If you’re like me, then you love a good deal. And when it comes to good deals, it’s hard to find a better price tag than one that says “free!” That’s what makes Pluto TV so intriguing to streamers like us. By offering a free and ad-supported streaming experience, Pluto TV has clearly differentiated itself from paid streaming services. But can a free service really offer the same caliber of content as Netflix and Hulu do? And how does Pluto TV measure up against fellow freebies like Tubi and Peacock?
These are just a couple of the questions that I set out to answer when I tested Pluto TV for this review. So join me, and we’ll journey to the far edges of the solar system! No, wait, that’s the wrong Pluto. Let’s try again: Join me, and we’ll journey to the far edges of the cord cutter universe and discover all there is to love (or not love) about Pluto TV.
Pros
- Completely free
- Both live-streaming and on-demand content
- Available on all major streaming devices
- Lots of James Bond
Cons
- No option to pay for ad-free content
- Most content is at least five years old
- Cross-device support is lacking
- No HD
- Hard to find content due to lack of search and limited filtering
What You Can Watch on Pluto TV
Pluto TV offers a combination of streaming that I found really interesting. On one level, Pluto TV works just like the other free, ad-supported on-demand streaming services we’ve tried: It’s basically Netflix, but with ads (and without quite the same amount of quality films and shows).
But Pluto TV also offers live streaming channels. It’s not quite a skinny bundle like fuboTV or Sling TV, but it does offer a pretty cool “live TV” experience. Pluto TV’s live-streaming side includes more than 250 channels, most of which are made-up networks that Pluto TV assembled out of on-demand content, but a few of which are real, honest-to-goodness channels. A few lucky markets will find their local CBS news station on Pluto TV. Other channels include free spin-off versions of familiar cable networks — for example, I couldn’t watch AMC online with Pluto TV, but I could watch a channel called “Stories by AMC.” BET isn’t on Pluto TV, either, but a BET-branded channel called “BET Pluto TV” is. I even spotted live-streaming channels from Shout Factory TV (which actually has a live TV “channels” service of its own). Other live-streaming channels offered me sports, kids’ entertainment, classic TV, game shows, Spanish-language programming, comedy, crime, anime, and more.
I was pretty impressed with the sheer amount of content on both the live and on-demand sides. With about 250 channels and thousands of hours of on-demand content, I always felt like I had several good options to choose from when it was time to watch.
The on-demand content is just as wide-ranging as the live content. It includes full movies and TV shows, not just the short little clips that you might expect to find free online. And many of these movies and TV shows are pretty recognizable and popular, which was great to see — free services don’t always have top-notch content, but I found that Pluto TV did.
What particularly stood out to me was Pluto TV’s pride and joy: Its large selection of James Bond movies.
Bond’s a big deal in my household, so I was pretty impressed that Pluto TV had it. Not everything in Pluto TV’s catalog was this interesting, but I think that the Bond films help illustrate that Pluto TV’s top-tier content is as good as anything you’d find on a paid service.
It didn’t take me long to realize that most of the on-demand content was old. I love the classic Star Trek movies as much as the next guy — or maybe about 10 times as much as the next guy — but it still would be nice to get some post-2015 content on Pluto TV.
To be fair, this is a common issue with free services. Still, it certainly limits the ability of Pluto TV to become your primary replacement for cable. The live channels contain newer content, which helps — but it’s just not enough. Like most free services, Pluto TV has a great top tier of content, but lacks some catalog depth and doesn’t include enough new movies and TV shows. It gives you great viewing options, but it has its limitations.
How It Felt to Use Pluto TV
The Pluto TV interface is clean and simple. I found that it felt pretty familiar, and I think you will, too — Pluto TV’s designers were clearly inspired by the classic cable TV guide layout.
Both the live-streaming and on-demand content are split into categories to make it easier to find what you are looking for. But there was one thing I was surprised to see was missing: a search feature! With roughly 250 channels and 1000’s of on-demand TV shows and movies, you’ll probably find something eventually, but a search would certainly help. Pluto TV’s huge amount of content was a good thing, but it sometimes felt like a downside as I struggled to find the thing that I actually wanted to watch.
It wasn’t just the missing search feature, either — I consistently found that Pluto TV was missing the content discovery features I’m used to seeing in streaming services. Aside from the divisions by category, I found there was no way to filter or change the view of the available TV shows, movies, or channels. Other services — like Crackle, for example — allow you to look at titles alphabetically or filter by length, content type, and other characteristics. That’s completely missing here. Even the categories filter was limited: There was no way for me to see a full list of the titles in a given category. I think this is something you might find frustrating. If you didn’t know which category to find Divorce Court under, for example, you’d probably never find it! That category, by the way, is “nosey.”
I was pleasantly surprised by the low number of commercials I saw while watching Pluto TV’s on-demand content. I am happy to describe the ad experience as unintrusive. To be honest, I was not expecting to find a free service with fewer ads than the ad-supported tiers of paid services like Hulu. The live channels do often have more commercials, but that isn’t entirely Pluto TV’s fault; these channels (AMC, NBC, and so on) always have commercial breaks, no matter how you choose to watch them.
I wasn’t wowed with Pluto TV’s functionality. The interface is just glitchy enough to be annoying, though it’s at least not glitchy enough to interfere with its usability (in most cases, anyway). As an example, when I scroll to the end of a row of movie options on most services, I’m used to the menu either circling back to the beginning of the list (like on Netflix) or giving me some kind of visual clue that I’m at the end of the list (like on Max). For reasons that I just can not figure out, Pluto TV chose a third option: They just spring back to the beginning of the list, with no looping option to get back back to the end quickly. On some screen sizes, I had to scroll at a fairly slow rate to actually view the last move in the lists — one false move, and I’d blow right past the final few options!
I also noticed some minor technical issues that occurred when coming back from commercials. In particular, the video would sometimes stutter and repeat a second or two of the content. It’s not a dealbreaker for me, but it was very far from ideal.
Pluto TV Features and Streaming Quality
I found that the video quality was mostly okay on Pluto TV, but could quickly tell that it wasn’t HD. When I was watching on a mobile device, this wasn’t a problem. On my smart TV, though, the lower quality was hard to ignore. As with several of my other complaints, this is a common issue with free streaming services.
The first feature I noticed about Pluto TV’s app was the option to create an account. Many free streaming services — Shout Factory TV, for example — don’t bother with user accounts. This feature has its good and bad sides. On the one hand, having no accounts would have meant no need to hand over my data. On the other hand, having a Pluto TV account allowed me to mark favorite channels, create watch lists, and pause a program on one device to resume watching it on another. Those are all great features.
Or, at least, they would be great features if they actually worked on all of my devices. Unfortunately, favorites and watch lists are only available on iOS, Apple TV, and Roku devices. They don’t even work for the in-browser app!
Even the ability to continue watching a show or movie on another device seemed to have platform issues. In my testing, it appeared to only work on those same select devices: iOS, Apple TV, and Roku. As far as I can tell, there’s no advantage in creating a Pluto TV user account if you are not using one of those three devices.
Speaking of missing features, there is no way to pause or rewind the live TV channels. However, this is not something I’ve seen a lot of free “live TV” alternatives offer, so I don’t penalize Pluto TV much for it. Still, it was a bit limiting. Aside from the ability to change channels, the only thing you can really control as a Pluto TV live viewer are the closed captions.
Although I couldn’t change the language of the closed captions, I found that Pluto TV gave me a surprising amount of control over their appearance: I could mess with the size, font, and background opacity. At first, I thought this seemed like an unnecessary level of control. Actually, I still think it is, but https://cordcutting.com/how-to-watch/the-walking-dead/ with giant red captions kept me amused for a few minutes.
Pluto TV Platform Support
Pluto TV is available as an in-browser app, a mobile app on Android and iOS, and on most streaming devices and Smart TVs. No matter what device you have, there’s a good chance you can watch Pluto TV on it. The only caveat is one I mentioned earlier: Certain Pluto TV features, such as favorites and watch lists, only work on select devices. iOS, Roku, and Apple TV users definitely get the best of Pluto TV. I was generally impressed with Pluto TV’s platform support, but I would have liked to have seen them extend support for all of their features on other platforms, especially the extremely popular Fire TV platform.
Pluto TV Value
Free is a hard price to beat. When it comes to value, Pluto TV is starting from a pretty good place. I had my issues with Pluto TV, but there were also things I loved, and getting those things for free made for a pretty good value.
Unlike several other free streaming services, Pluto TV does not offer a paid option. If you are okay with ads, and you like the content that Pluto TV has to offer, the price is right. If you’d rather pony up some cash and cut out the ads, though, you’re out of luck.
Pluto TV Review: My Verdict
I love a good freebie, so I really wanted to like Pluto TV. And, in many ways, I did! The quality of the content was a pleasant surprise, and I liked the mix of live and on-demand content.
But “free” isn’t a magic word. Pluto TV may be free, but any time you spend watching this service is time you aren’t spending watching something else. And free services only save you money if they’re replacing paid alternatives — something that I don’t think many free options are good enough to do.
The things I didn’t like about Pluto TV — the video quality, the age of the on-demand content, and the missing features of the app — keep me from calling it an A+ streaming service. Given its price tag (or lack thereof), Pluto TV is probably worth adding to your list as a supplement to your main streaming services. However, it’s definitely not ready to stand on its own.
I enjoy the SkyNews channel on Pluto TV – its good getting a British view of the news especially during the Brexit vote. I also ran across a Star Trek episode, which happened to be an episode from the Star Trek Continues series on YouTube.
Can’t beat Pluto TV’s price cause it’s free- Just one complaint, you’ll be watching a movie and the same scene keeps repeating. What’s up with that?
Thank God. I thought I was going nuts lol. Was just watching the movie Popeye and the same scene repeated twice. Happened last night during a Star Trek TNG episode as well. It made me feel like I was in the Twilight Zone.
commercial break and they didn’t sell any, happens all the time
I’m watching “License To Kill” right now, and the scenes keep repeating on it, also. Why does this happen?
This consistently happens and it’s so irritating! I’m watching The Challenge right now and the elimination has played twice now. I don’t know if I’ll even get to see the ending. Utterly ridiculous and amateurish. Free or not, this app needs to figure itself out.
The main problems I have with Pluto TV are number one you have to have a Facebook account in order to give feedback, many of the movies have severe audio problems such as the movie that I just watched almost famous and lastly their commercials are so ridiculous especially how they constantly repeat the same stupid commercial over and over for things that I would never even consider buying
GOOD THING IT’S FREE HUH? If you don’t like it,go pay for something you do.
Yeah , I’ve experienced that too? thought I pushed replay or something. Anyway I don’t like all the commercials which I know it’s free to watch so what you gonna do, but today! they kept showing back to back HIV and Medicare commercials, like for a straight hour?! not sure wthtwaa!
Try watching Price is Right, Bob Barker Era. You often don’t see what the bidders have bid, all of a sudden it skips ahead and they are doing a game, then they break into the game with a commercial. I’ve ask myself has the tape been so destroyed they can’t get through a show without it skip, backing up and repeating.
Same with the Johnny Carson Show!
I don’t know if they pay to advertise on other channels, such as Buzzer, if they do, it is a waste of their money. You watch a few shows & you get frustrated. The reason I’m watching these lighthearted shows is to get away from the frustration of life today.
Goodbye Pluto until you can operate like a normal viewing channel. I’m older so I watched TV when it first came out and it was never as bad as Pluto. Get your act together if you want to compete.
This is Pluto’s plan and it’s all planned and rehearsed. They get a real good movie like gladiator they get you really interested in it and the commercials get longer and more often because they believe that you will not leave the show after you’re fully committed to it. This is the second twisted view of the general public
Same here, I thought I was loosing it, but it was them, Spammers.
Way way way way WAY to many commercials i literally timed the show and the commercials theres more time in the commercials than in the show so yall should really fix that
When watching a movie you cannot fast forward or fast backwards, you can only pause.
The commercials are very lengthy that’s true but what I don’t like is the liberal political correct crap that’s in them.
So you have no problem with the multiple commercials every 5 minutes?
Pluto is good but keep repeating and freeze every now and then. But has great movies that I’ve never seen before so the movie is considered new to me.
Not really great where I am. If you want to see the same episodes every other day, at best, you will like it. All they do here is run the same 2 or 3 episodes day after day, week after week, month after month. It will also just freeze for a bit and keeping running the same scene over and over again. You have to exit and start over. Glad I did not have to pay for it.
Too many f’ing commercials
It will drive you nuts. I can just turn on my tv for this scat.
I am surprised that there are so few people here complaining about the commercials because they are absolutely ridiculous.
I watched Dillon Dreyor’s Journey and there were commercials every three minutes. I finally had enough and changed it. I use a Roku Ultra and have plenty of channels, but dealing with so many commercials is difficult. They distract you from the movie. Tubi on the other hand is reasonable and far better.
Your right
Trying to watch a movie but they air the SAME COMMERCIAL EVERY 4-5 MINUTES!!!
No, on top of that you get a pop up to” add to your favorites”, every 4 -6 mins, and stays… No one should ever recommend Pluto as a cord cutter alternative… Tubi is sooo much better
Watched a movie on Pluto for the first time. Good service, and I understand the need for ads, but there are SO MANY ads it’s nearly unwatchable. And on top of that, the ads repeat over and over. I won’t be using it again.
I think that Pluto has been aware of this commercial problem for a long time but they just don’t seem to give a damn.
14 ads in 14 minutes. 9 ads in a row, 9 minutes of show, 5 ads in row. 1 ad plays twice every set of ads, 1 ad plays 3 or 4 times every set. start app, won’t continue until you answer do you want to watch paramount+ preview – answer no and it will pop up again during your show and put your show in a little box until you answer. asks do you want to add show to favorites and won’t go away until you answer – answer no and it comes up over your show again and again until you finally answer yes. go to ads come back to black screen and only way out is to start show over or if its “live” tv then switch channels. sometimes repeats same segments of show you just watched before the ads. same shows night after night, week after week, month after month. guide no longer lets you see upcoming shows since app update. guide is off by an hour for days after the time change. different features and experience on different platforms, pc, tv other tv, roku, etc. pluto tv isn’t free, you have to endure incessant ads, constant glitches and poor quality experience. you can tell CBS owns it.
How can that be!
THEY SAY THEY HAVE 7.8 OUT OF 10 RATING!
JUST READ THE OTHER REVIEWS!
Potentially a great streaming channel, but they are hiding the fact that they have equally great problems implementing it. [CBS]
Money problems?? [CBS}
Try going to where they send you: SupportPluto.TV and you will get “Page not found.”.
Not very reassuring!
Pluto the only place where the commercials are longer than the movie.
I don’t know what’s longer the commercials or the actual show. Sometimes I think it’s the commercials.
I finally bought a smart TV, and while seeing what apps were available, I saw Pluto TV, which I’ve never heard of before today. I don’t have cable, just internet since I haven’t watched TV in over a year (other than the last 2 plays of Super Bowl 51, and the last 3 innings of Game 7 in the World Series).
I was quite pleasantly surprised to see an MST3K channel, as well as Riff Trax (an updated MST3K), since I was bummed when Comedy Central dropped MST3K long ago.
Since I don’t watch much TV, Pluto has far more options than over-the-air, and sometimes the vintage stuff is better than what’s on now.
I was real angry to see Pluto TV ad on Grindr somehow suggesting “cut” guys make smarter decisions and thus promoting male circumcision. It almost degrades people with uncut cock and suggests that is not a smarter option. Learn to promote just Pluto TV without making biased statements that suggest the wrong thing! However in no worldwide medical study does it substantially prove the benefits of mutilating the foreskin.
Uhhh… MSNBC is “regular” news, but the other new channels are “slanted” in their coverage? Wow. That is some statement.
That comment also raised huge flags for me. Immediate discounting of reviewer opinion….
Same here
Same here. I watch it for those “slanted” channels.
The “Other” news IS “Real News.
I agree with Gary re MSNBC being deemed “regular” news by the author. MSNBC on a political scale is a little to the left of Leon Trotsky.
MSNBC isn’t a “slanted news channel?”
You’re kidding right?
Pluto TV went from okay to not okay at all! Ads repeat and do not allow you to ever watch the show. They BAN CC because they HATE the deaf and can NOT force deaf haters to CC anything. The problem is that no one wants to pay for CC anything for the deaf because the deaf do not exist in their Very White Privileged world. The other problem is that those producing free videos can NOT afford to pay the over thousand dollars to CC anything. And YouTube’s CC efforts were so viral and explicitly wrong that it was offensive at best! Pluto TV customer support? I’ve not heard anything back yet. I’m deleting!
You need to get closed captioning on Pluto TV, otherwise you’re leaving out a whole variety of people out there to try to figure out what you’re saying on these shows.
Pluto TV is the best. Free with different and unique channels. Keep up the good work.
I was very pleasantly surprised by the content and effectiveness of Pluto TV when I downloaded it to my new Roku TV manufactured by Sharp. I liked it so much I Googled Pluto TV to find out more about it. It works well, has a lot of variety of programming, and is free!
I love Pluto TV… But we need a western channel…
Glad I find this site, because I am deaf and I appreciate seeing the comments here about how Pluto apparently does not have CC for their programming. Waste of time for me to download and install it only to find this important information out. I believe Netflix got sued in the past because they were not offering closed captioning for their content. Maybe that’s what it will take for Pluto TV as well. It’s really a crying shame that they can’t offer captioning, not just for their deaf and hard of hearing customers, but many other people used captioning, whether it’s to enjoy shows with the sound down or to even learn English. I think Pluto should be ashamed of themselves for not having captioning for their content. In my view it doesn’t matter if it’s free or not.
i get cc on mine
John, I like CC, to, but it AIN”T free, John! I hear fine, but I like CC, too!
It’s very expensive!
I just watched a Tubi movie circa 1952 and every tenth word was wrong!
It was like a really bad joke!
Besides they [CBS] have much bigger problems than CC, John.
Potentially a great streaming channel, but they are hiding the fact that they have equally great problems implementing it.
Money problems??
Try going to where they send you: SupportPluto.TV and you will get “Page not found.”.
Not very reassuring, Mike!
An afterthought, John… With things like Google speak translating speech to text…
It’s got to be a dozen times cheaper now…
It is all full of commercials and gets stuck on the same ones over and over again, drive you crazy, if you like interruptions that go on and on you will like Pluto TV.
A friend and I fell asleep to a show that has 3 episodes and then you have to put on the next one. At the end it should have re-shown or stopped. I could have lived with commercial ads but no we were woke up with pornograhic movie that showed no title and was awful!!!! I thought that junk cost money and not found on free tv available for innocent children to find!!! This needs a parental filter or something!!!! Will never just let this channel run again!!!!
Like the other folks who are complaining about the lack of CC content on Pluto tv I also think it’s sad that your platform has no programming with Closed Captions. Closed captioning is an asset not just for the Deaf and hearing impaired populations (of which there are millions of members in the U.S. market alone), but also for people who are in the process of learning English or improving their English skills. Closed captioning is also a wonderful feature for couples or people who want to be able to quietly watch a program while their partner or other family members are sleeping or a more quiet environment is desired. In short you do millions of people a disservice by not having content that is closed captioned, so I am extremely disappointed in your platform.
Pluto has a pretty good offering but it is by far the most aggravating to watch. I imagine it is all computerized in how it works but it seems like it’s being run by a group of stoned 20 year old men. While watching a movie or news show a commercial will just pop up out of nowhere, sometimes the movie will stop, sometimes it won’t. Sometimes you will see the picture from the commercial and still hear the movie. Sometimes, and this is the worst, you will see the same 15 second commercial 8 times in a row. And they will play a second or 2 of the movie in between each of them and it can really spoil the scene of the movie. I watch Pluto on my computer and you have to pause it before you exit or the sound from whatever you were watching will just keep playing until you restart the computer. Plus while playing, it will pause for no reason and you just have to click the mouse to restart it. It’s difficult to known when the program is freezing or pausing on it’s own. I often just walk away from this service in frustration, in the middle of shows, it’s that annoying.
I agree. same issues here. Plus all ways loading…..
Way too many ads. 42 commercials during one movie and the ads are the same ones over and over. More ads than program.
Pluto TV worked fine for a few days. Now, everytime I try to change the channel or put on Netflix, Pluto Tv pops up, and continues to pop up every time we take it off.
Like WPT and Ask this Old House and a few others BUT they run the most obnoxious ads I have ever seen, over and over again. The political ad is the worse. Tom, go away.
Today attempted to watch a program commercials every three minutes. Pluto tv may be free but it is still over priced.
I had cable but when the cable went down I discovered Pluto. I am a game show fanatic, and I love Buzzr. However, lately they interrupt the show for commercials. And when then show finally comes back on for a minute or two the program says they are cutting away for commercials, and then Pluto plays additional commercials. I shouldn’t complain, I mean it is free. But when I’m getting 20minutes of commercials and about 10 minutes or less then the actual program it becomes a bit too much. Love Pluto. Just would like the interruptions lessened if possible.
Has some good channels but is not worth watching because of the Massive amount of commercials, has more commercials than regular tv!
I really love Pluto TV; it had a lot of my favorite classic retro shows and movies; I just wish the same commercials wouldn’t play over and over again; u can’t mute them nor fast forward to the show or movie you’re watching; other than that; I love it!
Love Pluto TV. But please get some different season of the Challenge. Get all the seasons from 1 to 34 and put it on the On Demand.
I like the old format better,at least you could jump ahead in time by a few hours, and you could go to 007 and see all
Can’t beat Pluto TV’s price cause it’s free- Just one complaint, you’ll be watching a movie and the same scene keeps repeating. What’s up with that?
That’s called poor quality, Mark, but don’t complain. At least you are able to watch movies on it. I’m not able to do that!
Just TV! Like New York…It’s oversold bandwidth (their low speeds) I’m guessing as an electronics technician.
My family was watching Pluto everyday until my sons and daughters were starting to talk racist about Asians and other races and they were going to join some boogaloo and race war and saying some very disgruntling things about the pandemic being fake and they don’t need to wear a mask and other things. I asked where they were getting these ideas and they showed me these new news channels on Pluto. OMG. Immediately I removed Pluto from our home.
Another Liberal Media outlet. Every time a watch it they continue negative ads for President Trump…lies! Go figure..the parent company is CBS!!!!
News channel calling the pandemic fake and not to wear masks would be a conservative channel. And if I found one that played true ads about a lying, loser criminal ex president I would watch it continuously.
I really like Pluto TV. I watch it very often. I like watching the movies of the 80s and 90s. I also like watching the conservative news and opinion channels.
where did RT America go?
worst app i ever had goes out all the time your wacthing something and in 35-40 mins it drops out im deleting it and finding something better even if i have to pay for it
Due to the ridiculously excessive and obtrusive ad situation, I can take Pluto TV only in small doses. I’ve tried binge watching old sitcoms on Pluto (or even just one good documentary) but I can’t make it through more than a couple of episodes before I have to give up in frustration.
I can understand having to put up with ads, it IS a “free” service after all, but the ads are so frequent, they’re the same few ads over and over, and the ads aren’t in the places in the programs that were designed for ad breaks (for example, at the end of a scene). Nope, they come right in the middle of a scene, sometimes in the middle of a sentence, or right before the punch line. Then it goes back to the show, a few seconds later is the end of the scene, a new scene begins, and 2 minutes later in the middle that scene, bam, the same ads all over again. Sometimes after the ads it drops you back exactly where it took you away from the show, sometimes not.
And no, you can’t skip forward past the ads. My only defense against the psychological warfare of having the same loud ads blasted at me over and over again every few minutes is to quickly hit the mute button and ride it out, but after an episode or two it just gets to be not worth the aggravation.
It’s one of the rare instances where “free” may be too high a price to pay.
I agree completely! I timed it. A scant 4 minutes of a show to 3-4 minutes of commercials. PLUS: for series shows like Amazing Race and Hell’s Kitchen, there is no way you can ever watch the whole series without binge watching it for HOURS!! Very disappointed. I understand that it is free and that they have to pay for the shows they are airing. I’m fine with having to watch commercials vs paying a monthly fee, but it is excessive to have equal show to commercials ratio!
WHY DO YOU PLAY THE SAME COMMERCIAL EVERY 4 MINUTES DURING A MOVIE? IT SUCKS WHEN YOU’RE WATCHING A MOVIE AND ITS CONSTANTLY INTERRUPTED!!!!
Pluto freezes up or the audio fails to match the video (out of sync). It is a very unreliable streaming service. FYI – I have no problems with my 500MB up/down FiOS Internet service.
Nice touch in the review…putting a politically-biased message in the Platforms section using an MSNBC screenshot.
Classy.
NOT.
To the powers that be,
Promoting F/MF/N-bombers like Adam Carolla, & T-Pain to name a couple is to aid & abet vulgarity under the guise of being socially acceptable. Please rethink what you teach children & the large contingency of us who don’t talk that way
Pluto overplays really awful doctor whos. The TOM BAKER ones are great! PLUTO! CHANGE THE DOCTOR WHO PROGRAM LINE UP FOR MORE TOM BAKER. A few of the first doctor series are okay.
BAD STORYLINES, ACTING, PRODUCTION FOR THESE >>> The Jon Pertwee series are way too much overplayed and they really SUCK SUCK SUCK. Just air ONE Pertwee —please!! That guy is the worse doctor who ever. Why even play that crap.
COLIN BAKER? BLOWS! and SYLVESTER McCOY series are written super bad. NOBODY WATCHES THEM.
Pluto is great for what it is. Generally our ‘go to’ channel! However, the commercials are set on a different volume setting. We can be watching something, goes to commercial & literally blasts out! What is up with that? My husband usually has the remote, commercial comes on, he turns it down, gets up & consequently the show comes back on but too low. That, I realize is a personal issue, but PLEASE, turn it down on the commercials!
Pluto TV is frequently annoying when it advertises channels that are not freely available. I was watching channel 150 (STNG) and saw adds for channel 110 (Star Trek of all kinds). When I try to go to channel 110, it is not available. Pluto’s channel navigation options are awful. Frequently, you can’t get anywhere without visually scanning thru the channel list, with no clue what section to look in. Seems to have more ads than broadcast TV.
Been watching & enjoying Pluto Tv for some years now! I never really payed any attention to the title of the up coming shows. Until I start watching shows that I’ve seen already. I happen to notice the title are all WRONG. It’s pretty annoying that after the show starts not even 30 sec in there’s a commercial ugh! Please fix the title @pluto-tv for the gunsmoke channel 527 your titles are not right for the show that’s air’s.
The company that produces the content and ads doesn’t understand audio normalization. Overall the quality is rather poor.
Yes, they are still having issues with playback overlapping, especially on longer pieces.
There are too many ads, and the repetition frequency is too often. If you are an advertiser don’t go with Pluto, because every customer will hate your product and brand. I know I would never spend a penny on any of these scam-like ads. Also, never ask your doctor about any drug you see an ad for. Ads are basically commercial cancer. The only good ads are PSAs or information on other channels offered by Pluto.
I would like to say that I enjoy Pluto, but the low quality content (editing, delays), plus excessive ads, make it only borderline tolerable.
Have enjoyed many of the programming channels, movie channels, on-demand movies. Thanks for Doctor Who, but I miss the 007 channel. Wish we could get Al Jazeera as a news channel, but that’s also free (and ad-free) and has it’s own app. Most of the conservative news channels are replays from several days earlier. I can’t determine if Newsy offers more ads here or on their own channel. I can’t stand looking at coffee sellout people on Bloomberg. Skynews is an absolute gem! Also checkout the railroad channel.
Been using pluto for a couple years and dont have the problems these people are having. Most of the time bad reviews are brought on by a bad user, whether it is generally speaking software or hardware issues.
A “Pause Video” button is sorely missing on web browser and Roku support, at least! That, and that is automatically starts playing a video when you start is ap are my main complaints.
The main problems I have with Pluto TV are number one you have to have a Facebook account in order to give feedback, many of the movies have severe audio problems such as the movie that I just watched almost famous and lastly their commercials are so ridiculous especially how they constantly repeat the same stupid commercial over and over for things that I would never even consider buying
The On Demand is terrible. It doesn’t save my place, so when I came back to finish a movie I was 2hrs into (had an hour left), I had to fast forward through every commercial break (~10 of them) to get back to that spot. Then with 10 minutes to go, my Internet cut out and it booted me out of Pluto. I’m not going to spend another half an hour fast forwarding between commercials to finish this movie. What a waste of time.
same commercials over and over again, this sucks!
Watching Pluto for a long time & thought it was great until recently. We’ve been watching Newsmax on Pluto for some time now, we more-so lately we have been noticing that whenever Newsmax is in the middle of an interview with someone exposing evidence of extreme liberal nonsense – the channel will suddenly cut out and go to the Pluto color screen. It cuts out the content that seems to oppose extreme liberal content. When we watch Newsmax on Plex, this doesn’t happen. This recently seems to happen more often than a person would think as coincidence. If you’re watching Newsmax on Pluto, pay attention and see if I’m wrong and that this isn’t actually happening? Are they doing this on purpose to censor conservative content?
As a fan of older tv shows, particularly Classic TV, I was initially very excited about see all the channels being added….BUT…..
It’s the same episodes repeated over and over. Would also be nice to be able to avoid having channels I know I won’t ever watch be visible on the guide. Seriously thinking about switching to another viewing service.
I agree, Cherlyn. I like Pluto TV, but (like a lot of free services), I don’t think it’s good enough on its own to replace cable. I think it’s a good app to have… but if it’s the ONLY app you have, it’ll get old fast!
I get it. it’s free tv but way too man commercial, 3-5 min after a show starts time for a break, watch a movie concert in the middle of a song got to break away for a commercial, didn’t sell enough ads just repeat the same one over and over again, I mean that stupid ATT one. I stop watching Pluto just way to many and poorly timed even on one tv show with pre timed breaks doesn’t matter just cut away in the middle of a scene got to take a commercial break, free tv shouldn’t be this awful, no wonder they claimed they made a billion last quarter on this program, all those awful commercial break, dead break watching vevo music, way to many freeze, play back of the same scene, just a poorly run program from CBS-Paramount
But I guess all TV has too many commercials tried watching the evening new come back from a break play one news story for a min then right back to a commercial break.
I agree with you about the commercial breaks. Show just starts and then comes a break. Yeah the ads are really annoying but hey you cant beat that when it’s free right 😂
Love being able to watch my favorite show on Pluto Tv. But I did recongize that the titles are wrong for the show that are playing. I think if your looking to change anything it should be that. Thx for the great shows unlimited!
Wow, you all are really programmed. You know, tv used to be free all the time. If I see those damn Covid 19 commercials over and over again…..
This chanels seemed good at first but it seems bias and It shouldn’t be. they clearly shows that they are left and they shouldn’t be on either side why do chanels take political sides? Also there is to many pauses and glitches is annoying hearing the repeating the first lines of the seen over twice like you hear something like this hello my new project is, hello my new projectis
Pluto freezes up every few minutes or so. Sometimes it takes a day to come back. Parts are repeated sometimes as a result of streaming glitches and others times the show are actually edited that way. This is evidenced when you see the same program again and it loops at the exact same point. This is done for most of the documentary programs. They loop the same section every time and you can never see the whole program. I call this Pluto editing.
I love Pluto BUT…….it constantly freezes, sometimes it never comes back until I move to another channel and come back to Pluto. There are definitely to many repetitive commercials and many of the commercials are outdated.
Absolute waist of time unless you are a 5yr old that likes to watch the exact same shows every day and when they finally change the shows they repeat every day again and after a few weeks they switch it back to the first set of shows. It’s so bad that even my 2yr old noticed how many times the shows and movies repeat.
I watch a lot of the crime channels and if they don’t STOP PUTTING SPANISH COMMERCIALS ON ENGLISH SPEAKING CHANNELS, I am going to stop watching them all together…Anyone that understands these commercials also understands English and it’s a slap in the face to be alienated on an English tv channel !
There’s getting to be far, far too many commercials constantly interupting the programming. Even if it’s free there is a limit to watching the blah, blah, blah, drivel of all the commercials they are starting to show., being free isn’t always the best thing.
This must be an old review because Pluto definitely has a search feature. As far as the commercials being louder—commercials are usually louder—they just go overboard. That’s what mute is for. I don’t care about the commercials, and the old sitcoms are nice to have. My only complaint is the music video channels. They play the same songs over and over for the Hair and Heavy show. 🙂 (Yeah, former hair band girl.) If I have to see the No-talent Jackyl again… who programs that show? Lol
we are getting sick of seeing the stupid commercial for heartland every 10 minutes
pluto service suxs so bad.. I have the world’s fastest internet… they suck bad
Please NEVER get rid of Pluto TV! I LOVE IT! It’s better than regular TV! I can watch Death of Michael Corleone. Also – my favorite shows anytime – Beverly Hillbillies and The Best of Carol Burnett. I can’t do this on regular TV. Pluto TV is heaven on earth!… Especially since I can’t watch Days of our Lives on TV anymore! Thank you.
Pluto tv is stupid. Try changing a channel you will find it is almost always a commercial. And Pluto tv always hangs when it’s time for a commercial to be over. The Pluto bubbles float around my screen for 15 minutes before the show finally resumes and Pluto has ancient movies nothing current
Pluto tv is stupid. Try changing a channel you will find it is almost always a commercial. And Pluto tv always hangs when it’s time for a commercial to be over. The Pluto bubbles float around my screen for 15 minutes before the show finally resumes and Pluto has ancient movies nothing current
THIS IS THE WORST FRICKING MOVIE STREAMING PLATFORM IVE EVER SEEN. I watched about an hour of a movie and decided to finish it the next day; HOWEVER, when I wanted to relax after a long day and continue my movie it restarted. No problem I’ll fast forward to where I was. OH WAS I WRONG. I had to rewatch every single commercial while fast forwarding. Mind you, there is one commercial every 7 MINUTES. But I really wanted to watch my movie so I watched 20 commercials in a row just for this crap licking streaming service to RESTART AGAIN. So here I am fast forwarding for another half hour😁