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

subscription, yikes

Here's the projected pile of noteworthy streaming channels purported to have unique programming to choose from in 2020... surely this will need to contract at some point in the near future?

Netflix
Hulu
Amazon Prime
Apple TV+
Disney+
NBC Peacock
YouTube TV
AT+T Watch
HBO Max
HBO Now
Showtime
Starz
Facebook Live
CBS Interactive
Discovery/BBC
Criterion
Mubi
Shudder
Acorn
Crunchyroll
DC Universe
Kanopy
AMC Premiere
Pluto

I have netflix. That is all.

Plus a space to talk about delivery services! Roku, Playstation Vue and the like.

Give thanks and praise to PLEX, which is free, has virtually no ads and mostly just magically works.

We use a Roku and currently pay for Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and we have HBO Go since we currently have it in our cable package. We've been considering ditching cable completely, but when we talk to our provider (Xfinity) they want so much $$ for our internet service alone without a bundle that it still doesn't make sense. Since my wife works from home as a consultant and does a lot of video editing, we need a dependable connection. They really still push the bundles so dropping the cable alone doesn't seem to be the cost savings we hope for.

I know for sure we'll add Disney+ and I'm pushing for the Criterion one too, unsuccessfully thus far.

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.

I saw him play a few years back on a bill with the original lineup of the zombies doing Odesy and oracle and he seemed really bad. And his wife just passed too so I’ve been thinking he’s not going to be around much longer. Saw the preview for that and figured I wouldn’t lean anything.

Concert was still fun. blondie Chaplin played with his and got to take some highlights and do sail on sailor.

Evil is starting its final season on Paramount Plus. It’s completely incoherent and sometimes campy fun (a priest has sex with a demon!), sometimes has a moderately spooky MOTW episode but they didn’t really commit to one path enough to actually be good.

show is completely unhinged now it’s so wild

not that it was ever uh hinged

haha we just started that. every time they refer to god as "he" it makes me want to vomit, and the whitewashing of Catholicism is super offensive, but it's definitely trashy fun.

Just started watching the Korean show AGENCY on Netflix, which after one episode seems like a cross between Mad Men and Succession, as a highly ambitious and superficially cold creative director tries to navigate the more male-dominated world of her ad agency, and climb the ladder to the top. Thumbs up so far.

Anyone still watching The Sympathizer? Haven’t really been seeing anyone talk about it here or elsewhere, which is a bummer because I thought it was pretty great overall. Some weird swings in tone, but that was true of the book as well.

I also thought RDJ was the weak link in this - liked the idea of him as the various aspects of Western evil personified, but the ridiculousness of his performance was very The Nutty Professor-esque. Found it very distracting everytime he was onscreen.

finished season one of Bosch. will probably continue. his face is a marvel. sometimes he will make ten weird expressions in a row in five seconds and its kinda like watching a dog try to think. i actually can't think of another show that has so many long shots of someone just thinking.

S1 of Bosch is the weakest of the first several seasons. Well worth hitting next

Also more talk here including nice depiction of the different faces of Bosch

"If you can smoke and drink while doing it, it's not a sport" - a thread for BOSCH

i don't think i need a thread but thanks. i have so many murder shows to keep track of. i watch different ones on PBS, Acorn, Brit Box, MHz. i started Beck on MHz. i have to stop starting new ones. they are like murder candy. i have enjoyed watching Tracker, Elsbeth, and Will Trent as they come on every week. like the old days!

i really like The Nordic Murders on PBS. set on the island of Usedom in Pomerania next to Poland. they speak German there. i'd never heard of the place before. i go all over with t.v.! i can't afford to really go. they are constantly going over to Poland to bug the Polish cops on that show.

Anyone still watching The Sympathizer

i couldn't get through the first episode, something about it just felt off.

I was wary of Baby Reindeer but finally decided to watch (partly incentivized by the fact that the series is much shorter than I’d originally thought). Anyway, should have trusted my initial instincts. I find this show deeply unpleasant.

I've just started it too.

the Nordic Murders has been one of the bbc4 things on Saturday night, two series broadcast so far with some major cast turnover between them. enjoyed it though.

(imdb has it as 1 season spanning 7 years - it was one episode a year at the start)

agree re: the Beach Boys doc. There's some cool footage in there but it's very superficial; suppose that's what you get when it's shorter than 2 hours.

yeah i was bored silly by it, i ended up watching Love & Mercy on prime instead

i want the Beach Boys doc series thats 9 hours of Pet Sounds session footage like Get Back. Where’s THAT doc

OTMFM

i'd like to see non-edited raw footage of that beach gathering at the end, i wonder how awkward and weird it was

History of rock in 500 songs (my new hero) posted a review of The Beach Boys doc. Not very complimentary. Seems to much prefer Endless Harmony.

man, you guys really want me to listen to that 500 songs podcast. how much are they paying the ILX street team?

i've never listened to a podcast. unless marc maron on youtube counts. i guess that counts.

You can burn them to discs and think of them as spoken word albums

I sped-read the transcript of the "Dark Star" episode, ain't got time to listen to no four hour podcast.

I'm watching A Man in Full now. It's only six episodes and I've watched 4.5 of them so far.

Daniels lays it on thick, which is distracting. But I'm finding the sum to be just barely better than all the parts, so I'm going with it.

When you get to the very last episode you may find yourself thinking, as I did, "Wow, he [David E. Kelley] really made this whole thing just so he could do that, didn't he?"

Haha, ok stand by. Will report back later tonight or tomorrow.

Yoooooooooo more Lady Parts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uZ0OWGen1w

Oh now THAT is great

When you get to the very last episode you may find yourself thinking, as I did, "Wow, he [David E. Kelley] really made this whole thing just so he could do _that_, didn't he?"

History of rock in 500 songs (my new hero) posted a review of The Beach Boys doc.

for anyone else who scrolled for weeks on the 500 Songs site and then found his own site has had all content taken down, this is probably this public post on his patreon

Season 2 of Pachinko coming in August!

ok I am sold on Evil, what a batshit crazy show, the silent monastery episode really sold me

S3 Finale of Hacks brings it. Can't wait for S4.

did anyone watch Palm Royale? I'm about half-way through it. I like it, though it isn't 'funny' and 10 episodes seems long; the production and costume design is amazing. Mostly impressed with how good an actor Ricky Martin is.

I keep confusing it with Acapulco

when i put on Paramount+ i can't help but think: who would be bored enough to watch A Gentleman in Moscow? and then i kinda feel bad for Ewan McGregor. but who knows? maybe its great. i will never know...

The movie Godzilla Minus One, which got pretty good reviews, is on Netflix now. Might check that out this weekend.

It’s terrific

yes highly recommend!

we watched Palm Royale. It sort of finds its groove, and owns it's absurdness and gets more absurd in excellent ways. Not a great show but an enjoyable enough one and occasionally Wiig does a bit of physical comedy and you're like "oh yeah, there she is!"

Godzilla -1 was good shit, another recommend.

Yeah, we just finished watching it and I was really impressed. Have no idea what the title's supposed to mean, but it was awesome.

Only 1 episode into new Lady Parts but I'm cautiously thinking it might be the best show ever, Second Wife can get bent though.

i just started LadyParts too, it’s so fun!!

Have no idea what the title's supposed to mean, but it was awesome.

it's set chronologically before Godzilla One

pretend those were hide tags

I like that we all watched the same film and the same comedy about a punk band this weekend.