@%*()*#$ Netflix

sofaking6
sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Netflix seems to have removed all of their workouts from the streaming menu.

%(*@#$()%

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  • finchest
    finchest Posts: 245 Member
    thumbs down, netflix :( i wonder if hulu has cut their exercise stuff, too. i use that a lot of the time...
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    This is tempting me to drop netflix and look into hulu. Although I think I'd have to rearrange my whole living room to do that.
  • gingerjen7
    gingerjen7 Posts: 821 Member
    As of August 1, they did. It sucks too because I only just discovered that they had those. The only one they have left is a yoga video for children and teens. :( Bresnan (or Optimum now, I guess) used to have a work outs on their free OnDemand menu, but they dropped them as well. It was nice having the variety; I wonder why they don't offer them anymore.

    Does anyone else know of a place that you can stream videos? I was given to understand there was an Exercise TV channel, but what was listed when I first signed up for cable turned out to be financial or something else lame that did not include an exercise and wasn't geared toward health and fitness at all!
  • newcs
    newcs Posts: 717 Member
    Has anyone else tried Hulu? I have Hulu plus but it still had commercials. Normally I wouldn't care, but during a workout or yoga, it's frustrating to sit through 3 commercials back to back...especially when the one on repeat is for a cheesecake.
  • sisterlilbunny
    sisterlilbunny Posts: 686 Member
    Argh that is frustrating! If Hulu has em, I'll give them a try. I still miss exercise tv. :(
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    I think we're going to start seeing a lot of "push-back" from Big Media against Netflix. Netflix streaming is like a Ninja who came in and unlocked the door to the safe. We've been given ridiculously inexpensive access to enough things via Netflix streaming that we don't really need cable for entertainment.

    $9.99 vs $65 for basic cable? Not even in the same league.

    Those in the huge entertainment industry would be wise to band together and severely limit the availability of streaming video. You know, in the name of profit. I'm sure they have the deep pockets to do so, and Netflix is going to have to take their booty and re-think their plan.
  • sofaking6
    sofaking6 Posts: 4,589 Member
    Has anyone else tried Hulu? I have Hulu plus but it still had commercials. Normally I wouldn't care, but during a workout or yoga, it's frustrating to sit through 3 commercials back to back...especially when the one on repeat is for a cheesecake.

    Ooof I didn't realize that Hulu had commercials :(

    For gingerjen7 - A lot of cable companies dropped Exercise TV on Jan 1 2012. Some still have it but not mine (Cox)

    It seems like there could be a hole in the video streaming industry here?
  • gingerjen7
    gingerjen7 Posts: 821 Member
    Normally I wouldn't care, but during a workout or yoga, it's frustrating to sit through 3 commercials back to back...especially when the one on repeat is for a cheesecake.
    I hear that. I DVRed some yoga shows (Power Yoga: Mind and Body) and the instructor likes to get you into a position and then say, "Hold here and relax during the commercials" or some crap like that. I fast forward through the commercials, but then I have to pause to hold the pose for a while. That just seems so silly to me. Can't they just do the whole routine and then do all the commercials at the end? In this day and age, most people don't watch them anyway!
  • theopiated
    theopiated Posts: 1
    I had just found The Crunch workouts on Netflix and was loving them. BOOOOO.
  • redhousecat
    redhousecat Posts: 584 Member
    i went to Hulu plus online and there are no full episodes of workouts. :(
  • BodyByButter
    BodyByButter Posts: 563 Member
    Hulu has full episodes of Yogazone.

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