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WizMovies is a movie streaming site, which is quite easy to navigate with a list of genres on the side to sort through the movies. They have quite a few movies, and some are hosted on Google Video which loads relatively fast - while others take the standard route and are hosted on the awfully slow Youku and Tudou.

There are a good deal of links that are broken, the embed displays but the video appears to have been deleted. I'm not sure what the update rate is for this site but there doesn't seem to be a high turn over rate since most of the movies are hosted on the slow but reliable Chinese video platforms. Certain movies have alternate sources using hosts like MegaVideo, GoogleVideo and GoFish. The quality of the videos aren't very good but are still watchable, some of the movies are cam copies which are blurry videos illegally taken inside a movie theatre when the film is first released in theatres. These tend to of very low quality with the audio being hard to hear and the audience of the theatre affecting the quality of the video and audio (it's common to hear laughter, coughing or to see sihloutted image of a person moving horizantally across the seats to leave or go to the washrooms).

WizMovies could be improved by having a search feature, currently you're limited to just looking them up on the full movie list section which is fortunately organized alphabetically. Also the site design is nice but the text is barely readable and some fine tuning could improve the readability of the page. There are also a few misleading link ads on the side menu that could confuse visitors, so that distracts from the overall use of this site but overall nothing serious asides from most of the movies being on slow and barely usable servers. But there are a few movies that are hosted on fast servers that are worth checking out.

The Overall Ratings for Wiz Movies:
Show Diversity: (4/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (2/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (3/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (2/5) (Affiliate Ads, Misleading Links)
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

Wiz Movies has a good deal of movies, the reason why this site is worth recommending is that its pretty clean of ads and while most of the movies can't be watched because they are hosted on slow servers - you may come across a few movies worth seeing that are hosted on reliable or fast servers. For this reason Wiz Movies is worth visiting if all else fails, but most of this is because the site is devoid of ads or popups - if they even include more ads without changing most of the videos hosted on their site, Wiz Movies would not be worth visiting. Currently they have a great balance between not being too obtrusive with ads, and having a fair share of movies that actually work.

Labels: movies