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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Vigo on July 18, 2019, 07:18:41 pm ---Here is my tv setup -

Netflix - Free (mooch a profile from my sister-in-law.)
Amazon Prime - What is it these days, $120 a year? I mostly use it because of the metric ton of Amazon shopping I do, so the streaming is just a bonus. Couple good shows on it like Highcastle
Local Air signal - Free - for sports n' stuff local
"Watch TV everywhere" - Free (stream service for cable tv channels using my parents cable login. Gets me a bunch of the cable channels like USA, FX, cable news, etc.)
Private torrenting - Free. Everything else. Movies, shows...just stream it to kodi on my nvidia shield.

So between $40 a month for internet and $10 a month for prime, my TV expenses are rather small, and I can get everything except certain out of region live sports. If anyone has a solid, reliable source for out of region (american) football, please let me know.

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I don't think that counts considering the amount of mooching you are doing there. That's like saying "Cable is cheaper because I steal it." ;)

With your value for the money, again, if you actually watch tv and not just two or three shows, cable is still the cheapest way to go. As for the paid services your best value is probably Netflix and Hbo. Netflix has a ton of original content and, right now at least gets a ton of blockbuster films. Hbo has some of the best original series on the planet with at least one going at any given time. Gentlemen Jack was really good and Los Spookies is their current outing. Westworld will be coming later this summer along with Watchmen I believe. They also get in basically all the movies that Netflix doesn't get... except for oddly some Sony films that always go to Starz first.

I really like one or two original series on Amazon, but that's about it and their film selection kind of sucks. They seem like the best "month at a time" service to me. Binge watch High Castle and the Tick and then drop it. I never have understood why people pay +$100 for prime saying they get "free shipping". No you don't... you pay over $100 for shipping a year.... you'd have to be getting a metric ton of small amazon orders that are under $35 for that to actually save you money.

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on July 18, 2019, 11:43:36 pm ---I never have understood why people pay +$100 for prime saying they get "free shipping". No you don't... you pay over $100 for shipping a year.... you'd have to be getting a metric ton of small amazon orders that are under $35 for that to actually save you money.

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Prime is more of a convenience/get your stuff fast thing. I let it expire last month figuring $120 could buy me video content that I actually want and pay for fast shipping the couple times I'd need it.
It has always bothered me that the "prime" listings of <$5 items cost a few bucks more than the identical non-prime listing. So you are paying for shipping again, despite paying for a membership to get "free" shipping.
The threshold for free shipping is only $25. They had to lower it to match Walmart.

That said, without prime I ordered some USB 3.0 cables on Tuesday and won't receive them until Wednesday next week.
Prime is more about punishing those without it. :lol

Vigo:
Just checked my amazon account. I have 146 order placed in 2019. My membership pays for itself.

Vigo:

--- Quote from: Mr. Peabody on July 18, 2019, 08:56:01 pm ---@Vigo: it has to be private. They are getting on the torrents and tracking. I've gotten a few DMCA notices since last December. Got one with my VPN on....... That's fine. I don't [need] to see those movies, just curious what's in them.

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Yeah, I don’t touch public torrents with a 40 foot pole anymore, unless it is obscure enough that nobody would possibly care. I got a DCMA as well that scared me from public torrents, but never an issue with Private.

opt2not:
I have Netflix, and Amazon Prime (for large amount of shopping we did after our little one was born). I recently signed up for a free month of Hulu, which is about to be finished... binged a bunch of shows and anime, but I probably won't let it continue the monthly. Their interface isn't as good as Netflix... for example they have no "skip intro" feature, which IMO is one of the greatest features of Netflix.
Though, Netflix is a pig on bandwith just navigating the menus these days, since it tries to load up previews in the background. I hate that. Hulu is cleaner in the menu, it's just missing some key features for usability.

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