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To answer this question, we will be taking a look at what NOS has to offer its viewers, both free and paid. We will also take a look at how reliable and trustworthy the site is, as well as how much content is available and what kind of quality it offers.
So, let's take a look for ourselves and find out, shall we?
Design
NOS has a sleek, minimalistic design that sets it apart from other news sites. The site is easy to use and looks modern, which makes it popular with online users. In some ways, Nos has a standard look and feel for a news site. This makes it user-friendly and intuitive for those who want to access news quickly.
When you land on the homepage, you will see an organized hierarchy of stories. The main featured video stories are at the very top, and below that an additional smattering of coverage on current events. One nice feature that you don't see every site like NOS building into their site design is a mini feed situated to the right-hand side of the page - here, you can search the latest NOS news stories quickly filtering by news, sports, or latest.
Scrolling back up to the top of the page, you will find the site menu bar. Characteristic of the overall NOS site design, this is kept simple and pared back. You will find three options here: News, Sport, and Broadcasts. That is not to say, though, that the site menu bar is not effective - it most certainly is. Hover your cursor over any one of these tabs in order to trigger a full-scale submenu, like a miniature glimpse into the page itself.
Enter the broadcast section of the website. This is the only section of the site where you can watch live TV for free. However, you will be underwhelmed. There is just a simple gallery of thumbnails representing all of the available live news shows offered by NOS. There is no way to stream live TV on the NOS website. Instead, you will be linked to NPO Start (a very capable free live TV streaming site in its own right).
I'm slightly disappointed that nothing can be streamed from NOS directly. I typically am not a huge fan of having to enter additional sites when I am trying to stream live television. In this case, at the very least, I know that the third-party streaming site is one that I can trust. But, still, why wouldn't I just go directly to NPO Start and watch the NOS program of my choice, cutting out the middleman altogether?
I think it's important to access NPO Start from the NOS website in order to have a more comprehensive journalistic experience. Besides clicking into NPO Start from the NOS website, I can also read as many stories as I like, watch short, quick videos of news coverage, and keep up on my favorite sports teams.
I think that NOS offers some of the best free live TV streaming site design that I have seen in a while. This adds NOS to the already sprawling list of high-quality Dutch streaming sites that let users stream live TV for free. I suppose that is one of the many perks to having well-funded national public media.
Content and Features
I have already somewhat incidentally begun discussing the features that NOS has to offer by way of discussing the site's design. It won't be news, then, at this point in my review for you to learn that NOS is, primarily, a news site. I suppose I can still break the story, though, of what kind of news you can expect to find on NOS. Plus, as we all know, not all news outlets are created equal. Is NOS a fair and balanced news source?
The majority of the news stories that NOS features concern the Netherlands directly. You will be able to find news stories by region or more broadly. That is not all, though. NOS offers several other sections that may be of interest to you: Abroad, Politics, Economy, Royal Family, Tech, Culture and Media, and Remarkable (which are, as far as I can tell, classic human-interest stories). So there is something relevant for everyone on NOS.
Then, of course, there is also a rather robust sports section on NOS. Here, visitors can keep up with the latest news in the worlds of cycling, formula 1, football, ice skating, and tennis. In addition to this news coverage, there are a handful of live TV streaming programs to be found on NOS that concern themselves entirely with sports.
Many of NOS' content is live streaming 24 hours a day, so regardless of your schedule, you can always keep up with the latest in live news as it happens. NOS may not be the best free live TV streaming site for everyone (especially if you are looking for purely entertaining content), but if you fancy yourself somebody who likes to keep up with current events, NOS is definitely a free streaming site that you should know about.
That being said, you will not find a lot of additional features on NOS. This is a shame, because there are many missed opportunities that could really enhance the user experience. For instance, it would be ideal if a free live TV streaming site like this, which focuses solely on news, allowed you to follow specific topics. If I could be emailed custom notifications pertaining to the news that I care about most, NOS would have the potential to become my number one go-to free live TV news streaming site.
broadcasts.
The site is missing a guide, which makes it difficult to determine when I can watch which news programs on NOS. Fortunately, though, there is an excellent interactive schedule on NPO Start, which is the site that you'll have to use to actually stream live NOS broadcasts.
I am frankly disappointed in the amount of live streaming features that NOS provides. I feel like NPO Start should be handling more of this aspect of the service.
Mobile and Desktop Experience
There are a few NOS apps available. The official NOS app is probably the most relevant. It is a decent app in its own right, especially when it comes to easily and quickly browsing news stories and keeping informed from your mobile device. However, if you want to be able to stream live TV for free, I have to say it, but I think you are going to have to go with the NPO Start app.
The app is free and available on many devices.
That being said, the mobile version of the site is quite good too. It is perfectly optimized for smaller screens, resulting in a perfectly fitted and resized layout, just in case you are not an app person.
Suggestions that I have for NOS
My biggest criticism of NOS is that it is less a free live TV streaming site proper and more a news site that links to another free live TV streaming site. I know that there is a much more complex reason for this, but it is my job to evaluate free live TV streaming sites as they exist in and of themselves. So, to that end, I really wish that NOS would introduce on-site free live TV streaming capabilities.
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