Tivo and other DVRs have reinvented how television works and how we watch it. These devices have grown in popularity, and as a result the monthly costs have gone up. How would you like to be able to do the equivalent for free? You basically get video-on-demand on your computer. The one caveat is that you aren’t able to skip commercials. It’s coming from a company named Joost, which is a creation of the folks who started Skype. It’s like YouTube for copyrighted television shows and movies. The Internet is going to become the new outlet for watching shows. NBC and ABC replay recently-aired shows on the Internet already, so there are a few ways you can do this. The player is usually small or the resolution not so good, but that will improve.