Posted on 11/26/2024 10:05:02 AM PST by ducttape45
Good afternoon all. I recently dusted off a Roku device I had boxed away. I bought it several months ago, never got much use out of it, and I boxed it away.
I decided to dust it off and plug it back up, but I realized I need to find some good streaming services to watch. I'm looking for suggestions; movies, TV shows, news, religion, all are welcome. Of course I'd like as many free streaming channels as possible!
I appreciate your time, and suggestions!
Prime is best IMHO.
There should be a “live tv” app preloaded on your Roku.....there’s all kinds of programming there.
TUBI has been ok and the Roku Channel itself has some old series. That is in the free space.
black friday streaming deals
Max is 2.99 a month for 6 months
HULU .99 for 12
etc
And the Roku app has a lot of movies.....but be careful, some of it is a little racey.
I like Tubi and Freevee, both of which are free
We use Amazon Prime and Netflix. I use Prime a lot more than my wife. I pay Amazon $3/month extra to get ad-free movies and shows. I HATE ads.
She uses Netflix a lot more than me.
I also subscribe to YouTube Premium to get various old movies without ads.
We will sometimes do a week-long free trial of a service to watch a particular show and cancel it.
Our local library provides a streaming service called “Kanopy” which is free with our library card. You get credits to watch movies and shows. I’ve never run out of credits. Kanopy has a great selection of older and more indy films.
I also rip DVD and Blu-ray movies from to my video server for later watching. I like a lot of older movies that are just not available on any streaming service. I often find used discs on eBay at good prices so I buy them and rip them onto my server. It’s a time-consuming process and the equipment is not cheap, so it’s not a solution for everybody.
Roku streaming is free and not bad. TUBI, PLUTO, and many other free movie streams. I suggest going to ROKU first and they will show you recommended Channels..
We love our Roku. We like to watch British detective shows, for various reasons, and have subscribed to BritBox. It’s $70/year, and worth it. After a couple of years we have watched most of their offerings and are considering a move to Acorn for similar content. For free, you can go to YouTube and search “film noir full movies” and find hundreds of great old movies. Freevee and Pluto are also good for free, but there are commercials. Bonus: Pluto has an MST3K channel. (IYKYK). For “regular” tv, we subscribe to YouTube TV (separate from plain YouTube). It is not cheap, but a bargain compared to Xfinity etc. For us, this is only for sports and cooking shows, but they also have all the network channels.
Beware Disney owns a big piece of Hulu.
Cord cutter here...
The must haves are
Plex
Pluto
Tubi
Freevee
All have free TV and free movies.
Plex has dedicated foodie TV channels.
Anthony Bourdain channel
Andrew Zimmern channel
Tastemade
BBC food
Plex has a mythbusters channel and modern marvels channel 24/7 if each.
Pluto has all the sci-fi 24/7 dedicated channels
Star Trek classic
Star Trek next gen
Star Trek voyager
Star Trek deep space nine
Stargate (SG1,Atlantis,universe) plays in rotation 24/7
James bond movie channel yup every bond movie looped 24/7
Tubi is movies and more movies free tens of thousands of them.
Freevee is Amazon Prime videos free outlet again tens of thousands of free movies.
For pay Hulu and Netflix are the best bang for the buck.
We also use Pluto TV. We subscribe to Philo for live tv for about $30 a month. It has a DVR system built in. We catch Hulu on Black Friday and do Prime and that’s about it.
Freevee is the free Amazon alternative. I like Tubi for old movies and Pluto for old TV shows. Pluto has plenty of conservative news channels too.
Pluto, Tubi, Roku Channel, Rumble, Youtube, Filmrise, NewsOn, FreeVee, Plex, and Fawesome are some of the free ones we have.
Prime is great. It has a lot more than you would think, if you just explore a bit. YouTube TV is more expensive, but way cheaper than cable options, yet it has as much as they do. I like the Criterion Collection; few movies these days are worth the time to watch, but everything on Criterion is excellent.
[...]In a statement provided to Variety, an Amazon representative said: “We have built Prime Video into a first-stop entertainment destination where customers can personalize their viewing experience by streaming exclusive Prime member entertainment produced by Amazon MGM Studios, licensed movies and series, content from other services as an add-on subscription, live sports, blockbuster movies and series to rent or buy, FAST [free, ad-supported streaming TV] channels and the complete Amazon Freevee content offering.”
The Amazon spokesperson continued: “To deliver a simpler viewing experience for customers, we have decided to phase out Freevee branding. There will be no change to the content available for Prime members, and a vast offering of free streaming content will still be accessible for non-Prime members, including select originals from Amazon MGM Studios, a variety of licensed movies and series, and a broad library of FAST channels — all available on Prime Video.”
Tubi has tons of old series that used to be on pay streaming services. Also, try Dailymotion, it’s free and has ads, but the place to find shows that don’t stream anywhere else.
I quit Hulu because they kept throwing the queer stuff in my face every time I logged in. Maybe it’s different now, but at the time, most major streaming services had “LGBTQ” content that they pushed to subscribers to disgusting degree.
I use mostly Prime, Tubi and sometimes Pluto. Pluto is the most cumbersome to navigate, IMHO.
As other have said, get a library card. You can get lots of movies and popular series on DVD/Blu-ray shipped from a library consortium to your local branch. Simple as going on line and requesting it. The contact you (text or email) when it’s arrived. Like old school Netflix back when you got the discs shipped to you. But you can keep them for 2 weeks.
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