• TheRealKuni
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    I don’t want to sound like a corporate shill, but Apple TV is not a bad offering as streaming services go. $7/month and plenty of good shows, including Ted Lasso (one of my favorite shows of all time), Mythic Quest (made by most of the Always Sunny team), Shrinking (starring Harrison Ford and Jason Segal), Schmigadoon (musical-spoof that’s really fun), and more.

    My biggest complaint with it is that there isn’t an Android phone/tablet app, but you can watch it in-browser on Android devices. Otherwise it’s available everywhere (including Android TVs). You don’t need any Apple devices to use the streaming service.

    • @TheSambassador@lemmy.world
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      811 months ago

      The browser version seems deliberately bad. They didn’t even have a search bar until this year. The shows are good, but the non apple interface is pretty awful.

    • @Stoneykins
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      I don’t like the company in general, so I don’t want to support them. You aren’t a corporate shill for not sharing that opinion, but I really don’t want to support them unless I think it is unreasonable to avoid doing so.

      While it is “available” on non-apple devices, I’ve heard almost exclusively negative things about how it runs on the devices I do most of my watching.

      Apple tv content is some of the easiest to illegally access content around. Almost no work and $0 is better than $7.

      I don’t subscribe to anything I don’t already know for certain I’ll like anyways, I have trouble trusting reviews and other peoples opinions on media. I’ll watch on a friends account or something first, or not at all. Streaming services that don’t have a free with ads tier are not something I really approve of, it feels like buying a mystery.

      • TheRealKuni
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        311 months ago

        Fair enough! Pirate Ted Lasso if you haven’t yet, it’s amazing!