Watching TV and movies is one of the most common forms of entertainment in America, and accessing that form of entertainment is so easy for most Americans that they never even realize that in some parts of the country, it's quite difficult to do. In less urban areas, many Americans are unable to get cable TV because they live outside of an area that is served by several customers, and it's simply too expensive to extend cables to rural areas that lack enough customers. Moreover, many people don't want to pay the big monthly fees associated with satellite TV service, so these households simply don't have access to more than 3 or 4 basic channels, depending on which ones the antenna on their TV is able to pick up. In most of these rural areas, the towns are so small that there aren't enough residents to support a video rental store, and even if their town has a tiny rental store, it's usually filled with old movies that most residents have seen over and over. Instead of giving up, however, rural Americans can get their TV and movie fix by making sure they've got fast satellite internet service and using it to look for ways to legally watch those programs online.
In recent years, a large number of legal ways to watch TV shows and movies have been developed online. Viewers can opt to download programs or stream them online. If you want to be able to have full access to a TV show or movie, then it's best to pay a small fee to download it. Services like iTunes and Amazon make it simple and quick for you to locate the movie or TV show that you want to watch, pay a small fee, and then start downloading. If you're relying on a slow dial-up connection, it could take you days to get a short 25-minute program completed, but as long as you have a faster satellite internet connection, it won't take you more than a few minutes or hours to download whatever you'd like to watch. Once you've downloaded a program using your satellite internet service, you can watch it not only on your computer, but also on your big TV, smartphone or portable media player. To do so, you simply have to connect each one of those electronics to your computer and then transfer the file.
Rather than paying for access to any movies or TV shows, however, you can often find ways to watch great entertainment online for free. If you don't care about owning access to your favorite shows or movies, you can simply stream them online. Many big networks put their shows online for a limited time after they've aired, so as long as you visit those websites in a timely manner, you can stream several TV shows for free with your satellite internet access. Generally though, you'll have to sit through a few advertisements to do so. If you'd like to avoid those and have access to even more movies and shows, you can pay a small fee to subscribe to an online rental service like Netflix, which also enables you to stream movies over your satellite internet connection. No matter what choice you make, however, you'll be happy to discover that with so many online viewing options, staying in touch with American media is easy to do in rural America.
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