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Register a domain name https://www.hover.com/ Sign up for email hosting https://www.hover.com/email I’ve used Hover for 10+ years, after transferring from godaddy which I used for some years prior. There are other ways to get email hosting, including with Apple One subscription, or simple...

That's a bummer. I've had a my own personal, one-email address domain for 20-some years and used it exclusively for sign ups for over a decade years now, including as my ID for all major tech brands like Apple, Sony, Amazon, Google, all my financial institutions, and etc. No problems. My...

This is why people should own their own domain name and email address, especially if that’s your business identify. :)

Could be a significant aspect. I was paying over $10/mo just on taxes and fees for the TV cable service.

Pay attention next year. You might have gotten a 4-year rate lock when you signed up. We have competition. And I have to take action to manage my FIOS rates every five or six years.

That's when you do the cancellation and change providers or sign up as new customer with current provider.

My experience is the big savings are found by canceling and restarting service as a new customer. And cancel cable TV and landline service. That can save you 30% or more. Cut my Fios from $120 to $80/mo and locked in for 3 years, versus continued increased at that $120/mo for the next three...

JustWatch also also has an app that I’ve used for several years.

That doesn’t work for me. My Hulu and D+ are both canceled. I go to D+ logged out, select Duo, and log in, and it says that’s not an option available to me. (After writing prior post, I decided to try it out. It doesn’t work.) Maybe it would work if I try it in two days when my renewal day is...

The problem is that none of that is apparent to the user. My friend didn’t know that calling / chatting was an option for getting Duo. He would have preferred that option had he known because he then had to waste time rebuilding his profile and watchlist. Disney has failed its customers on this...

D+ had no way to convert my Disney or Hulu accounts to the Duo. The Trio was offered, but not the Duo. Even looking at the D+ help, it just went in circles and only discussed the D+/Hulu/ESPN combo, with no discussion about converting to the D+/Hulu combo.

Disney's process is so opaque that another friend also canceled and setup a new account, finding no apparent way to easily convert. And when you cancel, it does the normal survey of "why are you canceling" and an available answer is "Switching to a bundle". So it's not designed well and Disney...

That would require me to find phone numbers and make multiple calls and talk with multiple people. Easier to cancel and sign up later. :) And none of that is explained in their websites, account pages, or help pages. It's a weird system. Maybe will get better when they have integrated Hulu into D+.

Canceled D+ after four years of subscription. Will be setting up new account in wife's email soon-ish to get the D+ Hulu combo. There's no way to change from existing Disney or Hulu accounts to the duo service. So have to cancel. Which is bonkers from a customer retention perspective. But that's...

The last two or three years, I was largely price insensitive. I subscribed to streaming services because we watch TV and movies and the absolute cost was not that high. But with everything becoming $20/mo or more, I’m now more actively managing my streaming subscriptions. I canceled Hulu a week...

With the sixth season of Black Mirror out on Netflix, I thought I’d finally watch Babadook, the Black Mirror from a few years ago. And Netflix still doesn’t support its own choose-your-adventure support on AppleTV! So, I still can’t watch it.

I'm mostly surprised that you and other enthusiasts actively don't want special features in streaming. I get the business reasons why this is low priority for Netflix. But as a fan, it seems an obvious wish-list amongst the other "frustrations". Enthuasiasts are moving (have moved) to...

You don't watch commentaries? Seems clear: Movies have commentaries but they're not available on streaming. They should be, so we can enjoy commentaries again. As the article says, streaming services have special features. This isn't HBO on your tube TV on linear cable from a decade ago. The...

Didn’t read the article, did you?

https://www.theverge.com/23709897/directors-commentary-streaming-netflix-mike-flanagan-podcasts-vergecast

It’s not saturation per se but the that the streaming hardware providers are also streaming-subscription service providers. Their motivation to provide great hardware and software to users is conflicted with their need to promote and sell their own (and no one else’s) streaming service. It’s...

There’s no longer a “streaming device” maker. Every company is a streaming subscription-service provider who sells a self-promoting streaming box . And the box’s UX must be monetized to promote their content as Priority #1. And so they all suck now. Even Apple TV. Because teaser videos and...

WSJ had an interesting editorial by Jason Kliar (former CEO of WarnerMedia, and the founding CEO of Hulu) on the recent history of prospective near future of the streaming industry. I fear this is paywalled for many people. The link below is to the Apple News version, if you have that service...

Some thoughts: The broad strokes are good. Prices are increasing. There’s less free stock-market money to spend on content. Competition is increasing. Netflix’s early mover advantage is eroding, maybe gone, and Disney’s early crazy-low-price play has paid off, allowing them to move prices up...