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always with a hat or sunscreen |
The current proliferation is insane if they think folks are going to pay for so many streaming channels / services now. Netflix has lost content. Disney imploded their first day online. Even PBS has gotten into the mix now requiring a "passport" @ $60/yr to view much of their content. I refuse them all staying with "free" streaming channels like Tubi, PlutoTV, Roku Channel, Crackle, Filmrise, Xumo, etc. Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | ||
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Still finding my way |
I only pay for my Amazon Prime (the free freight pays for itself) and Hulu. | |||
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| Crusty old curmudgeon  |
We have Netflix and Amazon Prime which is free because I have prime for the free shipping and that pays for the annual fee. It would take more years than I have left to watch everything they offer. Jim ________________________ "If you can't be a good example, then you'll have to be a horrible warning" -Catherine Aird | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
We have Netflix, Amazon Prime (see Jimbo54's comments) and PBS Passport. That last because there's crapton of stuff, mostly BBC, that my wife loves. And we pay $7/mo. for the OTA TV DVR service. Btw: You don't necessarily need PBS Passport. Much, if not most, of its content is OTA, too. However, it came in damn handy, recently, when we decided to watch the Country Music series and wanted to start with the first instalment. We will not be subscribing to Disney + or any other additional TV services. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Spread the Disease |
Even with 3 or 4 paid streaming channels over Roku, I'm not paying anywhere close to what I was with DirectTV. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
What do you mean "imploding"? Seems like Disney kicked off strong albeit some tech issues due to the high demand. Whether you use it or not, or like it or not I think it is a pretty strong business model. YMMV | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
Yeah, I just discovered that the next season of "The ORville" is moving from Fox to Hulu. Well, I won't be paying for a service for one show. So many of these services only have a few shows people are actually interested in. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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| Nullus Anxietas |
That's a shame  . We'll miss that show. Oh well, it's not as if Fox hasn't screwed their audiences before."America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| always with a hat or sunscreen |
Perfectly reflects my position. Thanks!
Major tech issues with their rollout. Termed "imploded" on some sites reporting on the event. Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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In Odin we trust |
FWIW we didn't have any issues with it. Watched a couple of things....the live action Lady & the Tramp & a Nat Geo offering. _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies" ~ C.S. Lewis | |||
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Amazon Prime and NetFlix for me. My landlord bought the cable franchise for the entire complex and now basic cable and WiFi is free. I pay only for HBO and Showtime. My total bill is about fifty bucks. One third what those thieving bastards at Spectrum were charging me. I wont pay for anything else. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Market forces will kill off the weak ones, or drive prices very low. | |||
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Semper Fi - 1775 |
This falls under the “be careful what you wish for” category. For the longest time, people frustrated with cable TV were asking to be able to choose their own channels. ___________________________ All it takes...is all you got. ____________________________ For those who have fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
But the magic of pay streaming channels is the easy CANCEL button after a month of service. Not the 2 year required contract and 5 hours on the phone to cancel with Cable, AT&T, DirecTV, etc. We wait until there is a complete series or two to watch, subscribe to a channel, watch it in a month, then cancel it. Same. We'll add HBO / Showtime / others as needed to watch specific series, then dump them. | |||
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| Back, and to the left  |
Just FYI and in case you didn't know, Hulu is part of a majority owned subsidiary of Disney, Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International. I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. -Ecclesiastes 9:11 ...But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory, but the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. - Psalm 63:11 [excerpted] | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
{Satire Alert} 
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Exactly!! Most people (I think) wanted to get channels a la cart from the cable company, but when they didn't provide that option, someone else (Netflix, etc.) jumped in to fill the void. I wonder if the cable companies wish they could go back in time. While streaming has been around for a while, I think we're still in its infancy (relatively speaking). Who knows where we will be in 5 - 10 - 20 years. Depends a lot on internet availability and speed, and probably how fast 5G service is rolled out. | |||
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Mensch |
I have Prime & Philo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt" "The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind." -Bomber Harris | |||
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This won't last though my friend. This is what everyone will do and the companies will retaliate demanding a 1 year contract at a discounted rate. Trust me, it's not going to last and they'll get their money. It's going to be fun to watch the "I pulled the cord!!!" crowd bitch when all the companies take their ball run home forcing you to buy 10 streaming services. Wait until Universal, Fox, etc, all the movie studios do the same thing. It's coming. I pay $75-80 a month for Dish, 3 4k boxes and a 4k DVR. Have all the movie channels. I do netflix blu ray in the snail mail and I rent 4k discs from 3d blu ray rental. Streaming services suck to me because the PQ is compressed compared to a disc, and the audio is heavily compressed to discs, especially 4k discs. I'd rather pay to rent high quality discs. I don't pay for any streaming services. I get free Amazon through my prime membership for shipping but I don't use their video stuff. Can't stand the quality. What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
At which point I'll stop watching unless it's a channel I want for a year. | |||
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