Recently many of the traditional television broadcasters have begun circumventing the standard form of program distribution and have started airing entire episodes on their web sites. Several of the major network's such as NBC, ABC, Discovery, and ESPN now offer entire shows on the web, most with fewer commercials than their traditional counterparts. One of the best places to find free, high quality and commercial free TV on the web is PBS and a good show for everyone in this class to watch that is both entertaining and informative is wired science. This form of broadband media is more inline it the original vision of the internet, but does not have the feedback mechanisms necessary to classify it as web 2.0. This is good for the internet in general though because it is only natural that all forms of media begin to move to the fastest and largest data distribution network in the world: the internet. I myself have been without cable for two months now, I cut my bill in half by just paying for my internet connection and now I can still watch most of the programming I would have paid for before. Of course these sites have commercials and ad-space needed to make such streaming video feasible. Studies suggest that TV might one day be surpassed in viewers by the internet and this seems to be moving at an exponential rate.
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The Wired Science videos page is pretty cool. I watched the one on the company that tested baseballs; clear slow motion shots.It loaded fast and had really good video quality.
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