The CW has finally joined its network brethren in offering up full episodes of TV shows on the web. Beauty and the Geek, Supernatural, Veronica Mars, One Tree Hill, Everybody Hates Chris, All of Us, Girlfriends and The Game are all available for free.
The CW's video player is based in your web browser, and requires installation of a plugin. But that takes less than ten seconds. My biggest complaint is that the video quality is far lower than that offered by sites like NBC and Fox. While the video player occasionally jumps up to 700+ kbps, most of the time it streamed video at just 227kbps.
That said, there's plenty to like about the CW's offering. There are no commercials, you can skip to any point in the show, and there are several episodes of each program available for viewing at a time. It's a perfect solution if your PVR died on you and you just need to catch up on the last few episodes. The only thing that would make it better (besides higher video quality), would be if you could pop the video out of the browser and make it truly full screen.
1. i just want to know when will Greg on Everybody Hates Chris have a bigger part. The kids are the youth of the CW. Chris and Greg bring the nationalities together. When i was younger and now looking @ my kids and there best friends. They are always together. Even if they get in trouble they tend to be together. Chris is the show but Greg should be everywhere with him.
Posted at 7:50PM on Jan 20th 2007 by jim