Below are a list of sites offering up free stream feeds, whether it be film, television, or amateur videos. I won’t comment on the loading speed, as it will vary with your Internet connect. As alway, feel free to contribute links.
Streaming Broadband Television
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4tv
“The world’s first combined resource for free television viewing on the Internet.” Over a hundred fifty streaming channels displayed in the site’s pop-up window.
BeelineTV
“Free online television channels from around the world.” A small selection of free and paid broadband video streams which play in your media application.
Channelchooser
“Channelchooser is a free TV-portal. Watch here only the best online news, entertainment, sports, music and information TV-channels.” One of the oldest streaming video sites on the net. The site offers over seventy channels, and features a much more mainstream fare than most streaming sites. Channels include Comedy Central and HBO Comedies. Links open a new window to the stream’s site.
ChannelKing
“Channel King provides the best selection of free Internet TV channels. Free broadband TV channels from around the world enable you to watch TV from anywhere with broadband. Large collection of TV channels on the Internet for free.”
Choose and Watch
“ChooseAndWatch is a free TV portal where you can watch more than 300 online TV channels. Some of them have to be good.”
FreeTube – A completely free alternative to cable television that lets you watch TV channels and TV shows online using just your browser. Channels stream in the main window.
Internet TV Search Engine
Community powered Search Engine for Live streams, video sites, online tv guides, vodcasts, etc. Link take you directly to a stream’s website.
Medinalia
“All world media online just a click away.” This site offers links to over sixteen hundred television stations and fifty-two hundred radio stations from around the world. Streams load in a window on the site.
Streamick
“Streamick.com provides the largest broadband internet TV service of the web.” A directory of free stations which only play in the main window of the site.
Squid TV
“Squid TV is the streaming television guide to Live broadcasts and On-Demand video clips from around the world.” A directory of links that take you directly to the stream source.
TVlinks
A directory of links to the most popular tv shows, cartoon & anime series via streaming sites around the web.
wwiTV.com
“The ultimate guide to live TV webcasts” This site is an enormous directory of television stations that stream their programming online. Mainly the stations are public access stations. It isn’t exactly riveting programming, but I spent an hour surfing around the site before I even knew it. It’s much akin to the pleasure I derive from spending an afternoon surfing through Wikipedia. I especially enjoyed HYPtv, the short film channel listed under UK stations. Streams are played in a pop-up windows or in your own application, depending on the link.
Streaming Movie Sites
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Liberated Films
This site streams a modest selection of short independent films.
PeekVid
A great site that provides links to streams of pirated movies and television shows.
Video Sharing Sites
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Current
“Current is a global television network that gives you the opportunity to create and influence what airs on TV. Current is about what’s going on: stories from the real world, told by you.”
Daily Motion
“Dailymotion is about finding new ways to see and show the world.”
EEFOOF
“eefoof is a community driven website built around one principal rule: the authors of Internet content should be paid for their work”
MetCafe
“Metacafe is one of the world’s largest online video broadcasters with a global audience of 16 million unique visitors (comScore Media Metrix) watching over 400 million videos each month. Using our VideoRank technology, Metacafe is the only site that mines the collective wisdom of its audience to filter and surface the most entertaining videos, making it the best place to both watch and distribute high quality video content.”
Tape it on the Internet
Over two thousand TV shows, including over 90,000 episodes shared on a file network by other users, including all the big shows like Lost, Prison Break, etc.
Veoh
“Veoh is a Web site that’s headed for your TV. It’s also the name for a suite of applications for collecting, publishing, and watching a vast selection of HD-quality video programming. Veoh is a diverse, virtual community of indie publishers coming together with their new audiences.”
YouTube
Duh. Do I really need to comment here?
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