We primarily use Prime to get access to Britbox and Acorn (sometimes) as we quite enjoy a lot of the Brit crime series - and a few of their rather off-the-wall non-crime ones. What I like is that I can sign up for them, then cancel...then after a while sign up and get a month or more free - not every time, but every once in a whle.
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Maybe an unpopular opinion, but James May is the only tolerable one of the Top Gear/Grand Tour trio. And even he's better on his own.
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What I like about May is that he takes a humorous approach to history and culture and I'm there for that.
But May is better on his own I think. I'd agree with that.
So...to re-engage with this conversation, I stumbled on an old BBC series called 'Toy Stories' that I had never heard of.
Its not on Prime, its hard to find. But its James May and toys and it is FANTASTIC.
Some are historic toys but here is the first season:
- Airfix - This is model Airplanes and Tanks. He gets a bunch of schoolchildren to build a life-sized Spitfire out of model equipment. It was amazing.
- Plasticine - Does a Garden Show out of Plasticine
- Meccano - Gets students to make a bridge across a canal out of Meccano.
- Scalextric - Gets the entire community including the local Samsung office to build an electric car race track, over an old British race track, and has the community and kids operate the electric cars. This was wild.
- Lego - Builds an entire (mostly) functioning house entirely out of Lego.
All presented by James May, like I said, a humorous and unique approach to history, I highly recommend it if you can find it. There are 3 seasons, I've only finished 1.
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Me, too. This may be the straw that broke the camel’s back.
I'm down to 2 services now, Disney and Netflix.
Both will likely be gone in March when it's time to renew. Just can't justify the expense anymore.
Bought myself a VPN and a pirates hat for Christmas instead.
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I'm down to 2 services now, Disney and Netflix.
Both will likely be gone in March when it's time to renew. Just can't justify the expense anymore.
Bought myself a VPN and a pirates hat for Christmas instead.
We have Netflix, Prime and Disney (edited). We may cut one out although I don’t mind the cost of streaming services. Maybe I should cut cable. LOL
I don't mind the cost, what I don't like is the fragmentation. I should have been clearer.
Yea the cost isn't the issue for me. I keep Netflix because my wife watches a ton of Korean dramas that simply aren't on the high seas, and Disney+ for the kids. Everything else ends up on Plex simply for the convenience, plus the Plex app absolutely ####s on every other streamer app for features & usability
I just cancelled Prime. There's never anything I want to watch on there and my packages usually arrive in the same time with or without Prime since the Amazon van has to deliver to my whole building. The whole advertisements thing on Prime Video is just a crazy move for such a rich company who has already chewed and spit out a lot of other traditional business.
I'm stuck between choosing between Apple Music and Spotify at around $10/11 a month for what I'm still subscribed to because I like it in the car.
I hate how streaming services all have the same content that doesn't interest me anymore. I would pay $30 a month for a streaming service that just replicated TV from the 70s and 80s and had classic TV shows, classic movies, and classic commercials on all the time. It's so hard to find good quality collections of vintage TV shows.
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