Hulu is Raising It's Prices - Time to Shop!

Email ^ | 1/23/19 | RinaseaofDs

[RinaseaofDs]

Hulu is bumping their prices by $5. They just broke $40 for their package + live TV. Only reason why I was getting live TV was local news. Can't do an antenna (Apt building).

Anyone have any experience with other services? Sling, any others? Looking for Live TV as well.

[Tucker39]

Depending on your situation, a new digital antenna may work. The ones I’ve seen are flat like a sheet of paper and can be placed inside a window pane. In an urban setting they bring on lottsa stations. FWIW.

[PAR35]

Can't do an antenna

How far are you from the towers? You should be able to do about 40 miles with an indoor tower; 50 if the conditions are good. Use an indoor with a booster, and add an in-line booster if necessary.

Use the tool here to get approximate mileages.
https://www.antennasdirect.com/transmitter-locator.html

[Reno89519]

We dropped them several months ago, then a few days or week or so later they sent an offer of one year at $0.99 per month. We signed up for that offer and will again leave once it expires.

[RinaseaofDs]

So I just checked the latest iteration of DirectTVNOW:

1. One America News
2. More local stations than Hulu did.
3. Supported on most Roku devices, including Express.
4. All of this on the Base Plan ($40/month).

Hulu really chaps my hide. Of course they are owned by Comcast. Nobody can wreck a market and alienate customers like Comcast. Nobody.

[Freedom56v2]

You get local channels with that?
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I don’t watch a lot of local—Ugh I live in Chicagoland, so you can understand.

I note that w/DirectTVNow we get NBC and CBS local news—maybe Fox local....and a weather channel. There may be more, but as I said, I don’t spend a lot of time on local programming.

ABC local news is not available—contractual issues. I watch local ABC on website if needed.

I think local programming may vary region to region, and I would ask a neighbor, co-worker, etc. what is locally available.

[Baynative]

I don’t understand how people can afford to use web based video services. Do those of you who buy this stuff have unlimited data plans that maintain speed or complimentary WiFi?

[Bigg Red]

HULU is raising its prices. (not it’s prices)

it’s = it is

[RinaseaofDs]

I’ve tried them before. We are 30 or so miles from Seattle and the only ones that are even remotely possible are CW and a couple I’ve never heard of.

I do Amateur Radio quite a bit, and for whatever reason the big locals have seriously attenuated antenna signals. No excuse that Everett shouldn’t get all of them pretty readily, but they don’t.

[RinaseaofDs]

My Apt has Wave G. They advertise Gigabit speed, but in reality you get something like 350MB down. Flat price is $60/month. Pretty good, even though they are lying through their teeth on speed.

[Rockingham]

Pluto is surprisingly good for free streaming TV. I can usually find something worth watching, even in the wee hours, and the commercial breaks are the same or even less than regular TV.

[Zhang Fei]

Basic plan going from $8 to $6.

[Freedom56v2]

I believe WiFi is a function of your internet services. You get a modem/router that provides wireless, so you can connect as many devices as you want wirelessly. I have a desktop too...no wireless there.

Roku goes thru the wireless router/modem.

If I am in my house, watching DirectTVNOW using ROKU TV or just DirectTVNOW w/ laptops, no data usage.

If I am out using tablet or phone, I would use data if I wanted to watch TV. BTW, I do have unlimited phone data.

DirectTVNOW is affiliated with ATT—I don’t think have to have ATT phone or internet services, but may be slightly cheaper...

[Baynative]

This is all foreign to me. We live in rural Idaho and have a Verizon package for cell phones and internet through a WiFi jet pack that we can take anywhere with us. But our data is limited and a movie or two would suck us dry for the month.

But our neighbors are fun to watch.

[LouieFisk]

“Pluto is surprisingly good for free streaming TV. I can usually find something worth watching, even in the wee hours, and the commercial breaks are the same or even less than regular TV.”
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Ya can’t beat the price, as the saying goes!

But, yeah, it has a nice selection - not 500 channels of crap to sludge through to find something of interest for some relaxed watching.

[LouieFisk]

“I don’t understand how people can afford to use web based video services. Do those of you who buy this stuff have unlimited data plans that maintain speed or complimentary WiFi”
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If you’re paying per megabyte that could be a problem. I watch video-tv-movies almost exclusively online and never had a problem re:data usage.

[adorno]

We stream Spectrum TV for 19.95 per month

I used to have the Spectrum streaming service. Junk! Froze too many times.

Plus, it wasn't just $20 when you need to have their internet service, which costs a minimum of $45, making it some $65, but after taxes and fees, it came to about $75. So, I switched to their regular service, which gave me some 195 channels (yeah, most of them I never use), plus, I get their 100 megabits service with the plan. And, I can still use their streaming service on the other TVs around the house, and outside of the house when on the move.

[Baynative]

I guess technology is out pacing me. I’m lost at how I could get a free stream through a data plan. -— Maybe I just can’t.

[Dr. Sivana]

I stopped using their free service when they started streaming “Plan B” abortifacient ads. Why I am I letting that into my house?

[faithhopecharity]

very often, you can receive local tv broadcast stations using a simple small easy $15 or $20 window antenna (flat, internal to your unit, nothing sticks out, nothing needs to be visible from outdoors just put a nice looking cloth curtain in front of it) works anywhere there’s a decent signal, anyways

[Sarcasm Factory]

Since 2008, I've used a ginormous outdoor antenna inside the apartment. It pulls in 25 channels, including, yes, local news reports at regular intervals during the day. Old movies cluster on some of the more obscure channels.

People laugh when they see this old-fashioned beast from the 1950s looming up near the high ceiling, swivelling hither and yon at the end of a steel rod mounted in a short segment of 2x4 lumber. I'm sure you could invent a more elegant mounting arrangement than Hillbilly-Redneck Classic™, though. ^_^