Love watching english series and cartoons? Always have a problem finding where to download or watch these online? Here is the solution to your problem!
What is it?
Sidereel.com is a web platform consist of many users as its main community. You can watch your favorite TV Show, Anime, Drama, Comedy, Cartoon, and anything else that appears on TV! Such as How I Met Your Mother, Glee, Mythbusters, South Parks, Grey's Anatomy, SmallVille, Family Guy, Naruto, the list goes on! Full season episode with names are displayed here so you'll know if you missed anything. They are 100% free to watch, no hidden charges, and no REGISTRATION required! There are also
TV listing showing you the TV show schedule from some of the popular TV channel.
How does it work?
Sidereel.com has been successful due to its community! Communities of Sidereel can edit all the pages in Sidereel add up new links to the latest show and create a new series links. Lets say if you know one of your favorite show streaming link, from Megavideo or Hulu, just go to sidereel and share that with everyone else! So all you have to do, is to go to the main page, search for your favorite TV show, select your desired season and episode, click on "search links", and choose your video links to the show!
You must be thinking, since the site is customizable for the users, there has to be spams and misleading links to advertisement, their own website etc., but fear not! Sidereel administrator and moderator team had done a good job in keeping these out from their site. All the submitted link are prior to approval.
What privileged I got if I'm a registered user?
Before we go into that, let me tell you about the two ways that you can register as their user. The normal "fill in the form" with email confirmation, and "Facebook Connect". Through "Facebook Connect", you are agree upon to share your basic information to Sidereel, and you are good to go. It takes me just two clicks away to register. If you go through the normal sign up fill in the form method, you only required to share your email, time zone, year of birth and country. All you have to worry is possibly Sidereel sending spam to your inbox, so far, I received none. And even if they did, it would be easy to block spam through your email settings. Okay, back to the registered user privilege.
Once your a registered user, you can track your favorite show!
Just Mark your watched episode on the right check box, and every time you come upon your user home page, you will see which TV show is updated with the latest episode and if there is none, they will say that you are updated with the latest show!
Furthermore, after you have tracked a show, any future updates on when the next episode is airing will be listed in the show calender, also included in your user home page.
Another plus! You can get the latest show episode update through your email, by checking the settings here, so you will never miss a show! Sidereel will send you daily notification of the show that you've tracked.
Despite of these, I could get a good use of personal twitter update on a specific show, however they don't have it here. Perhaps this future update suggestion could further improve the service.
What else can you do?
If you feel like a contributing, feel free to submit any online streaming link that you know of, and its not been submitted yet. Mark and report any broken link that you came upon.
Purchase episode downloads. Since you get all the free entertainment from these shows, doesn't hurt if you could give some back by buying them. Show writers and actors entertain you for their living, so tips them by buying the episodes through Amazon and ITunes link. Free online streaming links are MegaVideo, CBS (not available in Malaysia), DailyMotion, and many others.
Wait, is this site legal?
Yes. Sidereel is 100% legal, since it is not hosting any of the videos in the website, but being a bridge linking all the streaming video sites to theirs. However, this website is not available to residents in US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and most of the western Europe.
From what I had seen so far, some of the old series episodes (dated from year 2005) lack of reliable source link, you may not be able to watch some of the very old episodes. Also, there are not many anime listed here (only 28 so far). Only those popular ones, such as Death Note, Detective Conan, and Pokemon. Guess they need more Asian's contributors.
- The site is easy to navigate. Simple easy to understand interface.
- Website is very clean and free of annoying advertisements.
- Video tour guide in homepage, you'll understand the whole feature provided through this video.
- Easy to register through Facebook. (Note: If you want to delete your Sidereel account, simply delete the Sidereel application through your Facebook application setting.
- Full range of ranks and reviews on current hottest series.
So what are you waiting for? Try it out at Sidereel.com!
What is your favorite TV show, or if you have other alternatives to catch the latest series episode, tell me in the comment section below! Thanks!