By Ward Triplett and David Frese
McClatchy Newspapers
Some day soon, the television and the personal computer will be nearly indistinguishable.
It’s happening before our eyes. We’re able to time-shift when we watch “Heroes” on our digital video recorders, and we’re sneaking peeks at snippets from last night’s “Colbert Report” on YouTube. To say nothing of downloads for our iPods.
Not one to overlook an audience (or a revenue source), the networks are taking their first steps in streaming video of old episodes of our favorite shows. We took a quick tour of the networks’ sites, and here’s what we found.
But first, a couple of notes: Some of this content is changing daily, so what’s here today may be gone later today. Plus you’ll need a broadband or high-speed connection. And sometimes even that’s not enough to watch the videos uninterrupted.