what streaming services do you have?

[fabulouslyghetto]

all the major ones except peacock (does that count as major?)

however i just cancelled netflix, new items dropped today and 90% of it is their content. if i wanted to watch poorly written, poorly acted, low budget B cinema I can save $20 and go with peacock. if someone wants to get rich there's a huge gap in the market between HBO Max flopping linked to WB's dysfunction and netflix churning out dog turd after dog turd somebody needs to create a streaming service that, listen to this crazy idea just listen, has good content!. movies that aren't terrible. i know, that's a wild idea, a streaming service that has movies people wanna watch, but i feel like it's crazy enough to work.

anywho, RIP my netflix, thanks for Good Girls and Spike Lee's documentary about Katrina and maybe 6 other titles that justified you burning a hole in my Michael Kors.

 

[unloadonme]

I occasionally use the BBC and Channel 4 sites to watch stuff, which are free, but I don't pay for any streaming services.

 

[rareboy]

ROKU includes Netflix HBO Acorn and a host of others.

I can't even remember which ones we have now, but we are almost done with satellite and standard channels.

 

[Peloso]

We must have very different ideas about good programming because I like Netflix just fine. Lots of good, memorable shows for me like Ozark, Mindhunter, Black Summer, Dead to Me, Maniac, After Life (eh, but the first season was hilarious). I only use streaming services to sample movies. If the first 30-45 minutes is good I just order the blu-ray and watch it the next evening because I didn't get a high def TV to watch a blurry third generation VHS image with low fidelity.

I also have Hulu and Prime which both suck equally. I have Verizon's You're-Poor-so-Fuck-You internet plan so just trying to get an image is a struggle. The only thing I watch on Hulu (I'm using someone else's login so I don't pay for it) is Saturday Night Live but it seems NBC is stealing it back so I guess I won't ever watch Hulu again. For free.

Prime is a joke, but it comes with my prime membership so I have to have it.

Otherwise I rotate through free trials. HBO has all the Adult Swim shows, and I think Disney has all the Die Hard movies but the very idea of Disney offends me so I wouldn't even want it for free.

 

[Rickrock]

None, I don't have any streaming services.

 

[72-Jay]

Don't have any. I avoid all pay for access/downloads/streaming/etc sites.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Sling for cable channels.

Netflix

I use a Tablo with an antenna for OTA.

I still have a Netflix plan for DVD/Blu Ray in the mail. They have a huge library of stuff not available on streaming.

 

[MusicMan321]

I don't use any of that so that's a no

 

[ShadowCat]

Netflix Hulu and Disney+ I use Pluto tv thats free as well as Tubi again free if there is something I wanna see and its not available i'll *coughs* appropriate it by other means!

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Well since none of you decided to tell me Lauren Ash has a TV-MA cartoon about MY HOMETOWN OF CHICAGO I'm going to have to send netflix a dozen roses and ask if we can talk about reconciliation over burgers and milkshakes.

 

[jjonn3]

Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+. I just canceled Apple TV+ they have some great content but not enough to justify keeping - I will wait a year for new seasons to come out and subscribe for a month - watch everything and cancel again.

 

[NotHardUp1]

The only streaming services I have are hot and cold water, electricity, and internet.

I tried Hulu but left it in less than a month. The offerings were abysmal. I literally can write better stuff than they air. It's the Jello instant pudding of programming.

The whole "we'll replace "cable" with a smorgasbord of ala carte overpriced crap makes me think society isn't getting smarter, despite the whold "we've got the entire collection of human knowledge online" claim. If you add up the various costs of internet, streaming services, and gaming platforms, it's a bit staggering to consider how much more people are paying for entertainment than they once did.

I'm beginning to see why Julius Caesar went so heavily in debt to sponsor the games for the public as he sought to gain control and rise to power. Wonder if there was free beer and peanuts involved.

 

[Peloso]

Streaming services are destroying cinema, television and music. Post #1:

Another big reason that streaming-only media is awful?
I’m doing research for a video essay about the Hays Code. I can get a copy of The Celluloid Closet at my library. Know what I can’t get? A pair of queer docs that released as AppleTV and Netflix exclusives.

I’m LIVID that I’m getting paywalled on multiple things that would be extremely helpful to my research and writing. I’m trying SO HARD to go through libraries and legal sources, but streaming-only documentaries are making it impossible. Physical copies need to be made.

I spend a lot of time thinking about how much recent queer media has been streaming-only, with no DVD releases. What if it all disappeared tomorrow because no physical copies were ever produced? What if the streaming companies edit it, censor it, quietly get rid of it?

We know FOR A FACT that Disney+ has been censoring and editing things for the streaming platform. People noticed because they had copies of the originals to compare it to. Sure, changing the dryer to a pizza box in Lilo & Stitch may seem like a harmless change, but think. THINK.

How many blink-and-you-miss-it “first gay characters” has Disney released? How many could be erased just as easily as the dryer from Lilo & Stitch? Streaming-only media is easy to censor. To take away completely. This is why I hoard queer media. What if it disappears one day?

In short: Download your favorite gay cartoons today. That way they will always exist on your hard drive, even if the streaming companies try to bury them.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Streaming services are destroying cinema, television and music. Post #1:

Duh! Everything in this country is awful. Sometimes you just gotta get in where you fit in.

 

[Peloso]

Duh! Everything in this country is awful. Sometimes you just gotta get in where you fit in.

But that is where I fit in

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

But that is where I fit in

That's what he said.

 

[Peloso]

That's what he said.

Be nice. I just got stood up for a tonsil punching.

 

[PrinceCory]

I have cable TV that I get almost all my viewing time on. I usually just subscribe to steaming for a month or two to binge watch some series after they have almost finish airing for the first time. I don't use cable or streaming to just hunt around for something to watch. The various sitcoms and series I watch are automatically recorded on my cable box DVR. The DVR remembers the series I want to watch from year to year.

I currently have Prime Video and then pay for Paramount+ and SHOtime. Both of those expire in 3 days. I will then resub to Hulu for a couple of months. And then maybe Disney+ for a couple of months.

 

[Reischfleger]

I currently have Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime Video.

 

[DepravedMuscleFTL]

netflix - amazon - wow - paramount+ - ruku - vh1 - nfl network - but what pisses me off is that a lot of stuff keeps getting moved from one pay channel to another best example is AHS American Horror Story - they have moved it to at least 4 different pay channels - and now once again it is on a pay channel I don't have - I am over it!