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Old 01-23-2011, 04:38 PM   #790 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali View Post
  1. Unsubscribe from Netflix.
  2. Use the internet to watch MORE stuff than will EVER be available on Netflix, for free.
Currently, my personal 2 best portal sites to do this are:

SERIES/TV DRAMAS:
- Watch tv series online for free, full episodes - Watch Series.com

MOVIES:
- Watch Movies Online Free - Just Added



The only adaptation that needs to be made is figuring out which hosts available at either site are the fastest and most reliable for any given episode or movie. What I've learned:

(the following hosts are usually found in either of the above sites, and are absolutely free)
LOOMBO links are king. They're super fast, and are always decent quality. This is mostly true for series shows.
SOCKSHARE, and PUTLOCKER are newer hosts that are getting popular. These guys host a lot of movies at good qualities and speeds.
ZSHARE is fast, but the quality may or may not be excellent.
NOVAMOV is always slow, no matter how fast your internet connection is. They're reliable, but if you're planning on watching something at that moment and not waiting forever for it to buffer, then you should go with a different link.
Same goes for MOVSHARE.
Any host with the word "DIVX" or "VIDX" or some combination of those letters in it is guaranteed to be the best visual/audio quality, but their bandwidth is going to be more limited because of it. Generally, you're going to wait a longer time for DivX movies to buffer than any other, but they're far more worth it. DivX links should be used when you have other stuff to do and just want to get the movie buffering ahead of time while you attend to other things. With a DivX link, if you can buffer to about one third of the entire length, you're golden. But that may take anywhere between 10 minutes to a half hour. The quality is always worth it though. DivX vids are usually straight up DVD quality. Streaming. Provided you're not trying to watch a movie that hasn't been released to DVD yet. In which case even the theater cam versions are higher quality than any others.
KARAMBAVIDS is a newer one, but I haven't checked it out. Seems to get good hits and reviews though.

There are a bunch more other hosts, but the ones above are consistently reliable, virus free, and get the most nods from other folks watching movies or shows hosted on them. And user reviews or "stars", as you'll often see them, are a good thing to take note of. Generally people will only rate a link highly if it's worth rating highly. So keep the ratings in mind.

Is it legal to watch stuff that way? I dunno. But I'm sure it's not explicitly illegal. Otherwise I would have gotten locked up years ago. I don't even have cable TV because anything I want to watch is available online for free. Without paying for Netflix, nor having to wait until Netflix decides to release something.

If you find more availability at Netflix than you can find elsewhere on the web, for free, then I'll eat my fucking hat.


Edit:
I don't know of any proxy servers are going to let you stream video through them. The bandwidth required costs too much. Especially when like 900 MB videos are being streamed through their server, TIMES THOUSANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE DOING THE SAME THING, CONSTANTLY. Bandwidth is an actual commodity. You pay for it. Dearly.
Wow, thanks a bundle. I'm going to have to check this movie site out!
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