# What site to stream cable tv online?

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**Created:** [March 27, 2014, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-site-to-stream-cable-tv-online/684666 "2014-03-27T04:55:32Z")\
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Can I add a follow-on?

Can a XP Home SP2 laptop stream any of these services? I looked at Netflix, which made a big deal of all the different platforms they supported, but plain, old, vanilla PC’s were not on the list.  
(neither was a decnt list of available content - from their site, it would appear that they offer about 300 movies and nothing else. I suspect they have a bit more to sell.

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