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Let’s play.

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Because there’s at least one of you who looks forward to these.

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This is the story of my life.

For 23 years we’ve lived in the country and loved it…. but we never had high speed internet. No streaming, lots of buffering, too many dropped connections. But this year? A miracle.

Fidium was hooked up and I can finally watch what everyone else does on something other than a 5 inch cell phone screen.

Yay!

So naturally now that I can stream? Maine is going to tax it.

The rat bastards.

Apple TV, Amazon Prime, Paramount Plus, HBO Max and Netflix. So my answer is 5… though the Amazon is free with my Prime shipping membership and the HBO comes with our Direct TV subscription.

Do you stream?

And if so, how much.

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32 thoughts on “Let’s play.”

  1. HBO free with Direct TV?! We don’t get that. Jealous! We have 6, including BritBox for the Husband. We’ve been rewatching the entire ER series, but when we’re finished with that I’m going to lobby that we get rid of Hulu, not because it’s bad, but because these streaming services are like TV creep. You keep paying and paying and sometimes you don’t watch them much or at all. They seem relatively inexpensive until you add them up.

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    1. No, our HBO plus isn’t free. We already pay for regular HBO on our Direct tv line up so it’s basically an add on for existing customers.
      I just added Netflix but so far I’m getting my money’s worth.

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  2. We have had DIRECTV forever and have never had more than the basic, which is $80. Free HBO or Cinemax occasionally, when they give us them.

    Here in my area near the coast of NH. I have Prime for now and a SmartTV and I bought one streaming service for $5.00 per month and also bought a tiny box/antenna set-up for getting other options which I will use more now that I am home for the winter or I will read or paint and take day trips, all those years in a big rig I never saw much TV or movies.

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      1. Yes too long for this gardener 🙂 I do love the birds I entertain daily here in winter, well for handouts. Spring and summer they help me with ridding this place of bugs seems like an almost equitable deal. I have to read Shawshank Redemption for a book club in Jan I hope it is good 🙂

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  4. I am a stream queen! I have Amazon Prime, Apple, Netflix, Hulu (which now comes with Disney) Paramount, Peacock, HBO Max and Sling. I do enjoy having all of these streaming services, but my boys and I split the monthly costs with each of them. So it’s not as bad as if I had to pay all of them myself.

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  5. We’re big-time streamers (as you might have guessed!), and we do have the ones you have. In addition, Disney & Hulu (with ESPN…a tri-bundle I think was our first-ever subscription of this type) and Peacock. Lots of stuff for our eyeballs and brains to consume!

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  6. I can’t even operate our TV, it’s all Cathy, all the time. She follows a lot of different stuff and I’ll jump in from time. We’re watching Welcome to Derry these days, excellent gore and there’s more on the way I am sure. More gore…yeah…

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  8. We have Netflix and Prime. But I could do without both. My main thing to stream this year is my Seattle Seahawks with Sam Darnold. For some unknown reason, most of the games are on a subscription streaming service that really irks me.

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  9. I cancelled all but Prime around the time of the Jimmy Kimmel temp cancellation, but because peices were going up. I took advantage of Black Friday to temp re-subscribe to Apple & HBO at super low prices. My bank account won’t allow any more.

    Surely, Maine’s idea will catch on with every other state.

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  10. Streaming is my only source of “entertainment”. We dropped cable tv years ago. Core services would be Britbox, Acorn, PBS and Hulu. I drop and then pick-up Netflix and HBO-Max when shows I want to watch come up. Because of my Amazon membership I also have Prime but since it added ads I haven’t used it. So – 4 with 2 that I pick up and drop as the need arises. I don’t watch movies much – don’t have the patience for them despite the fast forward button.

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      1. Britbox and Acorn are so worth the price of admission! Many Brit and Aussie/New Zealand shows are available on other services but we’ve had both since they first became available, I’d never give them up.

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  11. The older I get, the angrier taxes make me. It’s not so much that they exist, but that we keep getting saddled with more and more.

    And with streaming, we’re paying for it, still getting ads, and now they want to tax it?

    Is it time to dump the streaming services … into Boston Harbor?

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