Hi everybody, this is Brad.
Welcome back to the series of alternatives to cable.
The previous three videos
focused on the three free choices
and this video will focus on
the two monthly subscription costs.
I was originally going to do
each one of these individually
but they're pretty much the same.
The only thing that differs is whether
you can watch live TV or not.
Next week we will have the hardware.
Our next episode we will have the hardware.
So let us start to go into this.
All right.
So, the most famous
and probably first
streaming service was Netflix.
They have agreements with most stations
to show
complete seasons,
up to the previous
season of the current show.
So that means if the show is still on
and...creating episodes,
they're not going to get that season,
until the next season starts.
For shows that are over
they have the complete season series or nothing.
They're constantly changing though
because they have to enter into agreements with
the studios that produce the TV shows and movies.
And so every month
it's a rotating list of shows
that drop off and
they add new shows and movies.
They have really started to ramp up
their original programming.
And I believe they want to have 50%
original programming by I want to say 2025.
I think something like that.
They have a pretty good selection.
The movies aren't fantastic.
And you can see any time, here,
if you have new episodes
it'll show you the new episodes.
And if I click play
you can see it goes to the episode.
and you can see a very similar kind of player
as we saw with
the network channels or the cable channels
all that kind of stuff.
You can still drag. you can pause.
Here's your volume control.
These are closed captions.
There's full screen.
Out of full screen.
One thing that's different here,
as you can see,
you can jump between the episodes
in the episode.
Which is something
that most of the network stations do not have.
I can go back to season 1.
and play from there.
So it's pretty simple.
You just have to
I would say look at what is there
and see if it's for you.
As far as pricing goes...
So this is actually a pretty good one
because you can actually get away
with this plan, this option,
without even having the internet connection.
So you can see I can I only have streaming.
but I can add at DVD plan.
That means this was how it originally was.
Where you can check out 2 discs at a time for $12
You could have both if you like.
I have my streaming plan, here.
So that's what it costs a month.
So it's it's fairly affordable all things considered.
As we get on to other ones,
you'll see how that is.
One thing you can do, here, is you can
create different profiles.
And that means that
different profiles can have different lists.
So you can see my wife and I have our own profiles.
So that's Netflix.
The next one I don't have a subscription.
So I will just mention the other ones.
Amazon has their Amazon Prime.
And that Prime is the same as
getting the free two-day shipping.
But you also get access to the movies and TV shows
that they have.
They also have their original programming.
They're also having to make agreements with
the TV shows and movie studios
and they're constantly dropping and adding.
So it's the same basic thing.
Just a different choice.
Hulu is a good one to transition from.
So, Hulu you have
the traditional
Netflix, Amazon Prime
on demand but not watching live TV.
But they also have now a live TV offering.
So you can see they have the same thing.
They have originals
and they have other movies and TV shows
that they have agreements with.
This is really the first option
that we're talking about that has sports.
So you can you can check that out.
The first live TV around
was something called Sling TV.
And 25 bucks a month
you can watch live TV.
And here are your shows.
For these plans
just give you different
TV packages for different channels
like cable does
And obviously the the more you pay
the more channels you get.
One thing that this doesn't have
it has sports but
it does not have NESN.
For NESN you would have to go to something like
Youtube TV.
You can see it getting kind of crazy here.
So it's $40 a month,
plus your internet connection.
But this does have NESN.
So that means that if your Boston sports fan.
Bruins and Patriot, non Patriots, Red Sox,
This, and you want to get rid of cable
This would be the option that you would want.
The last option
is something called
PlayStation Vue.
So this is a PlayStation gaming console.
And that also has NESN.
And you can see that it's getting even even pricier.
They have a lot more channels.
but, again, each one of these options
has to make the agreement with each of the TV shows,
the stations.
And this is live TV so you can see..
This one's interesting, right?
So it's showing you all the possible channels
that you would have.
But the low end doesn't have these
grayed out ones.
So you can see that the higher you go
the more channels you get.
This one has
movie channels.
Independent film channel
Stuff like that.
So that is it.
As far as
live and
on-demand
live streaming stations.
If these are interest to you
then just just check out...
I would go to each one of them
and check out what
channels they have
and see if those channels
have the shows you
want to watch.
Alright, that's it for this week.
iI you have any questions please
comment below or
you can get in touch with me at
BMcKenna@wilmlibrary.org
Or you just call the library.
I'm usually here.
Okay. Thanks, bye.
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