well as in the software program that enables you to view TV on your computer The first is in the PCs design: You now can view 12,000 movie or television stations via TV on PC

The best way to view TV on your computer is through connecting your TV by means of a High-definition multimedia interface cable directly to your Computer. PC manufactures are beginning to realize that there's a need for people to connect their PC’s via HDMI with the their TVs and as such have started to manufacture several systems that have an HDMI connector output. This enables consumers to have both the video and audio using their computers, to record and then to play back on their TV’s.

Long gone are the days when you needed to run both video and audio cables from your PC to your TV. Another upgrade that PC's manufactures are beginning to incorporate into newer computers are remote controls, which allows you to actually use your computer just like a set-top box, enabling viewers to sit back on their sofa and control their PC without a keyboard and mouse. The HDMI connection allows you to see Hi-def quality TV from your PC. You today can watch 12,000 movie or television stations via TV on PC

This development in software allows users the look and feel of how they are used to watching television and also a standardize programming guide and DVR functionality ..plus a whole lot more. End users are now able to use their included remote controls to scan 1000s of channels of TV programming, movies, games, music, sports, pictures, home videos, you name it …anything that you can now do on your computer you can run on your television, except that the involvement is a lot more like TV and a lot less as a computer.

A few of the titans in the industry you may know, while others are starting to come into their own. YouTube has been in business for a number of years and leads the pack with billions of videos watched monthly, second in the race with more quality television programming is Hulu. For online viewing of movies Netflix has topped the pack over the last couple of years. You can literally watch pretty much any type of TV on your PC or movies over the Internet and have the type of expanded experience that regular TV just can’t offer and without many of the costs of cable TV or satellite TV. Of course, you will still need a DSL or Cable connection to your computer. When you know all the details that surround setting up such a system it then begins to be enjoyable!

Then you make sure you new Computer is equipped with a HDMI link.

By Russ McGinn