Over the last several months, in MakeUseOf Directory posts we have mentioned several websites that let anyone freely stream popular Movies, TV shows, Cartoons and other entertainment content. While some of the websites are long gone, some got much more popular and are able to maintain an excellent job at keeping content both up-to-date and free of dead links. Check out some of the better ones below. Listed from top to less preferable ones.
Top Picks
TV-Links (no longer online) - extremely popular, comprehensive and always up-to-date video directory. Additionally to ‘TV shows’ also features ‘Cartoons’, ‘Anime’, ‘Movies’, ‘Music videos’ and ‘Sport’ categories. Outperforms other similar services in several ways: huge number of shows, lots of good video quality shows, few broken links, full-screen mode and more.
Alluc - Very similar to above mentioned TVLinks. Lists TV shows, cartoons, anime, movies, music videos, sport videos and documentaries.
Sidereel - Wiki-style directory with lots movies and TV shows. In addition to listing links to full-length web videos also lists destinations where you can buy related shows/movies.
Other ‘Live Streaming’ Services
Bonus: Custom Search Engine
MOVIES and TV SHOWS Search (Google Co-op): similar to what was done for ‘Q&A’ and ‘HowTo’ services, this custom google-powered search engine lets you search simultaneously on all ‘free-to-stream’ Movie and TV Shows sources.
Filed Under: Cool Websites ¦ Lists of tools
Tags: entertainment, movies, TV, tv shows
Thanks for a great post. These sites are pretty good. Tv-Links in particular looks pretty good. Amazing list of shows. Looks like they are using Veoh for the player.
After checking out the shows though, I wonder if these are really legal? Episodes of Rome for instance are not available (or supposed to be available) online. Since Veoh is a P2P app, it looks like these are pirated episodes. Not sure of this, but it looks suspect to me so I wonder how long these sites will last.
A post I made earlier this month outlined some good, legal sources of online tv shows. It highlighted some sources that aggregated listings of TV shows online and although certainly not as good since they don’t all play in the same type of player like Veoh - I’m sure they are legal at least.
How to Find Legal, Full Episode, TV Shows Online
Check it out if your interested.
Brent
Hi Brent
You’re right most of the mainstream TV shows on TV links and alike websites are pirated. However despite it, TV links seem to get just better and more popular. Which means users tend to like it more then they dislike it. I guess at the end it all comes down to personal choice.
Btw, thanks for the ALTERNATIVE link. Now we got something for everyone.
Personal choice correct - whether you want to live ethically or not
Aibek,
The links you have here are still a very nice resource if you miss a show. There are times when you miss a show and theres no good way to get caught up without going to places like this. I think the TV Networks will have to eventually offer more of this and adapt. Torrents were where most people looked for things like this, but your search engine and the tv-links site are better - no need to download anything.
Thanks,
Brent
Thanks for the quick reply. In the comment above you have mentioned:
“…TV Networks will have to eventually offer more of this and adapt”
I think you’re definitely right here, because what we got at the moment costs TOO MUCH, especially when most of the content easily accessible online for free. Hence, it seems a better model is yet to come.
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There’s another source you would like to add to this list. Unlike the other ones, the site Venividi (http://venividi.blogsome.com) embeds the video in a nicer and cleaner player. Plus it doesn’t bug users with multiple pop-up, pop-under or ads. I guess the site prefers to lead its users straight to the videos more than trying to lure them to click on ads.
@Nado
true there are no ads what so ever, however VeniVidi provides rather limited amount of links and very inconvenient to navigate. Onh the other hand, most of the services that were mentioned above categorize links in directory-like structure making it easier to find what I need fast.
NSR - your ticket to one of the most comprehensive on line collections of free entertainment links available on the web,no registration,no fees, no downloads!!!”your entertainment blog site promoter”
http://nosubscriptionrequired.blogspot.com/
@Norman
Thanks for the nice link, looks little cluttered but good.
you should check Fnuz The directory of video streaming websites
http://www.fnuz.com
@ fnuz
thanks, will do.
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Watch free TV online :
On http://www.tvonline.2ya.com ….. for MTV, MCM, ESPN, Eurosport, CNN, ABC, BBC, NBC, NASA TV, ANIMAL PLANET, NATIONNAL GEOGRAPHIC … by categories.
On http://englishtv.site.voila.fr/index.html …. for watching free vieo clip like Rihanna, Ciara, Beyonce, Fergie, Cassie, Nelly furtdo, Timbaland, DMX, Akon, The game, Snoop dog, Chamillionnaire, 50cents, Ludacris, Avril lavigne, Pink, Gwen stefani, Green day, Blink 182, U2, Madonna, Evanescence, Tiestö, Cascada, Lasgo …
It’s free with nothing to download, Just need a media player.
I watch LOST online at LotsOfGreatVideos.com
You can watch your favorite TV Series or latest movies for free!
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yea, great about the ‘legal’ ways, but some of us live outside the US, and network websites don’t let us watch stuff online. so that sucks.
@eloise
And that’s why we have no choice but to resort to sites like TVlinks-co.uk. Right?
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where cn i watch death note other than youtube veoh and anime org? i can’t find it in the websites above……………
Hey, I found it on the above mentioned Sidereel, check out following link
http://www.sidereel.com/Death_Note
Hello there,
I’ve been reading your article and I hope you’ll take a look at our website: http://www.flickpeek.com . We think it’s a great resource for tv shows and movies.
Thanks!
Hi,
I love watching cable & satellite TV online by internet. A great website where to Watch Free TV is TVonline :
http://www.tvonline.2ya.com
Lot of webradio & webTV like MCM, MTV, Eurosport, ESPN, CNN, ABC, SKYNEWS, Discovery channel, Sci-fi channel, NASA TV, Research channel, and more.
Try http://www.tioti.com/
I have a brief description on it here: http://rawstylus.wordpress.com/2007/10/12/watching-the-british-dotcoms-update/
Thanks for the comments, I will check it out shortly.
Thanks, I was looking for this information for a while.
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I’ve put together a blog of stuff on hulu
http://hulustuff.blogspot.com/
Television companies - Listen up!
We are the consumers who buy your products and give you the audience which gets you the advertisers (who pay crazy amounts of money to you) without us you would not have any ground on which to demand so much from the advertisers, no one to sell to - no deal right?
Anyways I can understand why movies are illegal to ‘flash up’ and share on the internet - but TV shows? Come on buddy you know damn well that you already made the money on an old show that plays over and over with reruns on television.
What’s that you say? DVD’s? - get real most people do not buy seasons of television shows on DVD and if they do they are usually big big fans who want the real thing with the inserts and everything (keep in mind the show is still on TV reruns anyways)
Family Guy.. wasn’t it cancelled? Yes, wasn’t it Internet ‘interest’ that brought it back? Yes!
Remember that MacFarlane
I am totoally with you on that. TV shows should be free. They should ad some ads there, I don’t thinks anyne would mind.
quero ver tv
It’s a free TV portal where you can watch more than 3250 online TV channels.
http://www.theycool.com
http://www.joost.com
I think it bares mentioning that tv-links is back online @ tv-links.cc
I found this site where you can Watch free tv shows online,
as well as movies.
here is the link:
http://www.tvduck.com
amazing site, always updated.
Have you been quacked yet ?
The bigger sites tend to get crowed, some smaller tv show sites are a bit better if you ask me. Faster streaming & loading of the videos. I’m currently using a site called http://thisweekontv.net , their videos load withing 5 seconds most of the time.
Another good site is http://tvshowguide.net which always has current & up to date shows.
Try http://WWW.TVRAID.COM
I really like sidereel.com, they have pretty much every TV show. Also, check out
Another great site http://WWW.SHOWREWIND.COM
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another great site that i like is surfthechannel.com
thanks for the other links too! I was looking for something i couldnt find on surf the channel.
Watch Free Online TV Channels from all over the world and select it from entertainment music news education cartoon sports movies games information etc
http://www.greatonlinetv.com
thanks
You can add this link : http://www.oiubire.ro/tv/online.php to the list. Is a great place for tv online.
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http://www.showrewind.com has a HUGH database of links.