Paying too much to watch tv

[HevLTown]

Which streaming services do people have?
Got the lot Netflix , Prime , Disney , Sky ,
It's costing so much money, does anyone else have this same problem as me?

We have Prime which also has the added benefit of free delivery, with Free view and is iPlayer, no Sky, Netflix or Disney+. Have done the odd month on one of the others in the past but we don't watch enough TV to need more options at the moment.

We have Netflix - use a family member’s account. We’ve done this for years but are prob going to get our own so we can use on different devices and will let her know if she wants to use ours going forward.

Amazon Prime - as with others for delivery

Disney Plus - another family member’s account.

Virgin contract
Tv Licence
NT at Home - is share my log ins

Also wondering about Apple for Ted Lasso.

Netfilx, Disney+, Prime and pirate bay

We got rid of sky as it was ridiculously expensive and you can get sky entertainment package via Now TV which is much cheaper.
Also have Netflix & prime.
If you have a student in the house prime is half price. £3.99 a month.

We got rid of sky as it was ridiculously expensive and you can get sky entertainment package via Now TV which is much cheaper

Odd really considering NowTV is part of Sky. I wonder how many people have switched between the brands because of the massive cost of the Sky branded packages.

• Disney+ free with my last phone. I used it for the six months but not enough to bother extending it.
• Apple TV free with my last ipad. I won't renew that when it expires - some good quality content but nowhere near enough for the price.
• We pay for Amazon Prime which we had for the wider services before video streaming. If the price went up I'd ditch it as its borderline for value. That said I do read a lot of the books provided as part of the package.
• Netflix - share a family account, this is probably the one we use most.
• I pay for Spotify - use this a lot whilst out both for music and podcasts and it saves me making up packs from my own library as I used to with my old iPod.
• I have a Plex pass (a few quid a year) as I use Plex for media management and this bungs in free content these days. mostly older stuff but a lot is watchable.

So two I pay for, one I share with family, others I've had free temporarily and not extended.

I do have a subscription to the NT which i took out partly to support the NT. Not a huge catalog but very good content mostly. I may extend that when it expires. I've paid for one off subscription shows and will continue to do that.

Oh and of course the TV licence which at 12+ quid a month is one of the more expensive. I use radio a lot, some TV content. There current licensing model of demanding a TV licence for watching live events on subscription streaming services is taking the micky.

CH8

Bit confused as Amazon Prime don't offer free books, or it wasn't on the offer we saw.

My old iphone finally gave up the ghost this week, I used as a Spotify music player.

Bit confused as Amazon Prime don't offer free books, or it wasn't on the offer we saw

Do you not get the option to read books for free with Prime? I thought it was universal. I suspect the intent is to get you to sign up for their library style service but I make do with those free to Prime subscribers.

We alternate. So switch some on, watch that loads then cancel for a few months to let the good stuff build up again. We only tend to have a couple of them running at any one time. At the moment it's Netflix and Apple TV+.

We have Neflix, disney and prime (but we barely use the prime), I have discovery+ on a free 6 months with Vodafone, also have access to now tv for entertainment and movies. We pay for Netflix and Disney and my mum pays for now tv ones and we share them

@C8H10N4O2

Bit confused as Amazon Prime don't offer free books, or it wasn't on the offer we saw

Do you not get the option to read books for free with Prime? I thought it was universal. I suspect the intent is to get you to sign up for their library style service but I make do with those free to Prime subscribers.

No I think there might have been a free Kindle Unlimited subscription attached but only as a sweetener, it reverts to paying after three minths I think.

I think there might have been a free Kindle Unlimited subscription attached but only as a sweetener, it reverts to paying after three minths I think

I've just looked at my account. Its separate from the Kindle Unlimited option and called "Prime reading". The available books/magazines vary from month to month. I assumed this was universal on Prime as we only pay the basic annual sub (79 atm).

Thanks CH. as far as I can see we don't get that because we pay monthly but paying monthly is probably better for us anyway.

MrsLargeEmbodied how much are you paying for Netflix? Mine is £5.99 a month, i really don't think that's expensive. Especially compared to the £97 that Sky is costing us!!

We have Netflix, Prime, Disney and virgin.
I was thinking the other day that we pay for Disney and it hardly gets used maybe once a month.

I have prime for the deliveries and will check to see if a film I want to watch is free there before buying elsewhere.

Otherwise I just watch iplayer (mostly) and ITV and C4.
I probably only watch 4 - 5 hours of TV per week. DP never watches TV.
DC watch most but are happy with iplayer, ITV, C4 and a bit of YouTube.

@Romemarie

We have Netflix, Prime, Disney and virgin. I was thinking the other day that we pay for Disney and it hardly gets used maybe once a month.

Would you consider dropping the Virgin? We watch everything via streaming, even BBC/ITV etc.

Paying 50quid a month to Virgin was just like pissing money into the wind.

We dont pay virgin or sky and have saved a fortune.

We do a basic package for broadband only.

We have disney+ currently for the kids, netflix 5.99 subscription and watch iplayer. V occassionally itvplayer.

We have prime for post but not sure we use the tv bit.

We still watch too much tv!