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How Are You Managing Your Entertainment Subscriptions (TV, Movie)?

I'm managing alright.

$65 a month for internet.
$17 a month for Netflix
$13 a month for Prime Video - which I stop and start as needed.
$5 a month for PBS
$0 a month for AppleTV+ - (1 year free) so far so good.
$? a month for Disney+ - I'll try it when it premiers.

Still a whole lot less than cable ever was.
 
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For me, I choose to largely avoid subscriptions. In a large part this is why I reversed course with cutting the cord. It's not cheaper then cable, and its more complex. I have comcast, and that gives me 90% of what my family wants, I also have netflix to fill out the rest.


I think this will get worse then it gets better at this point in the life cycle. I see the food network HEAVILY pushing their cooking subscription service, which is crazy. I'm not so sure there's a huge following for that sort of thing when there's already multiple food/cooking related channels on cable.
 
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Huntn said:
Ok, so Apple TV+ has arrived. I’m resisting another subscription until I know more.
As it is, I’m trying to imagine how the average customer is expected to manage a subscription to a major cable TV provider and then add all of the new premium channels to? 😬

Although, my desire is to cut the cable, I still have basic cable (20 some basic channels including NBC, CBS, and ABC). Is a situation developing where Cable TV revenues will plummet as customers dump premium cable to pursue and binge subscribe to all of the myriad of new premium channels popping up? I see any major cable provider in jeopardy and wonder how accessing this content will shake out?

Netflix based on quantity and quality of content is my favorite. If I hear that Disney just bought Netflix, I’ll SCREAM!! 😫

Here is my current status:
  • Suddenlink- Cancelled premium cable plan ($85/month) and went to basic, approx $20 per month.
  • Sling TV- $40 per month. Subcribed to, to access cable channels we use to watch on Suddenlink, such as AMC, Home and Garden Network, FX, MSNBC.
  • Netflix subscriber $13/month approx (ranges $9-16) We watch this regularly.
  • Amazon Prime $13/month, $120/year. If you buy a lot through Amazon, a great deal.
  • Acorn TV $6/mont, $60/year. My wife likes U.K. shows.
  • HBO- Binge subscribe status. $14/month.
  • CBS All Access— Bing subscribe status. $6-10/month.
  • Apple TV- Free for channels, Apple TV+ likely binge subscribe status $5/month.
  • Movie Streaming- Rent on Amazon, Apple, Suddenlink, or Vudu. You notice how after a movie is reassessing to home distribution, they now first try to get you to buy the movie for a period of months after release? 🤬
  • Vudu- Offers free movies with commercials, with a lower number of commercials as compared to broadcast TV.
  • Roku Movies- I’ve not looked at this too much, but there appears to be free movies to watch there.
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Amazon prime is 1/2 price if your kids are in college.
TenchisTV, 13 a year and I love it.
 
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senseless said:
Netflix, prime, over the air antenna for local channels, Sirius for audio. That's enough media.
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Reading some of these subscription lists I wonder how some have time for family, friends, being outdoors and work ;) SiriusXM app is great since they purchased Pandora. In car still sucks though. I have Prime, SXM, YouTube Music. YouTube Music includes no ad YT, only streaming service that I can learn how to install drywall and watch Formula 1 stuff Plus so much more.
 
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jkcerda said:
JUST about everything,,,,,,,,,,, it's like Kody......
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Given the new aggressive copyright lawsuits on these services, it might get expensive to be a user. Kodi with third party add ons is a good example.
 
D.T. said:
You don't want to mess with it, trust me.
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It’s not on Apple’s App Store.
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jkcerda said:
JUST about everything,,,,,,,,,,, it's like Kody......
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I’m not familiar with Kody. Such as? I looked it up and surprisingly, it’s got no information here: https://www.tenchistv.com/. A button to download and a page with pricing. I would expect them to have an app available on the Apple App Store, but they don’t.
 
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I'm completely overwhelmed with too much content and not enough time.

Currently have Amazon Prime - want to watch the Boys, Jack Ryan, and S4 of the Expanse.

I'm in a Netflix 30 day free trial for El Camino. Have a ton of shows I'd like to watch.

Disney+ starts soon and I want to watch the Mandalorian.

I know I'll crack and get CBS for Picard.
 
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Um, I have DirecTV, and nothing else. I get a "loyalty credit" that is substantial. I watch mostly news and sports. I don't have enough time for that, much less for movies, etc. Sports and the few programs I watch get recorded (news also) so I can skip commercials to save time.
 
Subscriptions

Netflix
Amazon prime
iCloud Storage
Kindle unlimited
2 iPhones - work / home
Telus Cable / internet
Adobe Acrobat Pro Dc
Spotify
ITunes Store - movies, tv shows, albums

And Game of Thrones - all seasons from apple - ouch 🥴 🤑 💸💸💸 - good thing I have a poor memory 😃 just about due for a 4rth run
 
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I just dropped AT&T Now since what was $35 / month at launch has climbed to $85 in two years.
 
stillcrazyman said:
I'm managing alright.

$65 a month for internet.
$17 a month for Netflix
$13 a month for Prime Video - which I stop and start as needed.
$5 a month for PBS
$0 a month for AppleTV+ - (1 year free) so far so good.
$? a month for Disney+ - I'll try it when it premiers.

Still a whole lot less than cable ever was.
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Really, you have to consider you probably had internet before you got rid of cable, now maybe it was cheaper due to a bundle (if you were able to determine the % of cost) or maybe you needed to bump up the bandwidth to accommodate the additional streaming, but some of that cost was already present.

In our case, our internet access before and after had no changes, we already were Prime members and we already used Netflix. So that was existing cost, so we added X/Y/Z, and that was definitely less than our DTV service!
 
I doubt any cable subscription will be in jeopardy, and they shouldn't worry, because the "block" between every thing on streaming service it will be a long way off, (if ever happens at al)

Even if a company has better deals, like Netflix, with companies, or Apple can get stuff over Hulu, the same barrier exists..You end up in this never-ending battle of resistance with right holders to move in the digital age and allow all their movies ever made on various streaming services.

Some people may be hopeful, but if right holders have resisted since the internet came along i fail to tink why they should wake up with an "idea" in their mind tomorrow..

It may happen. But cable companies can rest easy. No point in loosing sleep.

Even when content does come,its only ever short lived, at a price the same as purchasing a DVD physically anyway..

The act of "how it's distributed to the user" should change that too, but it 's not.

Until movie studious relax more, you can relax.
 
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Really, you have to consider you probably had internet before you got rid of cable, now maybe it was cheaper due to a bundle (if you were able to determine the % of cost) or maybe you needed to bump up the bandwidth to accommodate the additional streaming, but some of that cost was already present.

In our case, our internet access before and after had no changes, we already were Prime members and we already used Netflix. So that was existing cost, so we added X/Y/Z, and that was definitely less than our DTV service!
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A likely factor is data caps tied to the tier of internet service.
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Tech198 said:
I doubt any cable subscription will be in jeopardy, and they shouldn't worry, because the "block" between every thing on streaming service it will be a long way off, (if ever happens at al)

Even if a company has better deals, like Netflix, with companies, or Apple can get stuff over Hulu, the same barrier exists..You end up in this never-ending battle of resistance with right holders to move in the digital age and allow all their movies ever made on various streaming services.

Some people may be hopeful, but if right holders have resisted since the internet came along i fail to tink why they should wake up with an "idea" in their mind tomorrow..

It may happen. But cable companies can rest easy. No point in loosing sleep.

Even when content does come,its only ever short lived, at a price the same as purchasing a DVD physically anyway..

The act of "how it's distributed to the user" should change that too, but it 's not.

Until movie studious relax more, you can relax.
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Hmm. I’ve already dumped my upgraded cable service for basic cable, because I'm making other less expensive choices. I don’t like spending an extra $85 for a hundred channels or more that I don’t use because the cable company holds the channels I do like hostage. And being nickled and dimed for things like TiVo, a TiVo mini box in my bedroom (got rid of those), a rented router (mine is purchased).

I think this is a trend, but acknowledge cable companies could retaliate with higher internet fees. We’ll see how it develops, but this has the makings of a consumer revolt and I hope Cable can compromise with consumers. I wish, they‘d open the cable lines up to multiple cable companies like they have done for electricity in Texas.
 
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Pluto TV- I’ve known about it for a while but actually signed in (free) and there are several old TV shows for viewing like Beverly Hillbillies and I Dream of Jeanie. My wife has been watching it all morning. . :)
 
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Subscribed with Netflix last year but hardly use it. I guess am enjoying youtube than anything else.
 
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