Strangely, many people don’t appear to appreciate the ease and joy of watching television online. They appear to think it really is much harder than it really is… or they do not even recognize that the major televisions networks now provide many of their biggest hits online through various sites and services.

Watching TV online requires accessing a web page and clicking play. Many networks include the television programs right on their own own web sites (like NBC.com), but many more are now starting to integrate all their programming with the excellent free site Hulu.

You are not downloading these television shows to watch them through your computer. You stream them throughout the approved web pages. By stream, I mean you watch the tv show as it loads into your browser. You will not receive nor do you may need a specific video file to play on your home computer.

And yet even those that understand what I have explained so far still have not gotten into enjoying television online. Why? Since they associate internet video with low quality video. They think in terms of home-made videos uploaded to YouTube.

Yet the combination of improved internet connections and improved video compression algorithms now implies that you can even experience hi definition video online. These videos aren’t grainy or plagued by compression artifacts. They are crisp and clear, sometimes considerably more clear than what you view on your old standard definition television set.

And you no longer are limited to novelty videos from amateurs. You certainly will now find full length movies and all the episodes of an entire television series available for your perusal.

So get over the anxiety about technology and obtain over your preconceived notions of what web video means. It costs nothing but what you are already paying for your internet connection, it gives you the ability to what watch series you want in which you want and it allows you to tap in to a library of video much better than your TV guide’s listings.