LogFAQs > #975497515

First you get a free month (of most of the services) every 6 months to a year (Depends on the service). I have a free month of Hulu right now waiting for me to bother signing up (they send you emails).

I also have 6 months for $2 a month but that is the ad version. Currently Non-ad hulu is $15 a month, if I'm gonna get hulu, I'm gonna WATCH hulu, over 100 hours in a month for sure (I rotate the services I pay for, and include free months in there, that generally means I pay for 1 month of each service each year).

15$ is what.....even at $2 a month for ad hulu (and it's usually $5 or more), $13 a month for no ads compared to having ads that are at least 15 minutes out of every hour. If you watch 100 hours, that is 25 freaking hours of your time.....over a month...to save at most $13. So you are basically saying that your time is worth 50 cents an hour or less. Mine is def worth more than that.

Meanwhile I create lists of what I want to watch when I get a service again. Hulu currently has The gifted.SirensShits CreakRick and morty, Solar opposites (new season),justified,legion,secret invasion

That is just a few I want to watch on hulu, there are more, along with kinda wanting to rewatch smallville again (been awhile), and a few other shows/comedies that I would casually watch if I had it.

Right now I have both Netflix and HBO Max, I had disney a few months ago. I'm trying to finish the latest season of Umbrella academy and then I really need to try and get into witcher season 2 so I can watch season 3 (Which will be the last season for me). I also need to try and watch the latest season of Stranger things (again, just couldn't get into it) before another one comes out.

There is no comparison to cable though, even if you didn't get free months every year (or in some cases 6 months) for many of them. Even if you PAID for 2 months a year, for each of em, and had 2 at a time always (so you had tons of choices) you are talking about (At most) 30$ a month (at least right now, I think both Hulu and Amazon are gonna go over $15 soon).

Just talking about new content, which often you can binge watch all at once, that is a freak ton of programing you get for $30 a month....which is significantly cheaper than just basic cable with no on demand/DVR etc (heck you can't even get a cable box with it for $30 I don't think).

The only time it's not a good deal is if you are paying for a year, or many months and not watching it (maybe 1 or 2 shows a year and that is it). Yes, you need to cancel/re-sign up, and that is a pain, but you can literally cancel the day you sign up, so it doesn't auto-charge you. Most will give you a free month 6 months later, and in some cases, I have not even signed up and paid again before they offered me ANOTHER free month.

Many (amazon especially) will try and bribe you after the free month with a "cheap offer" to continue as well....often as little as $2 or so, for another month. Then you have 2 months for $2.....(amazon did that last time, but a bunch have done that).

Long story short, I spend less than $200 a year for streaming services but I always have a huge selection of shows to watch, and many to look forward to. Way better than cable ever was for sure, even when they didn't try and freaking price gauge everyone to death (seriously back in 2017 (one year after moving to WA) they wanted to jump our cable bill (no HBO etc) to 220$!!!! That did include internet....but it was basically double what we signed up for. I canceled and never looked back. Cable is a freaking rip off. Streaming services though, you only get ripped off if you are lazy or don't bother canceling it when you are not using it.