I remember when it was just Hulu for $5 and Netflix for $8. Saved $50 a month from cable. Now it seems we spend more. I have four. Max, Peacock, Paramount and Hulu. Prime doesn’t count because it sucks balls. (Only paying Netflix when next Stranger Things and Squid Game is released). Curious to see what the average Lemmer/Lemming (what do we call ourselves?) has?
0 streaming services but sailing the 7 seas
Plex is my one
I’m very happy with Jellyfin. Any particular reason why you use Plex instead of Jellyfin?
I have both. I really dislike the navigation in Jellyfin. It seems impossible to elegantly move between various collections compared to Plex, which just seems to fit my brain better.
That said, my daily driver is actually Infuse, which points at the Jellyfin server because:
- Infuse has the most reliable playback and never needs transcoding (Synology server, AppleTV client)
- Infuse will purge its cache and have to rebuild/refetch all the metadata for my library. Pointing it at a Jellyfin server allows all that info to persist including custom posters etc.
This is the way!
One. It’s all you really need. Watch what you want on it for a month. Then cancel and sign up for another. Repeat.
As others have pointed out, you can get a lot of services for free, even if just for a while. Cell phone plans, Target Circle, Best Buy, and other places frequently send out freebie codes or include services with membership.
I used to have all of them. Everybody got my money every month. Then all the prices went up. Now only one of them gets my money per month. It’s not so much the expense. It’s the principle.
And also it’s the expense lol
Zero. I have not paid a cable bill or for a streaming service in over 20 years.
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Respect.
I won’t bother saying what I use to have. I sail the seas now.
None. I can’t believe how much money people spend on these things.
Same. I’m just not a TV watcher. YouTube’s enough for me.
Edit: ahh I forgot about Spotify. So one.
None. We had Netflix for 8 years, but we cancelled it a couple of months ago.
Edit: scrolling through the comments made me remember that music is also a streaming service, so one - Spotify
A free one from the library called Kanopy and F1TV.
None. I’d rather sail the high seas than waste whatever money I have left.
Zero.
I have a friend’s account to Netflix (I don’t use much) - I mainly type watch x free online in the search engine.
Not sure why you’ve been downvoted, zero is just as valid and answer as anything else.
Do you still have access to Netflix? They don’t allow different IP addresses where I am
Hmm. Okay, I had 😂
Login works but it says to renew the subscription.
The friend might have ended it.
I’m quitting Prime this month; on top of being twice as expensive as the rest, the greedy mf-ers are adding commercials with a price hike if you want no commercials. Also quitting Disney+ and Hulu for lack of content and lack of funds. I’ll be quitting Netflix next. I quit Paramount+ a few months ago now that I’m all caught up on watching all the Star Trek series.
None.
I got totally fed up with all the shit, content being spread everywhere and not knowing where to go to watch the things i wanted to watch, prices constantly going up all the time, quality dropping like a lead weight.
So switched to iptv. All the channels from uk, us, and a handful of other countries in europe including ppv sports etc. Also has a stack of disney, hulu, netflix and apple+ bundled in. 14usd a month. Installed on a firestick 4k max pro extreme limited edition. Has an epg, biggest pain is waiting for the epg to load the initial startup each day. Takes a couple of minutes. That being said, you can skip the epg if you want to skip straight to a channel.
Pirates ruled the 00’s until streaming services cracked down on axxo and the gang, then spent the next 15 years or so destroying media amd convenience. Piracy will have amother day again soon, i can feel it in my wooden leg
I use EPG dot best. They’re an EPG provider who give you lots of detailed information about each channel and show/movie and nice clean logos and everything.
You can filter large EPG files from your IPTV provider into much smaller ones that only include the channels you actually watch. The smaller EPG file means that the app uses less RAM on my Nvidia Shield too
It’s not free and it’s kinda finicky to set up, with a weird workflow, but it works well once that’s done
Which IPTV provider?
I have none because I’m broke af.