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Post by impulse on Dec 8, 2022 10:41:17 GMT -5
It seems YouTube Premium is raising the price of the family plan (5 accounts) from $18 to $23. This irritates me, but as we use it quite a lot and YouTube ads have become unbearable, I will grit my teeth and keep it....for now.
Mostly because I don't know how to block the ads on the kids' iPads lol.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 8, 2022 11:49:29 GMT -5
We have Netflix, Amazon Prime (although this is more of a throw-in because my wife utilizing the two-day shipping from Prime as the primary reason we pay for it), and the Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ bundle, as well as Spotify Premium (which is mostly for my daughters, although my wife and I use it to some extent).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2022 13:21:49 GMT -5
Mrs MRP has a few, as she is the primary viewer here, and when I watch things I pick what I want form that smorgasbord. We have had Amazon Prime since before a streaming service was attached it seems, and I don't see that going away. I watch things like Rings of Power and Thursday Night football on it, but it's primarily for shipping, as well as the Audible and kindle stuff my wife uses. Their streaming music service sucks and they keep making it worse. We use the free once per month Twitch subscription on it to subscribe to the Critical Role channel each month as my wife is a huge fan of CR and I watch it as well.
We got Netflix when the Marvel shows debuted, and have had it since. I watch a few things here and there like Sandman on it. Wife watches a lot more.
We have Dinsey+, got it at the beginning, and kept it, WE didn't bundle and still don't. It's probably the most used streaming service we use that we pay for.
We just added Paramount + a few months ago. My wife watches a lot of CBS content, and we had trimmed cable to just local channels, and were dropping it, so she added this to have access to the CBS stuff she wanted. I have watched a lot of Trek since we got it, and use this one the most persoanlly.
We both watch a lot of youtube, though use the free ad-filled version. I watch a lot of actual play D&D shows, and they rarely have ads, and a lot of the official D&D and D&D Beyond content, also which rarely has ads except at the beginning.
I also do Marvel Unlimited. Not a streaming video service, but essentially a streaming comic service, and I use it more than any of the streaming video services, as I spend more time reading than I do viewing.
We tried Hulu when we added Paramount, and in the 30 days we had it, I skimmed the content once and my wife watched 1 thing, so we decided not to keep it.
-M
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 8, 2022 17:06:34 GMT -5
Too many to be honest. But then I don't use them. I can't remember the last time I watched something on Netflix and have only watched something on Prime one time because it wasn't on Netflix anymore. I think we have Disney and HBO but I just watch what I own on DVD or VHS. At that's mostly a movie to fall asleep to that I've already seen numerous times. My TV/movie watching has dropped drastically in the past few years for a reason I am not even sure of.
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Post by impulse on Dec 8, 2022 17:20:08 GMT -5
My TV/movie watching has dropped drastically in the past few years for a reason I am not even sure of. Mine, too, but I know the reason. I prefer playing video games with my spare time rather than passively watching lately, and my wife and I are between shows we watch together. We have a few standbys, but nothing current. Left to my own devices, I'd fire up the Playstation more often than the remote lately. |
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Post by majestic on Dec 8, 2022 19:33:49 GMT -5
Yeah we also trimmed our cable to just broadcast stations too. Can't get much with an antenna where I live.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 8, 2022 21:06:15 GMT -5
Oh, cable is a non-starter. Appointment-based viewing riddled with ads and buggy equipment, hundreds of filler stations to stream through? No thanks. Most of my TV viewing is live sports, and in my area the cable company is also the only internet provider, so sadly cable is it. If I could get cheap internet elsewhere it would be a different story. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Dec 8, 2022 21:07:20 GMT -5
Since no-one has mentioned the WWE Network, I’m gonna presume everyone is a subscriber and that you haven’t mentioned it as it’s self-evident. Netflix and Disney+ for me. I never seem to have a problem finding anything. I like the Fox shows available on Disney+. But I can only really afford three services. Not willing to cancel the WWE Network, so as I do wish to subscribe to Paramount+ in 2023, I’m gonna have to sacrifice Netflix or Disney+. Hated the interface on Prime, and with some exceptions, such as Swamp Thing and The Boys, I found little of interest, seem to be a lot of lame B-movies on there last time I checked. I thought WWE Network was rolled into Peacock now? |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2022 3:05:48 GMT -5
It is in the United States, but it’s a separate entity here in the UK.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Dec 10, 2022 8:07:19 GMT -5
My TV/movie watching has dropped drastically in the past few years for a reason I am not even sure of. Mine, too, but I know the reason. I prefer playing video games with my spare time rather than passively watching lately, and my wife and I are between shows we watch together. We have a few standbys, but nothing current. Left to my own devices, I'd fire up the Playstation more often than the remote lately. That could be my reason too. I’ve just found other things to spend my down time with too other than TV watching. I guess I just didn’t pay it mind as to why. Other than getting to play Warframe with my boys now that there is crossplay :-) |
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Post by majestic on Feb 5, 2023 23:00:25 GMT -5
Finally able to get rid of cable. Our local phone company upgraded to fiber optic so we switched and subscribed to YouTube TV in place of cable TV. Competition is good! We cut our internet/tv bill in half!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Feb 18, 2023 22:04:11 GMT -5
I just discovered Tubi this week. It's free and it's got a great catalog of older films. I watched 20 million miles to Earth this afternoon, and my wife and I just caught the charming Midnight in Paris after dinner. Next in line are La Grande Bouffe and the western/samurai film Red Sun.
There are a few films from The Asylum too, but nobody's forced to watch those!
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Post by Hoosier X on Feb 19, 2023 13:12:26 GMT -5
I just discovered Tubi this week. It's free and it's got a great catalog of older films. I watched 20 million miles to Earth this afternoon, and my wife and I just caught the charming Midnight in Paris after dinner. Next in line are La Grande Bouffe and the western/samurai film Red Sun. There are a few films from The Asylum too, but nobody's forced to watch those! I got some Tubi recommendations ... Danger Pays (1962) - I found this accidentally when browsing the Japanese films available on Tubi. It’s a crime comedy that is so weird. I’m very surprised that it’s not a more famous film. The Yakuza Papers - This is a film series from the 1970s that is based on real Yakuza cases. The first film is called Battles Without Honor and Humanity. |
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Post by majestic on Feb 20, 2023 22:43:51 GMT -5
I also got an antenna given to me so I hooked it up to our old non smart tv in our bedroom and found we can get NBC & CBS. ABC & Fox are too far away to receive. At least our old tv gets to stay around a little longer...
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Post by coke & comics on Feb 21, 2023 2:37:39 GMT -5
I never really had cable since childhood. I still buy many blu-rays/discs for movies and go to the cinema frequently (saw 5 movies in cinemas in the last 4 days; probably another tonight; probably another tomorrow). I don't really like streaming movies, but do for convenience a fair amount. I think it's a fine way to watch TC series, though I watch only a limited amount of series. It's the serial content that motivates many of my services.
Netflix [On the chopping block for getting progressively worse; their proposed sharing crackdown will be the final straw. I do want to watch one more season of the Crown and Stranger Things.]
Hulu
Disney+ [Marvel and Star Wars series...]
Apple TV+ [Ted Lsaso, Mythic Quest, For All Mankind...]
Paramount+ [Star Trek shows]
Criterion Channel [Actually a great selection of movies]
Mubi
Zee5 [My most recent subscription. It was only about $3 per month if I bought a year. And I wanted to watch RRR in original language, when Netflix only had dubs. It will give me a chance to better explore Indian cinema.]
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