Also consider vidangel.com. They have a great selection of new release dvds.
Their sales model is unique. You can buy any movie to stream for $20, hd or sd. If you sell back within 24 hours, they will give you a credit of $18 for hd and $19 for sd. That amount gets applied to your next movie purchase. Bottom line, you can “rent” new releases for $1 without a subscription. They have pretty much everything redbox has, along with some classics like Star Wars.
Another benefit is that you can filter the filth with fairly granular settings. This is a great way to watch a pg-13 movie with tweens when it only has that one scene where it shows too much.
I had the Netflix DVD service until they upped the price, lowered the number of disks and the PO changed ‘regional’ mail centers. The new price was not worth the fewer number of DVDs.
I continued with Netflix streaming, however. I still have it. I like some of the older TV series I missed when they originally aired. Some were on cable, which I did not have at the time. I am currently at the start of Season 3 of The X-Files. They have been remastered for widescreen and they are not too dated by dress and hair styles, topics, etc.
About a year ago, Amazon had a one-day special price on AP. I was not so much interested in the shipping as the Amazon Prime.
AP does have a lot of things Netflix doesn’t. It seems one service gets a major contract for streaming from one catalogue hold and the other steaming service gets a contract with a different catalogue holder.
I like both because they do have a lot of TV series and movies from other countries. Those would not normally be available otherwise. I am currently into Season 3 of the Canadian Republic of Doyle (reminds me of the old Rockford Files — a mixture of drama and comedy) and into Season 7 of Murdoch Mysteries.
AP just picked up PBS and Netflix just picked up the next-day showings of all The CW programs. The two streaming services have a healthy competition going for about $20/month subscription.
Both are developing their own TV series. Their comedies are so-so, but so are broadcast/cable TV comedies. Some of their dramas are excellent, just too short. They have 6 to 12 new episodes per year. They have been good about putting all episodes up at the same time, which is excellent for binge watching.
If it weren’t for a few dramas and sports, I would drop cable at just go with the streaming services. AP and Neflix are commercial free. Those like Crackle and Hulu (Hulu now offers a commercial free subscription) embed commercials. I hate them because about half-way through, they lock up the stream. Sometimes I have to reboot the computer or ROKU. Then, it runs a dozen or more commercials if I try to forward to the point I lost contact. The hassle with services that have embedded commercials isn’t worth the ‘freebie’.
More service providers are trying to get into streaming. CBS and HBO, for example.
has a pretty good up-to-date listing of the catalogs for both AP and Netflix. You can search for a specific title and compare results.
We have Netflix but don’t use it often. Will wait for Longmire — this month, I think — and then cancel.
Maybe you should go to the library and check out movies and television shows.
Prime has two significant problems:
the UI stinks, the search is a pain, they’ve got this really clunky way of sorting TV show, basically the whole process of actually getting to what you see is irritating.
Not everything is free with prime, a lot is, but enough isn’t to get kind of aggravating. Especially if you get into a movie series, there’s always a couple of entries you’ve got to pay extra for.
I have both, and Netflix is better. Amazon Prime video is more of an add on to the Amazon Prime Shipp service. It’s nice, but I wouldn’t get it if it wasn’t bundled with Amazon Prime.
Amazon offers free shipping, music, and other goodies with Prime. Movies aside, it is a yearly subscription where one loses the other offerings. So, I keep it.
Netflix and HBO NOW can be rotated in and out on a monthly basis. I check back and binge from time to time. Since Amazon movies don't change often, I get to use my wonderful hobby machine shop.
I have them all.HULU,good for TV shows and some movies...CRACKLEs free ,with older tv and movies....HBO,SHOWTIME are good with newer movies.NETFLIX is the best for the assortment of movies and TV shows...They all have sludge,just like cable tv.I pay extra for no commercials and it has turned me off of regular tv watching
Netflix has a much larger library than Amazon. Each service has exclusives, Netflix I believe has an exclusive deal with Disney I believe, and produces more original content, while Prime has a lot of HBO’s series. Cancel the dvd shipping to save a few bucks. I consider Amazon’s streaming to be an added bonus of the Prime fast shipping.