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Along with ads, another downside to AVOD and FAST services is the quality of programming, Bajarin says. Don’t expect it to equal programming from Amazon Prime Video or Netflix. While the

movies and TV shows are generally older, at least you’re only spending time — and not a dime — on services you like. MOST POPULAR AVOD AND FAST SERVICES The Roku Channel has moved up to the

top spot in top AVOD/FAST services. It was No. 2 behind Facebook Watch in 2020. THE ROKU CHANNEL, 21.5% TUBI, 19.7% PEACOCK (NBC), 19.4% PLUTO TV, 17.1% CRACKLE, 11.2% SAMSUNG TV PLUS, 11.1%

CRUNCHYROLL, 7.2% AMAZON FREEVEE, formerly IMDb TV, 6.9% VUDU, 6.7% GLOBAL TV (Canada), 6.4% TWITCH, 6% DAILYMOTION, 5.8% FILMRISE, 5% LG CHANNEL, 4.5% PLEX, 4.4% _Note: Fourth quarter 2022

survey of 4,503 adults age 18 and over in the U.S. and Canada. Source: TiVo and Xperi Holding Corp.’s Q2 2022 Video Trends Report_ A SAMPLING OF AD-SUPPORTED, ON-DEMAND STREAMING Along with

 YouTube’s movies and TV shows, which are free with ads, the burgeoning AVOD space includes: CRACKLE AND POPCORNFLIX. Owned by Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, these two services

dish up more than 10,000 films and close to 25,000 episodes of TV programming, including classic shows like _Bewitched_ and _Everybody Hates Chris_ as well as movies such as _Dragon Quest,

The Grudge_ and _San Andreas_. Also check out the growing library of Crackle originals — _Anything Is Possible, Cagefighter _and_ Love at The Ranch_. FREEVEE. Formerly IMDb TV, Amazon’s free

streaming service has big-name television shows from yesteryear, such as _Desperate Housewives, Hell’s Kitchen, Lost, Reba_ and _The X Files_. Other classic shows include _Murder She Wrote_

 (Season 1), _Columbo, Little House on the Prairie_ and _That Girl_. It also has full-length movies and original content, all watchable on the Freevee website, Fire TV devices and within the

Prime Video app. PEACOCK. NBC’s Peacock has a free tier, which lets you watch 80,000-plus hours of movies and TV shows, says the company, along with some news, sports and other programming.

It’s available to watch on several devices, including Apple TV. All the content Peacock offers, including live sports, costs $5.99 a month. To get most everything without ads will set you

back $11.99 a month. TV shows include _Chicago Fire, Saturday Night Live, Suits, The Office, 30 Rock, Today, Twilight_ and _Yellowstone_. PLUTO TV. “All you really need to know is ... it’s

free of passwords, it’s free of payments, and it’s free of all those Friday night spats about what to watch,_”_ the Pluto TV website says. As one of the newest services, Viacom’s

ad-supported streaming video platform offers hundreds of channels of on-demand movies, binge-worthy TV shows, the latest breaking news, live sports and more. Click on a genre on the left

side of the screen or select from featured programming to begin. THE ROKU CHANNEL. If you have a Roku device or a Roku TV — included on some TV brands such as TCL, Philips and Hisense — you

have access to The Roku Channel, which aggregates the best of free content on its platform and licenses content directly from studios. Popular titles include _The Addams Family, Alfred

Hitchcock Presents, Bones, Coach, Hart to Hart, Heartland, The Rockford Files _and _Young Rock_. Roku says it has hundreds of thousands of movies and TV show episodes available along with

more than 350 live TV channels. TUBI. Featuring both AVOD and FAST streaming options, Tubi allows you to access more than 20,000 hours of video content from studios such as Paramount, MGM,

Lionsgate and Warner Bros. A section called Tubi Kids is available within the app and website so you can watch _Barney, The Flintstones, Garfield and Friends, Pokémon: The Series,

Scooby-Doo_ and _Transformers_ with your grandkids. Among its fare for an older audience: _Forensic Files, Hoodlum, The Matrix Resurrections_ and _Red Dawn_. As one of the fastest growing

and biggest platforms, Tubi saw 44 percent growth in total viewing time in 2022, surpassing 5 billion streaming hours last year and reaching 64 million monthly active users, the company

says. VUDU. Fandango’s Vudu offers more than 200,000 new releases and cataloged movies and TV shows, including a growing selection of titles in 4K resolution. Available at Vudu.com, on

Amazon Fire TV streaming devices and some smart TVs is also an option to purchase or rent titles. New “free with ads” options are recent seasons of TV series such as_ The Chosen_ and _Hell’s

Kitchen_, as well as classic comedy movies, such as _Meatballs_ and _The Naked Gun_. 7 OF THE LATEST OPTIONS FOR YOUR HOME ENTERTAINMENT   Your old Betamax and VHS videotapes, LaserDiscs,

DVDs and Blu-ray Discs are likely sitting on a shelf these days. The last VCR was manufactured in 2016, LaserDiscs left the scene seven years earlier and only a handful of companies still

make DVD or Blu-ray players. Those on-demand technologies coexisted with broadcast and cable TV for years. But as more people got access to high-speed internet, streaming video crowded out

ownership of physical copies of movies or TV shows, according to research from the Motion Picture Association. From 2016 to 2020, sales and rentals of DVDs and Blu-ray Discs declined by 95

percent to $3.5 billion. In 2021, the home and mobile entertainment market, content released digitally and on disc, increased to $32.3 billion, up 7 percent from 2020 with digital leading

the way, according to the MPA. In 2021, the number of online video subscriptions in the United States increased 14 percent to 353.2 million. The latest ways you can get your home

entertainment: * AD-SUPPORTED VIDEO ON DEMAND (AVOD), free * CABLE TV, monthly fee * FREE AD-SUPPORTED STREAMING TELEVISION (FAST), free * OVER-THE-AIR LOCAL TV, free * SUBCHANNELS OF LOCAL

STATIONS, often with networks that rerun classic TV shows, free * SUBSCRIPTION VIDEO ON DEMAND, such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, monthly fee * TRANSACTIONAL VIDEO ON DEMAND, digital

renting such as what's now available through FandangoNOW or iTunes, fee per view _This story, originally published April 5, 2021, has been updated to reflect new video-on-demand

services. _