GTKY- tv subscription services

[mommyatty]

1 Do you still have cable or satellite?
2 Do you have and subscription services like Netflix Hulu Disney+?
3 What do you use the most?

Brought to you courtesy of the music subscription thread and my Disney + experience.

[notoriousmeg]

1. We have Fios
2. We have Amazon and Netflix, and my parents got DS Disney+ for Christmas. We use Netflix the most. I sell national TV commercials now will likely never fully got the cord. We don’t use Disney+ nearly as much as I thought we would. I think we will cancel after this year.

[mommyatty]

1 yes
2 Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+, and we have a Roku so there’s a lot of free content there that we sometimes take advantage of. I also have Beach Body On Demand that I’m trying to figure out how to cancel.
3 DH watches cable. He’s never turned on the Roku. I love Netflix and watch that almost exclusively, plus some stuff I record from regular television. The kids watch Disney and Nickelodeon stuff, but have zero interest in Disney+. It leaves out their favorite Disney Jr shows (hello, Bluey), and they couldn’t give less of a crap about old Disney classic movies. The kids do watch the Disney channel on demand stuff. So I’m glad Disney + is free for us. We won’t be renewing.

[mustardseed2007]

Feb 4, 2020 8:38:21 GMT -5 mommyatty said:

1 yes
2 Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Disney+, and we have a Roku so there’s a lot of free content there that we sometimes take advantage of. I also have Beach Body On Demand that I’m trying to figure out how to cancel.
3 DH watches cable. He’s never turned on the Roku. I love Netflix and watch that almost exclusively, plus some stuff I record from regular television. The kids watch Disney and Nickelodeon stuff, but have zero interest in Disney+. It leaves out their favorite Disney Jr shows (hello, Bluey), and they couldn’t give less of a crap about old Disney classic movies. The kids do watch the Disney channel on demand stuff. So I’m glad Disney + is free for us. We won’t be renewing.

You can cancel Beachbody using the online chat feature. It takes a while.

[librarychica]

1. No, haven’t for years.
2. Netflix, Prime, Disney + courtesy of my brother
3. Netflix & PBS Kids (which is free)

[erinshelley21]

mommyatty DS has been watching Bluey on Disney+. He said it is under Disney Junior.

[twinmomma]

1. Yes. Mainly for football season and because every time I try to drop to just internet to save money, Comcast jerks me around and the package deal is cheaper than just internet. I've admitted defeat.
2. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+
3. Netflix, hands down. It's the one the kids know how to navigate the most and can get to the kids section the easiest. I only like Disney+ because I was spending a ton buying the digital versions of movies on Amazon so it saves me money in the long run, even though we don't watch it a ton on a daily basis.

[ilovelucyvv]

1. Yes comcast and we share the password with my parents
2. Netflix paid by MIL and Amazon Prime we share with MIL back
3. Comcast probably. No sign of cutting cable in our house. We still pay for premium channels too

[sdlaura]

Feb 4, 2020 9:18:25 GMT -5 twinmomma said:

1. Yes. Mainly for football season and because every time I try to drop to just internet to save money, Comcast jerks me around and the package deal is cheaper than just internet. I've admitted defeat.
2. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+
3. Netflix, hands down. It's the one the kids know how to navigate the most and can get to the kids section the easiest. I only like Disney+ because I was spending a ton buying the digital versions of movies on Amazon so it saves me money in the long run, even though we don't watch it a ton on a daily basis.

Same to all of this, except we don’t have Disney Plus (yet). We wouldn’t save enough money to just do internet vs the package deal, and DH watches a lot of sports on cable. So we keep cable.

[galaxy8227]

1 Do you still have cable or satellite? We currently do but are looking to drop it this Spring hopefully.

2 Do you have and subscription services like Netflix Hulu Disney+? Yes we have Netflix, Hulu and Amazon. We use my SIL's Disney+ and my Mom's Apple TV

3 What do you use the most? Definitely Netflix but Hulu has been getting really good lately.

[sandandsea]

1. Cable. Xfinity
2. Not on purpose but we have amazon prime so yes
3. Cable

[rere]

1. Yes due to the fact that our internet speed sucks and when we try to watch something on our smart TV, it buffers. Yay to living rural where ATT could care less. I need to call to get them to do something about our service, but I really can't stomach spending hours on the phone with them going in circles. They were supposed to show up when it went completely out on our entire road, but it came back out and they didn't show even when DH said he still wanted a service call. Plus, we haven't figured a way to get the local college basketball games.
2. None - see above.
3. I basically watch taped shows off satellite. The kids watch their phones or what's on TV. I crept up on DS the other day to see what he was watching. A documentary on the civil war. Keep on, kid.

[polecat8]

1. We haven't had cable in 10+ years. We do have a digital antenna so we can watch local channels.
2. Netflix and Amazon Prime (We have the lowest grade internet through Comcast and it works well since we don't stream video too much.)
3. It depends on the day. Most of the shows that the kids watch are on PBS kids. So we can watch over the air or on Amazon Prime.

[k3am]

1. We dropped cable when we moved in May 2018. No regrets.
2. Up until December, we got by on just Amazon Prime and an antenna. We now have Disney + and Hulu, and our babysitter created a netflix account on one of the TV's for the kids to watch. All in we pay like $13 a month or something?
3. I don't really watch TV unless I'm sick or can't sleep. I usually put on Forensic files (previously using the free Pluto app, now using Hulu) until I fall asleep.

twinmomma, we are able to get most of the football games using the antenna. Amazon streams the Thursday games. For the others, they usually stream on apps that DH's parents cable log in works for. We haven't missed any games by not having cable.

[twinmomma]

k3am, I tried an antenna, but my house is in a really bad spot for signal. I'm not necessarily rural, but definitely woodsy so I couldn't pick up even our local news station.

[186momx]

1. nope, and haven't since I moved out on my own back in 2006
2. Amazon Prime, Netflix, PBS kid channel that I just cancelled
3. DD was watching PBS kids daily but with me working more and her not home it hasn't been watched for weeks so I cancelled it. I would say we watch 50/50 between Netflix and Prime. DH prefers Netflix and DD and I watch more stuff on Prime. But then DH watches 3+ hours of TV a day, DD only watches TV on the weekends now, and I might throw on a show to try an unwind at night.

[k3am]

twinmomma, bummer. Also keep in mind that not all antenas are created equally. We've returned two and have one that works pretty well. Which may still not work well for you.

[erinshelley21]

1. No cable or satellite since 2014. I don't miss it at all.
2. We do Netflix, Hulu and Disney+. We have Amazon Prime but DD is the only one who watches anything on it lol.
3. Kids mostly watch Disney+, DH mostly watches Netflix and I mostly watch Hulu.

[supertrooper1]

1. Cable because I like watching local news and I'm too rural for an antenna to work. When I moved in May, this was the first time I've lived anywhere that actually had cable and not just Satellite as an option.

2. Netflix.

3. Cable the most. I was on a Netflix kick, but I'm waiting on new seasons for shows like Ozark. If I want to watch something on Prime, like Bosch, I watch at Beau's.

[sandandsea]

The reason we keep cable is because it’s bundled with our internet and it’s the fastest internet available at our house and for racing for dh.

[mrsGreeko]

1). We haven’t had cable for over 10 years
2) we have Hulu, Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon prime. Haha.
3) we use Hulu, Netflix, and Disney+ probably about equally. Prime we use sometimes, but mostly we have that for shipping and stuff. I use Netflix and Hulu the most, kids and DH use Netflix and Disney+ the most.



ETA: we have antennas too, but honestly almost never watch anything in regular TV. Plus the antenna in the basement is really spotty if anyone is walking in the kitchen above it. I sometimes use the antenna in our room to turn something on if the fire stick in there is refusing to work.

ETA2: we also take full advantage of the ability to download to 4 devices for Netflix and that we can download from Prime when we travel. With 5 people we need to have 2 options to download since Netflix caps at 4 devices and I don’t want to go back to the days before iPads when on a plane with my children for hours. And that comes up several times a year.

[waverly]

We do not have cable.

We have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney plus.

We have trialed and had one to watch a show then turned it off. So it's been off and on- Hulu, HBO, Showtime. A free trial is usually a week. If we keep it to finish a show, it is usually a month maybe.

Netflix is used the most.


We do have a digital antenna and our own DVR, so we record things off network TV. 

[mae0111]

1. We have Fios. It’s cheaper to have the package for the super high speed internet along with cable and phone. DH and I both work from home 100%, so we need the speed.

2. We have Apple TV’s, and use all different free apps on those. So not all of our TVs have cable boxes, but we use our cable subscription to get apps for the Apple TV’s (Nickelodeon, etc). We also have Prime, Netflix, and Disney+

3. We probably use prime the most to access HBO and Showtime apps. It’s cheaper to get the apps than to try and build them in to Fios. They also have some great shows on Prime (Jack Ryan, Goliath, Sneaky Pete, etc).