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We’ve reported ad nauseum to “watch live TV online Everywhere” initiative, which lets you view some of your subscription-based cable programming such as HBO on computers tablets and smartphones. More channels are coming soon, including Showtime. Cinemax recently went live with MaxGo. There is, however, another source: a computer software program called PlayOn and its companion, PlayLater. PlayOn, which is part of MediaMall with corporate headquarters and administrative offices in New York and Seattle (software development is headquartered in Copenhagen), gives you access to full episodes of TV shows and movies available from a number of Internet sites including Hulu/Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon Instant Video. That means if your CBS/NBC/ABC/Fox shows are available from any of those sites, you can watch them on your mobile device even if the device itself doesn’t formally allow them. (For example, Hulu is still banned from being used on most Android mobile devices.) The company is also adding a channel plug-in store that lets developers and the public create their own channels and channel lineups. How about watching Keith Olbermann’s “Countdown” or “Beavis and Butthead”? C-SPAN or Bravo? It gets better. PlayLater, announced this fall, lets you record any of those shows or movies and watch them whenever and wherever you want. And in breaking news, PlayLater will soon let you transfer those recorded shows to your mobile device so you can watch them even with no Internet connection. With PlayOn installed on a newer powerful computer (with a dual-core processor), an Internet service providing greater than 1.5 megabits per second download, and a PlayOn app on your Apple or Android device, you can now watch a relatively large selection of current TV online programming on demand without turning on your TV set. Want to watch Fox Network’s “Glee” or ABC’s “Revenge”? Your subscription to Hulu Plus or Amazon will get you there through PlayOn even though both services are hard to get on some Android devices. Don’t have subscriptions to Netflix, etc.? PlayOn has a variety of free sites with a goodly amount of programming. For example, on TV.com, watch current episodes of CBS’ NCIS franchise or “The Good Wife.”
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