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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: Loa on May 12, 2022, 12:26:09 AM
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I've got:
Netflix (NZ)
World of Wonder
Acorn
Disney +
TVNZ
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Netflix and Hulu which I share with my mom. Netflix wants to prevent password sharing which is so dumb.
Amazon Prime Video comes with my Prime account. There's some good stuff on there.
Peacock Premium and Disney+ come with my cable internet.
Free services I use frequently are Tubi, IMDB and Pluto. I've been thinking of getting Discovery+ for myself too. Mainly for the ID channel content and animal stuff.
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Netflix, Prime Video because I also have Prime, like BC. Crunchyroll. Hidive, literally only because Saiyuuki Zeroin was airing on it, although some things moved there from CR too now. It has a horrible interface and I don't really like it at all. But anyway.
Then all the free catch up services for channels here, like BBC Iplayer, ITV's one, C4+, and UKTVplay.
I did have Disney+ for a while but I had to work out what I was really using and so for now that one has gone.
I also had Funimation in the past but that's basically pointless now...
Oh, I used Discovery+ during the Olympics. But resented stuff being on there. I prefer it being all on BBC and C4. I really hope the unnecessary privatisation of C4 isn't going to destroy their paralympic coverage.
I keep getting offers for Britbox, but I don't want it. :/ I don't like how a lot of the shows that used to be on Prime etc are now on that. I don't need another subscription, and frankly, don't watch enough tv in English at the moment to merit it.
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YouTube.
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Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Hulu, Paramount+ and HBO Max.
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Netflix. My mom only has that. I want hulu to watch g4 mlp. netflix only has 4 seasons of g4. but im excited to see the tell your tale stuff from g5 at the end of this month!
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Disney+, YouTube, C More and Viaplay.
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Netlifx, HBOMax, Hulu, SlingTV. We're thinking about canceling Netflix since we don't really watch anything but Seinfeld and they raised the price. I would rather just buy shows I like and not pay for all of these services. Podcasts have replaced a lot of my tv time and I literally watch the same few shows over and over.
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I pay for Hulu and Prime and then I share Netflix and Disney+ with my parents. Since we’re only paying for two services in each household it’s not too bad, but with Netflix wanting to stop password sharing idk. Their originals really aren’t that good anymore and they hardly have anything else worth watching so we may cancel that one. :huh:
I just hope the other streaming services continue to allow password sharing. The steaming game has almost gotten as bad as cable at this point. I don’t want to pay for like, 5 different services!
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I pay for:
Hulu
Youtube -got tired of the 15min ads for a 10 min vid-
Curiosity stream
Sis pays for
Netflix
Disney+
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Disney+ and Netflix :)
Love pkw xxx
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I have Netflix, Hulu and Crunchyroll. If I could take on another streaming service, it would probably be Disney +.
Out of the three I do have I find myself on Crunchyroll most often, but I also have a lot of stuff on my Netflix watch list that I keep meaning to get back to. Even though I haven't watched anything on Hulu for a long time, I'm not ready to stop subscribing to it yet.
Ponyfan
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We share ours with our parents. They have Netflix and Dish Anywhere, and we have Disney+, Hulu, and Prime. We also use Tubi, Roku channel, IMBd tv, Pluto, Crackle, Vudu and Movies Anywhere. There may be some other free ones we use too. My husband is considering getting AMC temporarily, so he can watch the last season of TWD. I had whichever subscription has ST Picard and Discovery for awhile but didn’t get into those shows as much and canceled them.
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I'm the opposite with Netflix, I watch it more now than I used to, because they upped their quota of Asian shows. I'm basically over most stuff the UK currently churns out, tv show wise, because it's all 'hard hitting drama' nonsense, and I'm also kind of done with import shows from the US since none of the newer ones are at all appealing to me (see again, the 'hard hitting drama' theme).
I have a lot of older shows from both places that I love, and I own on DVD, but it's been a long time since a show made in the West has grabbed my attention more than one episode.
...I didn't watch Squid Game, because I'm not a drone who watches something because everyone else is watching it, and I didn't like the concept of it in the slightest. But I do watch a lot of asian drama and other shows on there, in various languages.
Until they started doing that...I rarely used netflix and was considering cancelling it.
BUT I think here is the core issue with Netflix. I feel like it's catering really well to niche audiences but at risk of losing its mainstream ones by doing that, too. I love watching shows in other languages and don't need subs for the Japanese ones. But I know a lot of people who only ever watch TV in English, and who don't like watching in other languages because of subs and stuff or bad dub quality. SO...yeah.
Personally I'd rather have netflix as it is now than it was 5 or 6 years ago. But whether it can realistically survive in the West like that I don't know.
All that said, CR is the streaming service I use most, followed probably by iplayer, because BBC on my cable box often breaks up and I end up having to watch on that. Netflix is probably now third.
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yeah i'm not really into the hard hitting drama/prestige shows. i listen to quite a few podcasts that talk about political issues and read a lot about history, revolutions, inequality. for my tv time i just want something funny. the concept of Squid Game seems interesting. but i feel like we're already living a dystopian nightmare in so many ways. tv needs to be my escape. though maybe for some it's cathartic.
i don't really watch the hyped shows either. it feels like work when i feel like i need to watch something because everyone is talking about it.
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I always get Netflix sending me emails telling me what is popular in my area (by which they mean the UK as a whole, apparently).
But I honestly don't care. I like to watch a trailer and read a synopsis and then decide for myself if I like a show. I think I have a contrary personality with this, but when I have a lot of people around me telling me I *must* watch something, I kind of turn off. I figure if it's that interesting, I'll watch it later when I can do so on my own terms. But I want to make that decision myself. :/
It's not like when someone makes a casual recommendation, but when a whole lot of people start saying its a 'must watch', or it's pushed on me like one on a streaming service or whatever.
I also don't keep watching something if I don't like the first episode or two. I know some people who will battle through and watch the whole of something that's popular because it's popular and they can talk about it with people. But when I was a kid, I'd watch the popular shows that I liked and ignore the others. And I'm still kind of like that.
So I like when Netflix tells me there's a new show that is in the same vein as shows I've liked before. But I hate when they tell me what the rest of the UK is watching. It's nice for the rest of the UK, but...I'll make up my own mind.
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yeah for me it's more when a show is really hyped up in the media. then i feel defiant about not watching it. and also it just feels like a chore. i guess if i got paid to watch and comment on shows it would be different. but i have a lot of trouble sitting still and focusing on a show. i don't want to spend that little time watching something just because i feel obligated. that's why i prefer to just put on stuff i've seen and then if i need to get up and do something in another room i don't miss anything.
a thoughtful recommendation from a friend who knows me well is a little different.
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I struggle with finding older shows. I LOVE 'Law & Order' from the 90's but no one streams it! I have it on DVD but its not the same.
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Squid Game is really good if you like gore and depressing storylines.
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Squid Games is not my thing just based on what I've heard about it.
I also don't pay much attention to what Netflix says is the most popular show but sometimes it catches my eye if there's something on there that I just watched or am planning to watch.
I agree that recommendations from a friend are different than something that's suggested just because it's popular or it's what should be watched.
I did try to watch 13 Reasons Why at one point but stopped about halfway through because I just couldn't bring myself to keep watching.
Ponyfan
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We mostly use Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+
Disney has so much of the old throwback stuff I used to watch as a kid, while Amazon has a bit of everything (I think Buffy is still on Prime) and Netflix is... Netflix lol. Currently enjoying the Witcher on Netflix.
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Netflix
Crunchyroll
Iqiyi
Youku
tencent video