shapeshifter March 10 Share March 10 1 hour ago, AheadofStraight said: Has anyone seen deals for Paramount+? I'd like to catch the new season of Colin from Accounts and a couple of others shows. Searching didn't turn up anything current, unless I missed it. I have "Cancel Paramount+" on Sept. 8, 2025 on my google calendar and password list, so maybe around that time of year? But it was also not too long after my son-in-law canceled theirs, so maybe I was pushed deals because I'd been using the app on my Rokus? It was $60 for the year with commercials. 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8603310
DearEvette March 10 Share March 10 (edited) 23 minutes ago, shapeshifter said: I have "Cancel Paramount+" on Sept. 8, 2025 on my google calendar and password list, so maybe around that time of year? But it was also not too long after my son-in-law canceled theirs, so maybe I was pushed deals because I'd been using the app on my Rokus? It was $60 for the year with commercials. LOL I have the same. But mine expires on 9/14 and I had a $30.00 discount for the one year. So I had paid $30.00 for the year. I'll bet they were running a Labor day special. That has been how I've subscribed to most of my streaming services, I wait for a discount coupon and if the price is right get s a yearly subscription. I refuse to pay full price. And IIRC, they are usually around holidays. I looked at my Peacock subscription and, yup. I got it for $20.00 for the year, a steep discount off the normal $80.00. This one expires on November 26th. So that must've been a Black Friday/Cyber Monday deal. Edited March 10 by DearEvette 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8603328
AheadofStraight March 10 Share March 10 I have the same deal for Peacock but I must've missed the Paramount one. Guess I'll be waiting awhile for the holiday deals lol! 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8603340
SoMuchTV March 10 Share March 10 (edited) 6 hours ago, AheadofStraight said: Has anyone seen deals for Paramount+? I'd like to catch the new season of Colin from Accounts and a couple of others shows. Searching didn't turn up anything current, unless I missed it. I've gotten the $60/year deal a couple of times (for the level that includes Showtime). The current one started last August. I can't find the link or discount code I used, though. If I'm remembering correctly, I had a few possibilities come up when I searched, and I had to try a few before I got a hit. Edited March 10 by SoMuchTV 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8603505
roseha March 13 Share March 13 I just checked my Peacock subscription and it runs out in July. I paid $79 last time after getting a discount originally. I've put Cancel Peacock on my calendar, if they start to have more things I'm interested in I may wait for a deal. 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8605720
SoMuchTV March 13 Share March 13 1 minute ago, roseha said: I just checked my Peacock subscription and it runs out in July. I paid $79 last time after getting a discount originally. I've put Cancel Peacock on my calendar, if they start to have more things I'm interested in I may wait for a deal. Just FYI, I’ve managed to get $30/year peacock subscriptions a couple of times, and supposedly there’s an elusive $20/year offer that comes up occasionally. When I went to cancel my last subscription, they offered me $50/year to renew, but I took my chances and found a $30/year offer a few days after. 2 4 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8605731
chitowngirl March 27 Share March 27 This seems to be the best place for this-it appears that the site Zap2it is gone😢 The url redirects to Newsnation. I know it’s just been TV listings for some time, but I still miss the Cancellation Bear. 1 1 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8618672
SunnyBeBe April 11 Share April 11 Well, I just had to buy another new tv. Upthread I was inquiring about one for my parents. Mine stopped working recently and I went with a Roku too. I can’t believe all the good content and all free! Roku also allows me to access Spectrum on my tv with no box. I do have Spectrum cable package, but the box for each tv is over $15 per month. And we have 4. I need to re-access my paid apps. I’ve too busy to watch that much. 5 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8632318
roseha April 14 Share April 14 On 3/27/2025 at 2:03 PM, chitowngirl said: This seems to be the best place for this-it appears that the site Zap2it is gone😢 The url redirects to Newsnation. I know it’s just been TV listings for some time, but I still miss the Cancellation Bear. I just checked and the really useful site Titan TV is still around and as useful as ever. Not only can you enter your listings either via broadcast or cable or even streaming, but it gives descriptions of the plots of various episodes. I used to love to use it to see which episodes of Law and Order were playing. 4 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8634912
tessaray April 14 Share April 14 Zap2it is still around but it's base url is now gracenote.com, if you need to google it. I like it better than titantv. https://tvlistings.gracenote.com/grid-affiliates.html?aid=lat 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8634928
shapeshifter April 14 Share April 14 53 minutes ago, roseha said: I just checked and the really useful site Titan TV is still around and as useful as ever. Not only can you enter your listings either via broadcast or cable or even streaming, but it gives descriptions of the plots of various episodes. I used to love to use it to see which episodes of Law and Order were playing. Thanks! I had switched from titantv.com to ontvtonight.com/guide because titantv wasn’t giving me the correct lineup anymore on my old phone, but it works now. However, it still complains about my adblocker. But it does give nice episode summaries without having to open a new tab like with ontvtonight. 20 minutes ago, tessaray said: Zap2it is still around but it's base url is now gracenote.com, if you need to google it. I like it better than titantv. https://tvlistings.gracenote.com/grid-affiliates.html?aid=lat Ooo! Even better! Thanks! And it even has the old Zap2it Z icon in my Favorites bookmarks. 5 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8634947
opus April 15 Share April 15 I’m a bit confused about Peacock (with ads). Watched Wicked , there was something like 3 minutes of ads at the beginning, then it ran commercial free. But a few days later watched a way more obscure movie and there was an ad break seemingly every 5 minutes or so, which is majorly annoying. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8636129
shapeshifter April 15 Share April 15 7 minutes ago, opus said: I’m a bit confused about Peacock (with ads). Watched Wicked , there was something like 3 minutes of ads at the beginning, then it ran commercial free. But a few days later watched a way more obscure movie and there was an ad break seemingly every 5 minutes or so, which is majorly annoying. Yeah. It varies. I think it's easier to avoid the commercials if you watch on your laptop? 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8636137
Irlandesa April 15 Share April 15 13 minutes ago, opus said: I’m a bit confused about Peacock (with ads). Watched Wicked , there was something like 3 minutes of ads at the beginning, then it ran commercial free. But a few days later watched a way more obscure movie and there was an ad break seemingly every 5 minutes or so, which is majorly annoying. No inside knowledge but I do recall there have been times when a certain product has 'sponsored' a movie to make it air relatively ad-free. Since Wicked is such a new and popular movie that will likely have a lot of people watching it, a company that advertises might agree to pay more for one of those sponsorships giving their ads places of prominence. For more obscure movies/TV shows, it falls under a more generic ad structure. 1 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8636142
Makai April 16 Share April 16 7 hours ago, opus said: I’m a bit confused about Peacock (with ads). Watched Wicked , there was something like 3 minutes of ads at the beginning, then it ran commercial free. But a few days later watched a way more obscure movie and there was an ad break seemingly every 5 minutes or so, which is majorly annoying. Wicked is a movie that drives subscriptions and is a valuable IP so it will be treated differently than many other movies on Peacock. Universal and Peacock have the same parent company so they are probably willing to make less money on streaming knowing that they will make more money in other areas (like merchandising and future box office sales). Plus entertainment contracts are now being negotiated with streaming as a consideration. Older and more obscure movies have less restrictions. 1 3 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8636435
BetterButter April 22 Share April 22 Max Rolls Out Extra Member Option, and It Costs More Than Netflix’s 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8642760
StatisticalOutlier May 11 Share May 11 Speaking of Max, I'd be content if they'd just have their captions in English, and not Russian on Hacks. Everything's set for English, but nope--it's Russian. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it, but my internet connection keeps getting dropped, even though it's fine on my laptop. So I reset my Roku box for the umpteenth time, and now the Roku has internet again, but will no doubt lose it again. We switched from satellite DirecTV about a year ago, under duress--we could no longer use the satellite we had and we couldn't put up a different one. So I figured, everybody's streaming, I'll get on board. Well, you know, everybody's on social media, too, and that doesn't make it a good idea. I've tried--I really have. But trying to get streaming to work for me has been like the Chinese water torture, chipping away at me every single day. With some help from Reddit, I think I've figured out how to get English captions on Hacks. You start the episode, waiting through commercials and the recap (which, tauntingly, has English captions), seeing the Russian captions, stopping the episode, exiting Max, opening Max, going to the episode, waiting through commercials, see if captions are now in English. For each episode. And I tried doing it in advance for all the episodes up now, so I could go from one episode to the next. Sometimes the English captions would "take," and sometimes it reverted to Russian captions. So I might or might not have to go through the rigamarole when a new episode starts. And it's that sort of uncertainty that drives me even battier than having Russian captions. I've invested this much time already, so I'm going to finish this with Hacks. But am I going to stick around for a new season of The Gilded Age? Voluntarily putting up with this shit, never mind paying for the pleasure, makes me feel like a dupe. 1 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8658659
SoMuchTV May 11 Share May 11 17 hours ago, StatisticalOutlier said: Speaking of Max, I'd be content if they'd just have their captions in English, and not Russian on Hacks. Everything's set for English, but nope--it's Russian. I'm trying to figure out how to fix it, but my internet connection keeps getting dropped, even though it's fine on my laptop. So I reset my Roku box for the umpteenth time, and now the Roku has internet again, but will no doubt lose it again. We switched from satellite DirecTV about a year ago, under duress--we could no longer use the satellite we had and we couldn't put up a different one. So I figured, everybody's streaming, I'll get on board. Well, you know, everybody's on social media, too, and that doesn't make it a good idea. I've tried--I really have. But trying to get streaming to work for me has been like the Chinese water torture, chipping away at me every single day. With some help from Reddit, I think I've figured out how to get English captions on Hacks. You start the episode, waiting through commercials and the recap (which, tauntingly, has English captions), seeing the Russian captions, stopping the episode, exiting Max, opening Max, going to the episode, waiting through commercials, see if captions are now in English. For each episode. And I tried doing it in advance for all the episodes up now, so I could go from one episode to the next. Sometimes the English captions would "take," and sometimes it reverted to Russian captions. So I might or might not have to go through the rigamarole when a new episode starts. And it's that sort of uncertainty that drives me even battier than having Russian captions. I've invested this much time already, so I'm going to finish this with Hacks. But am I going to stick around for a new season of The Gilded Age? Voluntarily putting up with this shit, never mind paying for the pleasure, makes me feel like a dupe. That’s wild! I’ve watched max through the app on a smart tv (Vizio) and a fire stick, and never run into anything like that. I’m not real familiar with Roku but I think it’s similar to a fire stick or chrome cast? Are there cc options in the settings (before you get into an individual show)? I hope someone here who uses Roku can help! Have you tried watching on a pc or on your phone or an iPad? Is it doing the same thing there? 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8658975
StatisticalOutlier May 12 Share May 12 There's a Reddit thread about the Russian captions. Some people helpfully mention that they're using a Roku, but others don't say how they're getting their Max so who knows who exactly is affected. One guy who said he's not into conspiracy theories said he sent a link to the Reddit thread to his "state representative" with an offer to send screenshots, and wondered if anyone knows Russian and can read the captions to determine whether they're trying to send us a message. That's a another reason to hate streaming--it results in having to go to Reddit for help. 1 2 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8659160
AheadofStraight May 12 Share May 12 That happened to us last week while trying to watch The Last of Us on our Roku TV. If I remember correctly, it looked correct in settings but we turned it off and back on and then it was ok. I might have even switched to another language, got out and then put it back. One of those worked at the time. We just watched again last night and had no issues. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8659724
SunnyBeBe May 12 Share May 12 I’m trying to find Lifetime. Thought I had it on Spectrum Choice, but discovered I don’t. Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8660007
Soapy Goddess May 13 Share May 13 7 hours ago, SunnyBeBe said: I’m trying to find Lifetime. Thought I had it on Spectrum Choice, but discovered I don’t. Try Frndly streaming service. It also gives you the ability to record. 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8660371
Miss Anne Thrope May 13 Share May 13 17 hours ago, Soapy Goddess said: Try Frndly streaming service. It also gives you the ability to record. Agree, it's relatively inexpensive and growing (slowly). 1 1 Link to comment https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/16493-to-subscribe-or-not-to-subscribe-that-is-the-question-paid-streaming-services/page/52/#findComment-8660859
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