I have and used at one time or another an Amazon stick, Google, Roku and Apple TV. If you have a smart TV, you shouldn't need any of these, you should be able to download all the apps you need and launch directly from the television.
They all come with remotes except for the Google device, that one you control with a smart phone or tablet (unless the never ones have remotes now?)
Hulu tends to release their shows (eg Handmaid's Tale) on a weekly basis, Netflix releases the whole season at once. I think Amazon also releases the whole season at once.
I have Hulu, Amazon Prime and Netflix, here's how I'd rate them in terms of use and content:
Netflix
Amazon Prime
Hulu
But each have shows that are specific to their platform and also of note, Netflix will be losing a lot of content with the upcoming surge of new services like Disney's, HBO's new streaming service and there's others I forget.
I have a roku stick. The tv I bought came with its own roku but it works like shit and always f*cks up.
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firestick - it is way easy to get third party apps that you can still stream cable channels and more for no cost... I mean if you are into that sorta thong
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Re: Cutting cable cord/streaming service help
Sling tv. You can pick a bundle of your favorite stations and have live or prerecorded access. Hulu, Netflix and amazon prime are also good. I have a jail broken fire stick and it’s ok. **** cable tv
I did away with cable long ago. Such a waste of money it was. The only things I watched last year or so that I had it were the 2016 political debates and on occasion National Geographic and the History channel. Oh, and of course FOX political commentators like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham.
I can watch pretty much anything I need or want to on You Tube (including the 3 FOX commentators mentioned above) thru my PS3. Of course I also stream movies from Amazon on occasion as well. If I want news then You Tube is pretty decent for that as well... so is twitter and other places on the internet.
I don't really use a seperate "box" or something similar to stream from Amazon unless you count my PS3 as one.
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__________________ Paleontologists have tried to turn Archaeopteryx into an earth bound feathered dinosaur. But it is not. It is a bird, a perching bird. And no amount of 'paleobabble' is going to change that.-- Alan Feduccia-a world authority on birds, quoted in "Archaeopteryx:Early Bird Catches a Can of Worms," Science 1994, p.764-765
And yes, Disney's streaming service is going to absolutely crush most of the others. If it ends up having as much content as they've hinted at(and it should given that Disney owns most of the media market these days), I'll probably end up dropping my Netfilx and Hulu subscriptions.
Hell, Disney owns the majority share of Hulu now as well, so that content might also end up trickling into their streaming service.
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Thanks for the help. Ha! I have a home cloud with hundreds of movies I had already torrented. lol
My main TV is a 70' LG 4K smart TV from 2016. For some reason it excludes Hulu from their apps. Hence some my questions. The info has been very helpful and I will be saying goodbye to cable this week.
You just can't help yourself from being a douche canoe.
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