Poll of the Day > What is your favorite streaming service?

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My Blu-ray collection.

Peac*** is making me laugh much harder than it should.

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Good question.

I have access to Netflix, Disney, Prime and Videoland.

Of those, Prime is by far the worst (interface and controls)

Both Disney and Netflix have their issues, so it would depend on new entries at any given day.

I mean, Disney promised on of the best shows ever for January this year, but it is still not on Disney+ (here) and Netflix likes to add random seasons and movies, without putting up the prior and inbetween entries.

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Amazon has started moving a lot of older shows and movies off Prime and onto IMDb TV, which they own. Prime Video is ad-free, IMDb TV is not.

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Pluto. It has the Barker TPiR channel.

Peacock isnt censored you know lol

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yohohoho
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Since we're not counting YouTube for whatever reason, I went with Netflix

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its a tie between Disney+ and Discovery

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I'd rewatch The Mandolorian and probably start Hawkeye over anything Netflix currently has to offer

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Netflix by a mile.

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Of the list, Disney+ by default since it's the only one I've used.

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None as I don't use them and we don't seem to be counting youtube despite live videos actually being streaming.

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Why isn't Youtube an acceptable answer?
I don't use any paid streaming service. I haven't found an argument for any of them. Ever.

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YouTube

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i would say HBO Max but the app is poop so i cant recommend it if youre watching it on a non-4k roku or smart tv

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Judgmenl posted...

acceptable answer

Judgmenl posted...

paid streaming service

Perhaps the creator of this topic merely wishes to inquire which paid streaming service is most popular among the denizens of this board.
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out of those I guess netflix

but the only service that always has what I want available and will play in HD is iTunes. youtube has good selection too, but IIRC won't play HD without special hardware (possibly it works through the app though not sure).

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Judgmenl posted...

I don't use any paid streaming service. I haven't found an argument for any of them. Ever.

Convenience. Piracy reduced in the early days of the streaming market.

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Judgmenl posted...

Why isn't Youtube an acceptable answer?
I don't use any paid streaming service. I haven't found an argument for any of them. Ever.

Exclusive content. And the price for all you can watch for a month is on par with price of a movie ticket. So it's not a bad deal.

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I have enough TV to watch without any of them. I'll say Peacock because there's a decent chance I'll someday get it to watch all of The Office again, and it has a few other shows I might like to watch all of.

spotify

:3

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I use Netflix sometimes, but that's about it.

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HBO MAX is quickly becoming my favorite

But Netflix just has so many good originals

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I hate streaming, it was cool when it was just Netflix and maybe a couple others but I hate it now that it's pretty much turned into cable where you have to buy a bunch of different shit just to watch what you wanna watch

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Except Cable has a way worse selection and doesn't give you the option to pick and choose what you want to pay at any given time

You don't have to be subscribed to every service all the time. If you let your account lapse, your queue will be saved for like 6 months at least

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Hulu.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Except Cable has a way worse selection and doesn't give you the option to pick and choose what you want to pay at any given time

Cable actually does allow that - On Demand is a thing, and most cable services these days come with DVR where you can prerecord stuff to watch whenever with a little bit of forethought.

That being said, "worse selection" is always going to be subjective as hell.
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On Demand isn't the same thing, it's in addition to what you already pay monthly. And yeah, subjective or not, there's way more good shit being released "exclusive" to streaming services than Cable "exclusive".

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YouPorn

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JOExHIGASHI posted...

YouTube

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I don't have a favorite because each one has its advantages and disadvantages because like everything else in America, it all comes down to people wanting to make money by overcharging all while offering people less and less for their money and above it all, it's also about control.

Cable tv cornered the market by slicing the country into sections and then limiting customer choice so that people only had one option for cable tv and if you wanted it, you paid through to have it and then of course there's the annual rate hike in your monthly price but the service remained the same crappy service so then when streaming came along suddenly people were "cord cutting" and walking right back into the same greed model that cable tv had unleashed on people decades ago..


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Yeah, still Netflix. Disney+ as a close second.

Prime don't have enough. I can easily see myself running out of things to watch there. And i don't even binge

HBO, Crunchyroll and Funimation suck from a technical point.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

On Demand isn't the same thing

Just noticed you said "pay" there. I thought you say "play".

Because On Demand is definitely a service that "gives you the option to pick and choose what you want to play at any given time".

But I'd argue you mostly have the same option for cable to pay as well, considering you can add or drop certain channels depending on what you want out of the service, can arrange bundles, and if you're actually capable of communicating with other human beings, can haggle a bit with the account admin to give you discounts or deals. I have at least one friend who uptalked himself into a huge deal for cable because he just mentioned how he'd go with a different service if they didn't coddle him a bit. And another friend who periodically jumps back and forth between different services to take advantage of sign-up bonuses and deals.



Metalsonic66 posted...

it's in addition to what you already pay monthly.

Only if you're ordering PPV or renting shows/movies. There's still a fair amount of free content, depending on which channels you have.

In that sense, it's exactly like Netflix, Hulu, etc - pay a monthly fee, get content.



Metalsonic66 posted...

And yeah, subjective or not, there's way more good shit being released "exclusive" to streaming services than Cable "exclusive".

Which again, is incredibly subjective.

People can praise Netflix, but if you don't like any of the exclusive content, then it doesn't really matter in the slightest how exclusive it is. And no, the fact that YOU think certain shows are good doesn't mean everyone else is going to or should think they're good as well.

And to go back to the post you were originally replying to in the first place, exclusivity is a bad thing when you're dealing with two dozen or more streaming services, each of which has a couple good exclusive shows or movies, so you wind up paying hundreds of dollars a month to maintain them all, to the point where you're not really saving any money compared to what cable bills used to be. A vast content library doesn't mean much if you're not watching 99% of it. A dozen vast content libraries means even less if you're only watching a couple things out of any of them.

And being able to suspend or drop your streaming service to re-up it later really isn't much of a selling point, because the vast majority of people don't do that. The business model of most streaming services is basically built around retention, and the fact that most people will keep a service out of apathy/inertia once they've made the initial sign-up. So yes, there will absolutely be people spending hundreds of dollars a month so they can have Netflix and Hulu and Disney+ and HBO Max and Amazon Prime and so on in spite of barely using any of them.

So ultimately, the only real question that matters is "Regardless of what service you pay for, do you feel like you use it enough to justify what you're paying for it?" If the answer is yes, great. If the answer is no, then something needs to be reevaluated.
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