nah no thanks. cancelled because they were too chicken to advertise on X
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Hulu on Disney+ Beta Launches for Bundle Subscribers
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I use Reelgood. Pretty good and you can select what services you have so you don't have to sift through what you aren't subscribed to. Totally free.
Huh? I can buy single videos off Apple, Amazon, Hulu, Netfix, without having a subscription? Not having a subscription is the key to my post.
But please, tell me how to buy single content that can’t be withdrawn.
I didn’t think I was a bundle subscriber, but I have this Beta.
However, not all the Hulu content is there. Crave’s Letterkenny is missing, which I suppose is a licensing/rights issue.
so not deleting that Hulu app yet.
However, not all the Hulu content is there. Crave’s Letterkenny is missing, which I suppose is a licensing/rights issue.
so not deleting that Hulu app yet.
If you cut the cord to save money, then signed up for every streaming service at once, you are cord cutting wrong.
I keep seeing similar comments whenever there is a streaming service article on MR, people complaining about the streaming price increases, saying that they are getting to be the price of the old cable bundles, people saying that we should go back to cable, but I am thinking that people are forgetting about how bad cable was, or someone else was paying for the cable (parents).
The content on just one major streaming service's ad-free tier dwarfs all the content that a typical cable bundle would have.
Just the monthly rental fee alone of HD set top boxes for a medium sized family using cable would be enough to pay for an ad-free tiers of about 4-5 streaming services. Even more if you don't mind ads.
Also for most cable companies, you had no choice but to use their set top box. Streaming services allow you to use many different devices, including mobile ones.
Changing, canceling, or moving your cable services would be a nightmare, compared to being able to sign up, change your service add-ons, or cancel it in just seconds with streaming services.
All of the above is from a United States perspective, not sure how cable is elsewhere.
I can understand being frustrated with price increases, but for people that enjoy movies and TV shows, and watching what you want, when you want, and using whatever device you want, things have never been better or cheaper.
Exactly.
Not hard at all. If people started doing what you listed above they could have a crazy amount of content for a fraction of the price of cable.
I would add signing up for when the streaming services have the really good deals, like Black Friday. For the past few years, I have used two different email accounts and rotate the emails to always qualify the Black Friday deals.
Hulu is almost always $0.99 a month for 12 months, and I get the Disney+ add-on, used to be $2.99, but since they introduced ads, it is now $1.99.
I hate ads and won't use the services with ads (with the exception of YouTube), but my wife and kids don't seem to care, so I keep signing up for the deal.
Considering that streaming services are region specific anyway; any EU based regulation would only affect the EU.
Yep....they all coalesce into one app. I can't say what it will be called but it rhymes with "dompast". They might even change the name of that to something that rhymes with lexlimity.
Yep. Who would have predicted that the cord would be pieced back together into something more expensive than we started with?
I wonder how the TV app handles shows on both Disney+ and Hulu now. My play progress for shows on Hulu is not syncing to Disney+ (which I sort of understand), but if I decide to consolidate my viewing on Disney+, I don’t want the TV app to shoot me over to Hulu accidentally. I suppose I could uninstall the Hulu app, but there will always be some things that are only over there. It's a mess for now, but it is a beta.
What streaming services do you have that's more than the price of cable tv itself, which is usually $70+?
Disney+ and Hulu (no ads): $19.99/mo
Netflix Standard (no ads): $15.49/mo
Apple TV+ (no ads): $9.99/mo
HBO Max (no ads): $15.99/mo
Total: $61.46/mo
If we were to compare it equally with cable tv which has ads, the cost would be:
Disney+ and Hulu with ads: $9.99/mo
Netflix with ads: $6.99/mo
Apple TV+ (no ads): $9.99/mo
HBO Max with ads: $9.99/mo
Total: $36.96
That's half the cost of cable tv service.
The beauty with streaming is I don't even have to subscribe to all these services at the same time. I can rotate through them each month. You cannot do that with cable tv. And if you're not interested in sports, you don't have to pay the ~$10/mo ESPN cable tv fee.
When it comes to cable service, I think that many are having a case of rosy retrospection.
Reality check, streaming services offers more content at a fraction of the price of cable, plus with a lot of perks, like being able to cancel at any time, not have to rent crappy equipment, have a choice of devices to use, have an option for no ads, being able to take that content mobile with you, etc.
See this post:
So Hulu is literally just what „Star“ is internationally now, which ironically is simply included in D+ at no extra charge. Wonder for how much longer!
Hey Disney, how about finally letting us remove things from our continue watching. It’s driving me insane that it still shows me X and Y to finish just because I did not run the whole end credits or don’t you dare make the „mistake“ of pressing on a random episode of a show you already watched. It’ll just sit there FOREVER
Hey Disney, how about finally letting us remove things from our continue watching. It’s driving me insane that it still shows me X and Y to finish just because I did not run the whole end credits or don’t you dare make the „mistake“ of pressing on a random episode of a show you already watched. It’ll just sit there FOREVER
Which is caused by greedy ass studio. Disney used to be part of Netflix untill they got greedy and decided to setup their own streaming service.
They should go back to Netflix like in the good old days.
Companies want to such as Apple and others but the streaming services don't want to allow it in general, since it just makes them just a content provider for another then, where is the big players are trying to be the main place people go, which is why they keep buying other content providers and merging. Like Discovery and HBO, and Disney and Hulu. It is a total mess, at the moment. Eventually it won't be profitable long term, so the smaller streeming options will join a bigger service, and we will see more merging but probably not for a while.
Damnit they did exactly the one thing I hoped they wouldn’t do. If they were going to choose one App to keep, Disney+ was the wrong choice. The Hulu app is better. Just plain better. Works better, more features, better laid out.
Far from perfect, but the Disney app is even farther. I was hoping they would make a new, better app.
I even had an unreasonable hope they might just take a few hints from John Siracusa’s post on how to make a video player that actually gets basic features right.
Far from perfect, but the Disney app is even farther. I was hoping they would make a new, better app.
I even had an unreasonable hope they might just take a few hints from John Siracusa’s post on how to make a video player that actually gets basic features right.