Streaming services

[Kinnakeet]

I have no political thing with either - I enjoy it - or I don't. My handful of bucks a month isn't bankrolling the left.
Lately, the Star Trek series have been weak - I could barely stay awake for Section 31 - it was awful.
Discovery was a waste after the first season or two.

And Disney, at least we get movies like Mufasa for "free". I'm keeping Disney mostly for Who, and frankly, it is ALSO getting a little too woke for me also - trans companions, gay doctors, story lines thinly disguised as woke lessons. If it doesn't improve, they've lost me as a Who fan after twenty plus years.

Just watched season 1 episode 6 of Star Trek from 1969...I love that series

 

[Kinnakeet]

I know a guy with a box that gets every channel there is for free after the box was paid for

 

[Bobwhite]

How many do you have? I have Amazon Prime and that's it. Good grief, you could spend a fortune on these individual services and how much TV do you really need?

Netflix, Paramount, HBO, Hulu, Apple, YouTube, Disney, Max, Peacock, on and on it goes. No wonder young people can't pay off their student loans or afford food.

Prime is all I have and I only have that because I order from Amazon all the time.

 

[SamSpade]

I know a guy with a box that gets every channel there is for free after the box was paid for

My BIL used to have such stuff (he's passed) - I've no doubt they were illegal, but it's not like anyone was going to prosecute some guy who lived alone in the middle of nowhere.

 

[SamSpade]

Prime is all I have and I only have that because I order from Amazon all the time.

I think these things just suck you in, because you think that 6.99 a month is nothing - and then another - and another - and they all slowly jack up their rates - until you find yourself with too many.

The one thing I like a lot about Netflix is, they drop the entire series at once - I do think other channels do the whole weekly release to keep you on as a customer, because for some of them, one or two shows is all you plan to watch. I guess Netflix has enough stuff that they know you will stick around.

 

[SamSpade]

Just watched season 1 episode 6 of Star Trek from 1969...I love that series

I began watching it in syndication in the early 70's - by the time the 80's rolled around, I'd seen so many of them SO MANY TIMES I could nearly recite a whole episode from memory. My mom said she could sometimes see me muttering the lines as they were being spoken.

I spent college and most of the 80's not watching TV at all, and I generally didn't watch regular broadcast TV shows again until the 2000's, spending most of my TV watching with movies. So I generally lost interest in most Trek then.

NOW, while the writing was good - the effects are like watching old Doctor Who. Good stories, dated effects.
Kind of like Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.

 

[Sneakers]

All the Star Trek episodes are on PlutoTV.

Speaking of which... Pluto just added a few new channels, "90's Pluto Kids". 90's Nickelodeon shows like Real Monsters and Angry Beavers. Love me some Angry Beavers..
keep it clean @Gilligan ..

 

[Gilligan]

keep it clean @Gilligan ..

"keepin' it clean" is my life motto.

 

[Czar]

I’ve put up the big beautiful tv antenna and sadly the neighbors have said nothing

Sounds like you need a nice HOA chock full of Karen's.

One problem with paid streaming is, you gradually lose tolerate for commercial interruptions.

 

[Sneakers]

I’ve put up the big beautiful tv antenna and sadly the neighbors have said nothing

Finally got that put up? How's it working?

 

[TPD]

Finally got that put up? How's it working?

I've had it up more than a year and it's working great. Only using it for one tv. Wife isn't convinced there is enough for her to watch with the antennae tv so still haven't cut the cable cord. Thx

 

[Sneakers]

Just an FYI on streaming services changes. (8 min)