Hey guys. For some, this might seem like a dumb question. However, I'm a total novice for watching TV shows and movies online. However, my family and I will be moving into a new home in a few weeks, and for the first time will be able to get broadband in our own house, which is very awesome.

We've been looking at the various streaming services - Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, ect. I know that these all have shows and movies that come and go, generally on a monthly basis. However, they all also have their own original content as well.

So my question is, if I subscribe to one of these, are all of their originals always going to be available to watch? If I want to watch a season of a show that Netflix made five years ago, is it sitting there ready to go? Or do those shows come and go also? The FAQs I've found don't answer this one.

 

My wife and I have always had DirecTV since moving in together in 2005, but we're excited to be moving to Comcast. The 100mbps package will be light years better than the Satellite service we'd had for years, and what's better, our local electric co-op is putting down fiber lines, with the intent that within five years, all of their customers will be able to get Gigabit service. Hopefully we're on the quicker end of that too, so our change is going to be massive.

 

I've done my penance! After having broadband from 1998-2005, I've had dialup then Satellite for 13 years!

 

Yeah, I lived in a pretty rural area, and worse, on the borderline (literally) between the zones served by Centurylink and Verizon for local phone service, so even though my neighbors in several directions could get DSL, I was in this black hole, and they said screw it, they weren't going out of their way to bring service to the stretch of road in the corner of my county where I lived.

Now, I live in the middle of the county near a large development, so even though I'm still semi-rural, things are a lot better.

 

Thank you all for the information. I think that we're unlikely to go with Hulu right away, because we will have Comcast TV and so less of a need for it. There don't seem to be enough originals on there to warrant it otherwise.

We're exploring the various levels of Prime with Amazon to see if that makes sense for us, though we have no desire to deal with Alexa or any music streaming.

Once we have fiber in the house, we might cut cable and go with a combination of the other services. But that wont happen for a while.

 

I'm now a member of the modern world, after having Comcast finally send someone to plug my new house in! We have cable TV and internet, but a pleasant surprise was that their current promotion also included free subscriptions to Showtime and Cinemax, as well as Netflix. Plus, Netflix works directly through the TV, so you don't have to connect the TV to the WiFi network. (My parents system struggles with that a lot, and it lags badly)

So far, I've only watched kids shows via Netflix, but my wife and I did browse through all of the exclusives, and there are a lot that I'd like to check out.

On another end of the conversation, I was dissapointed to see that Marvel is apparently making several very high budget shows that will be a part of the coming Disney Streaming service exclusively. I guess I'll wait and see if those come out on Bluray later, because we won't be spending money on that one.

 

Disney is saying that their streaming service will be "much cheaper" than Netflix. I guess we'll see what that means. To this point, I've been very wary of the idea of subscribing to it due to the cost, but if it ends up being $5/month, then I may have to jump in, depending on what the content is.