What in your opinion is the worst streaming service?

[Spinneret]

Whether that be down to quality or accessibility
I would say Itv x

 

[mrodgers]

I only have experience with Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Of the 3, Hulu because I only got it with a $0.99 Black Friday sale with ads. Never watch it because of the ads but never canceled it.

 

[tvguy]

We had YouTube TV and dropped it.
We have Netflix and will be dropping it.
We have Peacock and don't use it.
My wife wants to try Disney Plus.

So far, we have been very disappointed in streaming.

 

[AussieFan8]

I think streaming works best when you rotate services, ie wait six months or so until you have several shows you want to watch on Netflix/new content is available, then pay for it a month or two, then drop it for a while again. The only ones we keep ongoing are the ones where we get a great deal by paying for a year in advance, like HBO Max when they run their fall deals.

 

[Praying Colonel]

Paramount+ just doesn't play nice with our Fire Stick. Takes awhile to load, jittery video at times, sometimes freezes, etc.

I don't think it's our Internet connection--we usually get 300 down and none of our other streaming services have that issue.

 

[barkley]

paramount+ has the worst quality. there are across the board complaints all over the net regarding them.

 

[sasywtch]

We had YouTube TV and dropped it.
We have Netflix and will be dropping it.
We have Peacock and don't use it.
My wife wants to try Disney Plus.

So far, we have been very disappointed in streaming.

If you like any type of reality or competition, the Traitors in Australia was good on Peacock

 

[TwoMisfits]

I think streaming works best when you rotate services, ie wait six months or so until you have several shows you want to watch on Netflix/new content is available, then pay for it a month or two, then drop it for a while again. The only ones we keep ongoing are the ones where we get a great deal by paying for a year in advance, like HBO Max when they run their fall deals.

Yeah, I hold Netflix (cell phone pays), and rotate all the other services on a yearly basis, since there tends to be unbelievably good deals at least 2-3 times a year for each.

I'll be rotating out of Apple in mid-May (free year from cell phone), but keeping MLS (free year from cellphone given this month) for a year. In July, I'll rotate out of HBOMax (year deal), and in Oct/Nov, I'll rotate out of the killer Disney+/Hulu deal I got on Black Friday ($4.99/month no commercials for both). I'm not sure what I'll do with Amazon yet, b/c Prime has become less valuable to me, so I may cancel in Oct, and pick up a month for holiday shipping in December.

I'll be looking for new deals for Paramount in the fall (b/c I'll want football and the new seasons of Star Trek and my kids will want the Nick shows), and then I'll decide what else I might want in 2024 (I can't see myself picking up Peacock b/c I didn't watch anything on it, although football might be compelling - it's why I originally got it, and it's almost all I watched)...

 

[superme80]

Peacock, because they put Murder She Wrote behind a paywall.

 

[bcla]

For me it's the combination of app and service that I can use.

Xfinity Stream on my Samsung smart TV. I get pixelated video much of the time, even though it's supposed to be 1080p. Even when it was video that I had recorded (and it's only up to 20 hours I can have saved). If I fast forward or go back, it typically goes back to that poor quality video until it stabilizes.

I can watch that recorded video almost immediately. A lot of the content I like watching can be viewed on-demand on Peacock or Paramount+, but the next day. But the on-demand content often looks blocky, where it might get better looking after a few seconds to even a minute or so.

All the other services I use (Disney+, Paramount+, Peacock, or even Tubi) look fine. When I was using HBO Max before, it would often look pixelated for the first 5 or so seconds before it went to full resolution.

 

[ronandannette]

For us it's a tie between Apple+ and Paramount+. Apple has some great original content, but it's very limited and Paramount+ only has a few original things that we don't already have access to through other sources. Like most of the planet, we basically only have them for Ted Lasso and 1923. I need to cancel Paramount now that we've watched all the episodes.