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Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Seriously? Yea we want to watch a movie and take 10 hours to get through it cause of all the bull$#*! that happens. Worse ever, complete Garbage! If I had 0 or in the negatives I would of rated it that

Date of experience: July 9, 2017
West Virginia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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It just does not work
March 10, 2017

My Roku search led me to OV, which offered a movie for free that I wanted. I was willing to see commercials in exchange for saving a few dollars and still seeing the uncut movie. Unfortunately, the site just plain did not work. The movie stalled and I had to exit and restart. Then the video dropped out, and all i had was sound, so i had to exit and restart. Then it started looping one commercial over and over--exit and restart. Twenty minutes into this, I was still on minute eight of the movie. No doubt their statistics show that I watched a movie, so they'll be able to count me as a viewer, keep selling ads, and keep wasting people's time.

Date of experience: March 10, 2017
Wisconsin
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Horrible Loading Display
September 22, 2017

What happened? Due to busy work schedule I have not had a chance to watch OV for months but now that I want to watch, the loading is horrible. I can't figure out what I am selecting. I tried deleting and reloading app with no success. I watched OV for years with no loading problems until now.

Date of experience: September 22, 2017
Tennessee
1 review
9 helpful votes
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Don't bother
November 30, 2016

Tried watching a movie, the original Planet Of The Apes. Plays for 5 min then 90 sec commercials. Repeat. Every 5 min the movie stops to play commercials then takes a bit to "load" the movie again. Dont mind commercials like traditional tv but this was ridiculous. Also no search feature could be found. If it is there, it is not obvious. Hard to find a movie not alphabetized when there are over 700 in one category alone. Frustrating.

Date of experience: November 30, 2016
Maryland
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Attempted to watch a classic film on OvGuide because Sling's TCM stream wouldn't stop buffering. Will never attempt to view a movie on OvGuide again. In exchange for our "free" movie, we were forced to watch two commercials at the outset. Then, less than five minutes into the movie--more ads! The rating for the movie as well as the icon for the channel never left the screen--it was like watching a movie with stickers on it. Worst of all, there was no letter boxing for this classic film. It was bloated out to fit TV. I told my sons that this--minus the annoying rating and network labels--is what it would have been like to watch this movie on non-cable television when I was a kid. Is it possible to feel ripped off by something that's free? OvGuide has managed to make the answer to that question a resounding yes.

Date of experience: December 25, 2016
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Don't Waste Your Time
August 29, 2017

Such a joke and misleading offering FREE movies and programs. 3 commercials every 5 minutes of a movie is not worth watching something for free. I'm beginning to think all of Roku's free sites are a joke Excessive commercials on any of the free movie sites,

Date of experience: August 29, 2017
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Could only see three minutes of offered free movie at a time and then had to go back and restart with more commercials to be interrupted with more commercials. Roku is charging folks and doing a bait and switch. Movies for commercials.

Date of experience: October 30, 2017
New York
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Buffering. A lot.
October 31, 2017

I watched several commercials with no issues. Then 3 minutes of a movie with constant buffering. Then back to 3 more commercials with no issues. Then when it was time for the movie it stuck in buffer mode. The loading line was full but it stuck and never loaded the movie. 3 minutes of the movie is all I got.

Date of experience: October 31, 2017
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Disappointed
February 21, 2017

I started watching a couple movies and about 19 to 25 minutes into each movie it would stop and go back to the roku home page. I would go to condition watch click and slick condition from where it left off and it would start i would watch the 3 commercial and when it comes to loading the movie it stop and carrys back to the roku home page. This is the first time watching this channel. Please fix it because roku support couldn't help me fix it either. Thank you!

Date of experience: February 21, 2017
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Annoying
September 7, 2016

Used this via Roku. It's really annoying. Ads come on every 5-7 mins and it is the same ad repeated three times over each time.
Also the film I watched was cut short so I never got to see the ending. Fortunately the film was $#*!e, but I would have gone mental if the film had been a real cliff hanger.

This channel is tempting to use but personally I won't be bothering again

Date of experience: September 7, 2016
California
685 reviews
3564 helpful votes
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As others have said, this is an excellent entertainment portal and one worth recommending for its sheer range of choices. Just one consideration to bear in mind, it also provides easy access to a very wide range of porn sites. Which is not to say that porn isn't easy for anyone to find anyway, but if you've given this link to your kids based on all the positive reviews, they're going to spot the Adult link straight away.

On the other hand of course, if you're an adult looking for an extensive selection of user-rated porn links in one place, I guess this is a recommendation. It all depends how you look at it, so to speak.

Date of experience: September 14, 2009
Oregon
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Started watching movie after 3 commercials and then 3 min into the movie I had to watch 3 more commercials. This kept this stupid cycle up until about 26 min in then it would kick me out to the OvGuide and then I had to start all over. This is pure $#*!. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME! ROKU should be ashamed of having this channel on their list. I gave it a 1 because I didn't have the option to go -1000

Date of experience: May 1, 2017
California
4 reviews
14 helpful votes
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I was looking everywhere for Gossip Girl once they took it off the CW website, and I finally found it using ovguide! I love this site. It's easy and totally free. So i recommend it to anybody that wants to get caught up on tv shows, watch movies, or just browse through videos online.

Date of experience: July 21, 2009
Canada
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Pretender Site
July 10, 2017

Searches for old shows have brought up ovguide several times and it has never once worked. Not only does it stop, stall and play RIDICULOUSLY frequent and long commercials, it usually DOES NOT ACTUALLY HAVE THE SHOWS AT ALL. They are just listed on the page and then it plays a completely different, random, barely related to the same topic show. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME on this site.

Date of experience: July 10, 2017
California
5 reviews
28 helpful votes
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I was really surprised at this site and the content, since the reviews were so old. I actually got there thru a link from About.com, so don't know if this matters. I was able to play a fairly recent tv show and get it to play. I didn't have to log in, it just played. Like I said, I'm really surprised!

Date of experience: June 30, 2013
Virginia
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Movie cut short
October 9, 2016

Started watching a great old movie, Gaslight. But the movie cut short about 22 mins in and wouldn't play the rest. I tried to redo it a few times with no success. I won't be using OvGuide anymore.

Date of experience: October 9, 2016
West Virginia
1 review
9 helpful votes
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I loved, loved, loved ovguide about a year and a half ago but since a few sites got investigated by the feds that ovguide apparently linked to, ovguide started pulling off the free material links. Now it is a bunch of junk - really useless.

If you all knew what ovguide USED to be like, you would cringe to see it now. I don't even bother with it anymore. Completely a mess.

Date of experience: June 13, 2011
New York
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Tried using this site through the chrome and Firefox - required me to watch a 32 second ad to watch a 33second clip of an episode. Every link to an episode has produced the same result- the only variance is a few second difference in the ad, and the exact same 33 second clip of each series I tried. I would Nevertust the app it prompts you to download upon first accessing the site, I'm sure it's just adware and a waste of memory. Complete waste of time, very frustrating and disappointing. Deserves -5 stars for a rating and should be removed from search engines. This site is a disgraceful waste of internet space and time (and data, if you're not using WiFi). DO NOT bother trying to watch anything here unless you're looking to watch mindless advertisements.

Date of experience: July 22, 2016
Michigan
1 review
8 helpful votes
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This site used to be the google for movie/tv sites alike. Now all they want is money. One by one the useful tv/movie sites are dropping off the guide like flies. This site has many competitors and they will soon be better than OVGuide.

OVGuide uses key owrds like "watch movies online" or "free movies" to lure you into their site but now they have very few sites worth looking through. They claim the DMCA is attacking them and making them remove the sites but it all seems to good to be true.

OVGuide, you need to make some serious, fast changes to your greedy ethics and make the site what it used to be otherwise you all look like a bunch of favortism greedy communists.

Date of experience: May 18, 2010
Washington
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Not accurate!
January 29, 2017

I've tried watching movies several times via OVguide through our Roku. It is never the movie it says it is. I don't get it! I keep hoping, and keep trying, and NOPE! I'M DONE!

Date of experience: January 29, 2017

Overview

OV Guide has a rating of 2.3 stars from 44 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with OV Guide most frequently mention and free movies. OV Guide ranks 14th among Streaming Movies sites.