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

I am curious, how much of a difference is it just for internet, vs internet+cable where you are?

i cord cut earlier this year with the Hulu/No Ads cable package and i have not missed cable at all. I think it's $60 for that package and another $65 for high speed internet.
Supplementing occasionally with tt0rre3ntz helps keep FOMO at bay.

I have Hulu and Amazon Prime. I had a Showtime add-on through Hulu while Billions was airing, but dropped it after that; I had HBO for a while through Amazon to watch Insecure and Big Little Lies, but dropped that too.

If a show is on a particular streaming platform, it'll often be available for rent/purchase through Amazon, so if it looks really good I'll do that sometimes. I barely ever watch movies anymore - maybe one a month, so none of the movie-oriented services are at all appealing. And since there are no kids in my house, I don't have to worry about Disney, Marvel, etc.

xp I'd be curious to hear more about Plex's video features, I have a server installed but only use it for music.

Currently we've got Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Shudder ... at some point I want to shut down my Uverse TV service and switch to Hulu or YouTube or some other way to stream live sports and Turner Classic Movies.

I'm not sure offhand, my wife is the biggest push for cutting the cord in our house and she's been the one talking to them directly. Iirc, we pay around $140 for both right now, but I think she said they'd still want nearly $100 for just internet.

i pay for netflix (though i should really stop, i watch almost nothing on it), hulu (through spotify which is practically like not paying for it), shudder (the greatest), and criterion. i've never had cable as an adult

Hulu's live TV option is ridiculously expensive, to me.

I should add that I also have a digital antenna that pulls in network TV and some other channels like ION (lots of cop-show reruns) and Grit (old Western shows).

yeah, I haven't had cable for a very, very long time (15 years?) and I was wondering how much of a difference it is these days to not have them bundled.

I recently saw a meme about how all these subscription services with unique programming is basically reinventing into a more tedious cable tv.

Yep. Thanks capitalism for taking an legitimately game-changing technology and just turning it back into the old overpriced thing we all hated 20 years ago.

Remember back in the 1990s when they kept promising truly ala carte cable packages? "Only pay for the channels you actually watch!". Well it's here now, finally, except you have to pay $9.99 to $12.99 for each of the channels.

2019 US pricing chart for now and future reference:

Netflix (standard plan, 2 HD screens) - $13 monthly
Hulu - $6 a month
Hulu/No Ads - $12 a month
Hulu/No Ads/Cable/enhanced cloud DVR - $61 a month <- recommend this for cord cutters as it is pretty solid for sports
Amazon Prime - $13 a month, $120 a year; comes with amazon's other stuff
Apple TV+ - $5 a month; free with purchase of new apple hardware
Disney+ - $7 a month or $70 a year; pre-order starts today
NBC Peacock - As yet unannounced
YouTube TV - $50 a month cable package
YouTube Premium - $12 a month
AT+T Watch - $15 a month cable package, free if you're on their network
HBO Max -Currently reported at $15 a month, presumably will offer a package deal with HBO Now
HBO Now - $15 a month
Showtime - $11 a month
Starz - $9 a month
Facebook Watch - Free at the moment
CBS Interactive - $6 a month
Discovery/BBC - As yet unanounced
Criterion - $11 per month, $99 per year
Mubi - $11 pre month
Fandor - $10 per month, $99 per year
Shudder - $5 per month, $48 per year
Acorn - $6 per month, $60 per year
Crunchyroll - Free option or $7 per moth with hi-def and better programming
DC Universe - $8 a month or $75 per year
AMC Premiere - $5 a month
Pluto - Currently Free
Crackle - Currently Free
Kanopy - Currently Free

On the sports tip:
NFL Sunday Ticket is $74 a month or $294 a year
NBA League Pass is $120 a year for one team or $200 to $250 a year for all teams
NHL Season Pass is $140 a year
MLB Season pass is $25 a month via Amazon, $90 a year for one team or $120 for all teams

We currently pay for Netflix (incl. dvds!), get Hulu through a friend's account, and HBO Go through a family account that was supposedly canceled but still magically works! All through PS4. Have never rented/bought a digital show or movie a la carte.

if you were to buy all the above with hulu as a basic cable delivery option, that plus hi-speed internet would run you around $275 a month for television.

I highly recommend just downloading PLEX as it's free. Basically, if you have any kind of smart tv option, you can stream whatever you download directly to your television.

That netflix standard plan for me is $8usd a month but it's another country's pay structure I guess.

yeah there's a "standard definition" single screen plan for $8

No, this is for 2 screens HD.

I just looked up the basic one screen it's about 6.50 USD.

torrent everything, $0

a given.

well ya gotta pay for internet and hard drives! plus not everybody is ethically down with / has the technical expertise / willingness to take the time to learn how to join better groups / etc

although do people really torrent tv shows and movies that much anymore when you can find a free stream of almost anything?

for me it's most helpful when the tv show in question just isn't commercially available in my region

Worth noting that YouTube Premium also includes YouTube Music (and formerly Google Play Music).

a recent streaming experience with hulu, trying to start an episode in the middle:

click episode, cannot seek to middle, 90 seconds of commercials
seek to middle, 90 seconds of commercials
accidentally clicked on another episode while trying to close the app on my fone, 90 seconds of commercials starts
click original episode again, 90 seconds of commercials
close hulu, torrent entire season of show, cancel hulu

i won't front: all video streaming services are flawed in a dozen ways that piracy frankly is not.

My friends who are subletting my place have like 6 subscriptions and when I stay there I have to leave the room when they are trying to find something to watch (which always ends up taking a minimum of 20 minutes). A lot of the user interfaces are completely horrid.

wish the cinema was cheaper

xp -- ha - i have netflix, amazon, hbo (through amazon), britbox, acorn (which i should cancel because it's pretty much the same as britbox -- i had acorn first), and MhZ --

omg the user interfaces -- yeah some are really bad -- some are not awful, but are crap when it comes to subtitle options

i watch stuff via roku -- my roku is about 6 yrs old at this point and seems to be "dying" -- is this just standard planned obsolescence?

among the most frustrating things is that depending on your device, the interface and remote controls are totally different! You can't even play Criterion on an Amazon Fire and you can't play Mubi on a Playstation. Prime is easy to explore on a Fire but nearly impossible on a Roku. Everything's fucked!

I do Netflix and will do Disney+. More often than not, if I want to see a movie badly enough I buy a physical copy or, if that isn't an option, just watch that shit on YouTube or whatever. I watched a shitty, washed-out '30s movie on Internet Archive this weekend because it appears to have never been released via any legit home video format. Does that count as a streaming service?

youtube and archive.org certainly remain the people's netflix if netflix isn't already the people's netflix

I still pay for cable (and the Criterion Channel) but need to talk to people who get TCM through other services.

i'm dumping cable as soon as we get fiber internet installed at the end of the month, and signed up for Hulu Live. This looks like it'll save me about $80 a month for basically the same channels and faster internet than the shitty Comcast service I have. Still have netflix, amazon prime, and hbo through hulu. I'll pick up disney as well.

oh yeah, and we use the latest generation Apple TVs. I had a Roku that was a few years old and yes, it crapped out. The apps developed by the providers become too resource intensive for the devices.

"That netflix standard plan for me is $8usd a month but it's another country's pay structure I guess." how is this possible?

i use vrv sometimes for anime and amazon until my last ill-advised prime resub runs out next year, and that's it.

Moving to the Los Angeles area with its video stores and cinemas means not having to really care about any of this shit and it rocks.

We cut the cable 2-3 years ago and had Vue for about a year until a price hike, then Sling. The current fight between Fox and Dish/Sling has cramped my baseball watching, so I'm going to drop all channel-package delivery in the next few weeks and not worry about it until the next season of Better Call Saul starts. Dropping Sling and not renewing MLB.tv next season will free up more than enough $$ for Disney, which my wife wants to get. Otherwise, we have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, CBS (for my wife) and Criterion (for me). Our donation to our PBS affiliate is just big enough to give us access to everything on the PBS channel.

When Filmstruck shut down, Fandor offered subscribers a special deal -- I think it was $25 for a year? Anyway, I got that but probably won't renew it.

Netflix & Prime, but in Australia we can also access iView and SBS On Demand, which are half-decent public broadcaster options.

I signed up for Youtube TV so I could talk my mom into ditching her cable bill (you can share accounts with 2-3 people) and it's been the best cable replacement I've experienced. No buffering, standard TV Guide style menu, good enough channel selection. I'm so used to going straight to Netflix or Prime I rarely think of opening the app unless I want to watch sports, though.

Netflix and mlb.tv are free w/ my cell phone, I keep forgetting to cancel HBO Now, keep Prime out of habit, pay for the Criterion Channel so I can feel guilty when I'm too numb at the end of the day to watch something with subtitles and just turn on a CW sci-fi show on Netflix instead.

I have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime. I watch all of these via roku as well as a fair amount of free YouTube and Twitch. I also use roku to play music via Spotify, as the TV plugs straight into my stereo.

The quality of film selections on Netflix seems to have really plummeted lately. Amazon has the best selections of those three.

I'm strongly considering Disney+ because I'm a sucker and want to watch the Star Wars shows.

akm xpost. I set up my netflix in Chile so the fees are 4,990; 5,990; and 8,990clp for the 3 tiers. There is currency fluctuation of course but it's been in the $8 range at least for the last year (I just checked) regardless if I am using it in the US or Europe.

"The quality of film selections on Netflix seems to have really plummeted lately. Amazon has the best selections of those three."

netflix has totally shifted their focus to original programming, only 1/10th of which is worth watching. but it's still so cheap I keep it.

we have netflix, hulu, amazon prime, and recently became members of our local pbs station to access content on the pbs app. I am constantly advocating to my partner that we pause one or all of them, bc we only ever use them to watch one show at a time and will often go months without opening the others. She doesnt want to be burdened with the annoyance of stopping and re-starting multiple subscriptions throughout the year as shows come and go, which is a reasonable thing to find annoying. For movies I almost entirely watch DVDs from netflix.

I'm constantly astonished at how shitty the movie offerings on all of these are, and yet somehow still seem to get worse every year. Was just flipping through hulu yesterday bc I forgot they had movies and the 'classics' tab included Poltergeist II, Mr Mom, and like 25 public domain westerns.

although do people really torrent tv shows and movies that much anymore when you can find a free stream of almost anything?

yes, I do this all the time for TV shows and movies. Wouldn't know where to look for free streams, and besides I value the picture quality and curated content of the big private torrent sites.

a recent streaming experience with hulu, trying to start an episode in the middle:

click episode, cannot seek to middle, 90 seconds of commercials
seek to middle, 90 seconds of commercials
accidentally clicked on another episode while trying to close the app on my fone, 90 seconds of commercials starts
click original episode again, 90 seconds of commercials

This is all too real. Lots of the time if theres a TV show I like that is available on DVD i'll just buy the DVDs, which most of the time can be found used for <$10 on amazon or ebay, specifically to avoid experiences like this.

I mostly just use streaming services for TV shows. WRT movies, it's consistently baffling to me that streaming services should ever pose any real threat to physical media sales. The selection has always been spotty and terrible. The notion of just throwing up my hands and being all 'hey, if it's images moving on a screen, I'll watch whatever (dopey giggle)!' is so loathsome. I'm highly-selective when it comes to the garbage I view, thankuverymuch.

My local library added Kanopy access for cardholders and, while I have underutilized it, it's awesome. Up to ten films per month, pretty interesting selection.

yeah, new york public library opting out of kanopy was understandable given the cost, but a bummer

only just discovered Girls 5 Eva but it's so much fun! I wasn't sure I could handle Busy Phillips doing that ^voice^ for more than 10 seconds but I'm adjusting.

The 100 - back half of season 2 is kind of repetitive but way better than CW apocalyptic sci-fi should be

Vikings - not as much fun as The Last Kingdom, should be more gonzo and really go for the Svens of Anarchy vibe

The 100 just gets more insane (and better) as it goes.

Vikings gets more and more tedious the more you watch

The first 2 or 3 seasons of Vikings are OK, but never more than OK.

Watched Hotel Artemis on Max last night - a movie about a private criminals-only hospital run by Jodie Foster. Dave Bautista’s her assistant. They’re both REALLY good in it.

Never seen the last kingdom but I know someone who was in an ep so I always like seeing it mentioned

i am a vikings stan until they ditch Ragnar — i love it, have never been able to get into Last Kingdom bc it felt too normcore lol

i am a vikings stan until they ditch Ragnar

That was such an inexplicable and dumb choice. Yeah, let's kill off the most charismatic male performer on the show. (Spoilers, sorry!)

like what is even the point of the show after that

I mean, if they'd had the brains to make it The Adventures of Lagertha, maybe, but My Three (Viking) Sons? No fuckin' thanks.

hey Stranger is really good so far! thanks for that one.

(xps to omar)

Glad you like it! The show has a repetitiveness to it in some ways which is by design I think, everything just sort of slowly building. There are definitely entire episodes where it seems like very little happens, but it doesn't matter imo. I think it's pretty gripping throughout. And the mystery in both seasons really is a mystery, since you really don't know where it's going. it's not being coy, it's just very very clever and intricate. And the two leads are just immensely likable, even when one of them is completely lacking in emotion.

WHHHHY are we making 20 year old video games into premium tv series.

I’ve seen a lot of thumb’s up for it on social media

I'm watching this Colin Farrell hardboiled PI thing "Sugar" on AppleTV+ and 1) it's really bad and 2) I really want to find out what happens, a terrible combination. After the 2nd episode I was pretty sure Sugar is a malfunctioning android, with his "I really hate hurting people, but they're so interesting I study them via old movies" thing. After the 3rd episode I still kinda think that, or maybe the polyglot society are friendly visiting aliens. Apple+ does like its SF-tinged programming after all. I will finish it with hate in my heart.

I will finish it with hate in my heart.

pity we can't have thread descriptions, this is perfect

I'm problem going to start Fallout tonight, I'm not familiar with the game but the trailer looked good.

I tried Palm Royale & quit halfway through the second episode. Not for me.

1) it's really bad and 2) I really want to find out what happens

^^^me watching Sons of Anarchy thru 2 1/2 seasons until my hate overwhelmed my desire

Watched The Zone Of Interest tonight on Max. Wow, is that a good-looking movie. My wife, who is a photographer among other things, is off to YouTube to find interviews with the cinematographer.

Finished Constellation, liked most of it in theory, even if, even in theory, I'm not sure much of it made sense. At the same time, it was pretty slow, pretty repetitive, and there is only so much you can handle people running around yelling "Alice!" or "Mommy!" And the ending was indeed terrible, though in that regard, it conformed to my feeling that I was watching what felt like a Stephen King adaptation.

Binged Fallout, only having seen maybe 5 minutes of Fallout 3 gameplay, and enjoyed it a lot. Excellent production values, as mentioned above, and the actors commit to the world. Walton Goggins is a standout, and appreciated the casting of Bonzo from Ender’s Game to allow the actor to show more range.

That said, I had no interest in the Fallout TV show despite being a fan of the series since the 90s. No reason to expect a video game adaptation to be anything other than ass.

Husband and I both loved it. I've never played the games, so everything was a fun surprise. It contained a lot of things that would normally put me off a show, like potential for animal peril, but it has such momentum that we ate it up over two nights. As people have pointed out here, it's all very well acted, and the world is very well realised. All the little mysteries and cliffhangers reminded me of the heady early days of LOST, except I was confident that the show knew where it was going. I also realised halfway through that it's one of the few post-apocalyptic shows I've seen where there was no threat of sexual violence against the young female protagonist, which really made me feel a lot more comfortable about just rolling with it.

GONNA BE FAMOUS 3GETHER - The GIRLS5EVA thread

I tried Palm Royale & quit halfway through the second episode. Not for me.

I get this but multiple things keep pulling me back in:

1) The society shenanigans are so ridiculously low stakes but the depths Kristin Wiig’s character is willing to go for them is oddly compelling.

2) Kristin Wiig looks glorious in every single scene. Like, I never thought of her as sexy before but in this? Wow.

3) I don’t know who decided Ricky Martin should be relegated to being in a bathing suit in every scene but I would like to shake that person’s hand.

4) JULIA DUFFY

thanks Leeee! My Flagging search was not getting anywhere

Throwing in to add to the Fallout love. Like others, never played the game, just knew something about general bits, retro feel, etc., and was perfectly happy with all the results. Making the soundtrack choices key throughout, especially as subbing over a lot of the shootouts, made for something that went from ironic contrast to perfectly comfortable beat. Like Scott I also have been enjoying the Halo series and while the tone of the two series are radically different, both are great melanges where the games -- haven't played Halo either -- were clearly their own melanges of various sources/inspirations so turning them into dramatic series obviously runs a reductive risk but the end results are engaging and I'm happy to see more from both as they go along.

(Working on Ripley in doses, will get to the rest soon enough. Shogun talk on its own thread natch.)

Fallout was way better than I expected but mostly the underground parts. Not sure how the ghoul/Army camp? stuff is going to go.

I hope the woman who got her eye forked is a regular character. The show needs a good retro futurist eyepatch.

Hah yeah seeing more of the 32/33 denizens going forward somehow I'll be good with. (Leslie Uggams was a good catch for the cast!)

Arcane was another good video game derived show. S2 later this year

what about Ark:The Animated Series! or is that for little kids. i don't know the game.

I only made it about 20 minutes into Fallout, but Blast From the Past and Night of the Comet are both showing on Tubi at the moment.

i enjoyed the first episode. i was dubious that i would like yet another 50s-style sci-fi show or movie but i liked looking at this show. like if Doom Patrol had an unlimited budget.

i mean you could put it in theatres. its big. don't know what it cost but its all right there.

Fallout looked reassuringly expensive, but I did not feel engaged with the characters and the knowing tone of voice, it just seems predictable and smug and mid.Sorry to be a grump!I

Michael Emerson is in Fallout, right? i'm afraid he will give me Lost depression. He was in the Nolan brother Person of Interest show too. i don't think i got far with that show because it probably gave me Lost depression. the sight of anyone from Lost can do that to me. i was not a fan of Westworld. the other Nolan brother show. i know people really liked it. i did not. i tried to. i watched the first season and a half probably. it turns out i don't care what happens to robots. Both Nolans really into retro doomsday bombs apparently!

Quite liking Fallout. I wouldn’t say it’s great or anything - it’s just really well made, well acted, and has just enough compelling mystery to keep watching.

Also having never played the games, I had the impression it was going to be another dark and gritty post apocalypse show, but it’s actually pretty funny - the vibe kind of reminds me of Zombieland, just not as zany.

Read the Westworld thread scott and I think you'll find that lots of people, in fact, did not like it xp

The later seasons especially were pretty terrible

I loved the first couple of seasons of Westworld, and could have theoretically enjoyed following them into the second phase of the show (the last couple seasons with Aaron Paul). But it just got too convoluted. A lot of high-tech Scooby Doo villains.

I loved the first couple of seasons of Westworld, and could have theoretically enjoyed following them into the second phase of the show (the last couple seasons with Aaron Paul). But it just got too convoluted. A lot of high-tech Scooby Doo villains.

it's kind of funny to spend $153 million on a tv show so it can look exactly like a video game

Baby Reindeer on Netflix is getting a bit of buzz but feels like it should be getting a lot more?

Anyway, it's deeply harrowing but very very good