It’s more exciting now than ever to watch free movies online. As this becomes more popular the options improve and the quality keeps getting better. You don’t have to be tied to watching your movies at home anymore either; now you can watch them on the go.
I am planning whole new sections for the site. I will have a section targeting smartphones like the Apple iPhone or the various Google-based Android smartphones. The sheer number of apps and services that are available for watching movies online from anywhere is truly remarkable compared to a couple of years ago when I first started this blog. Now it is easier than ever to download movies legally or watch free movies online now. As we move more into cloud based services we can be more mobile than ever with everything including entertainment.
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So a reader asked me a simple question that I thought I would try to answer with a quick blog post here.
If you want to watch a movie online right now, where would I direct you?
This question actually implies some subtext, some unasked questions. Namely, what websites should I visit, what services are the cheapest or most likely to truly be free, and which are the easiest to use for quick and easy instant gratification for watching free films online.
First, this almost always means, where can I go to watch streaming video free.
Thankfully I have a pretty easy answer for you. I try to keep people up-to-date on the best sites and services to watch free movies online, so here’s my best bet for you if you want to watch a movie online right now.
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If you follow my blog at all, you will know that I have encouraged people to discover and enjoy Hulu. Hulu is an excellent and easy-to-use website with loads of full length, high quality television shows and movies.
And the irony of this is that there may be too many easy-to-watch shows on Hulu. At least according to some television network executives. Apparently, the networks are fearing that the increasing views on Hulu will hurt the real TV viewer numbers and thus hurt their ability to keep advertising revenue.
I found a great article on Wired discussing this matter. Here’s a vital bit…
I say go support Hulu as much as you can. The watch anything, anywhere anytime premise is the future, and as the article states, if they don’t utilize this market their shows will be cannibalized without their control.
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It seems the phenomenon of watching a film online has dramatically changed in just the last six to ten months or so. Just six to ten months ago, you could easily enjoy a few movies online, but it was still a little bit of a novelty. Many laymen computer or internet users had no idea it was even a possibility.
Now it seems the luxury of watching movies online has moved into the mainstream. A lot of people aren’t necessarily aware how it works but they’re probably at least aware that it is a possibility. And with the way Hulu has been advertised, I suspect more and more people will be hooking their computers up to their television sets and watching more and more movies online.
My personal favorite setup is to just open YouTube, Hulu and Netflix in three separate tabs within my favorite browser (Firefox), then watch away. It has never been easier to watch free movies online in a legal and legit fashion.
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This section of Watch Free Movies Online will address how to watch streaming video. I will explain how most sites in this area stream video free for you to watch and provide reviews of the best and most popular services.
It is important that you have some understanding how these sites work, because many of them simply serve videos hosted by other sites. This is okay, but understanding the difference between a site serving streaming video free from external sites and a site which hosts the movies on its own server will help you pick the right sites to spend more of your time.
I will provide you with many of the names of these streaming video services, but I’m afraid I won’t be linking directly to most of them. This is because many of them contain gobs of copyrighted material. My site isn’t designed for you to learn how to exploit copyrighted material. It is designed to help you find legal and legitimate ways to enjoy your movies and videos online.
While some of you may still seek the instant gratification of copyright infringement, I can assure you that finding and enjoying this same material in a legitimate way will make it both easier and more lasting.
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While the focus of Watch Free Movies Online will continue to be watching movies free online, I would be remiss not to include some excellent, robust services which provide tons of quality movie downloads for a small monthly fee or very small per-use fee.
In this section I will review 9 different services. Some of them are strictly online video services while others require the purchase of some kind of set top box, not unlike the kind of set top box many use for digital cable services. All of them require an internet connection, and the higher the bandwidth, the better.
The first reviews are up. I’ve written very thorough and detailed reviews of Amazon Unbox and CinemaNow as well as Netflix. I hope they help you better understand your options. I will also have a review of Vongo up very soon, with the rest to follow in the coming week.
So you can see how the big guns compare to the little guys, I will review both major services such as Apple’s iTunes, Amazon Unbox and Microsoft’s Xbox Live Marketplace and I will review lesser known services such as Vongo and Vudu. I will even throw in a couple very small, independent services I’ve discovered, such as the ambitious but terribly disappointing Watch Direct.
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