{"id":88576,"date":"2026-08-31T12:31:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88576"},"modified":"2026-08-31T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T17:36:51","slug":"ps5-adds-free-live-and-on-demand-movie-and-tv-channels-in-exchange-for-watching-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=88576","title":{"rendered":"PS5 Adds Free Live And On-Demand Movie And TV Channels, In Exchange For Watching Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of nowhere, Sony has announced that free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) is now on PlayStation 5, allowing people to watch movies and TV shows for free, in exchange for watching ads. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FAST programming is growing in popularity, and some of the current market leaders include Roku, Tubi, and Pluto, among others. FAST content was already on PS5 through dedicated apps for some of those services, but now Sony is launching its own FAST channel. For its part, Microsoft offers some FAST channels apps like Tubi and Pluto on Xbox as well. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Available on PS5 in the US, the new &#8220;Live TV on PS5&#8221; comes from Sony&#8217;s own Sony Pictures Television. There are more than 100 live channels, as well as on-demand programming spanning news, sports, movies, TV shows, and anime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s how to access it on your PS5:<\/p>\n<p>  Go to the\u00a0<strong>Media<\/strong>\u00a0tab: Select the\u00a0<strong>Live TV<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>on PS5<\/strong>\u00a0icon.\u00a0 Select\u00a0<strong>\u201cSign In With My PlayStation Account\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0to connect your PlayStation account and start watching.   https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=txpaWqfcFFU  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the content available includes movies from MovieSphere, 50 Cent Action, FilmRise Free Movies, Sony One Horror Hits, and Cinevault. Some of the TV shows people can watch include The Walking Dead, Community,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of nowhere, Sony has announced that free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) is now on PlayStation 5, allowing people to watch movies and TV shows for free, in exchange for watching ads. FAST programming is growing in popularity, and some of the current market leaders include Roku, Tubi, and Pluto, among others. FAST content was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":88578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88576"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88579,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88576\/revisions\/88579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}