Rat Bastard is raising the price for Hulu by $10.00 next month. I've had the service for two months and

[Floyd R. Turbo]

received the notice today. Screw em. Back to YouTube TV.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Who? NM found it. I've begun to loathe Hulu due to the GD ADS and now we pay more? Fuck that.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

6. Rat Bastard! 🤬

[msongs]

8. if you're paying for it there should not be ads nt

[CurtEastPoint]

14. that's ancient history. You pay xx for ads and then if you don't want ads it's xx + 20

[Picaro]

2. Hulu is owned by Disney

Is that who you mean when you say "Rat Bastard"?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. Yes!

[LearnedHand]

3. Aaaand the enshittification of a good thing continues apace

I just read today how traditional cable companies are bleeding subscribers. They’ll turn our streaming platforms into 21st century cable companies forthwith.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

9. Bastards!🤬

[Mark.b2]

4. I dropped Directv last night for YT...

We had had enough of constantly losing channels because Directv couldnt couldnt come to agreements with its channels. And this time, Disney was playing hardball with ESPN and ABC.

It was costing us $140/month. YT will be about $80. That’s good, at least.

I would have preferred not to make a change, as I hate learning a new platform. But, not having the ESPN channels is untenable especcially this time of year.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

10. I had YouTube TV for years then one of my credit cards offered a discount on Hulu so I changed.

[mnhtnbb]

23. I finally cancelled Spectrum cable last year

when they couldn't come to agreement with Disney for ABC and ESPN at the start of college football season. Signed up for You Tube TV and have never looked back. Had the extra bonus of being able to cancel Spectrum Internet in June when Google Fiber came to our neighborhood. My TV /internet bill is now $120/ mo LESS than it was with Spectrum for the equivalent TV AND I have faster upload/ download speeds with G Fiber .

[moniss]

5. I may miss a few things by no longer having cable or any streaming service beyond my

one I have included from my Amazon Prime membership. I use them enough for various parts etc. for business that the free shipping more than offsets the few bucks a month it costs. I went to digital over the air years ago and I have plenty to keep me distracted/entertained. They've got a couple of movie channels, several "vintage" channels, cartoon channels, documentary channels, news channels, cooking channels, PBS/CPB channels, weather channels, Westerns channels, sit com channels, all of the network channels etc. and if there is a sporting event that I don't get live I know that within minutes of it ending I can go to YT and somebody in an Asian country will have put it up live and probably include a nifty few minutes at the end of themselves making colorful paper cut-out decorations and ornaments.

I really don't watch much on AZ beyond their football games or once in awhile a movie I may have seen referenced somewhere that I can't find on YT. I did like watching some of the really old "Perry Mason" episodes from when Raymond Burr first started. It was a different approach than later in the series run. Perry got out of the office/courtroom more and was doing more of his own investigation. Courtroom was handled differently also. Not better or worse. It was all just interesting and different. Plots I had forgotten long ago. Surprising how things can get so forgotten that they're "new" to us again.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. 🤗

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

12. Can I make a suggestion? Don't treat streaming like cable.

I have a couple services I buy on an annual basis because I like English football and the European (UEFA) multi-national leagues. That means Peacock and Paramount+. For the others, I keep a running list of shows that look interesting. When I get enough shows on the list from one service, and have the time to binge them, I get the service for a month, I watch the shows, then I cancel it. Because it's all done on-line, without humans trying to sell you shit you don't need or talk you out of it, and no cable guy to wait for, it's easy. If you've gotta have the latest as soon as it comes out, and be in on the water cooler gossip about it, you'll pay for it. That's ok, it just depends on what kind of consumer you are and how flush your bank account is. But streaming gives you a bit more flexibility than cable, at least for now.

If you have Amazon Prime, and you get additional service(s) through them (and they have lots they frequently offer at a discount "for the first two months" or something like that), switching various services on and off on Prime is really easy because there's one control box for multiple services. You've just got to remember to switch stuff off when you're done.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. A couple of times a year I get the 99 cent deals on acorn, pbs, and BritBox.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

20. Have you looked at MHz?

Can't be sure of your preferences, but Britbox, PBS and Acorn are brimming with detective mysteries. MHz is sort of the European version, with shows like the incredible Babylon Berlin (set in late Weimar Germany) and Millennium (made from the extended Dragon Tattoo films with Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander). If can deal with subtitles and/or speak one or more European language(s), you might like MHz, too. This past summer was the first time I've seen Prime advertise it as a 99¢ special, and I've really enjoyed it. I'm sure it'll come around again. Cheers!

[True Dough]

13. What??? $10???

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. 🤬

[Niagara]

15. Floyd, we received notice that Disney Plus will be $3.99 and Hulu will be $18.99 starting next month

We have additional Amazon Prime streaming and it's still less expensive compared to the package that Spectrum charged for cable television.


Spectrum use to play these games with an introductory pricing for so many months and when that expired than the cost doubled.


Our Spectrum bill use to be (once introductory offer expired) $125 a month before we switched to streaming. I don't know what the costs of cable packages are today as we have been streaming for several years.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. I only stream now.

[Niagara]

19. Streaming is definitely more affordable

[hunter]

21. If I can't make the ads go away I won't stream television.

We've never had Hulu for that reason.

Currently my wife and I are streaming Netflix. They just raised the price of their no-advertising plan to $15.49 a month. We usually pay for two or three streaming services at a time. When we run out of shows to watch on one streaming service we quit it and start another.

Between that and our DVD library we don't run out of stuff to watch.

We don't have cable, satellite, or broadcast television.

If no-advertising television went away we'd read more books.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. 🤗