And now NBC will be pulling their shows from HULU, so if you watch any of them, you'll be forced to subscribe to yet another service if you want to continue.
I'm almost afraid to add up all the subscription fees... it probably costs more than just paying for cable TV with DVR - and requires a pile of apps and log-ins to do it.
Yeah, that kinda sucks that Hulu is losing that portion. Hulu is the closest thing for me to a "one stop shop" for all of my SS needs. However, as I've been jumping around many of them over the past year, I've gotten used to it. There isn't really anything I really need to see ASAP or "on a dime" that I couldn't just mentally queue it up to watch it later in the year, if not next year. Plenty of other content to keep my occupied on the SS I currently have subbed to
As for sub fees, can you rotate services? It's harder to do with groups (e.g. roommates, whole families), but if you only sub to 1 to 3 at a time, that should still be cheaper than cable TV. Even if it were on par, I'd prefer a suite of SS as cancelling is much less hassle, you don't need to deal with "regulatory fees", renting equipment, nor prices getting jacked up without telling you (and even then, with SS, competition's more fierce so there's a limit to that for that arena).
When visiting the USA I always found the amount of adverts insane... the ones that really boggled my mind were when an episode would end, you'd have commercials, then they'd show the closing credits, then they'd show even more adverts... or certain channels would speed up the programs to make a 30 minute show last 28 minutes in order to insert more ads.
This wouldn't normally bother me, as I usually quit when we get to end credits of a show or movie. However, those shows and films that have post-credit scenes and blurbs... THAT's murder!
Yeah, movies that have a run time of say, 2h22, but when viewed on TV will take a 3h time slot. On top of that, they still cut out portions of the movie, so you really only saw 1h50 of the actual movie!
If they're really going to include ads, I really hope they add them at breaks in the action, and in between scenes. I really hate YouTube ads that come right in the middle of a word. I've seen some YouTube videos that have chapter marks. In other streaming services, maybe have ads between two chapter breaks.
FWIW, while YouTube puts ads in the middle of sentences or action sequences, at least they don't show them again,
there, for awhile. One thing that infuriated me about Hulu was after watching an ad, if you rewind past the commercial break, you STILL need to watch that ad again!