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

A thread to discuss the ongoing balkanization of streaming, cord-cutting, new options, lament and laud the coming and going of new competitors and so on.

Sound off with your obsessive subscriptions!

I'm using Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Mubi, Criterion, HBO Max, Showtime; might very well find myself doing Apple+ if I upgrade my phone/ipad at some point but can't imagine getting Disney.

thanking u for having a long enough subcription list to make my own look reasonable

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.

aww, thanks. she was so nice and so talented. she directed plays for kids in my town during the summer and she just lived for art and acting. she had moved to new york to be an actor. an inspiration. such a nightmare. for everyone involved. ugh.

Episode 1 of American Primeval has some egregiously bad CGI. It’s a western! The American west still exists! Cows still exist and are generally pretty easy to find.

Cows don’t look like cows on film. You gotta use horses.

Sorry to hear that, scott.

Back to the Menendez series: I'll give credit where credit is due and note that e5, shot in what I can only assume was a 40-minute unbroken take, is very impressive.

Night Of?

― dan selzer, Thursday, January 16, 2025 2:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Was this the one with Riz Ahmed where Tuturro was a lawyer or something? i really liked that but do not remember his feet at all. huh.

The feet won an Emmy.

Yes, that show, and yes, the feel was a big focus, don't know how you could forget about that, it was...a lot!

Read Say Nothing when it came out and I'm really enjoying the series. The disclaimer at the end of each episode, however, just burns me.

"Gerry Adams has always denied being a member of the IRA or participating in any IRA-related violence."

I mean, I understand WHY he's always distanced himself, but we all know it's a literal fact that he was heavily involved in the IRA. At least make it clear — "falsely denied" or something.

Don't think you can do that in a legal disclaimer

should we start a thread for Say Nothing? i feel like there might be enough engagement to justify

Dragon Prince nominally ended its run and the final season was good but not as brilliant and emotions a season 6. It leaves open the possibility for more down the road but it's already a minor miracle that we got even 3 for a non Stranger Things show. Even when the quality fluctuated as wildly as it has, there's a lot that measures up to and IMO surpasses ATLA and Korra.

There's a really funny new Roy Wood Jr. standup special on Hulu:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdHTTxd--Z4

Why the fuck is Disney+ streaming the inauguration?

submit to the Borg

Ivanka is officially a Disney Princess

Snow Whiter. Pochahonky.

Fallen into the queer YA universe rabbit hole and am bingeing 'Heartstopper' on Netflix, it's a cute teenage drama, well done, with pretty believable performances, to my mind. One of the things that makes it work, I think, is that the actors are only 2-3 years older (if that) than their roles. Easy to play an awkward teenager when you are one!

what service is the Lapkus show on?

― Robespierre Delecto (sic), Thursday, September 5, 2024 2:01 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

This movie--Another Happy Day--has just been added to Kanopy.

watchlisted! tysm

Why the fuck is Disney+ streaming the inauguration?

Because it’s on Hulu and they cross-pollinate all of their Disney+/Hulu/ESPN+ content across all three platforms

Even if it wasn't created and produced by "ER" alums and didn't star Noah Wyle, "The Pitt" is basically "ER," only Pittsburgh and told chronologically, one hour at a time over the course of a 15-hour shift. The first two episodes we saw were solid.

I’m up to the third episode. It zips along pretty well! Still 12 episodes/weeks to go so hoping the concept doesn’t wear out. You can see a few plot developments coming already,

I might get bored of it, but it’s definitely a lot fresher than ER was later in the game. I was cracking up at the “you need to send them up to the OR, you can’t do this in the ER!” bit being deployed. Half expected Wyle’s character to turn to the camera and say something like “You wouldn’t believe what we did in the ER back in Chicago!”

i'm still watching old Chopped episodes every now and again. i'm on season 11. my fave entree ingredients so far are in S11E2:

BLACK BASS, RASPBERRY LAVENDER RISOTTO, SAVOY CABBAGE, AND CAUL FAT!

haha! can't wait to see what they come up with...

I tried watching The Agency the other night on my dark server and it glitched out for awhile so I carried on with an episode of...Agency, on Netflix. That one is fun, I'll keep going with it though it's been a slow process, on episode per month.

I eventually went back to The Agency when the server stopped glitching and it was good enough for a second viewing the next night. The moderate pace and low ebb of tension is a sort of perfect blend for me, I don't require action or the conflict to rise to fiery levels, I prefer the slow simmer I guess. I don't sense that it's going in any over-the-top direction, it seems more Le Carre and less "24". I appreciated that one guy fucked up on a very low-level and they simply shipped him out, not much drama, just a quick goodbye and that was that.

i don't know why but i'm watching a nic cage apocalypse monkey wolf gremlin movie on hulu. if there is already a dedicated nic cage apocalypse monkey wolf gremlin movie thread please point me to it.

those of you who found 'say nothing' interesting might want to listen to this recent podcast about british informants in the ira - really well made and interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0k39k84

if it doesn't work there, i believe it's on spotify or wherever else you get podcasts. has a lot of stuff about brendan hughes etc so there is some crossover, but a bit more context for the disillusionment that people felt in the end.

oh shit thx LG! I was reading about Stakeknife - will def listen to this

Is anyone watching the Dexter prequel?

I don't think I've seen any talk of it anywhere, which tells its own story I guess

i'm watching a nic cage apocalypse monkey wolf gremlin movie on hulu

Can you be more specific?

Arcadian?

I was joking, I assume that's what he was talking about. But if you told me Nic Cage had multiple apocalypse monkey wolf gremlin movies streaming on Hulu, I'd believe it.

it wasn't great. bad cgi is bad.

the long arm coming through the window bit was sort of unintentionally funny

haha, yeah, that was kinda cool in a weird way.

reading that epic mole trilogy now makes me wish someone would do the dystopian thing completely underground (since everyone is going to have to live underground anyway in 50 years...) and have aliens/mutants/whatever fighting the humans for burrow space. you wouldn't need a ton of money and you could mix live-action with cgi in a compelling way and caving is always scary a la the descent (one of my fave movies of the 21st century for sure).
i tried to watch that third Shhhh...Be Really Quiet All The Time movie with Lupita and its impossible for me to watch because there isn't one second of that movie that makes it look like humans and aliens are in the same space together. and that is something that movies managed to do quite well for, oh, a hundred years or so.

(also watching Mad God the other night for the third time made me love the netherworld all over again...one of my fave 21st century movies now for sure...)

third Shhhh...Be Really Quiet All The Time movie with Lupita

Ironically, the director of "Pig"!

#oneworldonethread

i did not like Pig at all.

speaking of bringing everything together, this was my 2021 review of Pig:

"Kinda like a really dumb Nomadland for Chuck Palahniuk fanboys. I mean, that restaurant industry underground fight club where the waitstaff gets to beat hobos to death is one of the more ridiculous things I've seen in a long time and I've seen Nic Cage movies from the last decade. This wouldn't even make a top 20 dumbest Nic Cage films of the last decade list though. Not even the one where he fights the animatronic animal ghost robots would. That's how dumb his latter-day movies are. The only thing missing from this movie was the end of the world. Maybe they ran out of money. I liked the pig though. I gave this film an extra 1/2 star for the pig."

i want someone to make a movie out of that 2018 book that i read called The Maw. supernatural deep caving adventure novel. i liked that a lot and it was kinda written to be a movie someday a la Chrichton. but not in an obnoxious way. it was written in a compelling way. or maybe i just really like caves.

appetizer round for S11E8 of Chopped:

Injera

Hearts Of Palm

Mache

Rabbit Escabeche

beats me! i don't even know if i've ever had hearts of palm? maybe on a salad somewhere.

ok idg what this thread does or doesnt cover anymore but i saw it mentioned itt a few times - Rebel Ridge was fucking great and I heart Jeremy Saulnier for making reliably good yet violent movies
Fuckin A, that was a good watch. He kinda pulled his punch with the end though but otherwise cool as hell

yeah, the 2nd half kinda wimped out a little. i was expecting more fireworks. a kindler, gentler Jack Reacher is what i thought at the time.

lol i said to mr veg they should totally team up for the next season of jack reacher! love that whole genre of “pissed off dude fights a whole town”

Night Agent S2 is about as dumb as the Jack Ryan series where Venezuela was going to get nukes and bomb 'Murrica but not having Jim From The Office keeps it on the right side of 'too annoying to watch.'

the only thing that jim from the office should be allowed to act in is a live-action version of the Zits comic.

https://images.seattletimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/comics-zits.jpg?d=780x500

i started a rolling media thread for 2025. you guys don't have to use it if you don't want to! i just wanted a place to hang and not disgruntle anyone with movie posts here or whatever. i think i have all my bases covered. its for all things streaming.

2025 Rolling Streaming Media Thread