But Is It on Netflix? - Streaming Video Service Thread: Hulu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Disney+, Peacock, YouTube TV, AT+T Watch, Philo, Playstation Vue, HBO Max, HBO Now, Facebook Live and many more

maclunkey indeed, my dude. maclunkey indeed.

looooooool at Harrison Ford's digital head suddenly leaping six inches right, unattached to his neck, to dodge that laser bullet

u get the best pictures on the radio imo

the funniest thing is that isn’t Disney’s edit of Star Wars. George Lucas made edits *every single time* a new theater or home release came out. he’s a weird dude

A modern parable in two acts pic.twitter.com/k1eqiPB69x

— Scott Nye (@railoftomorrow) November 12, 2019

meanwhile HBO is claiming BBC, TBS, CNN, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, DC Universe, Tru TV, TNT and Adult Swim, along with the Ghibli, WB and New Line catalogs.

also this disclaimer is interesting:

Get HBO Max with HBO NOW
HBO NOW subscribers who are billed directly through HBO will also get access to WarnerMedia’s new offering, HBO Max, at launch for no extra cost.
Offer available only to new and existing HBO NOW subscribers who subscribe through hbonow.com and are billed by HBO. Offer not available to HBO subscribers that obtain their subscriptions through third-party providers that are authorized to distribute the HBO NOW service.

in other words, please stop subscribing through apple and amazon and hulu and buy your shit direct from the plug

What about if you get HBO through your cable provider like a philistine?

meanwhile HBO is claiming BBC, TBS, CNN, Boomerang, Cartoon Network, DC Universe, Tru TV, TNT and Adult Swim, along with the Ghibli, WB and New Line catalogs.

??

prob cool as long as you're a time/warner philistine (or i guess they rebranded as something else?), otherwise tell your story walking

http://i.imgur.com/l8QOZb7.png

📌More than 700 episodes of BBC shows will be available on #HBOMax exclusively. Includes:

🔸Doctor Who
🔸The Office
🔸Top Gear
🔸Luther
🔸the honourable woman
🔸pure
🔸Trigonometry
🔸Stath Lets Flats
🔸Home
🔸Ghosts pic.twitter.com/JWkssfGhx3

— HBO Max News (@HBOmaxNews) November 11, 2019

though, i mean, you know, TWITTER, so

and not so much claiming as boasting corporate synergy with i suppose but the question from the consumer end is mostly who got what content

(i look forward to stath lets flats having a big US fanbase in about two years)

More than 700 episodes of BBC shows will be available on #HBOMax exclusively. Includes:

ah okay - that's a fan account, not an HBO claim, at least. and 700 episodes isn't much when we already covered that the EXCLUSIVELY STREAMING ON HBO MAX

🔸Doctor Who

alone will in fact have 627 episodes exclusively on another streaming service

Careful not to cross the streams while engaged in your measuring contest, there, fellas.

take away the 145 episodes of Dr Who that HBO Max is likely to actually have and they'd be bragging about "More than 500 episodes of BBC shows"

If they have all of Top Gear, that's half the 700 in just two shows

measuring contest

I don't think either forks or I have anything invested in a fan account (?!) for a streaming subscription service (??!!?!)'s attempts to stan for clout, we're curious about how these pitches and narratives are being written

wait til you find out how many episodes of stuff are available on free-to-air TV!

Please don't step on my v clever joke with your 'facts' sic.

joke's on them, I'll pay extra to NOT get the Max content

pls to add ("stream"s!) at the end next time, I had just added up 343 episodes of TV and my brain had not switched modes

i look forward to stath lets flats having a big US fanbase in about two years

It's already here, if you count me. (Saw it last year when my girlfriend and I were visiting the UK -- absolutely hilarious.)

I'm with you on that.

Oh hey, it's a Popper-adjacent joint, I'm down.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/simpsons-episode-featuring-michael-jackson-kept-disney-1254609

also OL, check out ILPLEX and it's watchable now

Forget the technical issues, there are apparently some frustrating fundamental UI problems with Disney+. Like, no "continue watching" options for things you've started, no indication of which episodes of a TV you've already watched, no "start from the beginning" option on stuff, piles of things you can add to your watch list that (supposedly) you click on only to find the titles are "coming soon" and aren't streamable for several months (!) ...

wtf, hulu just jacked up their no ads/live tv price by $10 a month

yeah fucking assholes.

disney+ needs a lot of work on their app and their system. I consistently got errors even yesterday while trying to start streams (though that would stop after a second)

the UI of most of these apps on appleTV are fucking awful. Netflix and their auto-play thing; Hulu is practically impossible to navigate.

apparently hulu's reasoning is "because". seriously considering stepping away from it; need to look at the cost breakdown.

Yeah, Hulu UI sucks.

I can't imagine needing the live TV option (which was ridiculously expensive to begin with). I guess if you're into sports? I just dumped no-ads Hulu in favor of Netflix, which after my free month will be just $1 more than Hulu was.

are any of these services making money yet

i guess probably some of the ones that are just licensed content and aren't playing the original content arms race

id imagine amazon is doing ok

not that arm of it!

disney is gonna offer an ESPN/Hulu/Disney+ bundle for a reasonable price. sounds good if i can still get the ad-free version of hulu (the with-ads version is nearly unusable imo)

― kanye kendrick frank kendrick frank kanye (voodoo chili),

The bundle they're advertising is Hulu with ads. I'm hoping an adless upgrade will be available...

― Trussrippers WILL be persecuted! (WmC), Monday, November 11, 2019 1:43 PM (five days ago)

OK, I figured out the situation here. To get the bundle with ad-free Hulu, you get (or already have) an ad-free Hulu account, then sign up for the Disney+ bundle and get a $5.99 credit toward it every month, the value of the Hulu portion of the bundle. Gotta use the same email for both accts.

Can’t imagine that’s where it will lie, too chaotic. Maybe in three months they’ll get it together

So I guess this means I can get Disney+ and ESPN+ for $6 a month. Question is how much will I watch either?

The way I break this down in my head right now is

Netflix = original content
Amazon Prime = movies (maybe some original too)
Hulu = TV shows
Disney+ = Marvel/Disney/Star Wars

My biggest concern is that the Disney+ stuff and movie stuff both used to fall under the Netflix umbrella. So is Netflix still worth it?

I would drop Netflix in a hot second if my wife didn't want it. I'd drop everything but Criterion Channel, for that matter.

I got rid of amazon prime earlier so am satisfied with just netflix but was considering trying something else for a short period of time. Maybe I will do the hulu/disney thing and then go back to netflix. I just saw that you can no longer put your netflix account on hold but you can cancel and restart within 10 months to keep your account data.

Netflix is pretty easy to drop once you figure out that 99% of their original content is passable at best and that their good movies tend to get Oscar-qualification theatrical runs.

I could probably take or leave Netflix, but I have hundreds of things in my queue, so it's hardly a good content desert.

Netflix works well for me because I like the mediocre original content (it's what I put on while exercising since I don't have to pay too much attention). I haven't been to the movie theater in ages. I got really turned off about it when I saw a bunch of bugs on the walls at one of the theaters in midtown nyc. Plus it's at least $17 for a regular ticket now.

Netflix is pretty easy to drop once you figure out that 99% of their original content is passable at best and that their good movies tend to get Oscar-qualification theatrical runs.

― Simon H., Saturday, November 16, 2019 10:48 AM (one hour ago

while I appreciate the snobbery of this post, the function of netflix is moderately engaging media to watch at home when you don't feel like leaving the house.

like, y'know the function that television has had for the past 60 or so years?

Also, doesn't netflix have the largest amount of streaming selection available (minus sports or kids/marvel stuff)? I don't keep up with these things, maybe something else has overtaken it.

Having the largest amount of stuff is not a positive if 99% of the stuff is bad, because it dilutes the good stuff