Should I Get Rid of Netflix

vremya · #1 10-26-2022, 03:50 AM

Should I ditch Netflix?

ChuckF · #2 10-26-2022, 03:55 AM

Probably. We turn it back on for British Bake-Off and The Crown (though it sucked last year), and turn it off for the rest of the year.

fragment · #3 10-26-2022, 03:57 AM

Don't know how you expected me not to pick the Bowie option. Did you see Moonage Daydream?

Anyway, I keep the Netflixes because it's still relatively cheap on a per hour basis compared to many other entertainments. They still roll out a good series now and then. YMMV.

Crumb · #4 10-26-2022, 03:57 AM

Do you watch it?

beyelzu · #5 10-26-2022, 04:24 AM

We have Prime with AMC+, Showtime, Epix and Curiosity Tv.

HBOMax, ESPN+, Apple TV, Peacock, ad free Hulu, YouTube tv for live sports.

We spend about as much as we use to in the days of cable, but I much prefer the current streaming environment in spite of the complexity.

I like Netflix’s catalog. I think they’ve made some good shows. Love bojack, I still watch it sometimes.

I’m giving gift a shot, and I’m excited to watch Season 2 of Barbarians. Netflix often has something I like.

I don’t try to maximize my streaming service utility by turning off and on the service, either I trust a service to make shows that I like or I don’t.

ceptimus · #6 10-26-2022, 09:34 AM

I cancelled my Netflix about two months ago. I'd subscribed without interruption for years - and that started as merely a continuation from my earlier subscription to LoveFilm, where they used to send DVDs or Blu-ray discs in the mail! :oldman:

I wasn't watching it much. I kept it going till Better Call Saul finished.

Television is losing its appeal to me. It seems to be ever-evolving to becoming more dumbed-down and irritating - though this is perhaps just a symptom of my increasingly chronic curmudgeonliness.

viscousmemories · #7 10-26-2022, 01:07 PM

This is a good nudge. I have like a dozen streaming subs and use almost none of them.

slimshady2357 · #8 10-26-2022, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by viscousmemories

This is a good nudge. I have like a dozen streaming subs and use almost none of them.

There are sooooo many streaming services.

Someone implement this:

A single subscription site where you have access to X hours a month of every streaming service.
Like you Pay $50 a month to have 10 hours viewing of Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon, etc...
Or $100 a month for 20 hours of each.

Get on it :ff:

Ymir's blood · #9 10-26-2022, 02:30 PM

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Crumb · #10 10-26-2022, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by slimshady2357

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Originally Posted by viscousmemories

This is a good nudge. I have like a dozen streaming subs and use almost none of them.

There are sooooo many streaming services.

Someone implement this:

A single subscription site where you have access to X hours a month of every streaming service.
Like you Pay $50 a month to have 10 hours viewing of Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon, etc...
Or $100 a month for 20 hours of each.

Get on it :ff:

It should only be a small matter of programming.

slimshady2357 · #11 10-26-2022, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Crumb

It should only be a small matter of programming.

Agreed, shouldn't need more than a GUI using a visual basic script :yup:

BrotherMan · #12 10-26-2022, 05:37 PM

vremya · #13 10-27-2022, 02:44 PM

I was watching The Crown but I lost interest when they got to the Diana era. And the Great British Baking Show has gone downhill, I don't watch it anymore.

I think I'll drop it.

vremya · #14 10-27-2022, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by fragment

Don't know how you expected me not to pick the Bowie option. Did you see Moonage Daydream?

Not yet but I really want to!

LarsMac · #15 10-27-2022, 04:33 PM

The Mrs continues to find all sorts of rather oddball flicks there.

ChuckF · #16 10-27-2022, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by vremya

And the Great British Baking Show has gone downhill

Hasn't it though? I didn't know a season of it could be this weird. Maybe they're pandering to/trolling Americans or something. We'll finish this one out but this may be the last one.

vremya · #17 10-28-2022, 02:33 AM

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Originally Posted by vremya

And the Great British Baking Show has gone downhill

Hasn't it though? I didn't know a season of it could be this weird. Maybe they're pandering to/trolling Americans or something. We'll finish this one out but this may be the last one.

I never really took to the new hosts. Mel and Sue were the best! And I miss Mary Berry!

ChuckF · #18 10-28-2022, 03:47 AM

I don't mind Noel. Matt Lucas is fairly awful.

fragment · #19 10-28-2022, 08:09 AM

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Originally Posted by fragment

Don't know how you expected me not to pick the Bowie option. Did you see Moonage Daydream?

Not yet but I really want to!

Freaking amazing. See it in a cinema if you can.