Internet site of the Week | Bangkok Post: tech

Quickly becoming one of my favourite Internet sites, tvgorge.com is the perfect fit for those living in the Kingdom wanting to find good television programming to watch and not finding it on UBC. Or is it True now? Or True Visions? Or whatever it is. And the best thing about it is that it's free and allows users outside of the US to view the content.

A lot of media services in the US are starting to restrict listening or viewing or buying by ''geotarding'' _ they look at the your IP address, and if you're not in the US, you're not allowed to listen, or watch, or in some cases buy, whatever is on display. Sucks.

Music companies and e-book companies are not talking about having ''contracts'' for each country, and Thailand, with its history of piracy (of virtually anything from Gucci handbags to television series) is not exactly high on the list. In fact, if you live in Thailand you can expect to be, more and more as time goes by, excluded from the offerings on the Internet.

Be that as it may, I suggest you enjoy http://tvgorge.com while you can. And there's much to enjoy. All 24 episodes of 24 of all eight seasons, for example. Video quality is fairly good and you can watch in full-screen mode. You can tune it to present or past series.

Offerings include The Amazing Race, Numb3rs, Medium, Ghost Whisperer, Caprica, The Marriage Ref, Private Practice, Burn Notice, The Mentalist, Archer, Grey's Anatomy, The Office, American Idol, Survivor, CSI, Nip/Tuck and much more. There's 24, Chuck, NCIS, The Cleveland Show, Family Guy and South Park. There's even Steven Seagal: Lawman. Plus Smallville, House, Heroes. The list just goes on and on.

One can't help but wonder: why? For free? Here's what they say for themselves: ''The TVGorge mission is to bring high quality streaming television shows to the masses. We accomplish this with our proprietary indexing service that constantly scours the web for the the top file sharing links.

We also rely on our loyal users to submit links to our database. Our indexing service currently supports Zshare, Megavideo, Wisevid, Supernovatube, Movshare and many other file sharing websites.

Once our indexing engine finds, sorts and saves these links, our users (yes you!) help determine which is the best source by reporting dead links and bad quality sources.''

Well, thank you!