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The HBO Max lineup looks like a bunch of lame crap, but Netflix is basically a bunch of lame crap and people can't get enough of it

one upside of netflix (and then HBO) for a lot of folks was that you could watch anything on there and if you liked it you could recommend it to almost anyone secure in the knowledge that they probably also had access to it. With Disney, I think your self selecting audience is parents, completists and dudes who wanna watch the boba fett show so i'm not sure that translates into the new balkanization.
Realistically, if you want to be UP ON modern TV CULTURE, you are gonna need netflix, hulu, amazon, apple, disney, hbo as a starter pack and even with all that you don't get to see better call saul

Also lol @ how streaming services are basically just a la carte cable now.

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, October 31, 2019 9:53 AM (eighteen minutes ago)

yeah but I remember people wanting to be able to opt in/out of things for years, lots of stories about what ESPN was charging

having three months to set aside an hour and a half to watch something any time you like, if you’re interested in it, is VERY different to having three seconds across 2 years in which you can start watching that thing


you're a weird dude sic.

look I’m as ashamed as anyone that the deathless lyrics of Don Letts briefly slipped my mind, but I’d had a couple of glasses of box wine

This six-part comedy show follows what happens when a young woman sleeps with a celebrity.

wow hey maybe the celebrity is a man decades her senior

Think we'll see a second golden era of torrents/newsgroups or a newer alternatives very soon.

along the same lines, I'm somewhat nervous that there will be a proactive throwback to the good ol' Modest Mickey RIAA days and AT+T starts shutting off internet connections

Realistically, if you want to be UP ON modern TV CULTURE, you are gonna need netflix, hulu, amazon, apple, disney, hbo as a starter pack and even with all that you don't get to see better call saul

not for the keeping up reason so much but I do think there will be a shift from multiple vendors requiring subscription to them all offering free sign up and only charging you for the shows/films you select (time limit on viewing as with rental) - seems like the only reasonable way out of the ensuing mess

Think it’s more likely that there’ll be mergers and consolidation with libraries being subsumed into other vendors. Unless there’s a unique usp e.g. Anime,arthouse movies, horror, documentaries etc I think a lot of these new offerings will struggle to differentiate themselves against Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Disney+.

most of those streaming programs are being offered as sweeteners: hbo is free with At+T service, amazon comes with prime, Apple+ comes with the purchase of new tech, netflix is free with tmobile
living in the era of content is water here

I think there's an opportunity to create a service that just buys one or two services per month and rotates between them so you can binge all of that service's stuff and move on.

curated content

ILPLEX yall

Being an "I don't even own a TV" person gets more and more enticing

Netflix, meanwhile is still padding its numbers of films earlier than, oh, 1996, with such fare as racist but copyright-free WW2 propaganda films.

AMC holding out on Hulu means their viewership is just going to fucking drop off and everyone will torrent their shows.

if you want to be UP ON modern TV CULTURE

Not guilty.

I have a TV, and library DVDs. That's about it.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/31/study-claims-disney-already-has-over-a-million-u-s-subscribers-pre-launch/

Cancelled Hulu and signed up for Netflix this morning, and this afternoon my physical TV (which I used to watch network shows and other stuff via a digital antenna) died. But it seems like a replacement will cost less than $150, so I'll probably buy one in a couple of weeks.

I have a weirdly proportioned living room and watch most movies/netflix/whatever there and am in a constant struggle between moving the couch closer in a way that seems awkward and just being more comfortable with increasingly larger screens

if I’m sitting nearly twelve feet away and love movies, I need more than a 50” screen, right? probably no

i have a 50" screen at 8 feet away and that's about perfect imo. i'd go at least one size up at 12 feet

thank you for your enabling

We have a 60" (it came with the apt) and have two couches set up in an L shape. I think the viewpoints are 6-9* away and 11". We also have a rower at around the 10-11" mark and I have really terrible eyesight (like - 10 in each eye for contact lenses) and all seems fine.

Ugh but I also have maybe a 30 inch or something 20" away, high up, and that was probably a bad idea.

want to give you a sympathy hug for that -10 nearsightedness

"The long-running British sci-fi series Doctor Who will stream exclusively on HBO Max, including the last 11 seasons, which will be available at launch."

...if the previous 26 seasons are not available at launch, is that because another entity has the rights to stream them, and therefore it will not stream exclusively on MAX?

From Boxing Day, 627 episodes predating the last 11 seasons will be available for streaming on Britbox.

i have no clue why I was using a * and " to stand in for feet (') above. I am blaming my eyesight.

This looks good!

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2019-11-07/britbox-films-tv-available-stream-launch/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0FRDaHnITI

or this if you wanna scroll

It. Is. Time. From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Mandalorian, check out basically everything coming to #DisneyPlus in the U.S. on November 12.

Pre-order in the U.S. at https://t.co/wJig4STf4P today: https://t.co/tlWvp23gLF pic.twitter.com/0q3PTuaDWT

— Disney+ (@disneyplus) October 14, 2019

So when Disney+ launches next week, will all Disney IP vanish from Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc., etc.? Will you be *forced* under their umbrella if you want to watch, say, Black Panther after Tuesday?

looks like they're expiring title by title depending when they arrived: https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/leaving-soon/disney-movies-leaving-netflix-in-2019-2020/amp/

so glad i have another full year to weigh watching Nutcracker and the Four Realms

can't find anything on 20th Century Fox content, idk. maybe assume the worst and prioritize your watchlist accordingly.

deeper dive list here on individual network streaming services
https://www.polygon.com/2019/11/7/20903616/best-streaming-service-netflix-hulu-amazon-disney-plus-hbo-comparison-shows

again, i'm going to suggest 77ers click on the ilplex thread

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/10/arts/television/what-to-stream.html
http://i.imgur.com/dO0kr9M.png

(perhaps worth noting that $74 goes to NF Sunday Ticket and $29 to NBA League Pass there but even so)

I got $52/month

I pay a bit more, but mostly due to the inclusion of Playstation Vue (soon to be RIP) which lets me watch a bunch of things as they're released, access a bunch of tv station apps directly, and has a DVR feature that skims all of the Law & Order episodes which are *not* on any streaming services for me to binge when I'm half-paying attention

I got all kinds of vintage/exploitation/random flicks on Sling, when I subscribed, via El Rey network. Not sure if they still carry it, or if it'd be worth returning to.

I got $63/month -- which is probably about what I currently pay, but I pay Amazon and Britbox already on an annual basis so it isn't exact -- and I'm okay with not having "everything" tbh -- so much programming is functionally interchangeable if you just want to have something moderately interesting to watch while eating dinner alone.

$21/mo which is about right, still need to cancel netflix

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)

&13/mo, because I like Seinfeld lol. No offense but this streaming thing is a little *trumpetsound.wav* out there for me.

$ that is, though I wish I could pay with &'s

i'm down to just amazon now and that's going away for good in a few months when my sub is up

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...

$20/mo. on first run-through, when I didn't realize I could do multiple selections, and even then I still skipped all options on questions #1, #5 and #6, so I ended up with only:

Criterion Channel: $10.99 (Which is actually less as I locked in the charter member rate and will never let go)
Amazon Prime: $8.99 (I like Maisel, what can I say?)
Shout! Factory TV: Free (Wait, this is free?!)

Did a second runthrough where I selected everything I "wanted" (including knowing that Stranger Things stood in for Netflix, and I know there's other stuff on there I do watch), and it came to $58/mo.

They need to also bundle in music streaming services for this to be truly accurate.

tbh - and i suppose this goes without saying - this "online test" is probably not the best way to decide your bundles as it is hella arbitrary

As free ads go, it's about as effective as I've ever seen, as it pushed me as close to adding Shudder and Shout! Factory TV (which is not free) as I've been thus far.

Yeah, definitely good advertising --

gonna pass on Criterion because I still have most of my pre-streaming era DVDs and VHS tapes which are mostly Criterion-esque