In the first quarter of 2023, Netflix, a TV and movie-streaming service, had approximately 232.5 million subscribers worldwide. That’s a whole lot of subscribers. Are you one of them?
After you vote in today’s poll, please leave a comment and tell us what you’re currently watching, or something you recommend, on Netflix. We do work most of the time… but when we’re not working we do like to watch a movie or TV show or two. Wink.
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Now that you mention it, I think I should unsubscribe. I find an incredible amount of foul language in most anything Netflix produces. I find almost nothing to watch which is geared to older folks. Those two things are enough to ask myself: for what purpose do I subscribe? Yes, it can be fun to place bets with those watching with me on just how many minutes into the show it will be before the first “F” word is blurted out. And the subject matter is usually not any better than the language.
There are some things worth seeing, but I usually spend most of my time searching for something truly “adult” oriented…not foul language, {bleeped} and violence. You know, the real adult stuff like meaningful stories worth telling, intelligent language, plot, and all the elements of what I hope adults really are seeking.
There are some good children’s offerings but far too many “childish” offerings supposedly meant for adult viewing for me.
I’m going to cancel. Thanks for reminding me!
The only ones who have DVD movies I cannot find anywhere. Especially archiac ones. We have been grandfathered in price with both streaming and getting DVD. Been with them for over 10 years and do not see us cancelling any time soon. We also have hulu and disney thru Verizon and a few others. We did cut the cable and have saved ourselves a lot of money by going smart television. I love curling up with a good movie on a stormy nite.
/we just have an antenna in the window. We have no interest in movies and all that stuff. So far living under a rock works for us. Heck, I just learned how to do the tap a credit card thing.
Free over the air programming works for me.
We don’t and won’t ever have Netflix. Back when Netflix was a mailed disc and then added streaming, I cancelled. We had a automatic renewal. They only cancelled the mail side and kept on billing us for the stream no matter what I did. I finally had to have a new card number issued and never did get back all the money that they had billed us.
Only because of a freebie from our mobile phone provider. When that ends we probably won’t pay for it.
Never have, not even the free months I’ve gotten. Today’s movies just don’t interest me.
There are only a couple of shows we watch on Netflix. It has gone on and off being part of our phone plan, so we don’t always have to pay.
We get much more use out of Amazon Prime, where we subscribe to 3 add-ons.
We only stream at home, where we have satellite for other channels. Where we live, we can’t get OTA channels very well, since we’re in the mountain shadow from the transmission towers.
I will NOT pay extra for propaganda. MSM is bad enough.
WELL Stated, Richard! My family Agrees….
I agree especially with the AI Chat whatever.
Yes, but … We are on the DVD subscription. It is ending, so we’ll need to decide whether to switch to streaming or give up. We tried a few years ago, but only 3 of the 30+ in our queue were available to stream 😕
No I don’t but DW does and I don’t watch it, the first time I got cable I had it for 3 weeks and decided it was too dirty for my family to watch and canceled it, that 1978. Now Netflix is changing their programming to many R rated programs and movies. DW only watches one series about horse ranchers in Canada which in my opinion is a waste of money for just one program but she pays the bill so I keep the yap trap shut. Lol
OTA system works just fine. Have Prime and watch some “stuff.” LG tv came with many free streaming channels, if you care to look.
At this point, we only pay for internet, no other providers.
I recently switched over to T-Mobile. It came with it.
We have access through our SIL’s account only because my wife wanted to watch a couple of the series offered. It may get used once or twice a week. We also have Prime video through our Amazon account only because it was included. Again, once or twice a week.
This year we decided to cut the cable and stream TV. It was a learning process and we
asked everyone we knew a lot of questions before we made the move. We continue to pay for the internet connection. Between what extra programming we pay for and what programming we share with our relatives I dropped my monthly entertainment budget from $265.00 to $132.00 and we don’t miss all those cable channels we never watch. A friend just installed an antenna and he is very pleased with the channels he can watch for free.
We stream Netflix plus are member of the dvd plan, which, unfortunately, comes to an end in September. Now where will we find the movies we love? 🙁
If there are movies you “love” buy the dvd. My RV plays them through the “radio”. Plus they are changing so much in the older movies to make them “woke” that I want to keep the original version which is only available on disc.
go back to sleep.
Agreed ; ) Good advise, Vanessa…
Why own it when for the same price you can rent it thru your smart television or find it free. So no to buying a DVD that will only collect dust.
I am really hoping they change their minds because they have DVDs I can’t find anywhere else. So fingers crossed that they do not.
We are subscribers, BUT only because it is a ‘free’ feature of our phone plan. We don’t use it very often.
No. I stream whatever I find interesting otherwise I use the good old TV antenna for local stations. Just mostly looking for news and weather.
You were wanting suggestions on what to watch on Netflix? I recommend Bridgerton, Seasons 1and 2, and Queen Charlotte. They are all wonderful “fiction based on fact” type of shows made from books written by Julia Quinn. The 3rd Season should be released sometime soon.
1. Frontier. Only 2 seasons, hoping for more but I think covid ended production. Fact fiction, Hudson Bay Company/Native Americans theme. Quite violent but good storyline 17th century America.
2. Jamestown. Fact fiction 16th century setting America.
3. Poldark. Wife’s favorite.