If you have a Roku, you know there's a lot of channels you can add.
Most notably, a lot of movies and TV shows for free. Admittedly, I don't watch them all that much since I subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime. And have access to HBO, Showtime, Starz, Epix, FX, etc.
But if you're cheap, I guess you can get away with just watching free stuff.
So here's the best of them that I found.
Probably the most well-known is Crackle. They're owned by Sony so feature a lot of Sony movies. Taking a look at the current lineup, they have movies such as The Hulk, Underworld, Resident Evil, Johnny Mnemonic, Conan The Barbarian, The Nutty Professor (1996), Look Who's Talking, Groundhog Day, Stripes, Beverly Hills Ninja, The Blues Brothers, A League of Their Own, Jerry Maguire, And TV shows such as Seinfeld, All In The Family, Married With Children, I Dream of Jeannie, Mad About You, Fantasy Island, Sanford (but not Sanford and Son -- they used to have it -- I see Sanford and Son is now on Starz), The Three Stooges.
CW Seed has shows that were on the predecessor to CW, the WB Network. They don't have a huge selection, but what they offer is pretty decent. Among their selection: Birds of Prey, Constantine, Mad TV, The O.C., Vixen, Whose Line Is it Anyway (every episode). They even have a couple of feature length animated movies: Justice League: Doom, Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths. They used to have The Flash (the original one), but it's no longer on. I remember they also used to have Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. So they do rotate their shows once in a while.
For sheer volume, it's hard to beat tubitv. I wouldn't say most of the shows are hits or even known. But there's a lot of them and some of them are recognizable. Among the current selection is Whose Line is it Anyway? (TV - seasons 7-10 -- they have them all at CW Seed), Star Trek: Nemesis, Legally Blonde 2, The Secret, Fargo, Searching For Bobby Fischer (this is the first time I've seen this available for streaming), AeonFlux, Five People You Meet In Heaven, Hoosiers, Heaven Can Wait, Inherit The Wind, Sahara, Sky Captain and the World Tomorrow, . So there are some well-known movies, you just have to search for them in the mass. For example in the Dramatic Movies category there are 614 movies! Supports subtitles, but if you have an older Roku, you might find it very slow in loading.
Ovguide. They have 235 movies in the Featured category. None of which particularly caught my eye as something I might want to see. Well they have Battle for the Planet of the Apes (which was the fifth and final entry in the original Planet of the Apes series). They have 390 shows in the TV Shows category. The Nature of Things sounds interesting. We The Economy, The Jack Benny Program (not that many episodes), Tai Chi for Beginners, Heaven On Earth, The Red Skelton Show, World of Discovery, The Bob Hope Show, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.The Heckle and Jeckle Show, The Three Stooges (cartoon),
popcornflix. Let's see what they have. Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown. Silver Hawk (Michelle Yeoh), Designing Spaces (TV series -- taking a long time to pull up -- I'd say it's stuck). Some interesting documentaries some of which I previously saw on Netflix: Fast, Sick & Nearly Dead, Welcome to Macintosh, Earth Songs, What the Bleep Do We Know? The Flaw. Supports closed caption.
Shout Factory TV. A bunch of MST3K. A Night in Casablanca (Marx Bros), Africa Screams (Abbott & Costello), Car 52 Where Are You? Dennis the Menace, Father Knows Best. The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. The Red Skelton Show. The Marx Brothers TV Collection. A bunch of old Jackie Chan movies (City Hunter, Crime Story, Police Story, Police Story 2, Battle Creek Brawl, etc.). And a bunch of Steve Martin specials: Not to mention: The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour.
premiere. The Jackie Robinson Story. My Dog Shep. Rescue from Gilligan's Island. Ozzie and Harriet, The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, The George Burns and Gacie Allen Show, The Lone Ranger.
Gravitas. Fat Sick & Nearly Dead.
SnagFilms. Expedition Blue Planet. Barack Obama: The Power of Change. And tons more (that I can live without).
Docurama. 10 Questions for the Dali Lama. A Small Act. Hungry for Change. My Dog. Forgiveness.
Documentary Depot. [now with a modernized interface]. Ellen Degeneres: All Of Me. Steve Jobs - Consciously Genius.Wild Horse, Wild Ride. The Beautiful Truth. Losing LeBron. Going to the All Documentary category, there are now 1434 shows. No captions.
FilmRise is one that I took off earliy. Looking at it now, I see Highway To Heaven (with Michael Landon), Heaven On Earth, World of Discovery. I Am is also on here. Maybe I'll keep it on now.
When I checked four months ago, the series We the Economy was on several of them. Now I don't see it, which is odd because it was supposedly distributed for free. Well, I guess I can still catch it on youtube. It's also on vimeo. And I guess, still on itunes. No captions except for a free episode on Amazon.
EndemolShineInternational (aka Shine Now). Retrieving... [The next day, still Retrieving... I guess I'll delete it then.]
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