2 More Free Streaming Services Shutdown

[@CordCuttersNews]

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[@DG-nn9uh]

Sad about Crackle, it was the 1st free streaming service I downloaded.. may not have used it as much but always was glad to have had as a backup

[@wingman-1977]

Same here. I had it on my xbox360.

[@tanquantwal]

Even though you told me about Crackle shutting down I had to see it for myself. Went over there and tried to watch Alf and it only buffed. RIP Crackle😮 You were my first free streaming service so many years ago 😒

[@robinsmith8252]

Love my antenna! Roku & TCL channels are working for me.

[@tonyn3227]

Soon there won't be any free streaming services,

[@cheshirecc1885]

I liked crackle when I watched it. There were some things that I found on it that were really good. I will miss it.

[@jsedbe0624]

BTW…Freevee is still available through Amazon

[@spaceghost4474]

A LOT of people are tired of being price gouged for local channels, so MAYBE those channels have seen the light. MAYBE.

[@nickperkins8477]

You mentioned Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee going to Netflix. As a Crackle Original, when that happened, I thought Crackle is in trouble.

[@969thewhip]

I used to watch Crackle through my Blu-ray player back in like 2010.

[@rkmklz7562]

Crackle is closed... WOW I have watched that on my Smart TV...oh no they were good 👍

[@Lumindeas]

"Ads still seem to work but, beyond that, that seems to be the only thing working right now." Shocker, lol. We're out of business, but please continue to watch the ads for us! 🤦‍♂ Thanks for the news, Luke. Have a great day!

[@JimBailey]

Thank you Cord Cutters News

[@kascnef]

Crackle was popular when Sony owned them

[@mikeshifflett6162]

I was hoping Sony would buy crackle back

[@louisbrownusofa]

Imagine if Snapchat had shut down as well, then everyone could make the joke that Snap, Crackle, and Pop are dead.

[@Warp2090]

Tbh snapchat and instagram will probably be gone in 5-7 years or so, I dont know who even uses them anymore

[@lindatuttle9188]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@angelictigerette]

Dang Crackle was actually pretty good.

[@James.Bizzell]

How will ATSC 3.0 benefit us that watch OTA? I live in a Sinclare Broadcasting location and they have put DRM on all their stations and my HD Homerun will not work with DRM. I live at the fringe of being able to watch OTA TV and I always thought our government has made OTABroadcast to be free. It looks like we will be paying to watch OTA TV in a short time. This is just wrong!

[@ZEX606]

Rip crackle what started it all really enjoyed it back then on my Xbox 360 was great times back then.

[@cvdixon29]

They overextended themselves with buying so many companies especially Redbox with dvds isn’t as popular as they once were. I haven’t seen anyone at a Redbox kiosk in a very long time. I know they steamed but they had a larger footprint with dvd rental kiosk’s.

[@Starsgirl09]

The loss of crackle makes me sad. It had a couple of old shows several years ago that got me through my iron infusions. It was nice to have them handy to just hook up to the internet to watch for free.

[@steveurbach3093]

How many ads is too many? Yep. YT and others just think more ads to keep the bottom line above water is just fine. It must be a generational thing, because when I first started watching OTA, there were only a couple in a 1/2 hour. Disneyland (that was its name back then), Mickey Mouse Club, Howdy Doody... Commercials were at the end and maybe 1 in the middle. Oh, most of those product ads are now banned from TV.

[@Lumindeas]

Same. Over the years I've been adding to my media library and you can see the stark contrast of 28-minute shows in the 60's/70's and as it goes down to 20-22 minutes of show time over the years. Pretty much a full 1/3rd or more of a 30-minute show are ads now.

[@PaulXMann]

FAST channels (mostly) suck... and streaming service costs are quickly becoming unsustainable. We're about to see a market disruption again, soon (perhaps DirecTV's victory over Disney will be the start!).

[@gabrielalejandro1404]

Yeah, and most "free" streaming services that includes them have the exact same channel lineup I'm sick of seeing over and over again.

[@theblaqueekarenn5600]

This breaks my heart what do I do now ?

[@martinphillips4567]

Keep in mind ,revenue for all these free steaming services aren't there , regardless of the hype the streaming industry keeps telling you. As a cord cutter, all I need is the internet & my local 😊 and I'm good. This industry is Bailey making it.

[@CommodoreFan64]

For the most part that's very true, because outside of Tubi, Pluto TV, Roku Channel, and maybe Google's free offering, the rest of these free services including Amazon's Freeve just don't have the viewership numbers to bring in enough AD money to cover the content cost, as many of them are just repeating the same reran to death content as other services, and don't have anything original to offer.

[@MJM1309]

Just checked my YTTV and it has the resume watching section right at the top. I like this feature.

[@tomsettles6873]

There is a HUGE need for a conservative, family friendly streaming package that would offer 40-50 channels for under $50 per month. Fox, Fox business, weather, 5-6 sports channels, discovery, history, hallmark, tnt, tbs, insp, some classic movie & tv channels, etc. My wife and I rented a vacation cabin at a resort in central Oregon and their internet provider had a tv package that offered almost exactly what I listed above. I contacted them and they told me that the resort had customized the programming and they setup their own cable for all the rooms on property.

[@lakegeorgeloyalist2151]

I have 55 channels for $16/ month unlimited DVR. But no sports which I don't need. It's a grandfathered price from Philo

[@trr5291]

I noticed that crackle shut down the other day. Roku put crackle unavailable on the menu. I rarely watched it anymore. As long as Tubi doesn't close down. I love Tubi.

[@Mark-hb5zf]

Question for Luke: The Roku OS 14 new 'thumbs up' or 'down' feature...how will that be tailored to a family? i.e. My spouse likes one kind or programming, I watch a different kind of programming?

[@ShadowWingTronix]

Crackle had more of my interests when Sony was running it, but it was still a good service with some good content. I'm going to miss that, but hopefully anything there I wanted to see ends up elsewhere.

[@fantom0369]

That's a shame about Chicken Soup for the Soul shutting down. I enjoyed their services

[@caseysr.sectionhiker8372]

What is wrong with Media content Executives is they forgot about quality content. Lack of talented media creators seems to have coincided with a willingness to settle for second-rate writers, unimaginative production & an audience willing to settle for video game pablum & comic book plot depth.

[@johnurban7333]

I’m afraid eventually all the free channels will be eliminated

[@benstandard]

That's probably not going to happen. If nothing else many of the paid services will have a free version which will include many of these free channels. That's what Sling is doing right now.

[@johnurban7333]

@@benstandard true, but I think with free you’ll get less and less or stuff you wouldn’t care about anyways. Same thing cable companies did. Remember when Cable started you weren’t supposed to get commercials because you paid for it

[@Warp2090]

Streaming is slowly becoming cable 2.0. Cable used to let you pick your channel lineup and had no commercials back when it was brand new.

[@johnurban7333]

@@Warp2090 exactly. I was watching football on Prime last night and had to sit thru tons of commercials thinking I’m paying for this. And the kicker is you can’t change the channel while the commercials are on, which I do when I’m watching football on free tv.

[@Pahoe77]

Physical media!

[@buffydog21]

The market is oversaturated with so many choices of ad-supported free TV and paid TV services. That I think more streaming services will go out of business.

[@benstandard]

That's likely so.

[@DrkSnydr89]

This one youtuber referred to the streaming wars is like the tv show/movie Highlander. In the end, " there can only be one."

[@C2razzy]

Crackle sucked, but I was in a crackle show as an extra for an upcoming season, and I fear it will never come out

[@sophiacromwell8017]

Wasn’t Pop the one that Schitt’s Creek?!?

[@rcclitherow6707]

We cut the cord in 2013 and haven't been happier. Binge watching ruined waiting for the next episode, so wouldn't go back to regular TV again.

[@Warp2090]

In 2013 it was nice because you could just pay like 20$ a month for just netflix and get a ton of stuff. Now its not that simple.

[@joseventura9685]

Me too! I tried to watch cable the old fashioned way since I got my first Roku well definitely not going back. Not even antenna.

[@Barot8]

I did like Crackle. It had some good shows.

[@lesleybazant1013]

I can't stand the fact that on all of these streaming services, they only have limited reruns, and when I go back and watch shows like the closer, Justified and midwife series they aren't even in order. It all they same content on all of these services also. Then when they say a new season is starting of a series you have watched before, it isn't really new like the Old Man etc.

[@deancobb]

Never cared for either

[@oubrioko]

*Crackle?* Noooooooooooo! 😭

[@mikebarbano4420]

This is how free internet ended. It started piecemeal and then snowballed. My question is how will the closing of free streaming services impact bit torrent downloading? They tried to kill Pirate Bay years ago but only had partial success. That's where I got much of my 1000+ movies on disc from. Then I saved them all on burner. There in my storage ready to watch anytime I want plus the75+ TV series like 20 years of Law and Order.

[@djxcel23]

The 2 sites I watched the most

[@rrt08]

Crackle up and running on my ROKU!?

[@clarkcoleman8143]

No. The app starts up and shows a menu of shows, but if you click on a show, then you get a server error or no response. Looks like it is working until you actually try to watch something.

[@KimberlyGould-w2s]

Yes, I can watch both apps without any difficulty on my Roku Stick as of 10/07/24

[@KimberlyGould-w2s]

@@clarkcoleman8143watching a movie on Popcorn Fix right now 10/07/24 and still can play Crackle on Roku Stick as

[@clarkcoleman8143]

@@KimberlyGould-w2s Yes, they have been revived now. Not sure why, with the bankruptcy proceeding.

[@KimberlyGould-w2s]

@@clarkcoleman8143 but now the Apple Store has removed both and I had already deleted them from my phone. Thank goodness still have them on my iPad and Fire HD!!! Don’t understand why Apple store removed them if still active????

[@Lynn-r8h]

I dumped Netflix. I don’t miss it.

[@benbensch3461]

what's does cable access mean

[@onii747]

Crackle had some good stuff but they were obviously pushing an agenda with their picks.

[@benstandard]

That would be pretty much all of them pushing an agenda.

[@sherryh7485]

What is comparable to Crackle?

[@biancagerade4229]

Tubi TV

[@vmoutsop]

ATSC 3.0 is going to fail miserably if they continue the way they are rolling it out.

[@Mark-hb5zf]

'Going' to fail? maybe 'is failing miserably' :)

[@vmoutsop]

@@Mark-hb5zf I was being nice. If they change their stance on DRM then they still have a chance.

[@Mark-hb5zf]

@@vmoutsop LOL, good comment. It sure has been a train wreck so far.

[@tomgarciaaz]

Title typo?

[@CanItAlready]

I hadn't noticed it. LOL

[@Gmen2487]

Questions for Luke: what happens to all of the content for streaming services that shut down? Why didn't Apple buy these streaming services for their content?

[@polarfamily6222]

You think apple buying them is a good thing? 😂

[@thistlemoon1]

The content is available on many different platforms. I don't think any free service has a lock on any specific programming.

[@Gmen2487]

@thistlemoon1 there was some exclusive content. Not much, but there was.

[@Gmen2487]

@@polarfamily6222 Apple needs content for Apple+. It makes sense that exclusive content would go to a paid service. I'm not tlkn about syndicated content.

[@garybelew7813]

Just a guess, but exclusive content is pretty rare across the free streaming services.. They mostly offer a lot of the same things with few differences. The major smart TV makers also offer their own free services, like Samsung TV Plus and Vizio watch free, and they have a lot of duplicated content. Roku has dedicated a lot of energy in the Roku Channel as well. The issue is there is only so much to go around. I like Pluto and Tubi the best, but I admit Tubi is a bit temperamental at times, and the music they play during their "blink breaks" is annoying as all get out.

[@TerryHenderson]

Your Roku Remote Just Flashed A Critical Battery Low Warning !!! No Wonder It Doesn't Work With Voice Control !!!!!!! 🙂

[@joseventura9685]

Roku remote says: your battery is low.😆

[@NightHawke]

Luke's traditional background is actually the Fire TV home screen. Even on Roku TVs, the home screen doesn't look like that.

[@thomaandy237]

Why is zeam not working

[@joseventura9685]

You probably have slow internet speeds right now.

[@JoseVentura-f4b]

I've downloaded Zeam it seems to be the app it self even on the fire tablet.

[@KenTheMan407]

Prayers go out, this is so random

[@starman2337]

TV stations have to pay for broadcasting antennas and equipment to reach more homes over the air, yet CHARGE cable and streaming services to do it for them. Crazy.

[@benstandard]

It makes no sense.

[@garybelew7813]

Good point, you would think over the air channels would be glad to make their programming available to people that can't get them with an antenna.

[@TimesPastTelevisionNow]

I wonder why Crackle failed? What I noticed is that Crackle never had a suite of FAST channels like other free streaming service. Crackle pulled out of Canada about 4 years ago.

[@nickperkins8477]

Crackle selection was pretty bad, and the app’s distribution of commercials was horrible.

[@JayzBeerz]

All these free streaming services are garbage anyway.

[@Warp2090]

True

[@maximillianrexcarpediem1469]

I don't care that much about the networks, just some cable channels. So I'd probably stick with Sling.

[@brandonsmith1198]

What are the two meaning streaming services are regularly shut down? What are they?

[@glennbroderick-n8d]

I like the content of your stuff and appreciate the hard work that goes into each video. So I say the following as constructively as I can: you need to slow down and enunciate.

[@wayneg1184]

Agree

[@joeriveracomedy]

When is Roku getting a power button on the remote? For the box, not the tv.

[@morganmorales610]

I was a big crackle fan because they were part of Sony and then you know like you said but now I'm upset that it left.😢

[@theofficialjaycool]

Crackle became so boring and corny over the years. Tubi, Pluto TV and more was all better than Crackle. So crackle shutting down I'm definitely not surprised by it at all. Actually they should have been shut down like 2020 in my opinion.

[@nickperkins8477]

And FreeVee. Crackle was the first free streaming service, but other companies beat them to pieces.

[@Forest77Wood]

@@joseventura9685 There are too many ads on most of the free streaming services. I have watched Freevee in past and there were breaks seemed like every 5-7 minutes and they tried to fit as many ads in for a break as they could.

[@polarfamily6222]

The way things are going people will be going back to cable.

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@joseventura9685 Then let's hope things either change for the better with ATSC 3.0 I don't have confidence in, or it just fails outright, and we go back to ATSC 1.0.

[@joseventura9685]

I'm all in but current situation on next gen keeps me streaming not using my antenna I live in the downtown area in my city no such luck getting reliable antenna signals its a miss or hit in my building.

[@tb8244]

Aren't all these free streaming services with ads? plus they are just old reruns of junk shows. Content is King which is why Netflix and Pime are kings. Heck even all streaming service menus are the same. Entertainment is just a mess these days

[@myemail3829]

Yes but you probably never put the time into watching them because you go to your paid subscription apps. They really are not bad at all and they were free.

[@kenmdem]

Just like Radiant TV, which was one early streaming service. That shut down and a few years later, was bought and turn into both on demand and streaming service. The center on black entertainment, movies,news and sports, mainly sports. The same thing could happing to Crackle. Someone, some years later. Buy it and revive it. Of course, it may not be the same as now, free.

[@benbensch3461]

Is discovery plus shutting in October

[@benbensch3461]

Is Disney Plus shutting in October

[@joseventura9685]

NO! Disney+ is shutting down their cable access ready apps.

[@mburnzy9269]

I wish it was! It's many tens of billions in the hole. D+ is going to hurt Hulu, not help it.

[@hughjass4829]

But free, ad supported streaming services are the future.

[@dozn1111]

Mine remote pro works fine after I added it in the settings. Its great...

[@carloshranicka7999]

@Luke: The shinefeld show is on Comedy Central 1 day during the week.

[@carloshranicka7999]

That should read.Sienfeld Show If I speledl the name right?

[@oldfarmshow]

😳

[@steveguti6452]

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one believeth praise God praying for everyone Everyday God bless you all

[@steveguti6452]

Urgent emergency please join me in prayer for all those affected families children animals massive hurricane to Florida suffering hurting all around the world having all medical problems having difficult situations paying rent bills evictions homeless hungry alcoholism drugs prayer for the lost to get saved facing all difficult situations fighting to survive keep the faith God will show you the way in the end we will be victorious with the Lord praise God praying for everyone Everyday God bless you all...

[@dansaber4427]

One hurricane after another Florida is becoming intolerable

[@MJCline]

Not cord cutting related

[@jimbelica157]

Yes I will pray. But this isn't cord cutting related.

[@jimroscovius]

Not related. Florida knows how to handle hurricanes. They'll be fine.

[@JohnnyReno71]

If they don’t like dealing with hurricanes maybe they shouldn’t live there.

[@morganmorales610]

Just to let you know I heard your daughter watch control Crunchyroll is no longer on service anymore it's gone. Because I watch anime to

[@mrdanieldavis]

Roku doesn't include a browser. That should make clear your relationship with the company . You aren't the customer ...you are the product . Roku should pay people to use their devices .

[@CommodoreFan64]

Personally I'm not looking to navigate the open internet with a Roku remote, and I don't think most are either, if you really want a web browser on your TV, then pick up a cheap used mini PC like a Lenovo Thinkcentre Tiny, put an SSD in it, least 8GB of RAM, and install a simple Linux distro like Solus Budgie, or Chrome OS Flex on it, and you're good to go except a few services like Peacock, a Frandango at home that don't like non Windows OS's.

[@robtucker6303]

That’s absolutely ridiculous.

[@caseysr.sectionhiker8372]

If you need an internet browsing experience to compliment your streaming controller, couldn't you just mirror to the tv with your phone? Asking for a friend

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@caseysr.sectionhiker8372 using one of the 20 buck ONN 4K streaming boxes, and an Android phone you sure can cast your phone screen to your TV, Roku does not do that as well. I can't speak for iOS as I don't use anything Apple.

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@caseysr.sectionhiker8372 Having said that I still think it's better to get a little mini PC if you want to use the web on your TV a lot, as a wireless keyboard with built in trackpad, or a mouse makes things easier.

[@tonyn3227]

Never .liked crackle or popcorn flix, it was all crappie old stuff and reruns, anyway

[@dennismccowan5375]

I wager, eventually, all free apps will be bought up by the few paid apps and then there will be NO free apps!

[@robtucker6303]

Never going to happen.

[@brandonsmith1198]

Stop with the Ads tired of it

[@thistlemoon1]

It's KZbin he doesn't have anything to do with it.

[@steveguti6452]

Jesus Christ died for our Sins according to the scriptures and that he was Buried and he rose Again the third day praise God praying for everyone Everyday God bless You all .

[@MJCline]

Stop spamming this

[@MSDOGS1976]

Not the place for this.

[@thedude5040]

I think it's a new bot as it's the comments getting the most likes

[@beedevil11]

Keep religion and politics to yourself.

[@robtucker6303]

@@beedevil11While I understand your sentiment… I am not sure you really understand what freedom means. Just ignore or downvote.

[@AAa-qd8hb]

The Status of Harris (her they) Free comedy streaming skits extended for another 4 more years is now in Serious question? 😅😅.

[@bearpawz_]

Dumb... 👎