Posted on 03/03/2019 10:23:18 AM PST by Mr. K
I just receive ANOTHER email from HULU now offering a free month and $2 per month lower price, to 'come back'
I cancelled them after their political comments against Trump and conservatives last year. And I told them why. If they were going to insult me I assumed they did not want me as a customer.
It sounds like they are getting desperate.
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When I cancelled Netflix last year, they didn’t ask me why. Can’t say I’ve missed it yet. I didn’t know HULU opened their trap. At this point, I might as well keep cable
Hulu find persons will dance with them no longer?
Most would rather dance alone rather than pay ten
cents a dance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUniuD-jsY
The pay channels such as Netflix and Hulu have too many “free” channels to compete with. By “free”, they have commercials you can mute.
The best one so far is Tubi, which has a limitless variety not found on Nefflix. We dumped cable/satellite 5 years ago and were non-stop Netflix’ers. Now we seldom go to Netflix.
Tubi has westerns, war and masculine action movies, much of which is taboo on Netflix, Hulu and other PC outfits.
Besides Tubi, we watch Classic Reel for oldie’s. Classic Reel is similar to TCM, and costs $2.00 per month. Classic westerns, war and who-dunit’s can be found here.
Liberals want everything for free or better yet to be paid to take it.
Conservatives believe in paying as they go but exercise the right to choose who they do business with.
Sounds like HULU chose a very bad business model.
I tried hulu years ago. I found it annoying to sit through two commercials every half hour while paying for the service. Then they increased the commercials. Bye bye. That was 2012. Never missed it.
They lost me from their free side when they started showing ads for “Plan B” abortifacients during “The Dick Van Dyke Show”. I don’t need that garbage in my home.
Netflix is raising rates this month, well, bye!
PopcornTime is way cheaper and has more movies/tv. Everything netflix has plus more.
30% owned by Disney, 30% by NBCU.
So it’s really the MSM in disguise
I use Tubi, but have a couple of gripes with them:
First, they have some older off-shore [non-US] tv drama series. But they may only have a single season of a series that ran for several years. Alternative — Youtube usually has the full series.
Second, several of their TV series are in standard def — the ole box format, even though widescreen is available elsewhere. Alternative — Youtube, again.
Tubi’s commercial breaks are short and infrequent.
Tubi has been signing deals with some major content providers, so their offerings should improve drastically in the coming months. I like them for their off-shore TV dramas. I have binged through several late 90’s-early 2000’s Australian and British series.
We canceled, then they offered us a year for $0.99 a month. Hard to pass that up.
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We stopped Hulu because their lineup became stale. Netflix is still a good value. Hey, we have discovered YouTube... pretty good line up and it is free.
We had Starz until the Outlander series ended.
Don’t forget OTA TV. Its free.
We dumped satellite, bought a $19 Roku device for our smart tv, and get all kinds of free tv. It also has multiple pay channels available, for a whole lot less money than cable or satellite.
Another option for Hallmark Channels, AMC, DIY, HFTB, cooking channel, food channel etc is Philo. The cost is $16 per mo but without sports and news networks, It has unlimited storage for recording, supports three simultaneous streams and has a good interface..
It also authenticates for use with apps on IPad, etc.
When I cancelled last Fall, they offered a string of incentives... thought the product was weak, only 2 local channels. And the ala carte selections pricy. Went with direct tv now, does what I want it to for the price (line up includes all my local channels). No loyalty here though, the second a better deal comes along I’m gone). It’s a commodity.
Netflix seems to require that a gay coupling be featured in every single show. Amazon the same. The comedies are funny in an NPR kind of way. Catastrophe was a show about a tourist who makes a British woman pregnant which is the catastrophe but they get married and call each other nasty names for 3 seasons. I wrote a review describing it as soft core porn and Amazon would not let me post it because it wouldn’t meet their appropriateness guidelines. But it had hecka sex scenes where they were humping each other. It was already inappropriate but to say so is inappropriate. Kimmy schmidt has the gay guy who I must admit is possibly one of a few times that a gay character plays well without being shoehorned into the script. But it’s gay gay gay and sex sex sex all the time.
Don’t go back.
Interesting... Bump for later...
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