Streaming services, which do you have or are you getting rid of?

[trappedslider]

I dislike just about everything Prime puts out. I was about to cancel when Fallout dropped, then stuck around for the black Friday deals. They just manage to barely keep me hanging on.

I'm in a good news bad news deal in that due to be being disabled I'm eligible for both Prime and Walmart+ (which includes paramount+) to be at reduced prices.

I currently picked up the hulu/max/disney+ bundle but I'll cancel it once both shows i'm watching are over. The Pitt on Max and The Rookie on Hulu. I may sub to Netflix in March after Zero Day is released. The only sub other than Prime and W+ I keep is Disney+.

 

[pukunui]

I currently only have Disney+ and that’s on the cheaper annual subscription so there’s no point in me canceling / resubscribing month-by-month.

I used the free trial of Prime to watch Fallout, but I try to avoid giving Bezos any of my money as much as possible so won’t pay for that service.

I did briefly pay for the local streaming service Neon so I could watch House of the Dragon S1. Haven’t bothered to resub to watch S2 yet.

I am sometimes tempted to get Netflix but they don’t offer an annual subscription option, and I think the monthly fee is too much. My oldest daughter has her own Netflix account, though, which she has logged into on the TV.

TVNZ On Demand has a decent selection, including all the new Star Trek content. It’s all free. You just have to put up with some ads.

 

[aco175]

We have D+ free through our phone plan somehow. Prime we would have for the shipping savings even if it did not come with movies. We currently have the lower tier Netflix, but I saw that is going up again. We go on and off with a couple others like Paramount (for the Yellowstone shows).

 

[AnotherGuy]

Netflix and a local based streaming service that has deals with HBO and some other international networks.

Used to have Prime but changed bank account numbers around a year ago and never updated the debit order details for Prime so I lost it. But I find I'm not missing it - as I mostly watch podcasts these days. Never going to do Disney+.

 

[Velderan]

We've had Netflix for years now because we only pay a few bucks for it through our cell phone plan and we generally find enough things to watch to justify the low cost. Otherwise we rotate through different platforms as they have content we want to watch, never doing the annual plan so we don't get locked in any longer than we want. Right now we have the combo Hulu/Disney+ ad-free monthly subscription and Max looks to be what we'll be picking up when we drop those later this year when Last of Us season 2 is out and we'll keep that for the 2-3 months needed to watch it before cancelling again.

To add to the thread drift from the other thread, I don't typically subscribe to much. I pay for individual songs or albums I want through Apple music instead of using a streaming subscription. In 2024, I spent just over $60 on music which is more than double what I spent in the previous few years so a streaming plan doesn't really make sense for how I listen to music. For video games, I either pay full price for a game that won't likely end up on a subscription service any time soon if ever (e.g. 1st party Nintendo games) or wait until they're discounted enough on a Steam sale to buy them that way. My back catalog of video games is eternal so it's not like I am lacking in options for things to play without a subscription.

 

[TiQuinn]

We have Hulu + Live TV, Disney, Max, Netflix, Prime, and Apple TV+.

We also had the NFL Sunday Ticket but with the advent of games being chopped up across different services, we dropped that expensive turd.

I’d like to get rid of Disney, Netflix and Apple but Disney is wedged into a bundle that really can’t be unwedged (or at least with no change to our overall bill) and I’d prolly have a riot on my hands if I got rid of Netflix in my house. Maybe Apple we’ll pitch.

 

[Ryujin]

Currently:

Disney (effectively also Hulu and Star in Canada, I believe)
Prime
Netflix
Roku - Free with ads
Tubi - Free with ads

I'll likely be keeping all of them, barring total enshitification.

 

[Velderan]

Almost forgot we do currently have Fan Duel Sports Network for hockey. It would have been cheaper to do the season plan, but I hate paying for longer term if I am not 100% sure I will be using it.

 

[payn]

Always have;
HBO MAX (On the button ever since HGTV bought HBO)
Prime (on the button; mostly for shipping and not the video service)

Rotate:
Netflix
P+ (only on Amazon black Friday deal)
Spotify
Karafun

Want to try:
Apple

Would use if free:
D+

 

[jian]

Like a lot of people we cycle through them to watch specific things. We rarely have more than 2 on the go.

We had Apple for 3 months last year to watch Ted Lasso, Severance, and Slow Horses, then Disney for 2 months to watch Only Murders in the Building (and for me to catch up on X-men 97 etc) and then we had a few months of Amazon to watch Marry My Husband and Mayflower Murders. We’ll go back to Apple for a few months since Severance has restarted and then maybe to Paramount to watch A Gentleman in Moscow or Netflix to watch some more Korean dramas? We’ll see.