This is news that should have the effect of a bomb on the streaming market: Free,like Netflix, is launching into advertising-financed catalogs with its new Oqee Ciné offering, accessible via the eponymous platform which equips its boxes. Understand that you will not haveno need to paymore than your usual subscription to enjoy the content: all you need to do isview ads, obligatory. According to the operator, more than three hundred films and series are already offered via this service, which is available unlimitedly for Freebox subscribers with the TV service included.
Among the titles on display, we find in particularLimitless(Bradley Cooper, Jake McDorman, Robert de Niro),Encounters of the Third Kind(Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut) or evenThe Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day-Lewis, Eric Schweig, Jodhi May) et l'excellentStuart Little 2(Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Melanie Griffith) for the youngest.
On the series side, users will be able to enjoyStartUp(Martin Freeman, Edi Gathegi, Ashley Hinshaw) which, however, stopped after only three seasons. Alongside this title, it will also be possible to viewA Very English Scandalfrom the BBC (Alex Jennings, Hugh Grant, Patricia Hodge) orTaken(Clive Standen, Jessica Camacho, Adam Goldberg).
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How to access the free Oqee Ciné streaming service?
To watch films or series with Oqee Ciné, Free therefore specifies that you must have a package with Freebox and including access to television channels. Here is the procedure to follow to take advantage of the catalog now if you are concerned:
- access the appOQEE by Freeon your Freebox
- go to the tabVOD
- go to the sectionNos Services
- accessOQEE Cinema
Be careful though, because unfortunately not all devices are yet compatible today. Indeed, if this is for example the case for Android TV, for Apple TV and Apple TV 4K boxes, smartphones running Android and iPhones, iPod touches or iPads, this is not the case for web version of OQEE nor for Samsung connected televisions.
List of Freebox players compatible with Oqee Ciné
With this, these are alsosome Freebox decoders that are left behindfor now. We are talking here about the Player mini 4K and the Player Crystal / V5. It is also impossible to know if Free is planning an update to make these devices compatible shortly. The decoder of the Freebox Revolution is indeed eligible, just like that of the Freebox designed in collaboration with the French company Devialet and which also serves as a connected speaker and that ofla Freebox Pop.
As a reminder, Free's plans for accessing the internet at home are among the most affordable on the market at the moment. Below, find our comparison of the best offers offered today by the low cost operator: