Free Movie Streaming Service Yidio: What It Is & How It Works

What do you like to do in your spare time? I believe in this digital era we live in, most people would be familiar with watching movies online or on DVD or Blu-ray player. Enjoy a nice movie at home is indeed a good way to spend your spare time. However, different ways to watch movies can bring totally different experiences. Some ways to watch movie are more expensive than others, while some can only bring you movies in low quality and totally destroy your weekend. So, is there any way to watch movies besides YouTube, Netflix, Hulu or DVD that many of us don't yet know of? Well, today I will introduce a service called Yidio, which can bring you free movies in high quality, and most of us don't know much about. What is Yidio? How does Yidio work? Let's find out together.

Part 1: What is Yidio?

Yidio is a website where you can find free movies to watch online. That sounds quite normal, right? There are a lot of websites where you can find some movies to watch. Well, something different about Yidio is that, besides its own service, Yidio also shows you where to go to watch other free films and TV shows on the internet.

There are some handy buttons you can use on Yidio' media player, one that you can click to rewind the video 10 seconds, for instance. This is useful if you want to replay what you just watched but without having to use the video scrubber. You can also share the video through Facebook or Twitter and copy the embed link if you wish to embed the video into your website. There may be more video player options like subtitles for the movies and TV shows that are hosted on a website other than Yidio's.

However, like every website that offers free movies can only do so through the use of displaying advertisements, Yidio shows ads too. There will be more advertisements for longer movies than shorter ones. Advertisements on Yidio are not very overwhelming though, and none of them lasts too long.

Part 2: What can we find on Yidio?

△ Videos in DVD quality

Most of the movies hosted on Yidio can be viewed in a DVD quality, which is not very high, but good enough for a free movie streaming service. If you are not looking for something in a very high quality like Blu-ray or 2K or 4K, this quality is well enough for you. However, some of the movies are not hosted on Yidio, when you open them, Yidio will bring you to some other sites to watch, and movies in there may be in a better quality.

△ Free movies

There is a "Free" section of the site that shows only the free movies. Some of the genres you can look through are Romance, Classics, Horror, Animation, Documentary, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Comedy, Cult Movies, Western, Action, Adventure, and Drama, among several others. You can also apply a rating filter to show just R, PG-13, PG, G, NR, or NR-17 movies.

△ Movies that are not free

Yidio is a free movie streaming service, but it does not provide free movies only, and there are still some movies that are not free. Because Yidio gathers movies from Amazon, Netflix, iTunes, Crackle and Vudu, not every movie on the website is free to watch. Some of the movies on Yidio require a one-time payment and others require a subscription to the service. You have to pay to watch those movies. Movies that are not free should have a better quality than those that are totally free.

Part 3: How to Download Streaming Movies from Yidio and Watch on Computer?

As mentioned above, Yidio is good, in some ways. It provides free movies so that you can enjoy yourself with a nice movie without paying for the DVD or purchase online. However, the ads on Yidio is annoying sometimes. It would be great if we can watch free movies without suffering all those ads, right? And if we can download those movie to our computer, and transfer them to our phone or tablet or hard disk, it would be even better! But can we do that? The answer is yes. How? I will show you right now.

Step 1: Download and intall CleverGet Video Downloader

Click to download and install CleverGet Video Downloader on your computer. With this software, you can download videos in up to 8K resolution from 1000+ websites like Yidio, YouTube, Netflix, HBO Max, etc.

CleverGet Video Downloader

- Download videos up to 8K resolution
- Support 1000+ sites
- Support live video M3U8 link downloading
- Multi-task and playlist download
- Built-in browser and player
- Advanced hardware acceleration
- Easy-to-use interface

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Step 2: Locate to source video on Yidio

You can enter the link of Yidio to visit its official website with the built-in browser, and then search for what you want to download like you do in Chrome. Alternatively, you can copy the link of target video on Yidio and paste it to the address bar to go to the video page.

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Step 3: Download free movies from Yidio

Once you play the video, CleverGet will automatically detect all downlodable sources in that page. In a few seconds, a pane will pop up with available videos and audios, alongside with parameters like quality, size, format, etc. You can choose desired one or more and click the "Download" button to download free movies from Yidio.

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Step 4: Download Leawo Blu-ray Player

After free movies are downloaded on your computer, you need to use a decent media player to play downloaded movies. Here Leawo Blu-ray Player will be recommended, because it is compatible with 180+ formats like MP4, WMV, MKV, as well as Blu-ray and DVD discs or ISO files. Most importantly, it is totally free to use. Click the button below to download and install this player on your computer.

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- Region-free Blu-ray player software to play Blu-ray disc and DVD disc for free, regardless of disc protection and region restriction.
- Play 4K FLV videos, 4K MKV videos, 4K MP4 videos, etc. without quality loss.
- Support the conversion from Blu-ray/DVD discs to MKV in the premium version.
- Deliver super high-quality stereo audio experience with the support of various advanced audio decoding technologies like Dolby, DTS, AAC, TrueHD, DTS-HD (including 5.1, 7.1 channels), etc.

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Conclusion

As a free movie streaming service, Yidio is worth a try. It provides movies with a DVD quality, it gathers movies from multiple websites and it has many movies that are free. Although you may suffer ads, and some movies are not actually free, it's still recommended that you give it a try. Furthermore, if you want to download free movies, I suggest you take a look at best free Blu-ray movie download sites. With CleverGet Video Downloader and Leawo Blu-ray Player, I believe you will have a better experience with Yidio.