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September 30, 2018, 05:02 PM
ChuckFinley
Hulu or?
Have OTA antennas, Amazon Prime and firesticks.

Going to be upgrading internet speeds further soon &, while not considering a cable contract, am considering additional feed(s) to have the world at the fingertips.

The "Last Man Standing" thread got me thinking about Hulu again. I used to have a free membership, but I don't think they do anything free anymore. Thinking of the 1 month free trial for no commercials, $11.99/month.

I know people tend to pick up, binge and cancel netflix, guessing it's the same for Hulu, but I want consistent availability of sports etc..

Thoughts?



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September 30, 2018, 05:16 PM
Orguss
Hulu has a lot of content that I didn't have using Amazon Prime; however, I decided to cancel my free trial because the screen resolution on some shows sucked when viewed through my iPad. Also, I purchase shows and movies through iTunes but Hulu kept overriding my purchased content to stream it--causing issues with following along in Apple's TV app. Of course, these are very specific issues that I didn't want to deal with and you might not experience them. There's no harm in doing the no-commercial, free trial so see for yourself.


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September 30, 2018, 06:21 PM
Black92LX
They open up Metronet over by you all yet??
I am going to give it a shot once they open it up over here since it is fiber to the house and not just fiber back. Or at least that is what the website claims.

But to the original question.
We watch a lot more Netflix than we do Hulu. We have Sprint cellphones so they provide our Hulu membership. Granted it has commercials but they are short and usually can opt to watch one long one at the beginning.

Though I do want to start watching Last Man Standing. We will finish Season 2 of Shooter tonight so we’ll need a new show.


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September 30, 2018, 06:35 PM
jimmy123x
Sony PSVUE- they have various packages and prices, but are over half the price of cable and have ALL of the sports channels. Also the advertised price IS the monthly price and you don't have an additional $20 in taxes and fees like cable. No contract so can cancel anytime, free dvr and can use it on up to 4 devices (tablets, streaming devices etc.)


https://www.playstation.com/en...etwork/vue/channels/
September 30, 2018, 07:39 PM
SigSauerP226
Are you looking for Hulu with Live TV? If so, that starts at 39.99/mo. Read good things about it but decided to go with YouTubeTV. You do get access to the whole library plus live TV for the 39.99, so I guess if you're looking at the 11.99 Hulu, it's only 20 more to get live TV.



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September 30, 2018, 08:01 PM
ChuckFinley
Great info!!

I'm planning to go to Metronet, but they aren't here yet.

Sprint gives Hulu free? I'll have to look into linking my account then.



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September 30, 2018, 09:38 PM
mrapteam666
i am watching hulu right now
I just have the basic hulu with commercials.
It is okay.

I am catching up on the sitcoms i missed this week.

What does make me upset is that they just changed the whole format, and it is a pain to scroll through now.

I have had it for the past year and only watched it a dozen times. I am going to cancel it pretty soon just because I don't watch it.
October 01, 2018, 08:22 AM
f2
i'm coming up on filmstruck renewal (11/16/2018). this will be my third year as i get the annual filmstruck and criterion channel $99 / year [ aka $8.25 / month ]. no question that i'll renew.

you can see what they add here. [ if you see 6 movies in a line, hover curser over the last for the arrow to see the rest ] [ to see if filmstruck has a movie, type it in justwatch's search ]

some of what's coming...
quote:
Michael Hutchins posted on Facebook forthcoming bundles on FilmStruck's main channel through at least October:

Star of the Week:
Cary Grant
Paul Newman
Julie Christie
James Mason
Debbie Reynolds
Greer Garson
Steve McQueen
Lon Chaney
Melvyn Douglas
Jacqueline Bisset

Director of the Week:
Michael Crichton
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Eric Rohmer
Ernst Lubitsch
H. C. Potter
Roberto Rossellini
Mike Newell
Jerry Schatzberg
Terence Fisher
Jacques Tourneur

Themes and Collections:
Soviet Perspectives on WWII
Double Takes
Behind the Music
Cartoon Roots
Movies for Math Lovers
Deep Focus: The Cinematography of Gregg Toland
Telluride Guest Director: Jonathan Lethem
Moments of Truth: The Best of Cinema Verite
Nordic Noir
Outbreak
Cinema Passport: Taiwan
A Star Is Born
Female Filmmaker Friday
The Young and the Restless
Japanese Horror Classics
Cartoon Roots: Halloween Haunts
Emerging Filmmakers: Celia Rowlson-Hall
The Passage
quote:
Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel during September:

September 1
Cul-de-sac, Roman Polanski, 1966
Kes, Ken Loach, 1970

September 4
The Cage, Adrian Sitaru, 2010

September 5
Dead Man, Jim Jarmusch, 1995

September 11
Deer Boy, Katarzyna Gondek, 2017

September 18
When We Lived in Miami, Amy Seimetz, 2013

September 19
Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas, 2014

September 25
The Voice Thief, Adan Jodorowsky, 2013
quote:
Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel during October:

October 1
Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Stanley Kubrick, 1964

October 2
My Josephine, Barry Jenkins, 2003

October 16
The Games of the V Olympiad Stockholm, 1912, Adrian Wood, 2016
The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924, Jean de Rovera, 1924
The Olympic Games as They Were Practiced in Ancient Greece, Jean de Rovera, 1924
The Olympic Games in Paris 1924, Jean de Rovera, 1924
The White Stadium, Arnold Fanck, Othmar Gurtner, 1928
The IX Olympiad in Amsterdam, dir. Unknown, 1928
The Olympic Games, Amsterdam 1928, Wilhelm Prager; supervisor Jules Perel, 1928
Youth of the World, Carl Junghans, 1936
Fight Without Hate, André Michel, 1948
XIVth Olympiad: The Glory of Sport, Castleton Knight, 1948
The VI Olympic Winter Games, Oslo 1952, Tancred Ibsen, 1952
Where the World Meets, Hannu Leminen, 1952
Gold and Glory, Hannu Leminen, 1953
Memories of the Olympic Summer of 1952, dir. Unknown, 1954
Olympic Games, 1956, Peter Whitchurch, 1956
The Melbourne Rendez-vous, René Lucot, 1957
Alain Mimoun, Louis Gueguen, 1959
The Horse in Focus, dir. Unknown, 1956
People, Hopes, Medals, Heribert Meisel, 1960
The Grand Olympics, Romolo Marcellini, 1961
Sensation of the Century, prod. Taguchi Suketaro, supervisor Nobumasa Kawamoto, 1966
Snows of Grenoble, Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin, 1968
The Olympics in Mexico, Alberto Isaac, 1969
Sapporo Winter Olympics, Masahiro Shinoda, 1972
Games of the XXI Olympiad, Jean-Claude Labrecque, Jean Beaudin, Marcel Carrière, Georges Dufaux, 1977
Olympic Spirit, Drummond Challis, Tony Maylam, 1980
O Sport, You Are Peace! Yuri Ozerov, 1981
A Turning Point, Kim Takal, 1984
Calgary '88: 16 Days of Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1989
Seoul 1988, Lee Kwang-soo, 1989
Hand in Hand, Im Kwon-taek, 1989
Beyond All Barriers, Lee Ji-won, 1989
One Light, One World, Joe Jay Jalbert, R. Douglas Copsey, 1992
Atlanta's Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1997
Nagano '98 Olympics: Stories of Honor and Glory, Bud Greenspan, 1998
Olympic Glory, Kieth Merrill, 1999
Sydney 2000: Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2001
Salt Lake City 2002: Bud Greenspan's Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2003
Bud Greenspan's Athens 2004: Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2005
Bud Greenspan's Torino 2006: Stories of Olympic Glory, Bud Greenspan, 2007
The Everlasting Flame, Gu Jun, 2010
Bud Greenspan Presents Vancouver 2010: Stories of Olympic Glory, prods. Bud Greenspan, Nancy Beffa, 2010
First, Caroline Rowland, 2012
Seide, Elnura Osmonalieva, 2015

October 23
An Act of Love, Lucy Knox, 2018

October 30
Bath House, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, 2014

October 01, 2018, 04:24 PM
ChuckFinley
Had never heard of that, thanks F2



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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis
October 05, 2018, 10:55 AM
muddle_mann
I got all three. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon.

I like Hulu. I like options. $12/mo for commercial free tv. I'll take that allll day long.

Looking forward to season 2 of "The Orville" also enjoyed the 6 seasons of the Amurican Top Gear (not as bad as folks say it was). If you only watch one episode watch the one in Cuba. Check out the super hottie starting the drag races!

I've found on all the streaming services they are all trying to outdo one another and just pack it with content. That's fine, but the quality does suffer a bit.

Even with all three services I'm still WAY under what my cable TV bill was...


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October 17, 2018, 02:42 PM
f2
filmstruck coming and going...

https://www.filmstruck.com/us/watch/filmstruck

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October 27, 2018, 04:46 PM
f2
this just in...

WarnerMedia’s FilmStruck Subscription-Streaming Service to Shut Down 10-26-2018

The FilmStruck indie, arthouse and classic film subscription-streaming service will shut down next month, Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks announced Friday.
November 17, 2018, 11:56 AM
f2
New, Independent Criterion Channel to Launch Spring 2019 11-15-2018

The Criterion Channel BECOME A CHARTER SUBSCRIBER