How many streaming services do you subscribe to right now?

Sadly I'm one of the poors...Zero services for me.

Hulu for us. It's going up to 90 bucks a month. I received an email about it last week. That's enough to spend on Television.

I'll subscribe to one at a time to binge a show or two, then drop it. I have friends that always pay for 4 or 5--they tried to shame me and call me cheap because I cancel after I've watched my stories. Why should I just give my money away to streaming services when I'm not using them?

Pursuant to the Things You Waste Money On thread:

Four but we also subscribe to BritBox, Acorn, PBS Masterpiece, BBC Select, and PBS Documentaries which fall under Amazon Prime. I finally got rid of Shudder after 18 months.

bupkus

R3. That’s how do it.

Sucker's game!

HBO Max...€4/month

Netflix...€5/month

Amazon...€3/month

Filmin...€3/month

Of those, Netflix is by far the most often used, and Amazon Prime easily the least in most years, but the latter is a sort of bonus to offset the cost of shipping 3 or 4 Amazon orders I make in a year. Filmin is mostly independent and foreign films with some TV series as well; the offerings change frequently enough that it never feels I've seen everything of interest.

At €15/month or €180/year ($193), the cost seems a very good deal; and the costs are frozen for all but Netflix which has dropped by €1 a month once and risen by the same amount over five years of annual renewals. Much cheaper than when I lived in the U.S. (on top of which the most basic cable bundled with internet and phone service was about $200/month; now, a much better package including multiple Pluto, Hulu-equivalents, and many film services thrown in for free costs 1/5th what it did in the U.S.)

Just got an email from Spectrum. I guess they're trying to do something about the fact that people are complaining about the loss of Disney-owned stuff (which affects a lot of things like FX) so they're offering a 1-week free trial of Fubo. But that got me to thinking -- are they deliberately trying to exit the cable business by doing this? I mean if people start using a streaming service that offers a DVR and a lot of the same content as cable, won't people start to cut the cord?

One, two, three. Three.

Jesus r8 - where do you live??

I have Netflix ($15) and Amazon Prime $13(?).

I had Hulu for a little bit, but dropped it.

I also have Pluto and Tubi, both free but they do have commercials.

I'm in Australia and pay $17/month for youtube (regular youtube, not youtube tv) without ads. Does that count?

YouTube and Netflix. The latter with Ads bc FUCK them.

I don't count Prime as it's garbage, pretty much a pay per view platform now. All the free content is garbage. I have Prime for the shopping platform anyway. I don't use their music platform either as you have to upgrade to the good version.

It's the demands to upgrade for what was previously free that enrages me. I refuse to. What's next?