It feels like yes, but I find their pricing to be really interesting. $15 a year for HD and $52 a year for 4k. It feels like they're tying pricing to bandwidth cost rather than content value or something.
Wow I need to do this. Documentaries are basically all I ever watch and it is getting increasingly hard to find anything worth watching. I guess I thought Curiosity Stream was $15 a month like other streaming services.
Looks like interesting content and even the regular, undiscounted HD price is reasonable.
If any of the curiositystream folks are here, I’d add a “What devices does this work on?” question right below “want to peek at our catalog?” It took me more clicks than I’d have liked to find it in help and that seems like a common concern between “I’m interested!” and “I’m buying this!”
Curiosity Stream is ok. The price is great, but the content is hit-or-miss, and it's really hard to separate the wheat from the chaff. Everything is rated 90%+ regardless of actual quality; the "staff picks" were almost certainly picked by a [bad] algorithm; the "collections" have very limited on-topic content mixed with tons of off-topic content. A lot of the videos are short; like 15-20 minutes. A bunch of them have synthetic voices, possibly using automatic translations from the original language (this is even worse on Amazon Prime); the effect is a creepy uncanny valley unease that isn't immediately apparent.
If you know something specific to search for and watch, it's a bargain, but if you just want to browse around, it can be frustrating. More often than not, I spend half an hour or so viewing the first minute of a bunch of videos, and then give up in frustration. New genuinely high-quality content doesn't seem to come around very often.
About the only reason I keep it is to re-watch the good videos I can find by searching for specific people (like my favorite physics presenter, Jim Al-Khalili). That and the fact that I forget I'm subscribed until the annual charge hits, and then it's not worth my time to figure out how to cancel.
I picked it up to get Nebula for free just to watch The Patrick H Willems videos and $15 is cheap enough that maybe my subscription can actually help them make a difference and create better content.
Believe it or not, Amazon Prime Video has a pretty large selection of documentaries. They are just hidden behind all the banners they throw at you for the mainstream content.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 62.1 ms ] threadI won't be renewing my sub
If any of the curiositystream folks are here, I’d add a “What devices does this work on?” question right below “want to peek at our catalog?” It took me more clicks than I’d have liked to find it in help and that seems like a common concern between “I’m interested!” and “I’m buying this!”
(The answer I found was a good one. https://help.curiositystream.com/hc/en-us/articles/209260738... )
If you know something specific to search for and watch, it's a bargain, but if you just want to browse around, it can be frustrating. More often than not, I spend half an hour or so viewing the first minute of a bunch of videos, and then give up in frustration. New genuinely high-quality content doesn't seem to come around very often.
About the only reason I keep it is to re-watch the good videos I can find by searching for specific people (like my favorite physics presenter, Jim Al-Khalili). That and the fact that I forget I'm subscribed until the annual charge hits, and then it's not worth my time to figure out how to cancel.
I think Animalogic vids might be on CS too.
Mostly for Sam's videos. Nebula is worth paying for but the mobile app needs serious improvement.
56% bad reviews. The reviewer comments are detailed and scathing.