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⌈ Secret Post #5743 ⌋

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[What We Do In The Shadows]

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[RPGs in general]

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[We are Lady Parts]

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[Usada Pekora]

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[Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]

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[Cheers]

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[The Princess Bride]

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[Overwatch]

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What are the best streaming services?

There are basically 7 big players in the US subscription streaming market: Netflix, Disney+ / Hulu, Amazon Prime, Peacock, Discovery+ / HBO Max, Paramount+ and AppleTV. Which of those is worth it to you, and which is total crap? How many are you willing to subscribe to and how do you pick? Which are going to stick around, and which are going to fade away?

Disney+/Hulu/ESPN

That's the one I have, but I have a 7 year old and really like sports

I like Netflix because they have a good amount of foreign shows, but other than that they've been falling hard for a while now. I think they'll be gone within the next few years.

I have a feeling a lot of these other services won't survive past the streaming-boom.

Netflix because it's the cheapest lol. We pay a sum total of $3 a month for media and I'm good with that.

Netflix is $3 for you?? Mom and I pay like $12 a month!

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Free Youtube.

It doesn't have a lot of the big shows but with seven major streaming services you're not going to keep up with all the big shows anyway, and Youtube has enough tolerably-legal old reruns and perfectly serviceable new youtube-only stuff that I'm never lacking for background noise. Also a lot of the streaming network shows have the most recent episode free anyway. (If I want to marathon a prestige show, the public library still has seasons on DVD.)

I just have Amazon Prime. I can't afford a bunch of streaming services, so I miss a lot of stuff, and torrent a certain amount.

Netflix has gotten too expensive for what they offer.

Hulu + Disney Plus is great, except for some nitpicks I have about the player.

Amazon Prime isn't worth it on its own. The layout is atrocious.

HBO Max is okay. I think Discovery might kill it.

Never used Paramount. Do have Peacock and it is good for its old horror stuff.

Netflix has gotten too expensive for what they offer.

I've seen people make this complaint and I genuinely don't understand it. My "to watch" list on Netflix has well over 100 movies and shows on it and I'm constantly adding more. Even if I only watched one show a month, it would take me a few years just to get through my current list of things I want to see.

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Right now I pay for Amazon Prime and Hulu, and have access to other people's accounts for Netflix and HBO Max.

HBO Max is clearly the best service right now and it's not even close. But apparently the company is planning to destroy it or whatever, so that's too bad. Netflix and Hulu are both pretty mediocre and I mostly use them for access to older TV shows I love that only live there. Their originals are very hit-or-miss with the emphasis on "miss". I wouldn't pay for Netflix for myself. Amazon Prime is basically fine and I have it because I have Amazon Prime anyway, their originals are pretty crappy though.

I've thought about giving Paramount+ a try if I want to add another one. At least they have Star Trek but IDK really what they have past that. I mostly don't want to watch Star Wars or MCU so I have no interest in Disney+ and everything I've heard about Peacock is pretty lackluster.

My sister has peacock. It is required if you want to watch WWE. I like that is has all the Hitchcock films!

Ditch all the above for The Criterion Channel. Game and life changing.

If the Criterion Channel means The Criterion Collection, you may have free streaming access through a public library (I do)

Have Netflix on and off if I pay by gift card. Honestly don't know why as the only show I like on there is Stranger Things (I'm very picky about shows). I had a free month of Stan (Australian streaming service) and even couldn't find anything I like on there apart from a few movies I like.

I pay for Netflix and Disney+ and my sister's family is the one that uses them the most. I mostly just watch Youtube.

we have hulu for live TV, because I hate spending 20 minutes trying to scroll through endless poorly-categorized options to find something I would want to watch - being subjected to whatever is just "on" that I find the least objectionable is much less stressful. so, I basically hate Netflix. nothing is easy to find, unless you happen to be in a mood to watch a specific title, and even then 9/10 times they don't have it. they're pushing shit in five different quirky "categories" in a desparate attempt to get people to watch it. you have to really know what you want to watch and know that they have it. and no, when I'm in the US looking for "80s movies" I'm not looking for Bollywood.

I feel like once hulu partnering with disney and ESPN proves that moving away from cable was not the answer and hubs are it, we're going to move back to cable and meld all the services into one hub like it should have been all along. we refused to pay for disney but now it comes free with hulu, so we caught up on 1 good series, 1 mediocre shoulda-been-a-movie, and three terrible movies and are certain we'll never pay disney for shit.

Disney, Hulu, and Amazon for me.

I subscribe to Netflix: the interface is top notch, and i like all their original programming that's coming from other countries.

I use a friend's Hulu (they're cancelling soon), and the interface is utter dogshite. They do have some very good original programming on there (Reservation Dogs, Only Murders in the Building....)

I've been on Disney+, it's....i dunno. Most of the content is not stuff i'm interested in. Too much reality crap, and I'm not at all into most of Disney's stuff.

Have not used/watched any of the others. I have zero ideas about if any will die or whatever.

Disney+/Hulu is the best because it has almost all my favorite shows and movies.

Peacock isn’t bad, but it only has two shows that I like, so I’m getting rid of it after the free trial is over.

This one isn’t on there, but I used to really like Crunchyroll until they merged with Funimation (the second time) and started listing all the dubs as seasons. It’s annoying and their app seems to crash more often now. Plus they don’t have any closed captioning on any of the titles that transferred over from Funimation.

I just have Netflix. I share the account with my all family and we are divided into 3 houses.
I'm not from the USA and incredibly enough the selection of movies, especially the "cult" movies is fairly good. They have a ton of good Anime and cartoons (I watched Avatar and Korra this summer!), too. I'm also interested in a few of their still running original shows: Cobra Kai, Umbrella Academy, Sandman and whatever they put out during Halloween. I think that October is the best month for Netflix and I'm waiting of some shows/movies now, but I'm totally biased since I'm a huge horror fan.
Speaking of which, my country's selection of horror movies is abismal. There are a couple of good movies from the 80's, but overrall it's just embarassing what they have in there. Some of their original shows though are fantastic (Midnight Mass, Brand New Cherry Flavor, Haunting Hill, etc).

I watch A LOT of horror movies because it's my favourite cinematic genre, so I end up torrenting a lot. If we had that horror only streaming service here I'd probably be subbed to that only.

I tried Amazon Prime, but I REALLY don't like the intervace. I don't find it appealing at all and I can't find any interesting movies even though their catalogue is pretty good. They have some good horror movies here, but I watched them all in about a month, so not worth keeping.
I don't have Disney+ and have never tried it because I'm not interested in Marvel anymore and I was never a fan of Star Wars. I like their cartoons, but not enough to subscribe to the service.
(Bonus: I try not to give money to Jeff Bezos and Disney if I can)

I even tried a streaming service from my country that has mostly local movies and reality TVs and. BOY. IT WAS BAD. Still, a funny experience.

BTW the movie I'm most hyped about this year is Del Toro's Pinocchio. And it's going to be on Netflix!
The show I'm mostly hyped for is Chucky season two, but I'm going to have to torrent it because it's not going to air or stream anywhere here. Then I'll probably buy the DVD if the season is good. I have the first season's DVD and I watched it three time already. SO GOOD.

None of them. Yo ho, and a bottle of rum.

Yeah but that's such a fucking PITA especially if I want to stream onto a TV

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Fellow pirate going "arr". Got the whole bundle (solarr, radarr, prowlarr, jackett), paired it with qbittorrent and jellyfin, and now I get automatic downloads of new episodes I can stream from any of my devices. Setting it up was a PITA but now it's just smooth sailing into the horizon.

We have Amazon because we were Prime members long before they had videos and we have Peacock through our internet provider. We dropped all the others because the various bills were adding up and we just got sick of endlessly searching for stuff and rarely watching anything. Disney is the only one I miss but I don’t have enough time to watch it to justify the cost right now, so I bought the Coco Blu ray for $7 on Amazon because it’s my current fave to have in the background. I want to watch She Hulk so I’ll subscribe again during winter break when there are more episodes and I have time to watch.

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I kept seeing all sorts of horror channels and podcasts advertise Shudder and was actually planning to use one of those free promos they gave to try it out but then saw it doesn't really exist in my country. I would need to combine it with one of the free promos for NordVPN to actually be able to watch anything lol

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