Cut Your Cord with Free Tube TV
As inflation continues to soar, you can rest assured that thankfully there's alternatives to expensive products that we want, but don't necessarily need - entertainment and cable subscriptions being one of those things we cherish, even if our wallet doesn't.Fortunately, FreeTube, a site from 2006 that we thought had disappeared has come back with a renewed platform offering a host of legal and free-to-watch cable TV channels you can enjoy from your browser. A lot has changed with technology, and you no longer need to have flash or operating system-based video players, like WinAmp or RealPlayer or Windows Media Player, to watch these live tv streams anymore.
The streams load very fast and channel changing is now simple with the categorization made more static than the site previously had featured nearly 2 decades earlier. I was able to watch CNN before flipping to MSNBC and then watching Discovery Channel and even other independent TV channels dotted across the continental USA.
I would love to see more International channels and the library build-up to 1000s of channels, as Free Tube had previously boasted in the early days of the web 2.0 streaming era. However, this is a great start and I can't wait to see more.
The Overall Ratings for Free Tube Live Streaming:
Show Diversity: (5/5) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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.
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: (4/5)⭐⭐⭐⭐
Final Comments:
Great site, can't wait to see more live tv channels. Works on mobile, as well as desktop which is a nice perk in the 16 years since we first featured it.
Labels: free tv shows, live tv, movies, tv links
ShowLinks TV
Show Links TV is another directory of video links to tv shows and movies. The site is fairly straightforward in theory, select a show and select an episode and start watching. However, navigating within the show between episodes was very slow and it took a few minutes to get the episode list loaded between each season.
Fortunately many of the episodes have multiple links / sources so that you can try to find a host that works best. Many of the links I checked (MegaVideo) were deleted, so the list doesn't appear to be regularly moderated or cleaned.
Not having much success with TV shows, I decided to switch over to movies to see if I'd have more success with it. But unfortunately the experience was worse - as I wasn't able to expand the categories. So back to watching TV shows it was, and a quick search on Bob's Burgers revealed many links for season 1- but they were all broken or deleted. Sigh!
The Overall Ratings for ShowLinks TV:
Show Diversity: (3/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (1/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (4/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (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: 10/20
Show Links TV simply didn't work. In the 30 minutes I spent surfing the site, I was unable to find a working link for a show that I wanted to watch. I tried nearly seven different TV shows, but to no avail.
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (1/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (4/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (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: 10/20
Show Links TV simply didn't work. In the 30 minutes I spent surfing the site, I was unable to find a working link for a show that I wanted to watch. I tried nearly seven different TV shows, but to no avail.
Labels: free tv shows, movies, tv links
Watch Terra Nova Streaming Online
Terra Nova Streaming
Terra Nova is a new (Fall 2011) Fox TV show that mixes Dinosaurs, mystery, timetravel and a mysterious island. Some critics have called it Jurassic Park meets Lost, but nonetheless the show appears to have its following. Terra Nova Streaming is a site that offers TV episodes on the show. Or at least that's what I thought, until I started surfing the site and realized that there was little else but ads and roadblocks that force you to sign-up for some joke-of-the-day text message service that barely seems legitimate.
After filtering through, Terra Nova Streaming did have actual episodes (hosted on videoBB), but accessing them requires either tweaking your browser to disable javascript and the ads or signing up for some pay-service that you'll regret joining.
The Overall Ratings for Terra Nova Streaming:
Show Diversity: (2/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (4/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (3/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (5/5)
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: 9/20
Terra Nova Streaming has a nice site design that fits in with the theme of the show, but the roadblock ads that stop you from viewing anything without signing up for some shady service renders this website useless. Stay away, far away!
http://www.terranovastreaming.com
Labels: fox shows, free tv shows, tv links
Watch Glee Episodes Online
It's pretty obvious what you should be getting with "Watch-Glee.com", but in case it isn't - the site lets you watch the tv show Glee, a popular parody of high-scool musical type teen dramas. I don't quite understand the popularity of the show, but that's what these reviews are meant to discuss. Watch-Glee.com is a fairly straight-forward cookie cutter tv site with some brief info, character descriptions and music videos from the show. In addition to the regular tv fan site information, as of writing this article - it lists two seasons worth of episodes that can be watched directly on the site.
Ads are a problem on Watch-Glee, with the main section being fairly unobtrusive, but video pages being riddled with too many ads and distractions. It becomes a little confusing to identify how to watch the actual episodes as you navigate through to the actual seasons/episodes. Upon surfing through and finally finding the list of sources to watch the video on, it appears they only link you to major regional tv broadcasters that link to episodes (e.g., Fox's website and Hulu).
The Overall Ratings for Watch Glee Episodes:
Show Diversity: (2/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (1/5)
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
The time taken to navigate the site and load videos.
Ease of Navigation: (2/5)
How easy is it to use and navigate.
How easy is it to use and navigate.
Advertisements: (4/5)
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: 9/20
Watch Glee is not worth visiting, asides from the obtrusive ads that appear on the episodes pages, the site does not offer any real means to watch actual episodes asides from links to Fox, Hulu and other country-locked TV stations that host the episodes. If you happen to be outside of North America or the UK, you're out of luck to watch episodes on this site.
Labels: episodes, free tv shows, glee, tv links
DNA Tube - Science Videos Explored
The site offers a slow-down feature, which is pretty neat albeit useless for many of the videos housed on the site (not sure why you would need it). There's also little activity on the site in both comments and videos uploaded to the site.
The Overall Ratings for DNA Tube:
Show Diversity: (2/5)
Based on the mixture of television shows available on the site.
Loading Speed: (4/5)
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: 11/20
DNA Tube falls short of its claims of providing educational science videos. The content, while educational in nature, appears to be all the over place and there really are too many ads on this site to be useful to children and educators alike. All in all, there are better sites for science and DNA content - including the Discovery Channel's video section and YouTube's science section.
http://www.dnatube.com
Labels: dna, educational, free tv shows, science
The Choose And Watch Manifesto
Choose And Watch Television is the ultimate portal for reviews on live streaming television sites. Each week we'll try to collect a handful of sites to watch TV episodes and Live Television streams and briefly review them. The main purpose is to give you a great collection of sites that you can get your fill of entertainment from.
Í don't intend to post tv shows or anything of that sort here, so don't come asking for it. Instead we'll post some great kick ass television sites, and you can head on over to check them out. I'll try to update this every week, so subscribe to our RSS feed to make sure you're always one step ahead of everyone else on the best sites to watch shows.
There's really too many crap sites, or sites just out to make a very fast buck and don't even have real episodes or shows. Plus now some sites are taking to begging for donations or using that dreadful Zango spyware. We will not tolerate any site that has mandatory registration, Spyware or Malware, or requires you to download a customized player for the site (no that doesn't mean Flash player, but rather special extra programs to play the videos besides Flash or Div X). Comments will be open for everyone to comment on the sites, maybe we missed out on something that you can correct.
We will not take any money or bribes to review sites, so no paid ads or sponsored reviews. That means we will be fair unobjective - any site that can't stand up to the criticism shouldn't operate. And any site that won't pledge to rejecting bribes or payment for reviews is not worth your time. Don't put up with it.
Cool links:
OvGuide Free Web Hosting A List Directory
Í don't intend to post tv shows or anything of that sort here, so don't come asking for it. Instead we'll post some great kick ass television sites, and you can head on over to check them out. I'll try to update this every week, so subscribe to our RSS feed to make sure you're always one step ahead of everyone else on the best sites to watch shows.
There's really too many crap sites, or sites just out to make a very fast buck and don't even have real episodes or shows. Plus now some sites are taking to begging for donations or using that dreadful Zango spyware. We will not tolerate any site that has mandatory registration, Spyware or Malware, or requires you to download a customized player for the site (no that doesn't mean Flash player, but rather special extra programs to play the videos besides Flash or Div X). Comments will be open for everyone to comment on the sites, maybe we missed out on something that you can correct.
We will not take any money or bribes to review sites, so no paid ads or sponsored reviews. That means we will be fair unobjective - any site that can't stand up to the criticism shouldn't operate. And any site that won't pledge to rejecting bribes or payment for reviews is not worth your time. Don't put up with it.
Cool links:
OvGuide Free Web Hosting A List Directory
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