Short answer: Pluto TV has no Belgian service. It runs local versions next door in France and Germany, but when we checked on 6 October 2026 the Pluto TV app was missing from the Belgian App Store — and from the Dutch and Luxembourg stores as well. This guide is about Pluto TV’s American service: free, funded by adverts, and made for viewers in the United States.
Several brands from Paramount, the group behind Pluto TV, already reach Belgian screens. BASE, a Telenet brand, lists Dutch-language MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon channels and a French-language Nickelodeon, and a Paramount+ area was announced for Streamz viewers in Flanders in late 2023. Free television is nothing new here either: VRT MAX, VTM GO, RTBF Auvio and RTL Play, plus Samsung TV Plus and LG Channels on smart TVs. If what you want is already on one of those, you need nothing from us.
If it is not, the first check needs no account and about ten minutes: with the U.S. connection running on a laptop, open pluto.tv in Chrome or Firefox and see whether a live channel plays. Pluto TV says it blocks every VPN or proxy it detects, so a U.S. address is something it can turn down, not a key. Below: Pluto TV’s own wording, how Proximus, Telenet, Orange and DIGI lines look to it, the gap to New York time and a four-step test.
Pluto TV is a Paramount service, and Paramount names — MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Star Trek — are no strangers to Belgian television, in Dutch, in French or in both. Free, ad-funded streaming is familiar too. On 6 October 2026 we set what Belgian providers and services publish beside what Pluto TV offers in the U.S.
| Brand or service | In Belgium | Next to Pluto TV |
|---|---|---|
| MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr | BASE, a Telenet brand, lists all four among its Dutch-language TV channels, and Nickelodeon and Nick Jr among its French-language ones | Belgian channels with their own schedules and languages, not the American feeds. Other providers’ line-ups differ, so check yours |
| Paramount+ (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Frasier, Tulsa King and more) | A Paramount+ branded area inside Streamz, announced in November 2023 for Streamz viewers in Flanders from that December | The first place to look in Flanders. We found no stand-alone Paramount+ service for Belgium, and we have not checked what the Streamz area holds today |
| Pluto TV | No Belgian service; the app was not in the Belgian App Store on 6 October 2026 | The U.S. service is the one this guide deals with |
| VRT MAX and VTM GO | Free players from VRT, the Flemish public broadcaster, and from VTM; VTM GO is funded by advertising | Belgian programmes in Dutch, at Belgian hours |
| RTBF Auvio and RTL Play | Free players from the French-speaking public broadcaster and from RTL | Belgian programmes in French, at Belgian hours |
| Samsung TV Plus and LG Channels | Free channel services built into the TV. Samsung’s Belgian newsroom said in November 2023 that its service runs on Samsung smart TVs from 2018 and offers more than 100 channels; LG named Belgium among sixteen European markets for LG Channels in July 2023 | Free channels on a television you may already own — separate services from Pluto TV |
Start at the top of the table. If what you miss is a Nickelodeon cartoon or an MTV reality series, the Belgian channel is the easy answer: the same brand, at Belgian hours, often in your own language, and quite possibly in the TV package you already have. If it is Star Trek and you live in Flanders, look at Streamz before anything else.
Pluto TV’s U.S. service adds something of a different shape: American live channels — USip’s test log names a Star Trek channel — and on-demand American series such as CSI: Miami, with American adverts in between. Pluto TV does not offer that service in Belgium, and nothing in it is fixed: Pluto TV changes its line-up, and Belgian providers change theirs.
We could not confirm free channel services from Rakuten TV, Plex or Tubi for Belgium on their own pages, so they are not in the table. Treat the rest as a snapshot from 6 October 2026: the Streamz row is as announced in November 2023, and Proximus, Orange and VOO publish line-ups of their own, so check the channel list from your provider before deciding anything.
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Pluto TV’s help pages are short and direct. Below, each point in Pluto TV’s own words, then what it changes for a viewer in Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent or Liège.
Pluto TV shows this when it believes your device is “connected to a VPN, proxy service, or other software that may reroute your internet traffic outside your current region”. The instruction that follows is plain: “Please disable these services on your device to stream videos.”
“Since we can’t determine the exact purpose or use for a VPN or proxy, we need to block any use of them.” So Pluto TV blocks every VPN or proxy it detects — a privacy app on café Wi-Fi included.
Pluto TV’s device page lists its apps for platforms and devices “available in your region”. A separate list is marked U.S.-only: Google Chromecast, Comcast and Cox X1 boxes, Hisense Vidaa + App, PlayStation 4 and 5, Sony TV, TiVo, and Vizio SmartCast and WatchFree+.
The welcome page goes on: “Watch 250+ channels of free TV and 1000s of on-demand movies and TV shows.” An account is optional: “Sign up to enjoy a personalized experience, a kid-friendly space, the latest updates and more.”
Pluto TV’s error-code article, dated 17 September 2026, says 3304 “typically refers to a connectivity or ad blocker issue”, and the fix it gives is to turn the ad blocker off. Adverts keep the service free, so expect them.
“You can watch Pluto TV on the Web, no download needed.” For laptops and desktops Pluto TV adds: “For the best viewing experience on your desktop/laptop, please use Chrome or Firefox.” That makes a browser the cleanest place to start.
Read together, the six points set the order of events. Pluto TV works by region, and the strongest clue to your region is the public address your connection shows to the internet. A Belgian address belongs to a country with no Pluto TV service. A U.S. address changes that only if Pluto TV accepts it: the VPN rule makes no exceptions, and a residential U.S. IP — an ordinary home connection in the U.S. rather than a server — is still an address Pluto TV can refuse.
We cannot say exactly what pluto.tv shows a visitor from Belgium today. In USip’s own iPhone recording from September 2022, made outside the U.S., the Pluto TV app displayed “Not in Service Area” until the U.S. connection was switched on — a record of that day, not a description of now.
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Pluto TV is free television funded by adverts. Nothing has to be set up in advance, which makes it unusually easy to judge from Belgium: there is no account to create first and nothing to cancel afterwards.
| Topic | What Pluto TV says | What it means from Belgium |
|---|---|---|
| Free | “Drop in. It’s free.” | Nothing stands between you and the first channel except the location; adverts fund the service |
| Live channels | “Watch 100s of free channels - with local & national news, live sports, fan-favorite shows, movies and more.” | “Local” means American local news, not Belgian; the live channels follow a U.S. schedule |
| On demand | “Explore 1000s of on-demand movies to full seasons of binge-worthy shows.” | Starts when you press play, which suits Belgian evenings |
| Account | “Sign up to enjoy a personalized experience, a kid-friendly space, the latest updates and more.” | Optional. Watching needs no account, and the first check is cleaner without one |
| Watch List | Device-specific, and “no free account is needed to use it” | Kept on the device you use, with no sign-up |
| Sign-up form | Asks for name, date of birth, gender and ZIP code | A ZIP code is a U.S. postcode. You do not need the account, so skip the form rather than invent details |
| Captions | Closed captions on all devices | A help if English is not your first language, whether you think in Dutch, French or German |
This is a service programmed for American viewers: expect U.S. programmes, U.S. adverts and U.S. hours, not anything made for Flanders or Wallonia. An account adds comforts, but the location decides whether anything plays, and an account does not change that.
USip supplies a connection and nothing else. A Pluto TV account, if you ever want one, is between you and Pluto TV.
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Pluto TV’s live channels run to a schedule; its on-demand titles do not. Belgium keeps Central European Time and the U.S. East Coast keeps Eastern Time, and the two change their clocks on different weekends, so the usual six-hour gap to New York shrinks to five for a few weeks each year.
| U.S. time | Brussels, most of the year | Brussels, 8–28 March and 25–31 October 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| 9 a.m. Eastern | 3 p.m. | 2 p.m. |
| Noon Eastern | 6 p.m. | 5 p.m. |
| 2 p.m. Eastern | 8 p.m. | 7 p.m. |
| 6 p.m. Eastern | Midnight | 11 p.m. |
| 8 p.m. Eastern | 2 a.m. | 1 a.m. |
| 8 p.m. Pacific | 5 a.m. | 4 a.m. |
Anything in Pluto TV’s on-demand catalogue starts when you press play. For a Belgian evening that is the place to look first; the live grid belongs to American hours.
9 a.m. in New York is 3 p.m. in Brussels, so American morning programmes fall in the Belgian afternoon — handy on a day off or a day working from home.
2 p.m. Eastern is 8 p.m. in Brussels. That is the most comfortable overlap of the day for anything you want to watch live, as it goes out.
Belgium returns to winter time on 25 October 2026 and the U.S. on 1 November. For that one week, every U.S. time lands an hour earlier in Belgium than the middle column shows.
Between 8 and 28 March 2026 the U.S. was already on summer time and Belgium was not, so the gap to New York was five hours. Expect the same each spring and autumn while both sides keep their current rules.
Pacific Time is nine hours behind Brussels for most of the year. A programme timed for 8 p.m. in Los Angeles reaches Belgium at 5 a.m.
We worked these times out with Python’s zoneinfo module and release 2026c of the IANA time-zone data, for Europe/Brussels, America/New_York and America/Los_Angeles. Pluto TV’s live schedules are set for U.S. viewers, so convert before you plan an evening around a broadcast.
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Every Belgian provider gives your router or phone a public address that places it in Belgium, and that address is what Pluto TV reads. The provider sets your speed and supplies your router; it has no say in Pluto TV’s answer.
| How you connect | Who provides it (BIPT, 2025 figures) | What Pluto TV reads |
|---|---|---|
| Home broadband: cable, copper or fibre | Proximus, Telenet and Orange Belgium, with their budget brands, hold 98% of the fixed broadband market; Proximus is the largest, in BIPT’s 40–50% band | A Belgian address |
| Fibre | 13.9% of fixed broadband take-up in 2025; fibre was available to 35.7% of households in January 2026 | A Belgian address — fibre changes the speed, not the country |
| Mobile data, 4G and 5G | Proximus, Orange Belgium and Telenet, with brands such as Scarlet, Mobile Vikings, VOO and BASE, hold about 93.7% of the mobile market | A Belgian address, on the phone and on any hotspot it shares |
| DIGI and other independents | DIGI arrived in December 2024; independents hold the remaining 6.3% of mobile, DIGI in BIPT’s 0–5% band | A Belgian address |
| Office, university, hotel and café Wi-Fi | Employers, universities, hotels, cafés | A Belgian address, often behind filters that stop tunnel software — a failure there says little about Pluto TV |
Belgian homes are well connected: BIPT counted 5.25 million fixed broadband lines in 2025. Pluto TV’s troubleshooting page calls a connection “faster than 5mb” important and puts stability beside it. With a U.S. connection the stretch that matters is the distance across the Atlantic, not your street, so measure speed with the USip connection switched on rather than off.
On mobile, BIPT counted 11.59 million active SIMs using data in 2025, not counting machine-to-machine connections, with an average of 11.1 GB a month each. Video eats into that quickly, so a long evening of Pluto TV belongs on Wi-Fi.
The figures come from the BIPT Council’s communication of 10 July 2026 on the state of the electronic communications and TV market in 2025. BIPT publishes operator shares as bands rather than exact figures, and we quote them that way. If a check fails on office, university or hotel Wi-Fi, repeat it once on your home line or your phone’s data before concluding anything about Pluto TV.
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Getting an address checker to say “United States” is the easy part. Because Pluto TV blocks any VPN or proxy use it detects, the kind of address matters — and so does honesty about what any address can do.
| Option | What Pluto TV reads | The weak point | Fair use of it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your own Belgian line | A Proximus, Telenet, Orange, VOO or DIGI address | Outside the U.S., in a country Pluto TV does not serve | Your starting point and your comparison |
| Free VPN apps | Server addresses shared by large numbers of users | Exactly the traffic Pluto TV’s VPN message is written for | Nothing you can draw a conclusion from |
| Data-centre VPN | An address from a hosting company’s range | The country may read as U.S.; the address still belongs to servers, not homes | Privacy on public Wi-Fi, the use Safeonweb has in mind |
| USip residential U.S. IP | An ordinary consumer address on a U.S. internet provider | Pluto TV can still refuse it | One steady U.S. address, so a result means something |
When a live channel plays in a clean private window, the address question is answered.
If the address is right and something still fails, look at the browser, the app store or Pluto TV’s line-up — not at a new server.
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Because Pluto TV needs no account, this check is about one thing only: whether Pluto TV accepts the address. Do it on a laptop first, where you can see the address checker and the player side by side.
Use a Windows or Mac laptop — the Windows guide and the Mac guide cover the setup. Switch the USip connection on, then open any IP address checker. The IPv4 line must show a U.S. location. If an IPv6 line appears too (IPv6 is the newer address format, and some lines carry both), it must not name Proximus, Telenet, Orange, VOO or DIGI; if it does, your Belgian line is still visible next to the U.S. one.
A private window starts with no cookies, so nothing from an earlier visit colours the result. Use Chrome or Firefox, as Pluto TV recommends for laptops, and switch off any ad blocker for the site — Pluto TV links error 3304 to ad blockers. Do not sign in: the check needs no account.
Give each a full minute. The live channel shows whether a stream starts; the on-demand title shows whether the catalogue opens. Note what you see each time — a picture, a spinning wheel or a message, copied word for word.
If both play, Pluto TV accepted the address and the location part is settled. If a message asks you to disable VPN or proxy services, Pluto TV has identified the connection as one, and it says it blocks “any use of them”. Go back to step 1 once, close the private window, open a new one and try again. Once, not ten times: a tenth attempt tells you nothing the second did not.
USip’s test log holds exactly two Pluto TV entries, and neither was run from Belgium. On 17 September 2026, from Denmark, a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 4 (Windows 11 25H2, OpenVPN Connect 3.7, Chrome 152) played the Pluto TV Star Trek channel for 15 minutes with the U.S. catalogue showing. On 7 September 2026, from Sweden, a Google Pixel 8 (Android 16, OpenVPN Connect 3.6, Pluto TV app 5.48) played CSI: Miami season 1, episode 1, on demand, for 12 minutes, again with the U.S. catalogue.
Those are records of two sessions in two other countries, not a promise for Belgium. Your own four steps are the result that counts.
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“You can watch Pluto TV on the Web, no download needed.” That line from Pluto TV’s troubleshooting page sets the order: prove the address in a browser, then move to the phone, and leave the television for last. The four videos below were recorded in September 2022. The USip connection steps in them still hold; Pluto TV’s screens, and Apple’s and Google’s store rules, have changed since.
On Windows no app store is involved at all. Import the USip profile into OpenVPN Connect, connect, read the address checker, and only then open pluto.tv — in Chrome or Firefox, the two browsers Pluto TV recommends for desktops and laptops. The video does the same: it opens pluto.tv in a browser, which is still the simplest route from Belgium.
In USip’s Windows log entry, from Denmark on 17 September 2026 with Chrome 152, the Star Trek channel played for 15 minutes. How your own line fares, only your own check will show.
Step by step: the Windows setup guide.
On a Mac the steps match Windows, with two settings to look at first. iCloud Private Relay, where it is on, carries Safari traffic over Apple’s own relays rather than the USip connection, so turn it off while you check. And if your Proximus or Telenet line gives the Mac an IPv6 address, read both lines of the address checker before drawing conclusions.
Pluto TV’s device list names the latest Safari, Edge, Chrome and Firefox; its troubleshooting page recommends Chrome or Firefox on laptops. The September 2022 video opens pluto.tv in a browser, and that is still the way to go.
Step by step: the Mac setup guide.
The Android video switches the phone’s Google Play country to reach the Pluto TV app. From Belgium that step is out of date: under Google’s current rule you can only set a country as your Play country while you are in it, and you can change it once every 90 days.
We could not check Google Play country by country, so we make no claim about whether it lists Pluto TV in Belgium. The Android entry in USip’s test log, from Sweden on 7 September 2026, used the Pluto TV app 5.48 on a Pixel 8, in a country where Pluto TV has a service of its own. On a Belgian phone, start in the browser, and keep OpenVPN Connect out of Android’s battery saving so the connection does not drop halfway through.
Step by step: the Android setup guide.
On 6 October 2026 the Belgian App Store did not list the Pluto TV app. The September 2022 video moves the Apple Account to the U.S. store to get it.
We would not start there. Apple’s page on changing your Apple Account country sets out what has to happen first: subscriptions that would get in the way must end, any remaining balance has to be spent, and not everything offered in one country is offered in another. The change applies to the whole Apple Account, not to one app, so decide it on its own, after a laptop has played a live channel. The connection steps in the video still apply.
Step by step: the iOS setup guide.
A television, streaming stick or games console cannot run OpenVPN Connect, so USip sets these up with Smart DNS instead. You register your home’s public IP address with USip, then enter the DNS details in the device’s network settings — or once on the router, for the whole house. If Proximus, Telenet, Orange or whoever supplies your line changes that public address later, register the new one. The Smart DNS guide has the steps.
Pluto TV’s list of U.S.-only devices — Chromecast, PlayStation 4 and 5, Sony TV, Vizio, TiVo and the Comcast and Cox boxes — only matters if one of them is in your living room. No Belgian operator box, Proximus’s or Telenet’s, is named on Pluto TV’s device list. Whether the Samsung and LG app stores in Belgium list Pluto TV is something we could not check.
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One residential U.S. IP — an ordinary consumer address on a U.S. ISP, not a server range. USip and Pluto TV are separate services: the plans include the connection only — not a Pluto TV account, an app-store region or the rights to any channel.
Separate services: these prices are for the USip residential U.S. IP service only. Pluto TV is a separate service, free with ads; a Pluto TV account and access to any particular channel or title are not part of a USip plan.
An app store shows the catalogue of the country your Apple Account or Google account is set to, wherever your connection points. That is why the web player comes before any app in this guide.
We looked for the Pluto TV app (id751712884) in Apple’s Belgian store and did not find it. It was listed in the U.S., French, German, Swiss and Austrian stores, among others, and missing from the Dutch and Luxembourg ones.
Google Play could not be checked store by store, so we make no claim about Belgium. Google’s own rules are clear, though: your Play country follows your account, you must be in a country to switch to it, and you can switch once every 90 days.
Pluto TV’s device page lists Samsung Tizen TVs from 2017 and LG webOS, for regions where the app is offered. We could not see the Belgian TV stores, so we cannot say whether either lists Pluto TV here.
A browser needs no store and no account, so what it shows depends on the address alone. Moving an account to another country for the sake of an app is a later, separate choice, with Apple’s and Google’s conditions attached.
People in Belgium ask whether a VPN is legal. We have not found a Belgian law that bans VPN software as such. We are not lawyers, and nothing here is legal advice.
Safeonweb, the online-safety service of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium, tells people going on holiday: “Install a Virtual Private Network (VPN).” It calls a VPN “your personal secure tunnel through the wifi network”. That is security advice for public Wi-Fi, not a ruling on streaming.
Pluto TV’s help centre: “Since we can’t determine the exact purpose or use for a VPN or proxy, we need to block any use of them.” The rule draws no line between privacy and location, and it applies to you in Belgium as it would anywhere else.
The two sides do not contradict each other. Belgian law, as far as we can find, does not stop you installing VPN software, and a federal agency recommends it for public Wi-Fi. Pluto TV, a private service, sets its own rule: it refuses traffic it identifies as a VPN or proxy. A residential U.S. IP is a different kind of address from a VPN server, but it is still a change of address, and Pluto TV can still refuse it.
What we are not able to judge is how copyright rules or a service’s terms apply to your own situation. We have not quoted Pluto TV’s U.S. terms of use, because we could not read them in full; read them yourself before relying on the service. If the question matters for you — a workplace network, university rules, a contract — a qualified adviser in Belgium is the right person to ask, not a streaming guide.
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Answered from Pluto TV’s own pages, BIPT’s figures, Belgian providers’ channel lists and Safeonweb. Where the honest answer is that we could not check, we say so.
No. Pluto TV has no Belgian service, and when we checked on 6 October 2026 its app was not listed in the Belgian App Store. Pluto TV runs local services in France, Germany and several other European countries, but not in Belgium, the Netherlands or Luxembourg. The free service this guide deals with is the American one, which Pluto TV offers to viewers in the U.S.
Pluto TV is free with adverts — its welcome page says “Drop in. It’s free.” — and watching needs no account. From a Belgian internet line, though, you are outside the regions Pluto TV serves, so being free does not make it available. USip is a separate service: it supplies a residential U.S. IP address, not anything from Pluto TV.
No. Watching needs no account. Pluto TV’s welcome page offers one as an extra — “Sign up to enjoy a personalized experience, a kid-friendly space, the latest updates and more.” — and even the Watch List works without it: Pluto TV says “no free account is needed to use it”. Its sign-up form asks for a ZIP code, a U.S. postcode, among other details. Skip the form rather than invent anything.
Because it believes your device is “connected to a VPN, proxy service, or other software that may reroute your internet traffic outside your current region”. Pluto TV explains: “Since we can’t determine the exact purpose or use for a VPN or proxy, we need to block any use of them.” A residential U.S. IP is an ordinary home address rather than a VPN server, but Pluto TV may still identify it as a VPN or proxy, and it can refuse it.
Pluto TV’s device page lists Samsung Tizen TVs from 2017 and LG webOS, for devices “available in your region”. We could not check whether the Belgian Samsung and LG app stores list Pluto TV. A television cannot run OpenVPN Connect, so USip connects it with Smart DNS. Both brands also run free channel services in Belgium, Samsung TV Plus and LG Channels, which are separate from Pluto TV.
Not the service this guide covers. Pluto TV runs a French-language service for France and a German one for Germany, Austria and Switzerland; we found no Belgian or Dutch-language version, and we have not checked what either local service does from a Belgian line. The U.S. service is made for American viewers, with closed captions on all devices. USip supplies U.S. addresses only.
We have not found a Belgian law that bans VPN software as such, and Safeonweb, the online-safety service of the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium, advises holidaymakers: “Install a Virtual Private Network (VPN).” That is advice about public Wi-Fi, not about streaming. Pluto TV’s own rule is separate: it blocks any VPN or proxy it detects. We are not lawyers; if your situation depends on it, ask a qualified adviser.
Late at night. For most of 2026, 8 p.m. Eastern is 2 a.m. in Brussels and 11 p.m. Eastern is 5 a.m.; 8 p.m. Pacific is also 5 a.m. Belgian time. From 8 to 28 March and from 25 to 31 October 2026 everything arrives an hour earlier, because Belgium and the U.S. change their clocks on different dates. On-demand titles are not tied to any schedule.
In Flanders, Streamz announced a Paramount+ area in November 2023, with series such as Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; we have not checked what it holds today. BASE, a Telenet brand, lists MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and Nick Jr among its Dutch-language channels, and Nickelodeon and Nick Jr among its French-language ones. Line-ups vary by provider, so check yours.
Not for Pluto TV. Every Belgian provider gives your connection a Belgian public address, and that is what Pluto TV reads. BIPT’s figures for 2025 show Proximus, Telenet and Orange Belgium with 98% of fixed broadband between them, and DIGI, which arrived in December 2024, in the 0–5% band for mobile. The provider affects speed and stability, not the country Pluto TV sees.
Pluto TV’s error-code article says 3304 “typically refers to a connectivity or ad blocker issue”, and its fix is to turn the ad blocker off. Pluto TV is funded by adverts, so blockers and its player do not mix. If the code stays after the blocker is off, check that the USip connection is still up, then try again in a fresh private window.
No. USip’s test log has two Pluto TV entries, and neither comes from Belgium: Denmark on 17 September 2026 (Windows 11, OpenVPN Connect 3.7, Chrome 152, the Star Trek channel for 15 minutes) and Sweden on 7 September 2026 (Android 16, Pluto TV app 5.48, CSI: Miami on demand for 12 minutes), both with the U.S. catalogue showing. Run the four-step check above on your own line.
Pluto TV’s device list names platforms — Fire TV, Android TV and Google TV, Apple TV, Roku, Samsung, LG, Hisense and Xbox among them — and no Belgian operator box. We have not checked whether any provider’s box can install the Pluto TV app. For the big screen, one of the listed platforms connected through Smart DNS is the route to try, after a laptop has played a live channel.
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The hub sets out Pluto TV’s rules in full, for every country at once. The other guides apply them to places where Pluto TV has no service of its own — the Netherlands next door among them — with each country’s own networks, clocks and law.
The main pages behind this guide, each read on 6 October 2026. Pluto TV’s own pages come first, then Apple’s and Google’s, then the Belgian sources.
From Belgium the order is simple. Look first at what you already have — the Belgian MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon channels, Streamz in Flanders, the free broadcaster players. If what you want is American and only on Pluto TV, the next step is a laptop, a residential U.S. IP and pluto.tv in a clean browser window.
If a live channel plays, the address part is done, and apps, televisions and accounts can follow at your own pace. If Pluto TV asks you to disable a VPN or proxy, take it at its word: it blocks the connections it identifies as one, and nothing on our side can promise otherwise.
USip supplies the residential U.S. IP connection only. Pluto TV is a separate, free service; what it carries, and whether it accepts any address, is Pluto TV’s decision.