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NETFLIX HAS GAINED more than nine million subscribers in the first quarter of this year, bringing their total subscribers to 270 million.
The increase comes after the streaming giant cracked down on password sharing last year.
While Netflix is reporting its best start to the year since 2020, with Disney +, Apple TV, Prime Video, NowTV, Paramount+, and Hayu all available in Ireland there is certainly no shortage of options when it comes to streaming services.
So today we’re asking: How many streaming subscriptions do you have?
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Freesat is an excellent service, legal and free!
@Brian Hunt: Ditto!!
Paying for two at present but intend to cut to one. The best value to be got from streaming services is to be promiscuous, and switch every couple of months once you’ve exhausted a given library.
@troolll balonius: Ended subscription with Now after Succession and over the course of 2 weeks we got 3 emails each with a lower and lower price to try and get us to sign back up. Same goes for broadband providers… You get the best discounts by leaving!
@troolll balonius: I was promiscuous thousands of times, just not with streaming services…
Why would you bother…life’s too short for spending valuble time in front of a screen.
@JP: Life can’t be a party all the time….
@JP: And yet, you’re in front of a screen to post this. Wouldn’t this be a waste of time as well?
@Wolfgang Bonow: Ultimately, everything we think, say, feel, do or don’t do is a waste of time. Just enjoy what you do with your time. That’s the ONLY meaning life has. Everything else is subjective and different to everyone. If you get to your deathbed and find yourself wishing you’d had a better life, you did it wrong and you get no second go on the roundabout.
@Antaine (aolbfs): perfectly put.
One dodgy box to rule them all
Does pornhub count?? Asking for a friend
@6gRrQtLn: That’s a good question…
@6gRrQtLn: doubt it, that’s free.
None, I live off the clippings of tin and spend all my money on holidays..
@brian o’leary: I totally agree…I’m in tenerife, cocktails are half the price they are at home…steak dinner and all the trimmings 15 euro…why wouldn’t anyone save up and go on hols…rip off ireland
@Clare Power: Pile ‘em high and then sell’ em cheap.
Why would anyone pay a subscription when RTE is available free, chock full of top quality programs and comprehensive unbiased and balanced news features, or at least that’s what Minister Martin says!
@Brian Hunt:
Because there is nothing good from RTE or any other channel. By the way why are we taking logs from Scotland that has a problem with beetles that could ruin our own forests.
Dodge box best value around
Be promiscuous, I got Now TV for €3 a month for six months and Sky Sports for 6 months for a once off payment of €30. You can cancel anytime, no contract.
Can you get reruns of Radharc on any of the streaming platforms, does anyone know?
I only watch emmerdale farm and fair city, more than enough thank you
@Roy Dowling: there is no need for your constant toxic attacks. I may watch what I choose.
@Sean Money: pity people can’t be blocked anymore here,that tool Roy would be 1st on the list. And the irony of it is that he is the one void of reality.
@HisMastersAlibi: yes agreed he is one looney tune, harping on about Palestinian this and that and his holy jihad.
@Sean Money: don’t take it to heart Sean, Roy sits around in his underpants all day telling everyone they’re crap while he waits on his just eat to arrive. Then after that he puts a bad review on just eat about whatever take away he got..
@Stiles: thanks my friend I will not take his poison to heart and ruin my day.
@Sean Money: “Emmerdale Farm”? Are you still watching on the Black and White TV from RTV Rentals?
@Roy Dowling: You, Conspiracy Roy, accusing someone else of having no grasp on reality ? Hilarious…
123, free.
One reason I have for not streaming is that the streaming shows that look interesting are all on different services, so I would have to pay a fortune subscribing to all of them to see everything I wanted. On balance, I think the most sensible thing is to stay off streaming altogether and stick to normal TV.
@Richard Barrett: I watch Netflix for a month, then cancel. Move to Prime for a month then cancel and move to Disney for a month.
I was with Disney+ but I cancelled it as they keep putting it up
None. Support journalism instead.
@Ronan Mc: did ya see the season finale of Journalism? The full stop did it.
@Ronan Mc: Agreed, we have switched to listening to the radio instead, and are not missing the TV at all.
@Athena: I done the opposite, Gave up on radio when they banned decent music from it.
123 for Movies
Kimcartoons for ANYTHING animated [besides Anime]
Anix.to for Anime
Disney+……NOT!
Buy the DVD or BluRay. At least then you own it.
HD Cinema and Cyberflix is all that’s needed
Now Sports; Disney+; Netflix; YouTube; Prime
Best thing I ever did was change to saorview, no bills, and more channels than most suppliers give, and access to TV in every room if you want it. the cost has gone crazy I’m hearing 100 a month for some suppliers. To watch same crap I get for free.
Yarrr harr harr
Did have Sky for a few years until they promised F1 free with Sky Sports. When it eventually started up they charged me for it. I cancelled my sub and don’t do subscription channels anymore. Saorview suits me just fine. I only watch 2-3 hours a night and if it was gone tomorrow,, I don’t think I’d miss it.
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