Weekend Open Forum: What online subscription services are you paying for?

Crunchy Roll
NetFlix
Hulu Plus
Spotify
Microsoft Office
FFXIV - 2 Accounts
Twitch.TV
I use a lot of online services.
 
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None. I don't believe there are many that are worth a sub. Besides I hate having to pay something every month. Good to see usenet still has a paying userbase, sure keeps those pesky ISP's off your back. IIRC Xennews.com let me have all the free usenet I wanted simply by changing my IP and starting a new free trial. :D
 
I use Spotify, but if they don't release a metro app for windows 8 soon I might switch to Deezer the next month
 
Not anything. I can find everything for free. We even get ota tv, and supposedly free land line Ooma phone service. Some people actually get Ooma absolutely free.
 
Netflix
MotoGp (www.motogp.com)
now if I could just get the European pro bicycle races (Strade Bianchi runs today) I would be happy
 
Netflix

Hulu Plus

Lynda.com

Pluralsight.com


Generally I really despise subscription model online services. I have found however that I can do just fine not paying 80+ dollars a month for cable by using Hulu Plus and Netflix.


Lynda.com and Pluralsight.com are worth every single penny I pay for them. It's instant access to high quality training videos on any subject matter I can think of as a tech professional. I'll continue to pay for both of these services for the foreseeable future. I couldn't suggest them enough to anyone who just wants to learn something tech related.
 
Only Netflix and exchange data feeds.

Netflix itself has caused me to ditch most standard TV programming. Instead of waiting each week for some show to air, I just wait for it to be uploaded to Netlfix and watch commercial free.
Aw, but that used to be part of the fun, with all the anticipation and suspense because of the stupid commercials :(
 
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I've always found everything for free.

Most, if not all, of the free stuff are inferior in quality. I'd rather pay for quality, than get free garbage.
 
I'm too cheap to spring for internet fast enough to stream with, so none.

OTA TV supplies all my needs for current events, process dramas and comedy.

If I hit on a series I really like, I'll buy the box set.

And as weird or alien as it my be to some of you, I buy the vast majority of my music on CDs. (I'll cherry pick an MP3 here or there, when I know upfront most of the album sucks).
 
Nothing. I've got a subscription on a news paper, an opinion mag, and a music mag, all of them on paper, because I don't like to read from the screen. It just does not provide me the environment in which I can read an hour or so in concentration. I've got a cable for the TV, but I barely watch it, so I don't feel I need any online subscription.

However, I do donate a bit every year to my favorite forum/blog-sites, especially the smaller ones.
 
I am, or will next month subscribe to MLB.com so I can watch almost every Chicago Cubs ball game.
That's a rough way of life.
Yeah, really. You can almost be absolutely certain with the Cubs, that show isn't going to have a happy ending. (At least it hasn't for the past hundred years or so)....:D
...[ ]...re-broadcast of u.s. tv shows over Philippine cable channels are sometimes delayed by two months to years. HD channels are a premium subscription. SD channels are for basic, el cheapo subscription.
Yeah, I feel you about that. It almost sucks to that point over here. I missed, "Agents of SHIELD" the other night. When I tried to watch it on the ABC website, they told me I needed a cable subscription to stream it. Keep in mind this is an OTA broadcast TV show we're talking about.
Netflix.

I did pay for Hulu for a couple months simply because I forgot to cancel my free trial. My AppleTV won't let me watch any Hulu without a subscription, but during my subscription, I really could not find anything outside of being able to watch on my Apple TV that was worth it over 'free'. Perhaps I just don't know what I'm talking about here, but Hulu Plus seems like the greatest waste of money I have ever done for online purchases.
Dear God, do you have an Apple TV too.....?

Anyway, I know you can't get broadcast TV where you are.

(*) Amazon has a competing service, "Amazon Instant Video". I resorted to it once, that was almost once too many times.

By the time they get you to install the software, (which they feel necessary to run at startup), and pumping DRM into what is allegedly, "yours". It's really just visiting, more or less a glorified rental.

The new movie rentals, (I think) are about 5 times the price of a Redbox rental! Besides, who doesn't like to get out of the house once in a while?

(*) That's really an iTunes like, "a la cart service", not a "buffet" like Netflix.
 
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Dropbox and Google Play music.

I would also like to get a Netflix subscription, but it's not available in my country yet ...
 
Nothing at all, not even physical magazines or papers or even Sky, just my BB connection. And as for paying for quality, as one poster has mentioned, I'd say that there's a helluva lot of crap that is subscription only.
 
I agree Lynda and Pluralsight(trainsignal) are the best training sites out there. I also like vtc.com, 3DBuzz.com, and CBTNugget but I only subscribe to one at a time
 
Netflix
MOG (320kbps music)
HockeyStreams

I also subscribe to a VPN for torrenting television shows that aren't on Netflix.
 
Dear God, do you have an Apple TV too.....?

Anyway, I know you can't get broadcast TV where you are.

(*) Amazon has a competing service, "Amazon Instant Video". I resorted to it once, that was almost once too many times.

By the time they get you to install the software, (which they feel necessary to run at startup), and pumping DRM into what is allegedly, "yours". It's really just visiting, more or less a glorified rental.

The new movie rentals, (I think) are about 5 times the price of a Redbox rental! Besides, who doesn't like to get out of the house once in a while?

(*) That's really an iTunes like, "a la cart service", not a "buffet" like Netflix.

Yeah, it was a gift. I wanted a Roku 3, but by the time I had mentioned that apparently the ATV had already been purchased. It is decent, and before they forced some https for the Trailers 'app' I was able to run Plex Media Server on my PC and had a great experience. But then the update came and some smart people figured out a work around, however I wasn't able to make it work.

I bought a used iPod touch on the cheap (broken screen and a generation old) and use Amazon's streaming service on it, and then I can 'airplay' it to the Apple TV. Quality isn't fantastic, but its passable.
 
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