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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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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Want to effortlessly watch any television series or any movie online right now without spending a single penny?!
In less than 10 minutes you can watch anything from the latest blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean, Spider-Man 3 or Ratatouille to classics like Singing in the Rain or Ben-Hur.
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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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So CinemaNow offers a direct competitor to services such as Amazon Unbox, MovieLink and Netflix’s streaming video service. The basics are the same as Amazon Unbox, MovieLink or iTunes: pay-per-view style rentals for tv shows or movies with the option to buy some movies for a little more. CinemaNow separates itself from other similar services with a wide range of ways to use the service (single rentals and purchases, burn-to-dvd purchases, or a subscription service), but I finished my testing feeling that none of these CinemaNow options matched up well against its competitors.
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CinemNow’s basic rental service is pretty typical of these kinds of services, averaging between $2 to $4 per rental. It’s basic purchase service is also similar to Amazon Unbox’s, offering movies from $9 to $20 for popular recent releases. I’d say this is the most reasonable of its offerings, but it is just a touch more expensive than the Amazon Unbox. I’m not sure many people will find $20 for a recent release a reasonable cost for a downloaded file lacking the cover and disc you get when you pay almost the same for a physical copy of the movie.
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Most of you are probably familiar with Netflix already… but did you know that most Netflix subscriptions include unlimited, instant streaming of thousands of movies and television shows through an easy-to-use web interface?
This is a free addition to their standard DVDs-in-the-mail rental program for which Netflix has become so popular. Oddly, I’ve known people who were devout Netflix subscribers who didn’t even realize they had this option available to them (here’s looking at you, mom).
Netflix also offers the best instant gratification of any of the video services I’m reviewing. With their generous free trial and the fact that their streaming videos literally begin instantly, you could start watching one of your favorite movies or television shows only a couple minutes from the moment you finish reading this sentence:
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