People nowadays are spending a lot of their time in front of a television or a computer. In fact watching videos, either on the Internet or TV, seems to have become a national hobby. Video playback equipment has become an inseparable part of our lives. There was a time when we all used to buy or rent VHS tapes to watch a movie at home. The world has now shifted to the likes of VCDs and DVDs. However, thanks to the increasing popularity of the Internet, it is now possible to access and playback feature films, music videos, cartoons etc without spending a penny! Welcome to the new era of free videos.

No matter what your favorite program on television is, there are a plenty of sites that offer free videos of songs, movies, sitcoms and even news. These could be available for a download or it could be a streaming video. You have an option of accessing, previewing, playback or download. And if you are desperate enough to own it, you can buy these for a pittance.

Every one of the major website is moving in to catch on this craze of online videos. Talk of Yahoo, MSN or Google, all of them have their own hosting facility and most of these can be accessed as free videos. The latest offering in the field of free videos is the daily news. You can now watch daily news, as it happens, on the websites of the likes of CBS, CNN etc. Another new phenomenon catching fever is hosting of personal videos. These are the home productions that are uploaded on the host sites and are usually available for free.

We all have been using e-greetings for some time now. Well, the world has changed here also. The latest is the advent of free video postcards! You can have Marilyn Monroe singing happy birthday to JFK or even choose to personalize it based on your own preferences. Dont believe it? Check out one such site at http://tesla.liketelevision.com Last but not least, free videos are available for downloading on to our iPods also. iPods are becoming popular amongst all and the latest version comes with a facility for video playback. There are plenty of sites including iTunes that offer free videos for downloading to your iPod.

Who says you need money to buy things? There are some good things in life that come for free! The only catch is that you should be looking for it in the right place.