Paying MORE to watch LESS ? The Subscription service SWINDLE
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- How many streaming services do you have ?
I’m a movie fan and physical media collector. I’ve been closer considering my need to be running so many streaming services.
They’re never ending, right ?
I take a closer look at the cost of running these services and if I really need them running all at the same time… Especially when I have so many physical movies.
Do you have many streaming subscriptions ? How many do you run at once ?
Fire off in the comments below, let’s discuss the need for all of these services.
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Truly, they need us more than we need them.
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It shows in their desperation to find any way they can to keep us on platform or paying more.
The simplicity of the one subscription for a service is long gone now 😔
@@PhillwithadoubleL well if any given company could have their way, they would be the only service in town. Netflix didn't want other studios to spin off from them
@@chrisjfox8715it’s a strange thing with the streaming… high street shopping, more competition meant trying to be more competitive with pricing… streaming somehow hasn’t worked like that… they’ve gone higher with their prices and trying to push out more and more content.
@@PhillwithadoubleL the prices have gone higher because the increase in competition forced each of them to invest more in exclusive content
I think streaming will start moving to yearly subscriptions. If you cancel you can’t sign up for like 6 months. So they really lock you in.
I think you’re right. Now TV already do a similar thing for any promotion they have.
I recently jumped back in with an offer on the entertainment pack. I think it was £5.99 a month but you had to sign up for 6 months.
Probably won’t be long before others try to lock you in for certain price bands.
I pay yearly for Disney+ due to the kids (they’ll always find stuff to watch on there, and there’s plenty for me too) and Amazon… the amazon thing is mainly for the postage, I’ve not been sucked into removing the ads at the few because there’s not enough that I watch on there.
One thing i love about having physical media is i dont have the need or want to have all the streaming services. I alternate between them all every few months. They all come out with new shows and movie along with older stuff being in rotation. Also gives me time to watch my own collection which i love rewatching.
@@cp-ul4bz I need to alternate with more of the services. My difficulty is that I don’t really want to take some away from the kids 🤦🏼♂️
Always nice to have that physical collection to keep revisiting rather than chasing around to see which service has the particular movie. Plus, I’m a sucker for the extra features on physical which (to my knowledge) none of the streaming services have ever really offered
Regarding adverts I think it’s because they have realised that the overall business model doesn’t work in that when people watch a show, that show will not generate more revenue from views since the money comes from a flat rate for everything. It is part of the reason why TV shows, even good ones, are axed after one season besides tax purposes. As a result, for their popular shows to actually make money, they must use advertising. Which, lo and behold is what commercial television has done since its inception.📺
And yet commercial television for the most part… does it for free !
@@PhillwithadoubleL what commercial television?
@@chrisjfox8715 ITV,ITV 2, channel 4 , channel 5 and a whole bunch of other freeview channels in the UK.
I started my collection to preserve and use the special features like commentary whenever I please. I'm very satisfied, but it is really addicting!
Gotta be careful with that collecting. It can quickly become an addiction. I went a little too far with the titles I was keeping hold of. I was even keeping titles I didn’t really care for ‘for the collection’
I have zero streaming services and I have never had one.
35 and when I say physical media for life. So far I have meant it. Maybe one day it will happen, but I don’t think so.
Not seen any streaming exclusive content that you’ve been interested in ?
There have been some pretty solid ones at times that still remain streaming only.
But then… there’s always enough movies and tv shows physically that you don’t really ‘need’ a subscription to any others.
@@PhillwithadoubleLmy older brother has Disney plus. So I have gone to his house and watched some new streaming shows. We made it 4 episodes into Kenobi. Neither of us even wanted to finish it. To us it was that bad, didn’t even finish.
Watched Loki season 1, really like it. Season 2, idk seemed off, just didn’t work. Felt like 5 episodes of filler to get to the end scene.
I know I watched a few other shows, but I can’t even name them right now. I guess they were that bad, forgettable content. That’s what streaming seems to be.
I do have tv. So not just watching my physical collection.
Iptv is the way to go my friend. £45 a year for everything that all those streaming services provide & a whole lot more with sports channels etc etc
Solid price for a year. Not sure I want to go down that route myself though.
I work as an actor from time to time and don’t want to be that guy that doesn’t pay back to the industry that I work in… if that makes sense ?!
This I've slowly got rid of lots of my streaming site by binging all the content I want to watch
It’s the best way to do it now. With so many services… just can’t watch them all at the same time. It’s nice having the choice but that choice comes at a cost
I have no services because i watch physical media or downloads, have a huge collection of both...about 4,000-5,000 films and tv shows on DVD and around 10-11 tb of films and tv shows on hard drive 👍
That’s a mighty size hard drive. I see many folks now doing similar.
A nice way to back up your collection and have the digital option at your finger tips.
Remember and RAID it lol.
I still remember my 2tb dying in the latter end of the 00's I think.
Painful lol
@@johnnycarrotheid back up your back up !
I have prime but that is mainly for the free shipping
That’s the main reason I still have prime. There are a couple of shows on there I’d go back for but wouldn’t keep it as much as I have if it wasn’t for the shipping
I dumped all the streaming aside from prime like 6 months ago. I only keep prime for the free shipping. I realized I was paying around 40.00 a month to pretty much watch the same shows over and over. Maybe a new movie here or there but cost vs value for me was not there. I currently have 4 stacks of thrift store movies I need to watch before I decide if they stay in my collection or not and all that cost me the same as one month of what I was paying. I mainly thrift movies and go to my local cinima for new releases , like last night I went to see Abigail :)
Ooh, was Abigail good ? I wanna see that one.
I have prime for the shipping mainly (and The Boys when that’s on). Netflix I could happily cancel. Now TV I’ll cancel when the tv shows we watch finish. Disney the kids hammer so that will be kept. Apple TV i switch on and off every now and again. Going to try and limit myself as much as possible. I’d like to run a max of 3 at any one time… ideally would like to get away with 2 but the kids might put stop to that
@@PhillwithadoubleL I very much enjoyed Abigail. It was very fun, lots of blood, great cast, and def worth seeing. Oh yes I loved the boys and Gen V. So sad about Chance, he was very fast becoming a favorite of mine. I just have cats so they don't care what services we have ha ha ha .
@@halloweenlady4073 have you watched the Michael Rosenbaum podcast Inside of You with Chance ? It’s a great watch but a little upsetting with what happened. It’s here on RUclips, his podcasts are generally pretty good.
I only have Netflix and Prime no tv license, If I want to watch something not on those 2 I'll sail the seven seas . . . .
I think many people have been pushed towards the seas.
The bubble has gotta burst at some point. I’m sure some of these services could consolidate.
@@PhillwithadoubleL
It's the music market scene in the 2000's, coming to the movie market.
Difference is, don't need hard drives like back in those days.
Android TV box and a couple apps, theyl stream to you.
Been this way for a few years now
Streaming is never really something I’ve jumped into.
Have had Netflix in the past. It went. Then Disney. It went. My wife now pays for Netflix again. But she’s certainly not using it ☝️
Netflix I need to cancel. There’s not enough content that interests me. It’s just the habit of having it there and on hand.
The kids use it on and off and there’s a few shows they’d binge, I’m sure we could live without it though.
Disney is pretty much a requirement for us. That gets hammered daily. Again, more so down to the kids.
It’s handy to have but if it careful, pretty costly.
@@PhillwithadoubleL yeah I can understand that.
My kids are older now and flown the coop.
But back in the day we had sky. And it was primarily the kids channels that were viewed.
@ajsmovieplace Sky tv wasn’t cheap either really. That cost seems to have just shifted over to the streaming services. Although that’s inflated beyond the Sky cost if you start trying to have them all.
Hence the return to pirating. I have no streaming services..not even Spotify.
And I think there are many others that do the same.
Through the greed of the streaming services in all wanting a piece of the pie. They’ve fractured and lost the audience
Now the way you put it,no matter how you twist and turn at the end of the day you will always pay through the nose when it comes to subscribing channels like the ones you mentioned and we always fall for it hook,line and sinker 😢
Every. Damn. Time.
I’ve resisted paying the extra for the ad free version of prime so far. There’s just not enough on there that it’s been a massive problem.
Doing the video has made me consider cancelling 2 services for now. Think I can happily cancel Netflix and possibly Apple TV.
Apple TV I do like but one I’ll happily take a break from. To be honest, for quality content I think Apple TV show wise is the winner
I have no problem with Apple TV several anime series on it ,the best quality streaming service by far!!!👍
@@lippmb78 phew, I thought I was perhaps the only one that actually think Apple TV is one of the best.
You know what mate 😮 i have only Amazon prime ( mainly for next day delivery) i dont use it for streaming these days, and i have no social media at all , only my channel RUclips, i feel like a alien sometimes on a different planet 😅
I’d love to dump social media to be fair. I should, but feel I need to have it for various reasons.
There are some good movies and shows streaming that are behind those paywalls. Just a matter of knowing which the best content is IF you wanted to watch any or even have any of those services.
With a good physical media collection… you don’t really need all that many services anyway… if at all.
Yeah I had Netflix and Amazon for about a year each and just couldn’t get into it. Canceled them both around 2012 and just haven’t gone back. I was not crazy about when they started making their own shows and stuff.
@@IndiephantomSofaSinema not sure you’re actually missing much to be fair. Out of all of their content there are a handful of solid movies / TV shows but they’re few and far between.
@@PhillwithadoubleL yeah I find myself having less time as you say and it especially hard for me to commit to these longer series that people talk about. I tried watching Stranger Things at a friend’s place, but couldn’t get into it. I am definitely not a binge watcher. When I visited my Dad last summer I watched a series with him, but I mostly give up quickly on stuff on my own. Yet I can watch old favourite movies over and over.
@@IndiephantomSofaSinema I find that too. A lot of the more recent releases are a one watch affair. Certain older movies, I’m good for the rewatch any time !
I have disney, netflix and HBO subscriptions but to be honest there is so much stuff for....for whom? It takes so much time to find something good and most of the stuff are low budget productions or old movies. Well soon there wont be a subscription good enough for me:)
Are HBO still getting the WB movies pretty fast ?
I find it difficult keeping up with the streaming movies. When I do I’m usually underwhelmed. It’s not worth me running as many services when I can’t keep up. Especially when the physical releases just keep appearing at the door 😂
i recently cancelled my Netflix when i realised that the last time i watched it was 18 months ago
18 months. Woah. That’s quite some time.
Ours gets used by the kids but think we could live without it for a while. Honestly can’t remember the last movie exclusive I watched on there. Not even attempted Rebel Moon.
@@lp7399 my friends that work in the gym frequently tell me about how many members they have that pay their monthly fee and just never go in… whether they forget or always have that intention to use it again I don’t know but it seems these services are much the same in the way that we intend to use them… just don’t use them often enough
@@lp7399 have had netflix for years but it had only dawned on me that I hadn't been watching anything on there as also have disney,nowtv and amazon too.only netflix I have watched was stranger things and wednesday was the last show I viewed so finally decided to cancel
I'd rather not pay for all my streaming services, or my gigabit ethernet.
Same. Although I haven’t gone as far as gigabit internet.
They all find a way to sucker me into subscribing. Just need to learn to cancel.
@@PhillwithadoubleL my cable company cons us into their highest tier by putting data caps on their lower tiers, I've almost hit a data cap at least once or twice
@@RandallStevenson whaaaaat. That’s ridiculous. Having a data cap when everything is being pushed towards streaming or being online.
If you’re a gamer it must be especially bad having that cap with some of the massive file sizes for the game downloads.
@@PhillwithadoubleL you hit the nail right on the head