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TheTVDB wants to become the IMDB for TV

Whenever you want to find detailed information about a particular movie, IMDB (Internet Movie Database)is the place to go. If you go and search Google about a movie, chances are that you’ll get an IMDB page on the front page search result. This simply means that IMDB is the big daddy when it comes to providing information about movies.

What TVDB is trying to become is IMDB, only for TV shows. They aim to bring you comprehensive information about every TV show that is available out there. You can find out about the actors starring in a TV series/show, the first air date, air day, Network, genre and much more.

The site is an open database that can be modified by anybody. All you need is to get an account in order to start contributing to the site. On the technical side, the database schema and website are open source under the GPL which is available at Sourceforge. The site also has a full XML API that allows other software and websites to use the information in TVDB.

This certainly narrows down the browsing time for TV fans exploring the TV network websites just to look up their favorite TV shows. If you are looking for new shows to watch and want to gather information about them, TVDB is a great place to start.

Tags: database, IMDB, The TVDB, tv shows, TVDB

Watch 3000 Free Live Stream TV Channels Online

OnlineTVChannels is a live streaming video aggregator which currently delivers about three thousand (3000) TV channels from more than seventy (70) different countries around the world right into your browser. There are many websites that caters a service like this one but OnlineTVChannels has the biggest collection of channels that I have ever seen.

This is a pretty cool site to bookmark. If you are too busy doing stuff in front of your computer and wants a quick break and watch some TV. People taking a vacation or working abroad can also use sites like OnlineTVChannels for viewing their local channels wherever they are in the world (as long as they have internet of course). The website supports Windows Medial Player, Flash and QuickTime plugins for their videos, so be sure to have those plugins installed for the video streams to work in your browsers. Most of the channels streams well while others are lagging. It is not clear which bandwidth is OnlineTVChannels using since they are a video aggregator site so I guess it is good to assume that the streaming speed will also depend on the original site hosting the videos. You do not have to register to start watching. Registration is only needed if you want to comment.

Tags: Entertainment, Free, live streaming, online, tv channels, tv shows, tv stream