What do you subscribe to and why?
Discussion
Turns out I have AppleTV+ as a result of my laptop purchase last year.
So, with a quiet period at work after 4 months of working like a dog, I’m doing mundane non-work like sending emails with Slow Horses running in the background. its very British spy drama derivative but enjoyable nonetheless.
So, with a quiet period at work after 4 months of working like a dog, I’m doing mundane non-work like sending emails with Slow Horses running in the background. its very British spy drama derivative but enjoyable nonetheless.
LittleBigPlanet said:
Amazon Prime -- principally for Prime delivery, I loathe the additional paid content--just charge me a little more for Prime and give me access to everything!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display....
An interesting and eclectic mix from everyone, as to be expected as well all have different tastes. What is interesting though is no one seems to be bowled over with happiness at a single provider, more a rotational system for a lot of people. Compared with those who sub to music seem to just have one as generally all providers offer a similar service. I think this was always the purpose of Netflix but the industry has broken the model.
Where does physical media fit into your guys lifestyle? Do you still buy dvd/blu ray, or streaming only?
Where does physical media fit into your guys lifestyle? Do you still buy dvd/blu ray, or streaming only?
Cotty said:
LittleBigPlanet said:
Amazon Prime -- principally for Prime delivery, I loathe the additional paid content--just charge me a little more for Prime and give me access to everything!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display....
All 4 plus-no ads
Youtube premium -no ads
Netflix-I’ve been curating my watchlist for about 10 years
Prime- motortrend on demand
Motortrend on demand- may cancel as the quality of the content is dropping and they cancelled a few of my favourite shows
Disney Plus- MCU, Star Wars, new fox/searchlight movies
Now TV- signed back up for the last of us, will probably cancel again when I’ve watched it. Would prefer if we could just get the HBO app here tbh. The Sky stuff is scammy as f
k.
UFC- impulse buy after being offered a cheap deal. I’ve been enjoying watching the old events though. Don’t know if I’ll keep it when it’s done.
Apple tv+ got 3 months free, maybe catch up with for all mankind.
For music my partner has spotify as they have music on it but I use Tidal more.
Youtube premium -no ads
Netflix-I’ve been curating my watchlist for about 10 years
Prime- motortrend on demand
Motortrend on demand- may cancel as the quality of the content is dropping and they cancelled a few of my favourite shows
Disney Plus- MCU, Star Wars, new fox/searchlight movies
Now TV- signed back up for the last of us, will probably cancel again when I’ve watched it. Would prefer if we could just get the HBO app here tbh. The Sky stuff is scammy as f
k.UFC- impulse buy after being offered a cheap deal. I’ve been enjoying watching the old events though. Don’t know if I’ll keep it when it’s done.
Apple tv+ got 3 months free, maybe catch up with for all mankind.
For music my partner has spotify as they have music on it but I use Tidal more.
Edited by ZedLeg on Sunday 26th March 15:40
Just binned off the sky. If I never hear croft bellowing again it'll be too soon.
So now have:
BBC cos the Mrs would throw a wobbly if I said let's dodge it, and we use a freesat box, for btcc and general veg out
MotoGP & F1 apps
Discovery+ for superbikes, seems mostly toss besides.
Mrs has the Netflix, and apple music.
How do you all keep track of what's on and what's new? Is there a customisable guide? Freesat TV guide is abysmal with channel list not customisable meaning you have to scroll last tons of toss, streaming service ai driven suggestive menus do my nut in.
So now have:
BBC cos the Mrs would throw a wobbly if I said let's dodge it, and we use a freesat box, for btcc and general veg out
MotoGP & F1 apps
Discovery+ for superbikes, seems mostly toss besides.
Mrs has the Netflix, and apple music.
How do you all keep track of what's on and what's new? Is there a customisable guide? Freesat TV guide is abysmal with channel list not customisable meaning you have to scroll last tons of toss, streaming service ai driven suggestive menus do my nut in.
Cloudy147 said:
Where does physical media fit into your guys lifestyle? Do you still buy dvd/blu ray, or streaming only?
I also find free films on ITV, Chanel 4 and Channel 5
https://www.itv.com/watch/collections/films/6D2ZDI...
https://www.channel4.com/categories/film
https://www.channel5.com/browse/Movies
The problem is we keep getting hooked into subscriptions just because of one or two (usually excellent) box sets, and then it all drifts away. We got Netflix for Narcos, Prime for Grand Tour/Clarkson’s Farm, Paramount Plus for The Offer etc etc. We had cancelled NowTV (can’t even remember why we’d originally subscribed) and now Season 4 of Succession is coming out tomorrow and the only way we can watch it is…NowTV, sigh, here we go again…
Cotty said:
LittleBigPlanet said:
Amazon Prime -- principally for Prime delivery, I loathe the additional paid content--just charge me a little more for Prime and give me access to everything!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display....
Cloudy147 said:
What is interesting though is no one seems to be bowled over with happiness at a single provider, more a rotational system for a lot of people.
That’s the best thing about it tbh - you pick what best suits you/your family. Re the physical media, I still have 3 large dvd wallets filled with some of my collection from the last 20 years, and occasionally I’ll get the urge to watch something I know I have on disk. But it is very rare; in fact my collection is currently in storage at my dad’s whilst I’m overseas; I say storage, he’s making his way through most of my collection. Haven’t bought a dvd since before the pandemic.
Sorry to be the party pooper
I watch everything, sports, movies, series on free streams.
I subscribe to a lot of Youtube channels and spend a fair bit of me time watching that.
As for tv etc the vast majority of the stuff on channels I have subbed to in the past (SKY, Virgin, NOW, Apple, Netflix) is stuff I do not want to watch so I now see little point in subbing to subsidise 95% of stuff I have zero interest in, as for sport, i was never asked if I wanted sport to go behind paywalls so while i can I will never pay for it, unless I think it is worth it hence I will pay for WEC this year.
I watch everything, sports, movies, series on free streams.
I subscribe to a lot of Youtube channels and spend a fair bit of me time watching that.
As for tv etc the vast majority of the stuff on channels I have subbed to in the past (SKY, Virgin, NOW, Apple, Netflix) is stuff I do not want to watch so I now see little point in subbing to subsidise 95% of stuff I have zero interest in, as for sport, i was never asked if I wanted sport to go behind paywalls so while i can I will never pay for it, unless I think it is worth it hence I will pay for WEC this year.
Edited by LukeBrown66 on Sunday 26th March 18:22
We’ve binned off Sky after finishing The Last of Us. We’ve recently signed up to ITVX Premium as a replacement and we’re going to work through that for a few months. It’s got most of the Britbox stuff in with it and we’re both of an age that we can rewatch some of the better stuff that we originally watched in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
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