Pluto TV is the best

I want to do this too, but I'll miss my local news and MSNBC and CNN.

The key is the spectrum login. Someone is paying good money for that subscription and it isn’t you. Lucky you! I pay like $140/month for Internet, cable, Netflix, and Hulu and friends/family leech off my Netflix and Hulu.

I’d love a cheaper option, but the moment I drop my cable/Internet package and just get internet, internet shoots up from $35/month all the way up $80. Those corporate aholes really figured out how to keep people away from Hulu tv and YouTube services. It just wouldn’t be worth the cost if I did that—I’d be paying the same thing.

Pluto has a 24 hour Family Ties channel. Rejoice!

Here you go, R1. Put that url in your smart tv’s web browser, and voila! You have the two news channels you want. Some channels there require you to use their VPN for a fee; however, CNN & MSNBC are completely free.

Pluto is a part of my cable service, but the commercials are relentless.

Having said that, I saw two BBC productions on it: the 10-part Anna Karenina from the 1970s and the more recent Little Dorrit.

I also saw about a half dozen low budget gay films I've never heard of before plus a couple I haven't seen in years. Plus they have God's Own Country.

Pluto is not a planet.

[quote]Pluto is a part of my cable service, but the commercials are relentless.

How? It's not a cable channel.

I’m addicted to America’s Test Kitchen airing 24/7 on Pluto.

I get it on my TV as part of Verizon

I only pay for streaming options to avoid commercials. I won't sign up for anything that has them.

It sucks balls

They sometimes have a few decent movies in their on-demand section. I do hate the interface Pluto's interface. Tubi remains my favorite free option. Still have Netflix and Amazon as well as Sling for a local option and MSNBC and CNN. If an antenna would work for me, I would dump Sling and go to MSNBC online.

The first three seasons of It’s a Living are on Tubi.

I'm hooked on the Weddings channel.

Particularly Bridezillas and Wedding SOS.

Dataloungers and their love of SHIT tv shows from the 70s and 80s! I don't know how anyone can watch that dreck in the present day.

Pluto will show good movies, and mindless drivel.

Try the Criterion Channel

I'm addicted to Pluto Tv and their Cops Tv channel. All for free!

Tubi > Pluto

Tubi isn't live tv though.

I’m so happy they have a 48 Hours channel now!

I’m watching it now^.

I’m thoroughly addicted to the America’s Test Kitchen Channel. But the old episodes with Chris Kimball’s smarmy ass are ANNOYING!!!

I'm confused by thise of you saying you get Pluto as part of your cable or Verizon account. Pluto is free. To everyone. So if you're being told you get Pluto as part of your cable or phone contract. . .what is it that you're getting?

scammed?

as they watch the crackling fire channel...

[quote] then I have Netflix, Hulu (the basic $5 offering) and Amazon Prime. No cable, no fire stick, no Roku, etc. Literally less than $20 per month in subscriptions

If you have Netflix, Hulu and Prime you are paying more than $20/month. Basic Netflix is $8.99, basic hulu is $6.99/month, and Prime is 12.99/month.

24 hour early 80s episodes of The Price is Right is all I need.

On Pluto watch The 80's "Price Is Right" Channel. It's hilarious and Bob Barker is so sexist, he even said one day he was a male chauvinist pig,, he wouldn't have made it a week today.

[quote] A friend gave me their Spectrum log in to use

Did you offer to split the cost of Spectrum with your friend? Or are you just a leech?

Most people in the 21st Century swap streaming passwords r30.

Love the 24/7 channels... RESCUE 9-1-1, UNSOLVED MYSTERIES, ST: TNG, FORENSICS FILES, COPS....

Forensic Files is my go to channel.

I love Forensic Files!

If you get a chance, check out Rescue 911. The re-enactments are HILARIOUS!

Setting kids on fire, power tool accidents, people getting electrocuted....

Are they still showing the same 12 episodes of The Price is Right from 1982 on an endless loop? That show has been on longer than I've been alive, there must be more episodes they can show.

I can't believe Bob Barker is still alive. I used to watch The Price Is Right when I was a kid in the 80s and he was an old man even way back then. Is he a vampire?

You can get free channels on roku tv as well.

I get it free as an app on my phone I just watch it there. The commercial breaks just seem to be when the normal breaks would have been - not that bad.

That said, it’s absolutely PERFECT for people our age - a 24h Price is Right and Love Boat channel? Come on!!

Surprised there haven’t been 1,003,000 threads on this.

[quote]That said, it’s absolutely PERFECT for people our age - a 24h Price is Right and Love Boat channel? Come on!!

Speak for yourself. I have no interest in revisiting the crap tv from my childhood.

R40 so feel free to visit any of the 1,000,000 other threads here.

(I’ll never understand people who do that)

FYI. There are thousands upon thousands of sites like these. You can find practically any movie or TV show commercial free as soon as they're released. Just make sure you are using an ad blocker & popup blocker.

[quote]Are they still showing the same 12 episodes of The Price is Right from 1982 on an endless loop? That show has been on longer than I've been alive, there must be more episodes they can show.

Not on my TV. I watch all the time, sometimes every night for months and have only seen two I saw before.

If it is loaded with ads, it is not free. I'd rather pay.

fancypants!

R8 smericas test kitchen is on u tube

Pluto is not bad at all with the ads, LOGO and the MTV channels are unwatchable. LOGO will cut into a scene in the middle of people talking and insert ads that weren't meant to be there,

R43 I'll have to try watching again. Like the other poster when I watched it was the same few episodes over and over. It is the same reason I stopped watching Hee Haw reruns on Circle, for the first few months it was the same episodes over and over.

r48, you may not want to waste your time. I just logged in and, yes, still 1982 episodes of "The Price Is Right." The guide currently lists Season 11, Episode 4714 as playing. Season 11 coincides with 1982-1983 TV season.

It’s desperate tv. desperate for something to watch that’s free, old and low on entertainment value.

Bridezillas on now is funny as fuck!

Staten Island trash with no tits and a gut screaming, "MA!!!!!!" over and over.

Don't get me started on the drama queen from Florida.

oh, they have some great movies.

how do you think i got my grad degree defending jethro sexual subjugation and jethreen's transgenderism?

Desperate 📺

YAS^

Watching 48 Hours now.

The channels do mostly suck, there is better stuff available for free on youtube.

No^.

I've been watching the original Tales of the City.

Watching Some like it hot on the Classics channel right now. Love it. I don't have cable so it's a great replacement

I probably posted in this thread last year but I also love Pluto TV. I've signed up for 6 months of HBO Max at $5/month, but really all I need is Pluto TV and a few antenna stations for the local news.

[quote] I want to do this too, but I'll miss my local news and MSNBC and CNN.

You'll be better for it.

Taxi is often on. I’m learning that show now

Tubi is better desperate tv.

JFC don't you bitches know how to watch shit on the internet?

Pluto is on the internet...

But cancelling cable and "I can't watch it anymore!"

JFC you can watch anything you want. This tech has been around for well over a decade.

Pluto has the most horrible layout/menu of any streaming service. It’s such a mess trying to navigate - way too cluttered.

[quote]Pluto has the most horrible layout/menu of any streaming service. It’s such a mess trying to navigate - way too cluttered.

Then just save the channels you like under Favorites and they'll be right at the top.

I love the Kung Fu Channel. Was never into Martial Arts movies but they everything from Bruce Lee's 70's claasic to new $100 million Asian movies with spectacular effects and almost always letterboxed. They even show "Man of Tai Chi" written and directed by Keanu Reeves that I didn't even know it existed until this channel.

I enjoy Pluto as well. I also watch a lot of programming on TubiTV. Last weekend I binged the first season of 'Firefly' that I never got to see when it first ran, for some reason. The last 2 days I've been binging sci-fi movies all day long. I love some of the foreign sci-fi movies they have. I just watched a wonderful German movie entitled 'The Wall', about a woman visiting a hunting lodge in the Austrian alps when an invisible wall surrounds the countryside and all life outside the wall seems to have frozen.

i'm bummed out because i cannot record onto blank dvds with my dvd recorder, any of this stuff! netflix, youtube, and so on.off the TV...

i thought this stuff was just like having HBO or Cinemax or whatever, but i guess no..

on a sidenote, i wonder why cinemax stopped showing all that great soft porn movie late at night stuff? they were KNOWN for that and now they went all legit?!... thank goodness i recorded tons of this stuff beforehand...

[quote]on a sidenote, i wonder why cinemax stopped showing all that great soft porn movie late at night stuff? they were KNOWN for that and now they went all legit?!... thank goodness i recorded tons of this stuff beforehand...

I would imagine because you can find the real stuff online for free. It’s not the 80’s/90’s anymore.

Once the internet became mainstream and everybody could get hardcore porn in two seconds, that was the end of the soft core Skinemax movies.

R73.. i hear you, guess i'm the minority that gets off on soft porn (yes straight) just as much as hardcore porn, to me hardcore porn is the dime a dozen, but to see actual actors (okay, not great actors, but actual actors nonetheless) acting out sex acts and intercourse in many ways to me is hotter than hardcore penetration shown porn...

I’m watching Friday the 13th Part 2 right now. I forgot how sexy the guy in the wheelchair is!

I’m watching 48 Hours.

Tubi has the first and second seasons of Soap, a brilliant and underrated show.

Who are these Tubi people? Enough.

I needed some soothing over the past few days so watched the Love Boat Channel non-stop for about 18 hours.

I just started watching Pluto and I have to say, the commercials are a bit much in that the breaks are really long. But being able to pick a channel and let it play away without me picking specific episodes (i.e. Forensic Files on Netflix) is really appealing to me.

R4 OMG you are my hero. How do you know about such back alleys???

Only downside is the “having trouble playing this title” happens and I can’t fix it without having to shut my phone down.

Pluto has a "Midsomer Murders" channel.

Yes, Pluto has a “British Mysteries “ channel, also Sky News but the commercials are endless. The series I just watched on Tubi had 3 30 second commercial blocks with a timer in the corner and somehow that was much less disruptive.

Tubi people—start your own thread.

Tubi and Pluto TV have differing libraries and business models - can’t we all just get along?!

Watching "The Price Is Right" now, the commercial breaks are exactly where thy were when originally broadcast because Bob Barker announces the break The commercials were 30 second spots for Geicko, Apple TV, State Farm, & new Dabl Channel. When originally aired commercials were a minute long so there was really only two ads and back to the show. Maybe your cable company is adding ads, but I don; think 2 minutes of commercials is out of line. As I said before watch LOGO and see ad abuse.

Just watched Hellraiser Inferno.

One thing that gets me about Pluto's commercials is many times they will play the same commercial up to 5 times in a row before they return to the programming.

Tubi's commercial breaks are significantly shorter.

Watching Forensic Files right now. Lots of antifreeze references.

Antifreeze is the goto.

I don’t watch anything but Forensic Files, Cold Case Files, First 48, 48 Hours, Teen Mom, Teen Mom 2, or 16 and Pregnant today. There aren’t any good films or TV today.

Forensic Files is like crack to me. Totally addictive. The formula they invented for that show was brilliant.

And yes, lots of antifreeze! A lot of stupid bitches who didn't know how easy it is to test for antifreeze.

[quote]I don’t watch anything but Forensic Files, Cold Case Files, First 48, 48 Hours, Teen Mom, Teen Mom 2, or 16 and Pregnant today. There aren’t any good films or TV today.

Perhaps, but one doesn't have to look very hard to find films and TV much better than the toxic swill you're watching.

Don't talk shit about Forensic Files r93! That is one of the best shows ever!

How dare you, R93.

[quote]I don’t watch anything but Forensic Files, Cold Case Files, First 48, 48 Hours, Teen Mom, Teen Mom 2, or 16 and Pregnant today. There aren’t any good films or TV today.

No... nope, too easy.

Too easy, kween.

I’m watching Terms of Endearment now on Pluto.

I’m watching old episodes of Unsolved Mysteries and loving it. The re-enactments are Lolol.

Family Ties for the win.

R100 I did that at the beginning of the pandemic. The best seasons are 1-6. 7 and 8 are OK, and then it becomes boring after that.

I enjoy Cops the TV show on Pluto. Damn, Deputy Mitchell Leuzinger of Escambia County is one fine officer! What a hunk!

[quote] I want to do this too, but I'll miss my local news and MSNBC and CNN.

If you're open to trying some alternative live news shows, you might want to go to youtube and watch Sky News from the UK, DW News (Deutsche Welle English) or France 24 (English). They all have live feeds running. There are probably others.

PlutoTV really does a good job considering it’s free. Their offerings are extremely varied given the programming library they are accessing.

Try Moviebox Pro. For $4 a month you can stream virtually every movies and tv series you can think off. You can add up to 5 people in the family plan too.

R106 Really? I’ve never heard of it.

I’m going to look up MovieBox Pro - I’ve never heard of it!

R104 those options are limited. Not interested

I’ve watched 8 episodes of The Love Boat today!!

Didn't you hear, OP?

Xfiles every night on Pluto; Battlestar Galactica was on for a 2-hour block after that but is gone for the New Year :( . BUT Tubi has The Prisoner with Patrick McGoohan (I came gallons to him the first time around); I love the technology, Portmerion, the vehicles--the show's last remaining "Mini Moke" (the little taxis used around The Village) was discovered in Holland, lovingly restored, and just sold at auction for £69,750. No word on McGoohan's S2 Lotus Seven . . .

*S/B Xfiles every night on Stirr*

I agree. Watching “Paris When it Sizzles” as I type.

Please tell me there's a Charlie's angel's channel on one of these streamers.

R112, back in the early 90s while in the UK on business I visited the village in Wales [Portmeirion] where The Prisoner was filmed. Such a beautiful place.

The village of Portmeirion is like a place built by Walk Disney.

I’m currently watching a Friday the 13th marathon on Pluto TV. I had forgotten about Betsy Palmer in the first one!

Me too^.

I’m currently watching a Hellraiser marathon on Pluto TV - with some America’s Test Kitchen thrown in.

I watched it too. I just saw Inferno. I used to like this sequel, but since I’ve been microdosing, boy is it awful.

Last night, I was excited to watch The Incredible Shrinking Woman with Lily Tomlin on Tubi and noticed that it's no longer available! I was so pissed.

I’m watching the Forensic Files channel at 2am - I clearly need to get a life.

I’m watching the tiny house channel. It’s another blissful Saturday!

Bemish is on Charlie’s Angels!!!!! I love Bemish.

Even if you have a smart TV, the cheapest Roku is a good buy if you like channels like Tubi. Roku has its own channel that is free and very similar. If you like the TCM app, Roku has a channel called Classic Reel that has tons of old movies and it’s only $1.99 a month.

I’m watching Valley Girl on the romance channel on Pluto TV now.

R115 Tubi has seasons 1, 2 and 5. The Shelley Hack troll must be outraged at this.

It’s because in retrospect season 4 has proved popular

Pluto TV has the most confusing interface that I've even seen. I'm like, "Jesus, please help me!" It's set up like a TV guide, which makes no sense to me. It takes me 5 minutes just to find the search function and then I navigate from there. I prefer Tubby because it's so much easier to navigate.

Tubby?

[quote] [R4] OMG you are my hero. How do you know about such back alleys???

R4's given some of his greatest performances in back alleys.

R109 = Barbara Thornedyke

I’m watching the Carol Burnett Show channel on Pluto TV all afternoon. You can admit your jealous!!

I’m watching Leaving Las Vegas on Pluto.

I’m watching Julia Child.

"Pluto is not a planet."

Fight the power, Scroopy Noopers!

I’m watching Freddie Mercury: The King of Queen on Pluto TV right now. Freddie is great!

I’m watching the Love Boat channel right now. What a camp fest!!

Any recommendations on Pluto TV channels to watch?

I’m watching America’s Test Kitchen at 3:35am - admit it, you’re jealous!!

I love Pluto. I live on the East coast, but the guides seem to be set on West coast time. Is there a way to change it?