What's your favorite streaming service?
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What's your favorite streaming service?
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"To IBM, 'open' means there is a modicum of interoperability among some of their equipment." -- Harv Masterson
Apple TV+ but (Score:2)
They don't have an overwhelming amount of content which makes it easier for me to find something to watch. If I have 20 minutes, I can go on Apple TV+ and don't have to spend 10 minutes browsing through the options (the paradox of choice). Mythic Quest, After Party, Ted Lasso, probably among my favorites on TV+.
That said, YouTube
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No TV (Score:3)
I'm 64 and have never owned a TV. Had a tuner card in a PC once hooked to a dish for a few months. Just never interested in watching stuff. Mom was a librarian so that was an early influence for reading books. From the little TV I've seen, can't see as how I'm missing much. Follow a few YouTube channels (Cleetus, Demo Ranch, Engels Coaches, etc) and a FacePlace account to keep in touch with old workmates is all.
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While I have had TVs in the past, when my second wife bailed I realized I really only watched it when adjacent with her. Sitting at a desk at the back of the living room hacking code or on the couch either on the laptop or reading. When she left, it took a few months before I realized I hadn't turned on the TV since she left and I killed my Comcast channel account (just boosted my internet, no channels, no receiver). I do have TVs in the house but more for movie watching with my current wife; sitting, eatin
BritBox (Score:1)
Should not combine "other" and "don't watch stream (Score:2)
My answer is à la carte, which I already expected not to find among the options. It's quite niche, especially considering that it gives you a fifty percent discount in movie tickets in a certain movie theater in São Paulo, which is the reason I subscribed in the first place.
YouTube (Score:3, Informative)
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I watch Youtube as well,
RF (Score:4, Interesting)
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Before NHK started streaming Sumo on its website, satellite was the only way to watch it. To make it easier I looked at a "headend", which is basically something like a Raspberry Pi with a tuner that makes the received video stream available over the network. Some can do basic PVR stuff like scheduled recording too.
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Former Netflix (Score:2)
Marked None, I don't like them Disney and Neflix (Score:1)
I watch disney plus because it has the marvel movies.
The kids use disney plus too..
but I don't want to support them.
Netflix and paramount are included in my phone package...
paramount had a lot of deadly behavior promoting content, and these companies all promote bad stuff.
The kids watch TikRot and YouTube ShortShorts almost constantly. I won't allow TikRot, but shortshorts are always on.
YT! (Score:2)
YouTube because it's free and yt-dlp rocks. ;)
Netflix, but not for content (Score:2)
I have to say Netflix has the best UI. All the others don't seem to understand that people just want to watch something fast. It's responsive, well-organized, and not buggy. Their content, on the other hand...
It's always baffled me that Amazon seems to have the worst software quality and most awkward UI of any of the competitors. Disney+ is a close runner-up to Netflix but their organization is a mess. If I want to watch Mickey Mouse, I have to wade through a bunch of adult movies and still can't find relat
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None of them (Score:2)
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Britbox (Score:1)
Britbox is my favourite, for 1970s, 1980s British sci-fi.
Cowboy Neal's Washing Machine Live (Score:2)
Better than any of the mentioned streaming services is the live-feed from Cowboy Neal's washing machine.
Make a Cowboy Neal option mandatory for all polls!
Plex (Score:1)
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Youtube, Kanopy, Mubi, PBS (Score:2)
Whichever has the most Star Trek (Score:1)
Public Library & Channel Master (Score:2)
The library has a huge collection of dvds and blurays. For free.
Yes its a few blocks awsy, but i get books at the same time.
I have tried Amazon prime a few times, but found it to be an
utter wasteland of 'B' and even 'C' movies.
Usually mis-categorized (that was a 'comedy'?).
The cost of a decent Channel Master antenna rig is
about one month's csble bill. Giving it a shot was a
no-brainer. Gets all the broadcast news etc. I could ever need.
Now that i've taken early retirement, i'm more awsre of
how industry is tr
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A B movie was a low budget film made to be the second half of a double feature, and some of them were pretty good, such as the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies and the Charlie Chan series. As there aren't double features any more, there haven't been any B movies made in decades. There never were any movies made that were described as C, and calling a movie a C movie just shows that you don't know what you're talking about.
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Nothing since May (Score:2)
I have been trying to cut watching any of the streaming services since the 2023 Writer's Strike began. The the SAG-Aftra Strike, I am looking at ways to cut what I watch further. I haven't been to a movie theater this year.
Usenet/Bittorrent (Score:2)
My favorite streaming services are Usenet and Bittorrent. The price is right, and titles don't get yanked for tax purposes.
MPC (Score:1)
Media Player Classic. (variant)
YouTube with uBlock Origin (Score:2)
I prefer to watch without ads, so uBlock Origin does the trick for me.
For those of you who will argue that I'm pirating by killing the ads, I can't hear you!
No TV (Score:2)
Plex (Score:2)
Local Plex server with all my optical media ripped to it.