Subscribing to Hulu Plus or Netflix is a great deal—until you find yourself on a less-than-perfect Internet connection. Perversely, your streaming media library is most valuable in places where you ...

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Online streaming services are now a dime a dozen, but not all streaming services are equal. Some let you download TV shows and movies for offline viewing. Others don't. Taylor Martin CNET Contributor ...

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Streaming video is great, but sometimes it’s more than you need—or more than you can run, if you’re away from an Internet connection. If you like to listen to podcasts, lectures, or other audio while ...

The promise of streaming is that, with a decent internet connection and enough cash to pay for a monthly subscription fee, you can essentially watch whatever you want, whenever you want it. But what ...

Today’s online video publishing market is a mix of user-generated and premium content. Major movie studios are trying desperately to control distribution of their premium content by protecting their ...

When you play streaming content over the Internet using VLC Media Player, VLC caches a small amount of content on the computer to ensure continued playback in the event of a connection interruption.

Don’t let a long flight or a loss of signal get in the way of your music and video streaming: Just about all the popular services let you cache downloads for offline use, and Netflix just upgraded its ...