{"id":202013,"date":"2025-12-20T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202013\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:19:14","slug":"why-now-is-the-time-to-choose-which-streaming-service-to-switch-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202013\/","title":{"rendered":"Why now is the time to choose which streaming service to switch off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nIf your family isn\u2019t watching anything, it makes no sense to be shelling out hundreds of euro\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"With so many options, it is easy to find yourself spending money on unwatched subscription services. Stock image. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IB video streaming.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">With so many options, it is easy to find yourself spending money on unwatched subscription services. Stock image. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of the lovely joys of the Christmas period is settling down to watch a movie. I remember the days when there were only the one or two movies to choose from, and the Christmas Day offerings from RT\u00c9 or the BBC were hotly anticipated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Would it be The Wizard of Oz again, or maybe Home Alone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If your family isn\u2019t watching anything, it makes no sense to be shelling out hundreds of euro With&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9484,3281,9618,93,61,60,1868,3282,17377],"class_list":["post-202013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-christmas","tag-amazon-prime-video","tag-disney","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-netflix","tag-paramount","tag-sinead-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}