{"id":20940,"date":"2016-08-04T06:32:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T10:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20940"},"modified":"2021-07-04T20:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T00:19:54","slug":"pluto-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/08\/04\/pluto-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluto TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"crawford-route66\"<\/a>A post-Whatever Happened to Baby Jane<\/em><\/a>, pre-Trog<\/em><\/a> Joan Crawford in an episode of forgotten television series Route 66<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I discovered this odd television guest appearance while surfing the channels on my Roku<\/em> box. Yes, you can surf<\/em> channels on the Roku<\/em> just as you can on a cable TV subscription thanks to the odd, bundled streaming channel known as PlutoTV<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"plutotv\"<\/a>PlutoTV<\/em><\/a> is a bundle of internet television channels set up like a cable or satellite subscription offering a streaming assortment of ad-sponsored news, some oddball sports and a lot of public domain offerings. It’s not like a lot of on-demand content channels on the Roku where you pick a movie, put up with a lot of ads for energy drinks, cars and vacation destinations only to watch a bootleg VHS quality copy of some cinematic atrocity repeatedly interrupted by the same three advertisements. This is streaming like a real TV in pretty decent quality, and there seems to be something for everyone in the lineup. You can check it out<\/a> on your computer, phone or tablet, but I prefer watching my Roku <\/em>from the comfort of my living room.<\/p>\n

The nice thing about PlutoTV<\/em> is that it’s free<\/em>. It’s hardly a replacement for a cable or satellite subscription, but the price is right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A post-Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, pre-Trog Joan Crawford in an episode of forgotten television series Route 66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3456],"tags":[149,3925,185,3926,186],"class_list":["post-20940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weird-world-of-the-roku","tag-joan-crawford","tag-plutotv","tag-roku","tag-route-66","tag-television"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5rK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42069,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2023\/11\/29\/christmas-disk\/","url_meta":{"origin":20940,"position":0},"title":"Christmas Disks","author":"Joe","date":"November 29, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"I regret to report that streaming has metastasized into the thing it was meant to replace. 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