Anyone else getting subscription burnout?

no_1_dave said:
Wearing an eye patch and using Plex negates a lot of them.
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I legitimately thought you meant you've lost sight in one eye and so don't need beyond a certain image quality :P

And then I thought you were saying Valve solved the one-eye problem for gaming and had no idea what the issue was, 3D games are long gone!

no_1_dave said:
Valve fixed this for PC gaming so would be nice if a company could solve the movie/TV mess we have with 10+ subscriptions needed. I'm not going to spend well over £100/month just because companies can't work together and put everything under one umbrella.
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I think the problem with this is that Valve created something completely new and disruptive, that became the new model for games distribution. It was a freak occurrence from a relatively unestablished company. The film and TV industry has multiple superpowers who routinely buy out and consume other major providers and compete with each other. The fight for distribution has always been massive.

It's the consumer who loses out though, as somehow I can have access to Prime, Disney, Netflix, and all of the UK broadcast streamers and still be told a film I want is either unavailable, or will cost £10 to watch once. Personally we pay for Netflix, Spotify and have Prime intermittently. We were borrowing Disney+ til last week when they cracked down, so I'll sub monthly for a few months until we finish The Simpsons.

If I can't find something on the apps above, and it's an old film/series that's not being promoted and making companies a return on investment, then I'll happily pop into an eyepatch store.

Also reading this thread convinced me to get Google One at £1.59/month so my phone stops complaining. Bonus feature that I can share the storage with my partner.
 
darael said:
I've never had either the need or inclination for a single subscription.
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Pretty much this for me as well. I've greatly reduced my TV time over the last few years so got rid of my BT sport subscription and not really fussed over the next big thing TV series on Netflix or Amazon prime
I guess I'm going through a bit of a phase of simplifying my home life rather than just parking my arse in front of a TV.
 
The only subscription I pay is for my gaming. Tenner a month.

I have Vanced for YouTube, and will usually use that for music too.

My wife has Netflix, Prime, Disney and Paramount. She even paid for Office until I sailed the high seas.

Don't get me wrong, if there's value in something I'll be more than happy to pay for it, but when I pay a multi billion dollar mega corporation for a product and they still stuff ads in it, I'm turning on my VPN and finding alternative sources.

If everyone had the same mentality they'd soon learn to stop stiffing us.
 
All of my subs I don't mind paying for minus one of them and that is for sage50 accounts. I used to pay about £70 for rhe software which would last 3 years. Now I pay £36 per month for zero benefit.

I should look into a cheaper option for ms office as £80 per year is a tad higher than I'd like, but all the rest are eays to justify.

I see a lot of people mention the subscription for services like Netflix as though it costs them the full cost. Does no one share bills with their partner and have a joint account. I see it's £12 for Netflix, we'll that's only really £6 for me. Same with my virgin Internet. It's £20 total, so £10 cost to me.

I have game pass but use the £1 trick. Absolute bargain.

I also have prime but that's for work delivery, any prime video use is a bonus.

Disney no way I'd pay for that turd. That'd be like a 2 month sub and then cancel for the year.

I also have youtube music but that's also just like £6 per month for a family plan, which I purchase through work and then just share with a few others.
 
unwashed potato! said:
All of my subs I don't mind paying for minus one of them and that is for sage50 accounts. I used to pay about £70 for rhe software which would last 3 years. Now I pay £36 per month for zero benefit.

I should look into a cheaper option for ms office as £80 per year is a tad higher than I'd like, but all the rest are eays to justify.

I see a lot of people mention the subscription for services like Netflix as though it costs them the full cost. Does no one share bills with their partner and have a joint account. I see it's £12 for Netflix, we'll that's only really £6 for me. Same with my virgin Internet. It's £20 total, so £10 cost to me.

I have game pass but use the £1 trick. Absolute bargain.

I also have prime but that's for work delivery, any prime video use is a bonus.

Disney no way I'd pay for that turd. That'd be like a 2 month sub and then cancel for the year.

I also have youtube music but that's also just like £6 per month for a family plan, which I purchase through work and then just share with a few others.
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I certainly wouldn't pay for Spotify if it was just me.

Netflix has really gone down hill last 2 years. Barely anything on there has been better than OK of late.

Visual streamers have split too far and they are all suffering.
Although Spotify has a monopoly pretty much. I hate to say it, but it's preferable.

Even with a monopoly.. It's not like electricity, you don't have to keep subbing to these streamers if they crank up costs too much.
 
dlockers said:
I literally said you could pirate it but it is indispensable for the kids, i.e. I subscribe.

You are just so quick to white knight you forgot to comprehend what you read
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Hey I apologise for the personal remarks (which resulted in me deservedly getting banned for 24 hours), it's no excuse but I was having a bad day tbh, I shouldn't have and I apologise.
 
Uther said:
Went to cancel my £9.99 Now tv sub, they instantly offered it for £3.99.
I am so weak. Next time it'll be gone... :rolleyes:
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Now TV is funny like that - wish they'd just offer a decent price ad free option in the first place - I cancelled it at some point last year, renewed last week for a fixed 6 month offer including entertainment + ultra boost for something like £6.99/m total and will be off again once that is done. If they just kept a reasonable price plan without all this messing about with ads/boost, etc. I'd have just left it rolling.

At least they aren't like Netflix though who now and again send me emails trying to get me back talking up like they are offering a discount, manipulative gaslighting like language like I'm the bad one for cancelling, then when you get to the bottom it is same old price... and I'm pretty sure they've passed my email on to scammers, maybe not directly, because within 24 hours of cancelling I was getting scam emails about renewing Netflix on an account which isn't used for much else and hasn't had stuff like that before/rarely got any spam until I cancelled Netflix, very unlikely to be coincidence.
 
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