With the simultaneous rollout of restrictions on account sharing and price increases/addition of advertising, I’m cutting back severely on streaming services.
I allowed my streaming subscriptions to grow without thinking about it. Without trying to remember the constant merging and bundling, I was subscribed to probably a dozen services at one point. They ranged from Netflix and HBO and Hulu to Shudder and Showtime. I had Paramount, Criterion, Disney, Peacock, and others. I’d do the typical thing where I’d search for a movie, find it is exclusive to a platform, and grab the free trial and forget to cancel. I excused it if I found a movie even every couple of months on it. There were still nights where it’d take an hour to find something I wanted to watch. I was probably closing in on $200/month all told, and I don’t have sports subscriptions.
I’m interested in learning what other people are doing regarding the price hikes and service compromises. Are you cancelling? Are you taking advantage of bundles with your internet services? Are you rotating on some interval? Or are you not changing at all?
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I cancelled Netflix the day they blocked my elderly parents from accessing my account.
I was paying for 4 streams, it shouldn’t matter 1 stream was at my parents house, they were still getting their money.
Don’t worry Netflix, we still get to enjoy your content via torrents and my parents still get a convenient streaming app full media via Plex, so you can eat shit Netflix!
I did the same thing and have the same attitude. I still watch what few Netflix shows are any good. They just aren’t getting any of my money any more 🙂
I do have to thank Netflix for motivating my to try Plex and see what my uplink could handle, about 3 1080 streams, so there’s that positive.
Don’t use Plex, use Jellyfin. Plex tracks everything you watch and do. Jellyfin is free, open-source and self-hosted.
Tried Jellyfin and it was a pain to get running on my NAS (the only add on in the Synology store is a random community port that doesn’t work well and the apps for the TV are all janky). Will stay with Plex until they sort it all out.
Yes, I believe they have pretty bad documentation, but I after a lot of pain I was able to get it working too.
Jellyfin lacks a lot of features that Plex has. It also is prone to a lot more problems. Once it matures some more it’ll be a fine replacement.
Jellyfin still has a lot of catching up to do, unfortunately.
Are you going come here and setup my system, then install apps on mine and my kids devices and show them how to use it AND then travel to my parents house, install it on their devices and explain to them how to use it?
No? Guess I’ll stick with the free self-hosted Plex.
I see this argument a lot, and I’m sure you’re right, but I was curious, why don’t people set up a url for jellyfin that your family can access over the internet, then they just have to go to a website and log in? Would work for TVs or any device that connects to the internet
I have a Smart TV (not Android TV) that can access the internet and it works fine through the web interface.
I canceled Netflix, but I stayed on their mailing list so I know about new shows I might like to watch. My frigate is now a submarine that goes beep, beep. (it has sonarr, I guess would be the main point I’m trying to make here)
Check out Overseerr if you use Plex, or Jellyseerr if you use Jellyfin.
It will show you popular and upcoming movies/tv shows, and you can integrate with with the arr suite to have users able to request and download the shows.
It’s fantastic, especially if you’re sharing your media server with others
I’m confused. Does this automatically download media?
It will send the request to sonarr or radarr to download it, if you have those set up.
Thank you so much, I was looking for something like this!
Before ditching Netflix I added all my current shows to a calendar/tracking website, which I check every few days and grab anything new, new new shows, in just rely on word of mouth and/or social media.
Can’t cancel what you never bought
I came here to say almost exactly this, tho I take issue with the use of the term “bought” since you don’t buy a subscription, even if that’s the language they keep pushing.
Europix for me above anything else. Netflix and Disney can go and self-serve their backsides…
I cancelled my Netflix account. I keep Disney Plus around for my stepkid, and Prime Video because it comes with Prime, although I’ll probably cancel that soon too. I’m keeping Funimation.
Streaming is becoming worse than cable. At least if I got cable (which I won’t) I could PVR shit and skip the ads. The idea of paying a monthly fee to get advertised at anyway is nauseating.
Keeping Funimation? Aren’t they migrating us all over to Crunchyroll?
My husband and I occasionally talk about canceling some of the services, but I want to cancel the services I don’t use and which he uses and he wants to cancel the services he doesn’t use and which I use. So it’s never going to happen.
It’s pisseasy to download the highest quality movies imaginable at any point in time, anywhere, totally free of charge. Makes no sense to ever even think about paying for any of the “streaming services”.
Account sharing is theft. Sorry, but you agreed to a ToS rider and they’re clear about that. “B-b-but it’s my mom’s who lives in another state” isn’t a valid objection. The services have real costs for licensing they need to protect.
Now, before you down vote I agree with pretty much the rest. Introducing ads into paid tiers is utter bullshit, and capping quality for paid subscribers amounts to theft the other way. I’m paying for a product and I agreed to Terms.
We just carry Hulu here. We don’t use the free Netflix we get though perks programs because They Suck, and I am canceling Huiu upon seeing the first ad I’m forced to sit through. We also have free AppleTV, bit haven’t activated because its Apple and we are an Android household.
Does any of this contribute to the discussion? No, probably not but I feel better for having ranted about it. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Netflix was the only one I ever really had, since the aughts. I am using Jellyfin now 🏴☠️ There are easier platforms, though, like popcorn time. A good VPN is a much better investment than some random streaming platform that maybe has 1 or 3 shows I actually care about watching.
Honestly I laugh at the people whining about password sharing getting shut down. It was never really intended to be used that way, everyone just saw an easy loophole and just thought they were the coolest shit.
Really surprised that people got used to a cheap loophole and when it got shut down, instead of the expected “it was fun while it lasted”, people got really butthurt about it.
It was always going to happen, it took way longer than I ever expected.
The ones who had it for family and not being able to include college kids I understand. But in my experience almost everyone seems like they knew at least one person with access to each and a massive group would share the cost that way.
If it’s not a family group issue, stop whining about having to pay a fair share.
Yes, the amount of them that are all separate costs is totally obscene now. There really should be some kind of “build your own” combination for a lower cost than the total of the parts thing happening.
But being mad about an unintended hack no longer working is dumb.
But to the actual question being posed here, I’ve only ever had one at a time. I don’t watch much of what’s out there anyway. I had Netflix while it was free with phone bill (who I worked for, so I got it included along with half off the bill. But these days I just have Paramount, but all I really use it for is Star Trek.
Although I’m still mad about Prodigy. Everything I wanted was in one door and now I’m gonna have to figure out how to get that.
Honestly I laugh at the people whining about password sharing getting shut down. It was never really intended to be used that way
To quote Netflix, “Love is sharing a password”: https://twitter.com/netflix/status/840276073040371712?ref_src=twsrc^tfw
I quit them a long time ago. Once we got to the point where I had to think about which service a show was on, I was done and cancelled Netflix. I guess I technically have Prime Video, but I almost never use it. Since then the services have only gotten worse.
The only streaming service I’ve kept and don’t mind paying for is Spotify since you can still get just about everything in one place.
Just use fmovies.to and up your antivirus. Much cheaper
I’m deciding what to keep and what to cancel based on what kind of holiday deals I can get over the next few months.
There was a point in time where I paid for Netflix because it was simply easier than downloading everything.
That point has long passed, and I no longer pay for streaming.
I would pay for content, but not if they keep pushing woke propaganda everywhere, creating 10 companies u have to pay to, and cancelling good shows like The Peripheral while allowing junk like “wheel of time” to go on
Put.io + Plex $120/year, zero isp warnings
If I’m reading that correctly, you basically have 100gb worth of streaming?
You can use it like that I guess, I just use put.up as a debride service. It downloads everything, I download to my local hardware. I don’t torrent anything from my ip. I used to get HBO letters isp letters, all that is gone now.
For now I like Plex over jellyfin, I don’t think that will last, Plex made their money with a lifetime Plex pass. History tells us that lifetime plans NEVER work. So they will be fucking up the service at some point and making users make some terrible decision or something like that.
Jellyfin > plex
Is jellyfin that much better? I’ve seen people throw it around a lot and I’ve yet to try it. The big thing I like about Plex is Plexamp as a music app and it seems like Jellyfin lacks that for the time being.
The experience is pretty similar.
The main selling point for me is that jellyfin is free open source software and completely self-hosted.
I don’t remember the tipping point even I left Plex, but I recall them injecting some live channels I had no interest in on the default screen. They do track everything you watch, so at the end of the day you and your data is the real product that they’re dealing with
Edit: I think the tipping point was even their password database leaked. Also, I was frustrated that I couldn’t watch content on my local network just because my internet was down.
Interesting. I might have to get Jellyfin set up and run them simultaneously for a bit. Like I said my favorite Plex thing is Plexamp because it’s so clean and simple and I’d rather use a dedicated app for music instead of the main app.
I do like that it’s FOSS though, so that’s pretty great.
