As a subscriber of Netflix it's trash for my tastes now. Many of the shows I did enjoy are no longer on the service and once my subscription runs out I won't be renewing it.

We did this for similar reasons; the documentary and edutainment selection ran dry, and the children's section had a terrible signal/noise.

Now we've been without any TV or streaming services for about six months, and relying on a Kodi box and my collection of ripped DVDs.

We spend more time together as a family.

Documentaries just don't pay the bills and I think it's killed off a lot of potential for good content.

Chris Bell is someone who I heard talk recently on a podcast about this. He makes documentaries and discussed how hard it is just to break even making a documentary because of how Netflix/HBO/etc structure deals and vendor lock in.

Can you please link to the podcast or summarize how the deals are structured?

Sometimes I use popcorntime.sh (the open github repo mirror), run a VPN, and grab the .torrent file.

It only works if there are enough seeders, otherwise I have a seedbox that I FTP into for watching some movies I haven't seen yet.

I agree. Shows have become more political and less entertaining. And it's only getting worse.

I like bing because as a customer to many of the services I can find out who holds my show. And if I have to buy, who do I buy it from.