Cyberaxis Media Center

The Bane of Media Usage: Unrelenting commercialism interrupted by useful tid-bits of information, is still there but there is something to be said for "free" TV, news, movies & documentaries that that one can get through the magic of the world wide web. The computer as your own personal console to the world of "free" content, as in non-subscription, is a revolutionary concept that for-profit cable companies don't like to think about much.

The internet and the erosion of subscription TV, cable and associated media

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AGGREGATORS

Hulu Television, Video and Documentaries

TV.COM Television

VEOH Television. Video and Documentaries

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NEWS PLUS

ABC News: Diane Sawyer

ABC Video

ABC Tech

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NBC

Today On MSNBC

MSNBC TV

Nightly News: Brian Williams

American Greed: MSNBC

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CBS

CBS Video: Up To The Minute

CBS News Main

CBS News:  Katie Couric

CBS 60 Minutes

CBS Face The Nation

CBS 48 Hours – Full Episodes

CBS 5 – KPHO Video, Phoenix, AZ

WRAL TV Video

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Portuguese TV

RTP Portuguese Television – Main Page

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CNN CHANNEL

CNN Video

CNN Main

CNN Tech

CNN Live

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VHI VIDEO

VH1 Video Main

VH1 All Music

VH1 Top 20

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YAHOO

Yahoo Video

Yahoo Tech

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KRON 4 TV News

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MOVIES

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BUSINESS

Bloomberg TV

Forbes Video

Fox Business Main

Fox Business On-air

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DOCUMENTARIES

Trails From The East

Future Express – Australia

DocumentaryWire.Com

Link TV Documentaries

Top Documentary Films

SnagFilms.Com

TV.COM Video and Documentaries

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

National Geographic

National Geographic – History

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EDUCATIONAL

Research Channel – USA

Link TV Main

Link TV Clips

BBC One

Fora TV

History Channel Videos

Diet TV

Wall Street Journal Tech Video

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MUSIC

O Canal De HipHop Portugues!

Link TV Best Music Videos

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MISCELLANEOUS

Entertainment TV (USA)

The Art Channel – USA

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SPORTS

High Stakes Poker

Poker TV

Yahoo Sports

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WEBCAMS

Appendix: The internet and the erosion of subscription TV, cable and associated media

This list of free TV, video, film and radio  is a work in progress. Links are gonna be added and deleted as time progresses. So if you find something you really like, save it to your bookmarks. Meanwhile, consider this your own Free Media Console. The smoothness of the play will depend of several factors like your connection, settings and or the streaming aspect of the website you are accessing. So be patient.

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“After Israel, Australia is the country with the highest percentage of immigrants in the world. A quarter of the population originates in other countries. Almost half the population is of Asian descent in the big urban centers. Most of them are young and well-educated. They are a new type of immigrant, able to fit in anywhere in Australia and around the world.”  (Link TV)

The internet and the erosion of subscription TV, cable and associated media

The best television is free. So is video when one considers the cost-benefit ratio of what the masses usually get. Crap is the coin of the realm and what passes for content is an unrelenting stream commercialism interrupted by bits of pertinent information and entertainment.

Going without cable or satellite is unthinkable to many Americans — just over 90% of U.S. households subscribe to some form of pay TV. But just as mobile phones have replaced many customers’ land-line service, Vittore said on-demand Internet video will soon whittle that 90% figure down. (Vince Vittore, Analyst, Yankee Group)

But all that is in the process of changing under the unrelenting onslaught of  the internet and associated technologies. Say hello to the more democratized milieu of the world wide web.

We at Cyberaxis are not deluded however. The ancien (media) regime is not dead. Corporations and their governmental cohorts still rule the world, but cracks in the edifice still do appear from time to time: cracks in which hardy foliage grows.

The internet has changed a lot of the rules of the game and the vested stakeholders, both corporate and governmental, are scrambling to jostle for new pole positions. (Read up on internet neutrality, privacy and custodianship of information in the brave new world.) And nowhere is this dissolution, this lysis, more evident than in the area of the old media versus the new.

Cable had a chance earlier in the decade to give us an a la carte service. They chose not to. It may be too late for them. The model is changing so fast they may never get the lost viewers back no matter how nice they decide to play now.  (Everett Hutchinson)

The subscription model of content as purveyed by the cable and satellite industry is being whacked by the internet just like the film, recording and newspaper industry were undermined by the same. The aspect of retributive justice is not lost on many. Free is the new good in the millenium of bits, bytes, hotspots and the brave new world of the world wide web. The Google story is very instructive of what has happened in terms of free content.

On the beaches of the world wide web, free is good. Hallelujah and thank you Jesus! (Photo by Avava)

As far as electronic content is concerned, start your search here for the yellow brick road that leads to the Emerald City. What we hope for is none other than a living manifesto of liberation ……  Liberation of the new netizen from the chains of the ancien regime.

Start with the Cyberaxis Media Center here.

This list of free TV, video, film and radio  is a work in progress. Links are gonna be added and deleted as time progresses. So if you find something you really like, save it to your bookmarks. Meanwhile, consider this your own Free Media Console. The smoothness of the play will depend of several factors like your connection, settings and or the streaming aspect of the website you are accessing.  In some cases you need to let the video load at little before commencing play. So be patient. We’ll get there.

I cut my cable service completely. I don’t pay for a home phone either. I found out that Comcast does not like that at all. They doubled what I pay for internet and capped how much data I can stream per month. $60/mo for internet is close to ridiculous. I read somewhere that internet only takes up the bandwidth of two channels. That means I’m paying $60/mo for two stinking channels. I hate Comcast. The value of cable has become so inflated, the market is bound for a correction at some point. I hope mobile broadband can give the cable company a run for their money. (Fill Westcott)

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Estimate: 800,000 U.S. Households Abandoned Their TVs For The Web (Tech Crunch)