I don't know how to feel about Netflix now. I dropped my subscription a year ago or so. They cancelled many of their "woke" shows. And, in comparison to other streamer/studios, who is better? Amazon? Disney+? Apple?
Putting aside content, I prefer Netflix's interface and lack of ads. Here's a direct comparison with Paramount+:
Netflix had Deep Space Nine until this year, and it happened to flip to Paramount while I was in the middle of rewatching it. I have logins for both, so I figured "no problem, I'll just continue watching it on Paramount".
The Paramount app is slow to load, has lag when you use the remote to navigate, has a crappy fast forward/rewind implementation, and Paramount sticks ads in several spots that don't always land where the original commercial breaks were. The ads were interrupting people mid sentence.
In addition to this, the app would sometimes freeze and even after restarting everything, it wouldn't resume where I left off and I would have to restart the episode and fast forward to where it broke.
Going through all that just days after watching the same show effortlessly on Netflix made me hate Paramount for removing Star Trek from Netflix.
Hah, that's exactly the same reason I dropped Netflix--no more star trek!
I haaaate the Paramount+ app. What's even stupider is that they just lost the Trek movies. I don't think they're currently available on streaming anywhere. How bizarre.
I do both. I run a 4tb FreeNAS server. Now that I'm older and have a reasonable amount of spending cashmoney, I do try to support GOOD media, and for me that includes old Star Trek.
I also subscribe to handful of substacks just because I can.
I went looking for them after you posted this. I found them "available with HBO Max add-on" in Hulu. So I guess HBO has them now.
I could swear I had seen them on both Netflix and Paramount+ in the past. Which is another infuriating thing about all these different streaming services- you can't count on a finding a studio's own content in their streaming service, because of all the various licensing agreements out there.
I think many/most of the streaming apps do that. From the ones I have personal experience with:
Netflix: no ads
Disney+: no ads
Amazon Prime: both shows with ads and shows without- they tell you in the menu which it is
Paramount+: ads
Hulu: ads
I think the services with ads allow you to remove them if you pay more, and apparently Netflix is going to do something similar in the near future.
When it was just Netflix, and they had a large library of everybody's stuff, streaming was a viable replacement for cable TV. Now that every studio has their own streaming service and they all want a ton of money to remove the ads, it's basically becoming cable TV again except you have to pay a la carte for everything like you used to for Showtime and HBO (which both have their own streaming apps of course).
I don't know how to feel about Netflix now. I dropped my subscription a year ago or so. They cancelled many of their "woke" shows. And, in comparison to other streamer/studios, who is better? Amazon? Disney+? Apple?
Severance on AppleTV was great by the way.
Putting aside content, I prefer Netflix's interface and lack of ads. Here's a direct comparison with Paramount+:
Netflix had Deep Space Nine until this year, and it happened to flip to Paramount while I was in the middle of rewatching it. I have logins for both, so I figured "no problem, I'll just continue watching it on Paramount".
The Paramount app is slow to load, has lag when you use the remote to navigate, has a crappy fast forward/rewind implementation, and Paramount sticks ads in several spots that don't always land where the original commercial breaks were. The ads were interrupting people mid sentence.
In addition to this, the app would sometimes freeze and even after restarting everything, it wouldn't resume where I left off and I would have to restart the episode and fast forward to where it broke.
Going through all that just days after watching the same show effortlessly on Netflix made me hate Paramount for removing Star Trek from Netflix.
Hah, that's exactly the same reason I dropped Netflix--no more star trek!
I haaaate the Paramount+ app. What's even stupider is that they just lost the Trek movies. I don't think they're currently available on streaming anywhere. How bizarre.
Learn to torrent and use emby or Plex.
Its not rocket science.
I do both. I run a 4tb FreeNAS server. Now that I'm older and have a reasonable amount of spending cashmoney, I do try to support GOOD media, and for me that includes old Star Trek.
I also subscribe to handful of substacks just because I can.
I went looking for them after you posted this. I found them "available with HBO Max add-on" in Hulu. So I guess HBO has them now.
I could swear I had seen them on both Netflix and Paramount+ in the past. Which is another infuriating thing about all these different streaming services- you can't count on a finding a studio's own content in their streaming service, because of all the various licensing agreements out there.
Wait, what? A paid service sticks in ads that interrupt what you're watching? Why would anyone put up with that?
I think many/most of the streaming apps do that. From the ones I have personal experience with:
Netflix: no ads
Disney+: no ads
Amazon Prime: both shows with ads and shows without- they tell you in the menu which it is
Paramount+: ads
Hulu: ads
I think the services with ads allow you to remove them if you pay more, and apparently Netflix is going to do something similar in the near future.
When it was just Netflix, and they had a large library of everybody's stuff, streaming was a viable replacement for cable TV. Now that every studio has their own streaming service and they all want a ton of money to remove the ads, it's basically becoming cable TV again except you have to pay a la carte for everything like you used to for Showtime and HBO (which both have their own streaming apps of course).
Because the service has exclusive access to the content. Cable TV was originally advertised as advertising-free too.
I wouldn't put up with it because I have a sense of dignity and self-worth, but that's the reason.
If you 'watch shows', you might as well just sign up again and forget about ever being a legitimate human being.
None of them. Stop giving money to people who hate you