Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

Re:Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/... by myrmidon on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:24AM (#49642606)

Buying breaking bad on DVD is <3 months of netflix subscription (no ads).

So if you watch <2 seasons per month on average, you already come out ahead, and this is assuming only a single subscription.

People tend to wastly overpay for subscriptions because they end up underutilized and are typically never cancelled quickly enough because people are lazy.

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Re:Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/... by names_are_hard on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:15AM (#49644084)

2 seasons per month? I started watching The Sopranos this week, I watched 1.5 seasons over the weekend.

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Re:Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/... by myrmidon on Thursday September 10, 2026 @10:30AM (#49644374)

Sure, but do you actually do this every weekend?

I mean obviously there are people that consume a lot more movie entertainment than the average, but I'm personally getting nowhere close to 70 seasons per year.

Bingewatching occasionally might not be enough to economically justify your subscriptions.

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Re:Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/... by sejje on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:56AM (#49645897)

Even if he does do it every weekend, most of us don't. So the rest of us can accept the math.

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Re:Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/... by names_are_hard on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:10PM (#49648005)

Fair enough. I don't know how often I do it.

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