23. Watching Movies, TV Shows, and Other Videos

How people watch TV shows and movies is changing. In the old days, your living room TV was tethered to your cable company’s cable and you watched whatever it was they had available. Or maybe you stuck a DVD into your DVD player to watch movies on your TV set.

Today, more and more people are cutting the cable cord and ditching their DVD players to watch streaming video over the Internet, on their personal computers. The Internet is home to Netflix and Hulu and other streaming ...

Get Computer Basics Absolute Beginner’s Guide, Windows 10 Edition, Eighth Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.