Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices::Finding new subscribers in a saturated streaming video market isn’t easy. And with legacy media companies desperate to recoup revenue declines in their linear TV businesses, the cost of your monthly plan is likely to keep rising.
One option that exists for the price-averse is going for the low-subscriber streaming services. This doesn’t give you the popular shows everyone else is watching, but it’s suitable if your goal is to just entertain yourself with something distracting for a while.
I was briefly subscribed to Shudder, a niche horror flick service that doesn’t cost much and has a few decent items on there.
Crunchyroll is relatively cheap for anime, has been buying up other properties to give itself a large library. That said, there are accusations that the money doesn’t ever reach the original creators. HiDive is another anime service with some weird options.
There’s free services like Pluto TV, usually ad-supported (but hey, a lot of the paid options are giving ads)
Haven’t read it, but there’s also articles out there about other options, should people decide the major entries are too expensive, and they don’t want to go for piracy. Knowing your options is always good.
Anything good on shudder?
The best thing I found was a horror thriller simply called Revenge. A woman is violated and left for dead by a three-man hunting club. Then, against all odds, she hunts them back and kills them all. Small cast but very intense and bloody.