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I pay $35 a month for good high speed internet.
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A lot of Hulu free movies are also on other sites besides Yahoo View.

Popcornflix Parent company is Screen Media Venture
Frightpix is also a a Screen Media Venture

Screen Media Venture produce tv shows and movies. There are a lot of Independent. Plus a lot of Troma movies are under these websites like Toxic Avenger and all that.

Snagfilms created by a guy who worked at AOL by adding Documentary films to AOL's streaming service. This might be a sister site to Yahoo/AOL since that merger talks about Yahoo being aquired by a phone company which also aquired AOL in the past.

FilmRise founded by the people who make movies and all that from City Lights Media.

Tubi TV content Partners with Paramount, MGM, Lions Gate and many others. Some of their board members are people that worked with Lions Gate, 20th Century Fox and others.

Echelon Studios usually do Independent movies and aquired rights to classic movies.

Spuul is Bollywood if you are into something like that.

Crackle

Youtube seems to be going the same way for the free stuff.

Kings of Horror sets their free independent films up on the free streaming sites.

VEOH really have not many movies and tv shows.

OVGuide shows all the legit sites from free to on demand video sites.

Places like HULU have moved some of their movies onto other sites. FrightPix, PopcornFlix and some others have the same type of design as HULU. It frees up traffic that way. Frightpix have a lot of the same movies that HULU have and more.
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Told yall they will want money eventually... you are going to pay someone.
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Yeah but goof ... how will you live with yourself knowing that you're paying for TV that has commercials???

The injustice!!

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(08-09-2016 06:10 PM)MplsBison Wrote:  Yeah but goof ... how will you live with yourself knowing that you're paying for TV that has commercials???

The injustice!!

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if I hold out for $60 for internet + HBO. + cable tv, then the cable tv will be esentially free, which then makes it acceptable to sit through the commercials.
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I've mentioned this before, but if you use the Bing search engine and sign up for Bing rewards you can get points to redeem for things like $5 Amazon credit of a month of Hulu (commercial version). In the last 20 months I've paid for one month of Hulu.
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Anyone using a Kodi box, great for movies and TV shows other than live. No monthly fees.
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(08-09-2016 02:30 PM)00yyz Wrote:  Netflix says suckie internet speeds work just fine if you dont care about HD...
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

Caps have been a fear for years and for the most part none have been applied for normal internet connections...
When 5g cell networks eventualy roll out the pricing for internet should plunge...
Most everyone is already paying 60 for internet in addition to cable...

Hulu sucks and dont need sling so Netflix is 8 bucks which is a lot less than the 72 I was paying for cable...
I also ditched my 60 month internet and have tmobile phone internet connection sharing for 15 more a month with unlimited video streamin including Netfix...
So savings is over 100 per month...

No it's not lol, you are just choosing to ignore the obvious sacrifices you are making.

1. T-mobile charges $45 a month for anything over 10 GB plus taxes and your device fee unless you bought the phone outright. Then you are paying extra for the tethering feature so your bill is most likely around $70 just for one cell phone.

2. You may want to read the fine print, because you do not get unlimited Netflix via tethering. T-Mobile made it quite clear that the bing-on feature is for phones only.

"We don’t offer unlimited tethered LTE data. Our standard Unlimited 4G LTE smartphone plan includes unlimited high-speed data on your smartphone, and it also comes with 7 GB of high-speed Smartphone Mobile HotSpot data. Once the 7 GB of Smartphone Mobile HotSpot data is used, you can continue to enjoy the Smartphone Mobile HotSpot at up to 2G speeds for the remainder of your bill cycle."

3. Maybe it's just me but I cannot stand a bad quality video lol. I would rather just watch nothing at all than to watch something that is not even at least HD quality.

You can get cable internet and cable tv for 39.99 from many providers. Is your claim of an extra 15 + 8.99 worth it?

http://www.wowway.com/products/offers/al...huntsville
they have 30 meg internet and cable.

http://cdn.comcast.com/~/Media/PDFs/Phon...0deb38218a
Comcast has a 44.95 package of internet + cable

Every other major cable company has similar pricing. You can save about $30 a month cord cutting in reality to have a bad selection of things to watch and other headaches.
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And I will say as I have said before savings in cord cutting only works if you are mooching off other people or doing something illegal.

Example, my Junior year of college I was a little pressed for funds so I needed to lower my bills. My mother has a really good job and pays for the HBO package with AT&T.

So I got rid of my cable and just bought AT&T 12 meg DSL which was 24.99 a month. I also bought a ROKU and used my moms AT&T account to log into Starz, HBO, MAX, and her Netflix. And also got a free student account with Amazon Prime. This with OTA programming gave me enough content to feasibly cord cut and only spend around $26 a month. But none of that would be possible unless SOMEONE was paying for it.

This model falls flat on it's face once it's not just you in a home. My wife came along and wanted to be able to watch CNN, HGTV, and popular shows live so she could talk about them with everyone else. And I also began to notice how much I missed being able to watch ESPN. Not to mention both of us could not really watch something at the same time because 12 megs is hardly enough for two people.

Another example, my buddy just bought a new house and had a baby. He has a Amazon Fire stick and I pay for all those things that my mom used to pay for. I logged him into everything so he is a cord cutter, but again it's at the expense of someone else.
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(08-10-2016 07:54 AM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  And I will say as I have said before savings in cord cutting only works if you are mooching off other people or doing something illegal.

Example, my Junior year of college I was a little pressed for funds so I needed to lower my bills. My mother has a really good job and pays for the HBO package with AT&T.

So I got rid of my cable and just bought AT&T 12 meg DSL which was 24.99 a month. I also bought a ROKU and used my moms AT&T account to log into Starz, HBO, MAX, and her Netflix. And also got a free student account with Amazon Prime. This with OTA programming gave me enough content to feasibly cord cut and only spend around $26 a month. But none of that would be possible unless SOMEONE was paying for it.

This model falls flat on it's face once it's not just you in a home. My wife came along and wanted to be able to watch CNN, HGTV, and popular shows live so she could talk about them with everyone else. And I also began to notice how much I missed being able to watch ESPN. Not to mention both of us could not really watch something at the same time because 12 megs is hardly enough for two people.

Another example, my buddy just bought a new house and had a baby. He has a Amazon Fire stick and I pay for all those things that my mom used to pay for. I logged him into everything so he is a cord cutter, but again it's at the expense of someone else.

Trojan - You are absolutely correct, and there are a lot of folks doing exactly this. When customers accustomed to this environment from borrowing their parents' or their friends' passwords are ready to buy a service, though, it may very well be a Sling style service rather than traditional cable. The expectation that these customers will eventually subscribe to something may be why HBO and ESPN do not limit sharing in their TOS.
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(08-09-2016 10:02 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  PS - I don't care what you say, if you're not getting your TV completely OTA for free then you're not a real cord-cutter!! 04-cheers
Sure, you can make up your own definitions for words that are different than the definitions commonly used, but for people who use language as a tool of communication, rather than for obfuscation, the term would be used to mean what it is normally used to mean. Say, do a google search on "define cord cutters":
Quote: cord cut·ter
noun informal
plural noun: cord cutters
a person who cancels or forgoes a cable television subscription or landline phone connection in favor of an alternative Internet-based or wireless service.
"a popular way for cord cutters to view programming on their TV is with a streaming video box"

So people who have no cable subscription but do have Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Sling TV, HBO Now, Funimation, Viki Prime, and etc. subscriptions for more than the monthly cost of a cable package ... yeah, they are cord cutters too. For those who speak English as she is spoke.

(08-09-2016 05:27 PM)PirateTreasureNC Wrote:  Told yall they will want money eventually... you are going to pay someone.
Except as the details in the story make clear, what this is about is a rebranding of Hulu "basic" as "Yahoo View" and HuluPlus as Hulu. Hulu has for years accepted money for fewer ads and more supported devices, and recently added a higher subscription service for no ads and higher resolution, and has progressively restricted their catalog of current TV shows from their three partners on their free service.

Now, they are just changing the name of the free service.

If you want lots of free content, you can get lots of free content, but it means taking what is available. You can get a Roku stick and fill it full of Popcorn Flix and Viewster and Crackle and Crunchyroll and Asian Crunch and similar free, ad funded video streaming sites, and have more content than you could possibly watch in a day ... but if you want to watch Daredevil at a time of your own choosing ... (and do it legit) ... you need an antenna to pick it up and a TV DVR to record it. Or else wait around for a decade until it hits a site like Viewster.

Of course the content aggregators are going to try to put together packages that people are willing to pay extra for, but they do not have unlimited freedom in sucking money out of people's pockets. They are limited to the alternatives that people are willing to pay extra for and the amount that people are willing to pay.

And that tends to be a smaller mark-up over costs in a more competitive market, and a bigger mark-up over costs in a market where vendors have greater market power.

In order to get the most revenue possible from the content they have the rights to, rights owners are going to continue to license their back catalog to free streaming video sites. And that sets the baseline of free, ad-funded streaming video content that provides the baseline against which the premium value-added services all have to compete.
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Trojan,

You nailed it, 100% on the head. It's a all a big joke -- unless of course you're one of the 0.0001% of people who has decided to only watch TV that comes OTA, on principle.


Bruce,

You may speak English well, but you must not read it well -- because you clearly missed the part where I said "I don't care what you say".

So let me clarify for you: I don't care what you say.

And furthermore, and as I'm sure you already know quite well, word meanings and popular phrasing is in constant change. Much to the chagrin of some. I defined it how I defined it, and several people agreed with me. So I declare victory. Neener neener.
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(08-10-2016 07:54 AM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  And I will say as I have said before savings in cord cutting only works if you are mooching off other people or doing something illegal.

Example, my Junior year of college I was a little pressed for funds so I needed to lower my bills. My mother has a really good job and pays for the HBO package with AT&T.

So I got rid of my cable and just bought AT&T 12 meg DSL which was 24.99 a month. I also bought a ROKU and used my moms AT&T account to log into Starz, HBO, MAX, and her Netflix. And also got a free student account with Amazon Prime. This with OTA programming gave me enough content to feasibly cord cut and only spend around $26 a month. But none of that would be possible unless SOMEONE was paying for it.

This model falls flat on it's face once it's not just you in a home. My wife came along and wanted to be able to watch CNN, HGTV, and popular shows live so she could talk about them with everyone else. And I also began to notice how much I missed being able to watch ESPN. Not to mention both of us could not really watch something at the same time because 12 megs is hardly enough for two people.

Another example, my buddy just bought a new house and had a baby. He has a Amazon Fire stick and I pay for all those things that my mom used to pay for. I logged him into everything so he is a cord cutter, but again it's at the expense of someone else.

We save a bunch in cord cutting, and don't mooch off parents, schools, or other such institutions. Of course, we don't care to watch as wide a variety as is out there, either. If I did, I wouldn't have time to post on message boards. ;-)
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Right, so what is clearly understood without saying it, perhaps needs to be put into explicit writing for this board:

"Savings in cord cutting only works if you are mooching off other people or doing something illegal --OR-- if you simply accept having much less access to TV content, particularly live content/new episodes".


There ya go.


Sort've like bragging about being a "car cutter", because you ride your bike to work.
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One of the things you're not considering is I can cancel my Vue/SlingTV service once March Madness is over and not pay it until September when college football starts up. Saves you ~80-120 bucks (depending on if sling or vue). Can't really do that with cable.
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(08-09-2016 09:33 AM)goofus Wrote:  They need to go to more of a Netflix model and get rid of commercials. There is no way I am paying 8 bucks and still have to watch commercials.

They do have an $11 a month option where you get one commercial at the very beginning of each episode/movie you stream but otherwise are uninterrupted. If I used Hulu, I could definitely live with that.
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(08-10-2016 02:29 PM)brista21 Wrote:  
(08-09-2016 09:33 AM)goofus Wrote:  They need to go to more of a Netflix model and get rid of commercials. There is no way I am paying 8 bucks and still have to watch commercials.

They do have an $11 a month option where you get one commercial at the very beginning of each episode/movie you stream but otherwise are uninterrupted. If I used Hulu, I could definitely live with that.

Ok I had heard that. I don't have hulu because years ago I tried out Hulu and found it annoying and never went back. But if I did have to have Hulu now, I would pay the $3 difference for the commercial free service.
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(08-10-2016 07:41 AM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  
(08-09-2016 02:30 PM)00yyz Wrote:  Netflix says suckie internet speeds work just fine if you dont care about HD...
https://help.netflix.com/en/node/306

Caps have been a fear for years and for the most part none have been applied for normal internet connections...
When 5g cell networks eventualy roll out the pricing for internet should plunge...
Most everyone is already paying 60 for internet in addition to cable...

Hulu sucks and dont need sling so Netflix is 8 bucks which is a lot less than the 72 I was paying for cable...
I also ditched my 60 month internet and have tmobile phone internet connection sharing for 15 more a month with unlimited video streamin including Netfix...
So savings is over 100 per month...

No it's not lol, you are just choosing to ignore the obvious sacrifices you are making.

1. T-mobile charges $45 a month for anything over 10 GB plus taxes and your device fee unless you bought the phone outright. Then you are paying extra for the tethering feature so your bill is most likely around $70 just for one cell phone.

2. You may want to read the fine print, because you do not get unlimited Netflix via tethering. T-Mobile made it quite clear that the bing-on feature is for phones only.

"We don’t offer unlimited tethered LTE data. Our standard Unlimited 4G LTE smartphone plan includes unlimited high-speed data on your smartphone, and it also comes with 7 GB of high-speed Smartphone Mobile HotSpot data. Once the 7 GB of Smartphone Mobile HotSpot data is used, you can continue to enjoy the Smartphone Mobile HotSpot at up to 2G speeds for the remainder of your bill cycle."

3. Maybe it's just me but I cannot stand a bad quality video lol. I would rather just watch nothing at all than to watch something that is not even at least HD quality.

You can get cable internet and cable tv for 39.99 from many providers. Is your claim of an extra 15 + 8.99 worth it?

http://www.wowway.com/products/offers/al...huntsville
they have 30 meg internet and cable.

http://cdn.comcast.com/~/Media/PDFs/Phon...0deb38218a
Comcast has a 44.95 package of internet + cable

Every other major cable company has similar pricing. You can save about $30 a month cord cutting in reality to have a bad selection of things to watch and other headaches.


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(08-10-2016 02:26 PM)Blue_Trombone Wrote:  One of the things you're not considering is I can cancel my Vue/SlingTV service once March Madness is over and not pay it until September when college football starts up. Saves you ~80-120 bucks (depending on if sling or vue). Can't really do that with cable.


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I didn't know they had a free service either.
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