Monday, October 07, 2002
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It appears these days that not everyone is reaching for a remote control and a television when they are ready to watch their favorite video programming. A lot of you are turning to your mouse, keyboard and computer screen.

My call for your favorite sites that serve up video brought a wide variety of offerings. Here's a handful of the best:

• New Year's Eve Las Vegas (www.las-vegas-new-years-eve.com/)

Ted Newkirk enjoys reliving the fun on the Strip. The site features "both the full seven-minute fireworks show from last New Year's Eve as well as a five-minute exclusive of the revelers down on The Strip throughout the evening. If someone wants to know what they really missed, or show friends from other areas, this is it."

• Bay Meadows race track

(www.baymeadows.com/ video/index.html)

and Penn National Gaming

(www.pngaming.com)

Horse racing enthusiast Jay Richards watches the ponies live online. He writes: "Horse racing also has made giant strides in the area of streaming video in the past couple of years. A number of tracks now offer free streaming video for live races.

"Bay Meadows (in suburban San Francisco), offers three speeds for video streaming: 56 kilobit, 100 kilobit and 300 kilobit. ... Another site, Penn National Gaming, offers video streaming for live races at two speeds (38-128K and 300K) from quite a few tracks, seven days a week, both day and night, from their site.

• Eternal Word Television Network, Global Catholic Network (www.ewtn.com): In addition to video and audio on demand, the site features a religious gift shop, daily scripture and homily readings, and searchable libraries.

• IFILM - The Internet Movie Guide (www.ifilm.com): An anonymous reader submitted this as "a wonderful streaming media site." Watch short films, movie trailers, commercials and viral videos.

Share your Internet story with me at: agibes@reviewjournal.com and be sure to visit The Online Guy Web site at: (www.lasvegas.com/onlineguy)