How is Tubi Better Than Netflix?

It's not.

Netflix blows, R1.

You're an Eldergay and prefer the world as it was before 1987

And you don't mind ads

"Tubi" by Stream Freely? I always thought it was "Yellow River" by I.P. Freely...

Lol, but srsly folks - Tubi is THE SHIT! I tell all my friends they are wasting money on other streaming services; I geel like you, OP - I'll never be able to watch it all. I'm a big ol' film buff here, and while no, Tubi does not have the extensive TCM-type classic Hollywood library that HBO does, it is great for foreign/cult/genre deep cuts! Not so shabby on classic TV, either! Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, Flintstones, etc... I also love how it warns you when ads are coming up, gives you a countdown of how long until they're over, and you can mute the ads - unlike on YouTube!

*feel like you. Fuck this site.

[QUOTE] You're an Eldergay and prefer the world as it was before 1987

R3 I’m 36 and I’m typing this post on an iPhone 14 Pro Max. I drive an electric car. I subscribe to five different streaming services, including Netflix. I’m no fucking luddite yearning for the past, asshole.

I am a large fluffy bunny who distributes brightly colored eggs to good Christian children on Easter Sunday, OP/R6

OP is Mother Tubi.

Pronounced "Tubby."

It has some good gay movies.

Tubi is owned by Fox. They have local Fox News channels. When I discovered that I got rid of cable.

Wtf, are you serious, R10? It’s a Murdoch property?

It’s free.

Yes, R12, but with the billions Netflix spends every year, shouldn’t they have the superior library?

36??? and you are still alive?

R11, yes, unfortunately. Fox Corp bought it in 2020.

[Quote]Why Disney’s streaming losses are Tubi’s gains

Tubi has commercials. No thank you.

Unfortunately, Tubi has a maximum 720p streaming resolution. Not all of its movies hit that quality either, with many popular films offering roughly 540p resolution. This streaming limitation is a real drawback.

A crap source, indeed.

[QUOTE] Tubi has commercials. No thank you.

But they have to be the most unobtrusive commercials I’ve ever seen on a service. Believe me, I hate commercials as much as anyone. Tubi’s ads are infrequent and not jarring enough to remove you from what you’re watching. I hardly notice them, which is why I keep using it.

Everything on Tubi is so dated

The entire Pam Grier collection. Enough said.

R20, what content would you prefer they offered?

R3, same question.

R20 is looking for all those glossy new modern Netflix shows that get cancelled after one season.

These are old movies

Which is exactly what I want to watch R24.

I have Netflix too but I’m really into the channels on Tubi (Fox) and Pluto (CBS). I guess I meant to say I cut cable when I found out I could get local news channels, which I can with Tubi and Pluto.

I love the Project Runway and Price is Right:The Barker Years channels.

Pluto has cult films and just interesting channel choices.

Didn’t even know about Pluto. Downloading it now.

Omg, I’m never leaving my couch again.

Pluto has a drastic imbalance of right-leaning over left-leaning news channels in it's offerings. If it could be neutral in the offerings, I could live with that and use them.

But, it's been out-of-balance for years. As such, I seldom use Pluto.

You can find me and Tizzy Lish at Tubi.

[QUOTE] Pluto has a drastic imbalance of right-leaning over left-leaning news channels in it's offerings.

The news is the absolute last thing I’m looking for.

They have a lot of true crime quality series, like the original Forensic Files ans Unsolved Mysteries.

They also have a lot of biographical programs on celebrities, current and of old. I was surprised to find FRIEDKIN UNCUT on there. I

They're also launching a lot of their own original content. They don't have the latest and greatest but that's not what everyone wants. Lot of young people are into older programming as OP has demonstrated.

You can watch Behind the Camera: Charlie's Angels on Tubi!

Their Lincoln is played by Daniel Day Lewis a Caucasian.

It's Freeeeeeee !

Just watched LEONA HELMSLEY: QUEEN OF MEAN on Tubi. Lloyd Bridges was in it. Deliciously camp.

It's on YouTube

Tubi has a good selection of old school horror films that's not in Netflix or that you have to buy on Amazon.

Yes, Tubi’s Horror/Thriller sections are fantastic. Lots of deep, deep cuts. In fact, most of them are deep cuts. Some pure gold among ‘em.

PlutoTV is even better than Tubi. Between the two, I will NEVER pay for a streaming service again.

Tubi also has the "behind the scenes" TV movies for Mork & Mindy and Diff'rent Strokes.

For those Mary Cadorette fans, Three's a Crowd is represented — as is The Ropers.

R40, you will.

MUBI is the best, offering so many contemporay world films, filled with nakedness.

Tubi is how I finally saw the 1972 Tab Hunter oddity SWEET KILL, which features Tab as a gym teacher who just can't stop killing women who turn him on.

Sweet Kill is on OK.RU. as well. I know many fear the site because it's Russian but we've used it for years with no problem. We never created an account/password, etc.

It's best to google ok.ru (then the name of the film) rather than use ok's search engine. The site is loaded with great films.

I usually put on Pluto when I go to bed (either Perry Mason or one of the CSI shows). My only complaint is you can't leave one channel on all night without that stupid Pluto screensaver starting in the middle of the night.

Yeah the Pluto screen saver stuff is weird for me. The one that comes on in place of commercials sometimes, R46?

R45 Ok.ru is great. It's the only place I can find some forgotten obscure stuff.

I recently got to watch the entire Merlin series on TubiTV with sexy Bradley James. I had already seen nearly all the episodes but this was the first time I was able to watch them in order from start to finish.

Tubi feels like I’m back in the video store in the early nineties. You will find movies you haven’t thought about in years. It’s a great service. I like Pluto too but it’s commercials are really obnoxious.

Yeah Pluto’s commercial presentation is much unlike Tubi. Very in your face.

Last night I watched "Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Mork and Mindy." Chris Diamantopoulos did a hell of a job as Robin Williams. The guy who played John Belushi was terrible.

[quote] The news is the absolute last thing I’m looking for.

You missed my point, silly wabbit...

I don't patronize news or entertainment sites that have a massive favoritism in terms of presenting right wing over left wing or even balanced news broadcasts.

News feeds, etc. can make money off of the number of "eyes" watching & I'm not about to monetize my viewing habits into $$$ for them.

Both Tubi and Pluto helped my successful spin-off from the Facts of Life thread, to a behind the scenes doc, to the show, back here, and back over to this thread.

Great free fun, and the ads give me the time I'm using now to post.

Tell me that you're an eldergay without telling that you're an eldergay.

Tell me you’re a fuck face without tell me that you’re a fuck face.

I just hate the name Tubi. I'll even pay to watch the same thing on another site to avoid it.

Doesn't Tubi have ads, as well?

Me too.

Tubi! Tubi! Tubi! Tubi! Tubi!......

What other classic shows do they have?

I like watching cheesy made for TV movies from the 80s and 90s on Tubi.

Very funny, R59.

any app good for classic movies for free? I've been paying $3.99 to rent per movie on Vudu.

#MeTubi!

I like Tubi for their selection of gay movies. A lot are trashy as to be expected, but you can find a few gems amongst the trash. They’re also a a good source for documentaries. I discovered Freevee recently, pretty much left overs from Amazon Prime. R49 is correct about watching Merlin.

Left overs from Amazon Prime? I thought Amazon Prime was leftovers.

Oh, that’s funny R66.

It seems when Amazon adds new material, their older material moves to Freevee.

If you miss the BravoTV of the early-mid 90s, with the rarely-seen arthouse/indie/performing arts programming, I highly reccomend Kanopy. Zero ads, huge selection, and totally free; all you need is your library card for full access.

I recently watched Brando film, The Nightcomers, that I never knew existed. It's a prequel to the spooky film The Innocents (also available on Kanopy)

I have The Nightcomers on DVD. Cool movie

R55, you're well on your way to being a bitchy, bitter old queen just like everyone else, so welcome to the club.

Tubi is not better but is a viable alternative for entertainment. The commercials are not invasive like Pluto. I also think the Tubi interface is one of the better ones out of all the streaming services.

Why isn’t it better, R71?

What are some of the good gay themed movies on Tubi?

I’ve never heard of The Nightcomers, so just looked it up…the leading lady is SABLE COLBY! I must watch..

I've been watching old Fantasy Island episodes on Tubi.

Tubi typically has a couple hundred gay titles.

They never recommend anything gay for me. Being a top, Tubi must think I’m straight based on my viewing habits.

You’re so butch, R77!

Love Tubi. They have all the lurid bullshit and campfests Netflix wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole, plus some genuine high brow classics here and there.

Tubi is a great app for film noir. Just don’t get too upset when you see they’re including a lot of non-noir films in that category. (It’s all algorithm-generated, informed by your other viewing choices.)

R68 — I’m with you, Kanopy is great.

I love the offerings in Tubi (and sometimes Freevee) , but I just can’t do the commercials. I’d be happy to pay for ad-free versions.

I pay for a lot of streaming services. Surprisingly, I find that I watch Peacock more than the others.

I pay for a lot of streaming services too and am going to start cancelling some of them. I think Hulu and Paramount+ are on the chopping block as I rarely watch anything there. My husband watches a lot of Netflix, so that's safe. I watch Peacock quite a bit following by Tubi. I don't mind the commercials as they are not in your face - they are so short there is rarely time to run and do something else. I have Amazon Prime, but rarely watch anything and use it for shipping.

I'm almost done watching the 11 seasons of Columbo.

I’ve seen all the 70s episodes of Columbo, but I’m not sure the later seasons will “vibe” with me. I still plan to buy it all on Blu-ray when Kino Lorber releases their monster sets later this year and next.

I pay for Peacock but not the ad-free version. So far, I just keep watching episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

[quote]I pay for Peacock but not the ad-free version. So far, I just keep watching episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.

Me too. They're a lot of fun, though the AHH is a bit padded-out; at least ten minutes of filler in each episode.

Peacock also has Girls5eva, which is fun in small doses. Elise Renee Goldsberry is terrifically funny, besides being a singer.

Just found Mike Tyson’s Mysteries on here!! I love that show!

R84 I just watched Miss Faye Dunaway and then William Shatner playing crazy people on Columbo S12, and enjoyed the nonstop ham. i get what you mean though, Columbo was never the same after his unseen/unnamed wife died

Urbania and Morgan r73

Tubi and Pluto break into the Top 10 streaming services

R6 - listen to her...

[quote]Tubi and Pluto break into the Top 10 streaming services

I hope the ever-expanding, big, expensive streamers learn something from this.

Consolidation, variety, some familiar mixed with some new content, and ease of finding what you want to watch are the tickets to success. Becoming more expansive (way too many standalone services!), exclusionary (you can only watch this here and nowhere else, ever!), and expensive are not.

Pluto's interface sucks and the commercials are more invasive than Tubi. Too bad, because Pluto has some good stuff buried in it. It is hard to tell what Roku Channel is trying to do - provide content or sell streaming services. Again, some good stuff there too if you can get past the interface. Tubi wins across the free platforms with content, interface, and tolerable commercial breaks in logical places in the shows - way less than a broadcast channel.

Pluto doesn't have a way for you to save shows and movies to a watch list.

Plex has the best selection of movies right now of all the free streamers.

I haven’t found that Plex or Pluto has a good selection of LGBT movies.

I’m not retired yet and so I’m not living on a very restrictive budget but I could see my eldergay years enhanced by Tubi. It’s free. I’ll probably also move back down South.

Tubi has the best selection of LGBT titles out of all the streaming services.

Watching all seasons of AbFab on Tubi now.

Thanks for the reminder about Mubi, which is available where I live and has a catalogue of interesting films more suited to my taste than Tubi (which is not available.)

I'm switching TVs and will load the app onto the new one and give it a try.

Mubi should be half the price it is.

Tubi is great. Their interface really does beat all the others, including the pay streamers.

I’ve been watching Masterchef on Tubi. They have the Canadian and Australian versions as well.

Love all the low brow trash on Tubi.

Tubi used to have a great interface until some update that ruined it. It's awful now. I wish they would change it back.

Tubi has all the classic 70s and 80s Italian horror! I watched the Beyond on there a few weeks ago.

R101, my interface hasn't changed. Maybe there's some setting you hit or something?

R46 - Glad to know I am not the only on who sleeps with the TV on. At bedtime, I usually switch to AcornTV and jack into early seasons of Midsomer Murders.

The only show I ever watched on Tubi was the UK version of "Being Human".

I have a half dozen of these sites…Sling, FreeVee, Shout tv, in addition to the ones mentioned. LOTS of overlap. I start watching something and then forget which app I was watching it on. Currently The Detectorists, season 2. Very funny.

What I’ve learned is that there are a ton of movies released with recognizable star names but you’ve never heard of them. Then you watch them and see that they’re kinda okay but not good. It must be so frustrating making movies that just…don’t…work.

Has anybody watched "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"?

If yes, was it any good?

Anyone try Revry? Supposed to be all LGBT. Seems to freeze up 🆙 n me, haven’t actually got to look around a lot on it, because it freezes so much. What limited access I’ve had, seems to be very lesbian-centric

What Really Happened to Baby Jane from 1963 by the Films of the Gay Girls Riding Club.

This question sounds like a trap and I’m not going to answer.

Crimes of Passion with Kathleen Turner is on Plex. Is it worth watching?

^^^haha. I think so. Pure camp fun.

Just watched the 80s slasher “Curtains” on Tubi after someone recommended it here. I thought it was boring but it’s not the worst horror movie I’ve ever seen.

Discovered Tubi when I was searching for a couple of classics that I really wanted to see but was unwilling to pay 3.99 per movie to RENT on streaming services that I already pay for. Holy shit. The sheer volume and variety of the selections in the Horror category alone is mind blowing. Watched a fantastic psychological thriller starring Martin Sheen called When The Bough Breaks, Burnt starring Bradley Cooper. Predictable but entertaining. And Philadelphia. Hadn’t seen it in years. It’s a flawed film but worth watching for Denzel’s performance. Hanks did his best but Andy was just too saintly to be true. Not a smidge of bitchery. Or genuine anger. A Disney version of gay. Anyway, l’m loving my new obsession.

A recent list of the best movies on Tubi.

OP I would be fine with Tubi and YouTube for the rest of my life. I have watched the original Straw Dogs, Apartment Zero, and the original The Omen on the YouTube app on my TV during the last two weeks alone. Unfortunately I’m alone in this one and my husband subscribes to just about every streaming service.

Another recent list of best movies on Tubi.

Gotta love a streaming service that lists The Ten Commandments under Sci-fi & Fantasy. Totally free content and a sense of humor to boot. ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Well...it's better than Peacock...IMO

Does Tubi show boobies and tushies?

They show it all

Dong and hole???

If you have Roku streaming, I highly recommend "Weird: The Al Yankovic Story". It was very good and very much a true parody of many music stars. The part that parodies Weird Al parodying Jim Morrison is absolutely one of the best

So the real question here is Tubi or not Tubi.

A Single Man, directed by Tom Ford, is playing on Plex. It's such an underrated gem of movie. It's one of the better gay films.

Okay, you want a rabbit's TV hole to fall down? I'll give you one.

Australian and NZ Reality shows, from gardening to design to dating to married at first sight to Project Runway.........

List of current shows at link, # of episodes in parentheses.

You get to the website on your Smart TV by putting this URL in Google Search via your Internet access.

I’ll just use Kanopy and Hoopla from my public library, thank you very much.

I stumbled upon Tubi during the early lockdown days of the pandemic and never looked back.

Its commercial saturation is tiny fraction of over-the-air TV and most other advertising-based cable or streaming services.

It may not have 1080p HD, but that’s really a minor issue for me, as its wide selection of contemporary and classic movies is unbeatable.

I also have Netflix, the big plus of which is that it produces a huge quantity of its own films and series, and thusly, the reason most people watch it. However, most Netflix films are not cinematic in quality, just high-budgeted made-for-TV movies.

Because Tubi has such a deep well of movies to choose from, I watch it more than Max and Netflix combined.

I highly recommend Summer of Fear, directed by Wes Craven and starring Linda Blair and Carol Lawrence. It's a wildly entertaining 70s horror film.

Parting Glances is there

I’m surprised no one made Parring Glances into a musical, I think it would be wonderfully heartbreaking.

It was made into a musical that I saw in my best friend’s basement apartment on the Upper East Side on September 27, 1992!

Don’t post about musical theater if you do not have comprehensive knowledge of the topic!

R132 Are you being factitious?

R132 😂 Brilliant.

The folks who program this streaming service clearly want to fuck with our heads. But in a good way. Checked out some tasty entrees to watch later and went out to do some chores. Checked out the site just now and they are showcasing NEW offerings in each category. This keeps the site fresh and keeps me hitting it like a crack pipe. This my friends is a stoners paradise. I’m in love.

r10 So hardcore

I prefer Tubi and YouTube over Netflix myself. I have no interest in watching the serial type shows on Netflix which is pretty much the bulk of what is there. Their movie selection sucks.

Outwaters is on Tubi for free

I just rewatched Hardcore on Tubi last night. I feel like this platform is a well kept secret.

It would be funny if some of the TUBI supporters of Murdoch are making fun of the other supporters of Murdoch when they post an article from his paper.

In the 'Critic's Choice' movie thread a few days ago, someone mentioned Lucy and Bob Hope in "The Facts of Life" (1960) I watched it last night, it was dreadful but fun to watch for the clothes, cars, and Lucy smoking her lungs out.

Free

Netflix is embarrassing.

I so want to cancel Netflix, but then something I want to watch pops up. But even that is more infrequent. I watched the new season of Heartstopper, and also Painkiller, but haven’t seen much else I want to watch at the moment.

If it wasn’t for their outstanding docu-content, I would’ve cancelled Netflix ages ago.

Ever since they removed Family, Tubi is DEAD TO ME!

R146=Quinn Cummings

A lot of my viewing time is on Tubi at this point. I like weekend movie binges

More clicks for Murdoch. Great.

Murdoch owns imgbb now, too?

I'm so glad I made it all the way through Family before Tubi dropped it. The quality really fell off in the final season. Michael J. Fox falling head over heels for Kate?? Puh-leeze.

I’m thinking about cancelling Netflix. I rarely watch anything they offer. On the other hand I watch Tubie every day. So many great movies and it’s FREE. Hulu is cheaper. Paramount has all the CBS shows I love to watch on repeat like The Good Wife and The Good Fight. Apple bundle because it offers music, tv, sports, original programming and a video arcade which keeps visiting nephews and nieces entertained.

Tubi has great WW II stuff but I find that a lot of it is available on YouTube.

I'm watching Tubi movies from 1935. What a trip to see the design, clothes and sensibility.

Everyone is watching Tubi now.

Netflix really sucks lately. I would cancel but there are a few things coming I’d like to watch.

I got Starz to watch Minx but just cancelled it since that’s over and I didn’t see anything else I want to watch. Prime and Apple have enough other benefits to keep, but wow, their originals are about 60% bad. (That Prime thing with Sigourney—ooof)

I keep Peacock and Paramount because they are pretty cheap and get some good movies. I watch Hulu a lot, mainly for the FX stuff. I now have Max free from AT&T, and I’m glad because it’s really not as good as HBO Max was.

Speaking of Tubi though, last weekend I watched The Go-Between from 1971. Great movie! I had never seen it. The repetitive commercials were kind of annoying but not overwhelmingly so.

[quote]Everyone is watching Tubi now.

"Tubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. [bold]Unfortunately, we're not currently available in your area.[/bold]"

I just watched "Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?" on Tubi.

The fascination with shit tv shows and shit tv movies from the 70s and 80s is one of the more bizarre quirks on DL. There are so many things I would rather be doing than watching shit like that.

I only keep Netflix so I can watch Bojack Horseman. Tubi has all the interesting stuff.

Do any of them have Hazel?

Meredith Baxter was so fucking gorgeous.

Op it’s DIFFERENT than Netflix. Not better or worse unless you base your opinion on your wallet. They have different offerings.

Speaking of wallets, yours is about to get even lighter, R163.

Pluto TV is pretty good too

It's free like Tubi

Pluto gets its content from the same source as Tubi. All free streaming platforms do. Pluto puts more ads though.

I love Tubi. I was watching a gay movie and it was practically porn.

Pluto TV is much better than Tubi and Crackle.

r107, yes I quite liked it. Quirky fun, sadly didn't get picked up for S2.

Pluto is owned by Paramount.

Tubi and Pluto and FreeVee are referred to as FAST TV. Fast Ad Streaming TV.

Free^6

So many good suggestions in the thread and the links therein — thanks!

My only problem with Tubi is not being able to find the really interesting obscure stuff. This helps.

I'm watching, "The House That Jack Built" by Lars Von Trier, starting Matt Dillion as a serial killer, and while it's a bit slow, it's interesting. The ending is very abrupt.

I watched "Behind the Camera: The Charlie's Angels Story" last night. Great campy fun and the unknowns who played Kate and Jaclyn nailed it. Farrah and Lee Majors, not so much.

I enjoy classic tv sitcoms and theme channels

Pluto - Black Throwbacks like Sanford & Son, 227, The Jeffersons. The I Love Lucy channel. The Dynasty channel, Designing Women, Maude.

It is. It’s free. Has a lot of different movies nobody else has. It’s my go to movie channel since I cancelled cable. Between it, Roku, Pluto, I’m good.

Only a few weeks ago, I watched Paul Morrissey's Blood for Dracula at my brother's suggestion, and the print was impeccable. Joe Dallesandro was a wonder to watch. I just looked, and it's no longer available there, but it makes me ponder how they choose their movies.

I like Pluto most of the time but once you realize that Gillette is advertised every 5 mins, it gets to be too much.

I'd really like to know who the fuck Gillette hired that thinks ads about shaving your pubes and balls are needed. There's also the shining example of millenial writing with the one ad I cannot stand. A father calls his son while the son is shaving and the line is, "It's not my dad's razor, Dad."

Stellar advertising. Also the dancing pubic hairs were just annoying as fuck.

I’m impressed with Tubi’s horror selection. I only recently started going through it, and there’s a lot of gems I’m discovering.

I’m finding out that a lot of stuff on Tubi is also available on YouTube.

I watch Tubi now and then. I have Netflix, Hulu, HBO/Max, and Prime. Through Prime I subscribe to PBS. I've sometimes watched Pluto but the quality isn't very good. Right now I'm wandering around Hulu discovering new things. I tried Apple and Paramount but they're problematic so I dropped them. One thing I discovered. I'm a Comcast customer. (Xfinity.) I decided to try Showtime on a promotional a few months ago, then had a terrible time trying to drop it. Xfinity forces you to call them and jump thru hoops to unsubscribe. So now, when I want to subscribe I either go to the network's website or I do it through Prime. The most value I get is from PBS. They have some great programming.

There was a particular movie that I wanted to watch but it was only available on Pluto so I downloaded the app and I am hooked. Great picture quality and variety of movies, classic tv, and some intriguing selections that I look forward to watching for the first time. FREE TV ROCKS.

R183, I've had a problem with picture quality on Pluto, and I've also noticed that some of the movies a re heavily edited, including missing significant scenes.

I watched Sea of Love on an iPad and the picture quality was superb, r184. So was the sound but that’s due to using a harmon/kardon blue tooth speaker. There were no missing or edited scenes. I can only speak from my own experience and so far it’s been great. 👍👍

Yes. Yes it is.

Anyone use Dekkoo?

I don’t mind TV shows with commercials but I prefer an uninterrupted theater experience while watching films.

Tubi is for cheap tubby ole queens who stream on desk tops.

Tubi has its best month ever in May! More people watching Tubi than Paramount+ and Disney+.

[QUOTE]Subscription prices for Netflix, Disney+, Max and Peacock have crept up over the last year, and more consumers are turning to the free, ad-supported video-on-demand service.

[QUOTE]Nielsen data showed that May was Tubi’s most-watched month ever, with an average audience of 1 million viewers, up 46% from a year ago.

[QUOTE]The streamer edged out Disney+, which averaged 969,000 viewers. Tubi also easily beat NBCUniversal’s Peacock, Warner Bros. Discovery’s Max and Paramount Global’s Paramount+ while also topping free competitors such as the Roku Channel and Pluto TV. YouTube is the only free ad-supported streaming platform with more viewers than Tubi.

[QUOTE]Third-quarter revenue for Tubi grew 22% year-over-year at a time when the advertising market was sluggish.

[quote]Tubi is for cheap tubby ole queens who stream on desk tops.

R189, Tubi, like most streaming channels & apps, can be added to streaming devices/services like Roku, Xfinity, AppleTV, etc.

A bunch of the new TVs come with Tubi already installed. This app was made for us old, but looking younger, queens.

Roku, FreeVee, Tubi, Pluto…

I’ll tell you one thing I just discovered. I was watching an old tv series on Roku on demand and right in the middle, in the the middle of an episode I’d paused, it switched to Britbox $ to watch. It wasn’t even the first of the month. Anyway, I found the rest of the series on Tubi and that’s when I discovered that not only were the commercial breaks minimal, the VOLUME of the commercials was much lower than the program itself. I’ve never heard of that happening. I just watched a movie on Roku and had to scramble for the mute button at every commercial break because they were so extra loud.

I don’t mind ads at all. You need bathroom or refill breaks. But I’ve never been one to glue my eyeballs to the tube. I’m usually reading at the same time or doing other things. I cannot imagine sitting in a room watching a large screen at max volume like so many I know. I don’t require that kind of entertainment.

Beverly Hillbillies an The Flintstones are selling points?

R3 is right about Datalounge, it's thick with people who long for the doors if watching done trash like Dynasty then pulling in their lucky jeans and heading for the bar with a full pack of cigarettes. It's as though life stopped when they couldn't fit into those jeans list their magic and the ability to accommodate the now lard asses and fat thighs.

R195, your forgot about Scooby Doo and Columbo. Those are other shows on Tubi we like.

I love Tubi because there are a lot of gay films I've never seen before, especially foreign films.

Some recent things I've seen are Paris 05:59: Theo and Hugo, How Gay Is Pakistan (documentary), Temblores, BPM, Sauvage/Wild, Handsome Devil, The Marriage, Out in the Dark, Monsoon and the series Feral.

They also have some Italian horror films not dubbed into English but in Italian (like Don't Torture a Duckling and Black Sabbath); films I've never seen by James Ivory, Woody Allen and Kenji Mizogichi; director's cuts of Alexander, Donnie Darko and Nightbreed; and TV series I've never seen (like Line of Beauty and The Women of Brewster Place).

The commercial interruptions are a little irritating, but nothing like on Pluto. Plus the selection at Pluto leaves a lot to be desired considering the kinds of things I want to watch.

Thanks for the tip. Just watched Dorian Grey. Forgot how beautiful and seductive Benji was.

Freevee has a MST3000 channel, if anyone's interested. Joel, Mike, and the bots 24/7.

One of the best things about Tubi and other free streaming services like Pluto, Crackle, and Freevee is that they have a good amount of broadcast TV movies. Some TV movies were quite good from the 70s to 90s.

tubi tubi tuo, where are you?

Have some dignity, R201.

[quote]I hope the ever-expanding, big, expensive streamers learn something from [Tubi and Pluto breaking into the Top 10 streaming services.]

They will learn that there are old, cheap gay men whose greatest dream is to wade through dozens of seasons of some 1970s and 1980s cheese, "now with deteriorated film and garbled sound!"

Because this old shit is free, and the shows remind them of when they still had hair and a waistline half what it is now, and when TV series were renewed until the audience died off.

More series would be vastly improved by having both fewer episodes and fewer successive seasons.

Launching in the UK soon.

The cable networks are starting yet another round of price hikes.

Paramount Plus and Spectrum Cable have announced in the last week. The others won't be far behind

What a cunt you are R203

Support Netflix - I have stock in the company

I can't stand ads.

What's funny is how we paid for cable at least partly to get rid of the ads. Then paid for streaming because--no ads. Now we're back to having to watch ads -- like we used to on broadcast TV -- only we have to pay, AND watch ads.

It's like Netflix offering a cheaper version with ads. You still have to pay, and watch ads.

r206, two weeks for that?

R203 I don't understand people who like a show, who want the show to have fewer episodes and fewer seasons. If you like it, why do you want to see less of it?

They are two different types of streaming services. They do not directly compete with each other.

Tubi is FAST TV (look up the definition)

NETFLIX is subscription based mostly original content

Can one be better than the other (or worse) without them being competitors?

A streaming service is a streaming service, R212. They do indeed compete with each other.

I just hope they don’t start charging. Roku already has a premium upgrade. Pluto says all free all the time but they still push you to sign in. What the hell for? And I noticed if I watch a movie on demand on Pluto it Always Always cuts out, several times, while I’m watching it. I figure it’s because they Really Really want me to sign in.

If I get tired of the free streams, I search 1960s Movies or British Movies on free YouTube and get hundreds to watch.

R211: It's a question of quality, and of bringing things to an end as with a film, a novel, a poem, a song.

I think the quality of a thing is better when an artist, writer, poet, dramatist, poet, director, songwriter has a work in mind, and lets it take its own shape from start to end as seems right. Most things have a beginning, a middle, and and end.

I want to see or experience works developed as such, that leave me thinking about a work long after the play finished, the book ended, days after I left an exhibition, or heard a song. Don't keep rewriting the same song no matter how good, nor the same play it film script or the same paintings of swimming pools year after year after decade, milking the same cow without end as long as there's an audience with half a pulse to watch. If I wanted story lines and characters to carry on forever I'd watch Coronation Street - an entirely different, unending thing.

The best TV series for me have been short and end with a punch, or more rarely with many seasons but with long gaps between seasons to give the actors a rest, the writers fresh ideas, the production crews time to improve upon things.

I don't care what Jerry and Elaine and George might be doing these days. I don't wish that St. Elsewhere were in season 44, I loved The Sopranos and also lived that it ended as a great program, just like at some point I want s great book to end.

A story developed with an end in mind is almost always better than one that just lurches along scrambling to make more money on a sure but way past peak thing.

r216, is there a way to search for the free movies? I search both on youtube and google, and it always finds ones that are not free.

I just type in on search on YouTube app 1960s movies or whatever I want and it comes up with others collections of full movies. I don’t have to pay or subscribe. If I do I just keep looking. Other people have put together huge collections of movies free to watch, most must be no longer under copyright or because they’re older no one cares anymore.

Tubi is too expensive, I don't know how they exist.

Tubi is free. And they always had an amazing selection of movies. Tons of B movies and straight to VHS movies etc. from the 70s and 80s on there. Or were. I’ve had Tubi for a decade or so. They always had an amazing selection but now that they’ve become popular and more people use them than ever, they are getting rid of MANY of those titles and bringing in more mainstream movies and originals. I hate that.

I remember a decade ago they had all the Surreal Life seasons, the Flavor of Love seasons etc. uploaded. That’s how I found it, while searching for Surreal Life. They got rid of all those shows too.

Isn’t this all just old stuff?

R222 if you wanna watch the glossy new stuff Netflix puts out, go watch it on Netflix. Most of that shit sucks.

Tubi, and Pluto to a lesser extent, is a great place to find movies that have fallen through the cracks, movies you’ve forgotten and movies no one has ever heard of. In a weird way I think the fact that they’re commercial based has kept them honest. There’s no agenda to push a certain show or movie. Plus, their algorithm is sharper because they’re pulling from a lot more titles than Netflix or Hulu.