hello I'm Wanderer001 and this is my review of Pluto TV it is a
internet based TV provider unlike a lot of the other TV products that I've
reviewed like sling over there you see the advertisement for it
Pluto is absolutely free you do not pay for it it has a channel guide it has
regular channels that pull their information from other sources on the
internet so it has channel blocks it has channels but not exactly like you're
used to seeing with some of these other streaming services so some of the
downfalls of Pluto there is no DVR there are favorites there are some other
things but this is Pluto on the Roku so there are some limitations but I'm gonna
boot it up so that you can see it and show you exactly how the load times are
and the weird eyeball things all right focus is a little better you can see in
the upper right hand corner there which the TV has this are the cameras decided
to focus on cuz it has faces that is a mini preview of what is actually being
played on the last channel that you were on so here you could see Mystery Science
Theater 3000 there's not really a channel normally for Mystery Science
Theater 3000 but there's one here there are regular commercial breaks during all
shows so just like you would have I don't know three to five commercial
breaks during regular TV it's been many years since I've actually watched
regular TV but this has those as well they are not and here you see it goes
through large screen mode if you wait too long in the preview and don't move
around the ads that you see during a TV break are not normal TV ads they're
there obviously things like you would see on YouTube unless you're watching
this late at night and on not adult channels but like not
there are there are some kid related channels here but I saw an ad for like
Adam and Eve and I do not understand that but I digress here you have
here you have a disappearing channel guide the channel guide is broken up
into several different areas the one fault I have with the channel guide is
it only shows you an hour block so you can see right here currently it's
showing you the date and it's showing you yeah well today is date and time
starting at 3 o'clock and only goes to 4 o'clock pushing forward on the remote
does not move it forward but we can skim through the channel guide here there are
lots of things that you could see for those of you who like anime now these
are probably pulling from YouTube somewhere because you only get subtitles
on these channels you do not get dubbed versions I'm just like IGN and seen it
that's pulling in from the Internet just streaming there there's a 4k channel
here and we're just gonna keep going there's a specific there's a lot of
specific channels to specific show so this is a specific to Dog the Bounty
Hunter animals there is here kids section so here you've got big comfy
couch you've got this one and over there in the corner you probably have been
seeing descriptions play so if I click on it I'm just gonna hit enter show you
what the load time is oh there you go I remember this when I was really young
alright we're gonna go back but the load times are really good and the play
quality is also really good so like I said you've got a bunch of cartoons in
here now you've got sections now on the Roku it's a little harder to see those
sections but now we're going into like travel and and things of that nature so
they're not things such as like Food Network but it's it's just called food
and it will pull from all sorts of different food categories now we're
gonna go back so that that's not showing over on the left hand side here this is
live TV so that is letting you know that you're currently on live if you click
your roku remote over to the left hand side you can come down and select free
movies and TV so what this will do is this will bring you into a selection of
movies that are on demand so this has access to some on-demand content for
both movies and shows so if you wanted to you could say here we go Ringo if we
start this it will start to play ringo we're just gonna give that a
second to buffer up so that you can see the low time of a video-on-demand item
as opposed to being brought right into live TV now you can see this took a
little longer and here we go it should be visible there good now if I pause you
can fast-forward through vod's but only some vods you'll notice now because I've
tried fast-forwarding it got a well it's not actually showing the commercial
break but on some video on-demand content there are commercial breaks that
you will have to sit through so here I'm pressing back and we're gonna go back to
the free movies and stuff similarly you have TV shows these are TV
shows that are video on demand now I said this was a free service and it is
absolutely free you can if you so chose and see up in there it's keeping Ringo
if I wanted to make that large again I would just hit the 30 second back on my
Roku remote but we're going to start this again so you can see a load time
and then we're gonna shrink that so Pluto TV is absolutely free you can
create an account which will give you access to more channels now the more
channels that I saw and only see if I can find them they have a whole bunch of
music stations too so just like satellite used to have or still probably
has the the channels that were added when I created my account were a whole
bunch of sports channels and I'm trying to find them here's your news section so
if you want you can go into CNBC and watch that live so yeah maybe we will do
another live channel there so there you go that's all alive
I just don't there we go sports so when I created an account it gave me access
to more sports channels now you also get the ability to hide channels favorite
channels and use your phone as a remote and I just keep changing channels really
quickly because I really don't want to any copyright strikes the one problem
that I found with creating the account and having the high channels favorite
channels and use your phone as a remote so here I'm pressing down on my Roku
remote to channel surf just like you would with regular TV now because it's
just like regular TV when you come in you do not get the option to rewind so
that was actually me pushing the back button to go back on live TV you can't
go back on live TV you're just watching live TV but going back to the account
when I created the account and had the ability to hide channels favorite
channels and use the phone as a remote yes I can use my phone as a remote but I
hid channels and made favorites and for whatever reason on the Roku those do not
show up so it's it's a little odd I mean I don't mind using the Roku remote I
wish I could hide a lot of the channels or at the very least have my channel so
the channels that I like to watch have those favorites show up on the side
because although the things that I watched in the literature that I was
reading about it said that in the corner here over by the live and free stuff I
should also be able to see my favorites and like I said you just you don't have
favorites they just don't show up on the Roku don't know why but they're not that
now that's not to say that Pluto TV is not an excellent service again
because keep in mind this is a free service so you get what you pay for what
I've heard this referred to as is waterfall TV so when you need to have
something running in the background just for noise you don't want to have to go
and pick something out and you know go into Netflix pick your Netflix go into
Hulu whatever pick something to watch you just need something running the
background to to to create sound or maybe you are interested my wife has
found a new fascination with Mystery Science 3000 so she enjoys watching that
and has it all in the background for noise so Pluto TV again free channel for
your Roku there's no reason not to have it on here and for the most part you
should be able to find something that you enjoy watching with this
I can't I can't say any more about it it's it is an excellent service for the
price we'll put it that way so I have been Wanderer001 if you
have any questions or comments please feel free to leave them in the area
below and as always thanks for watching