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MegVid is another streaming movie site offering mostly recent films from within the last 5 years. The site is clean and seems to be hosted on e-blogger with a few ads scattered across the site. The movie diversity is limited and all of the movies are hosted on megavideo meaning you're bound by the hourly time limit so its going to be difficult to watch an entire movie since they've recently brought down their limit from 75 minutes (1 hour and 15 minutes) to 50 minutes. The tips to bypass the time limit simply don't work. With that said there were a few movies that didn't work but the newer posted movies all seemed to work.

The Overall Ratings for MegVid:
Show Diversity: (2/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (3/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (4/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (2/5)
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.

Total Score: 13/20

MegVid is an ok site but it's mostly riddled with the oversight of most megavideo hosted movies disappearing or being deleted, and the minimal viewing time available to watch movies hosted on megavideo. It would do them better to improve the overall design of the site, and branch out to other hosts.

Humored TV is a comedy site that purports to be all about comedy & humour. They have lots of videos that looked snagged from YouTube, and the regular viral videos that have made their rounds. Some of the comedy videos on the site are really obscure clips that seem to be from small countries abroad that have a quirky sense of humor. There are a lot of comedy videos on here, a good deal of which are prank or slap stick and not entirely funny to me at least.

Asides from that the regular funny videos you'd expect on one of those just for laughs shows, there's a good deal of bloopers videos and just pure insane stunts gone awry. Peering through a few you get the feeling that there is no lack of idiocy in this world, with more and more people trying stupid acts of bravery or not well thought out stunts. But hey I'm here to talk about videos, not the content of them!

The Overall Ratings for Humor TV:
Show Diversity: (4/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (5/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (2/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (0/5): none
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.

Total Score: 16/20

Humor Videos is an interesting site, but the lack of categories makes it hard to navigate. There is plenty of funny videos to find on the site but it's a daunting task to watch some of them and go through page by page. If you like to laugh, you'll probably find a lot here - especially if you like slap stick (you know people getting hit in the crotch, igniting on fire from idiotically trying to light their hair or flatulence). Within the depths of this mega comedy video site are some golden gems but you really have to dig for them in lieu of categories. The complete absence of ads makes this worth checking out - if only more would embrace a similar mentality I wouldn't have need for a suite of popup blocking software.

Anime Seed is yet another anime episode streaming site. There's just way too many of these sites, but I guess they service a big need for anime. The site is quite nice looking, ads on the pages are quite sparse and the design looks great. The biggest problem is that it loads a chatroom widget on every single page which is both annoying and slow to the overall page load. There were 100 people in the chatroom, each time someone talks it makes a little "bing" noise, with just a quarter of those people talking it was fairly noisy and annoying.

Now while the main page is clean, the episodes are not. Each episode launches in a popup which again is a really annoying way to show episodes since you can't open them in a new tab. On top of that they have a full page ad that displays over the site every single time an episode is launched. This is highly annoying and most of the videos appear to be hosted on megavideo which has a time limit on how long you can watch for free. The site would be usable if not for the full frame ad appearing every pageload, coupled with the popup and chat widget.

The Overall Ratings for Anime Seed:
Show Diversity: (4/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (3/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (3/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (3/5)
Based on the annoyance level of advertisements on this site, the amount of ads, and the volatility of ads appearing on the page.
The lower the rating, the less annoying the ads are.

Total Score: 12/20

Anime Seed had the potential of being a good site, but the site really falters in that they load a chat widget on all pages except for episode pages. On top of that they made a very bad decision in having an ad that appears over episode pages for each episode viewed. This can make it extremely confusing to differentiate the ad from the episode site. Moreover making the episode pages pop up can be quite tedious as if you were to try and load multiple episodes for whatever reason you would end up having the popup reload with the new page each time you launched a new episode (it recycles the old popup so forget about buffering another episode as you watch one). Several of the episodes we tested worked, only a few were broken - it's an otherwise good site wrecked by the ads and major annoyances of the site.