I’ve done that before and it does work, but I hate doing it! Sometimes I’d rather just pay the money and avoid the confrontation, haha!

That’s so smart! I didn’t know you could get a library card for multiple locations. Thanks for sharing!

I’m glad it was helpful! It would definitely be tough to get your money’s worth out of all of those. Sometimes I like to rotate between the different streaming options so I don’t pay as much but still get to watch all the shows I like on each service!

I donate $5 a month to PBS so I am considered a Passport member and can stream a lot of their content even after they take it off regular streaming, but even without that, their website and Roku apps are rich with great cooking shows, dramas, mysteries, music, news,
nature, kids and family shows, etc. Lately, I have been enjoying All Creatures Great and Small plus some content from my local PBS station, KQED.

Kanopy and Hoopla are both library apps that you can access on web, as apps or add for free to Roku and similar. Most libraries have one or the other. I have multiple library cards from different systems (You can sign up for cards online and out of your area if you live near only one branch; I am in San Jose and the bay area has a ton of city library systems. I recommend you do this if you don’t as different libraries often have different e-content available and it speeds up wait time when I am on multiple libraries lists for an audiobook or some such).

So Kanopy is all movies, not current popular year releases, but huge array of genres that rotates monthly. It does have current and vast international collection, documentary, older popular, and an amazing collection of silent film/early film and art house favorites .
There is also a separate app called Kanopy Kids, but I don’t have children and didn’t check it out.

Hoopla is smaller, but has different offerings and includes some TV miniseries and episodes as well as smaller selection of movies. It also rotates content. Hoopla, on web and readers has ebooks, audiobooks, comics, music.

Depending on where you live)which cable companies you are dealing with, if it is one of the two biggies (ATT or Comcast), I usually call them near end of my subscription period for internet and mention their competitor is offering me a much better price and threaten to cancel. EVERY time, they ‘magically’ decide to lower their offer. It is a ridiculous game, but if you tell them that instead of just dropping the cable to internet, you are going to drop everything, it helps

I’m so glad you found something that works for you! How odd that they don’t have the recent movies.

Philo is a good option!