Netflix and Hulu are some of the biggest names in streaming today. But which is better? Which would you choose if you could only have one? Let's dive in. Did you know that Netflix accounts for 1/3 of all internet traffic? Yeah, 33% of all internet traffic! That is a huge amount of data from Netflix, it is huge.
In the past, we complained about price hikes from other streaming services. Netflix has gone and raised their prices several times in the last couple of years and did it again a week or two ago. Nobody bats an eye because, frankly, Netflix delivers a whole lot of value.
Hulu still has a $6 package that you can subscribe to. So in a world that includes
both Netflix and Hulu if you had to choose just one, which ones are gonna be?
So you can help with that; subscribe, hit the bell icon.
Netflix is the big elephant in the room here, it's got 60 million subscribers just in the US, now if you break that down by population, well it's that's a different number.
Let's break it down by household, that is half the households in the US.
And I'm sure there are a few other households that are piggybacking on their family and friends subscriptions. You can watch Netflix on pretty much any device.
Netflix Pricing and free trial
You have 30 days for free and then after that, there are three tiers to choose from.
The $8.99 standard definition tier is really not built for your modern TV.
Standard definition it's gonna look pretty bad and you only get one simultaneous stream at that tier. At $12.99 then you're bumped up to HD and two simultaneous streams.
And then for $15.99, you get Ultra HD and four simultaneous streams.
That Ultra HD is what's gonna look really great on your 4k TV.
I would just advise that you have at least a 25 megabit per second
connection to ensure that, that 4k content is coming through well.
There's also still a DVD version of Netflix. I think it's six or seven bucks a month and you can still get DVDs sent to your house as much as you want. It's great, you can even add it on to one of these other plans.
A million people here in the
US at least still do this.
Hulu has 25 million subscribers in the U.S. That's double where they were at in 2016.
Similar to Netflix, you can watch it on pretty much any device.
The exception is there's a live TV version of Hulu and that's a newer kind of app and some of the out-of-date equipment might not be able to handle it.
So as long as your Smart TV, Smart TV device or your phone or your computer or whatever as long as that's up-to-date then you shouldn't have any problem with any of the Hulu apps.
Hulu pricing and free trial
The price again you're gonna get 30 days free with this as well.
And then there are two main tiers; $5.99 with ads during your program.
It's $11.99 for no ads during your shows although with that just be
aware you will still watch ads before and after some programs.
Now with both of those you only get one simultaneous stream so if you're watching
and then somebody else in your household turns on a stream, it's gonna kick you off of there,
it can get a little bit annoying.
If you go with the third tier which isn't quite comparable to Netflix because it's $44.99, you get Hulu with live TV, a bunch of channels, live TV it's great.
You get two simultaneous streams on that or you can pay 10 bucks a month extra for unlimited simultaneous streams.
Hulu has the fresher TV content, so if you'd like to watch a little bit every
day and kind of keep up with stuff, it's gonna have TV shows the day after they air which can be very convenient if that's your style.
What they lack though are back catalogs. Netflix, on the other hand, is gonna have a lot of those if they're making an original they're gonna release a full season all at once, so it's more of a binge-style.
For original content, Hulu has a few standouts but only a few.
The big one would be Handmaid's Tale it is fantastic.
But over on the Netflix side, they have a ton of them; Stranger Things, House of Cards,
Mind Hunter, Russian Doll, DareDevil, I probably didn't even say your favorite 'cause they have so many of them.
Hulu allows for add-ons like Starz, Showtime, Cinemax, and HBO. These are not available to add-on to Netflix at all. But you subscribe to their individual services and apps. It'll cost you between nine and 15 bucks to do that.
We're talking Hulu Live with no commercials and premium DVR and unlimited streams, plus adding premium Netflix on top of that, you'd come to about 80 bucks.
And 80 bucks is frankly nothing to sneer at that is a pretty high price.
But if you can do that, if you can give up your live TV, you can get no commercials
Hulu for 12 bucks, HD Netflix for 13 bucks, that's $25 a month total for a ton of content.
Now you can also drop both of those to the lowest tier available.
And it comes to 16 bucks a month not bad.
Anyway frankly you should probably just get both 'cause like I said earlier you
can do it for pretty cheap.
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