Tag: Trial

1. The most important information at a glance

2. RTL+ trial month

3. Subscription tricks

4. This is how you redeem the trial month

5. Cancel trial period

6. Discounts

7. Avoid shady streaming portals

The offering on RTL+ ranges from live TV to media libraries from well-known TV channels to in-house productions (originals) and exclusive US series and Hollywood blockbusters. However, you can only get a large part of this content with a paid subscription. First of all, the most important information about the individual packages, discounted prices and the trial month.

The most important information at a glance

• With RTL+ you can only watch past TV broadcasts and live streams from the channels without a paid subscription.
• For all other content you need a paid subscription.
• At RTL+ this is divided into the packages “Premium”, “Max” and “Family”.
• The Premium subscription costs 6.99 euros, the Max subscription 12.99 euros and the Family subscription 18.99 euros per month.
• You can save by paying annually instead of monthly.
• You can also use a trial month for one of the three subscriptions.
• If you do not cancel it during the trial period, the subscription will be extended for a fee.

Basically, RTL+ also offers free access to its own streaming service with RTL+ Free as a free alternative. However, the scope is meagre. You can only watch recently broadcast TV content from 14 TV channels in the media library and listen to RTL radio streams.

RTL+ Free is therefore more of a media library of well-known channels such as RTL, VOX, Nitro or Super RTL. RTL+ only becomes a streaming service with one of the three paid subscriptions RTL+ Premium, RTL+ Max or RTL+ Family. With these, the advertising breaks during streaming are not only shorter (Premium) and in some cases even eliminated completely (Max and Family), you can also watch up to two parallel streams with the Max subscription and up to four parallel streams with the Family subscription.

Even more important than these convenience functions are the many additional contents that you unlock with the RTL Premium, Max and Family subscriptions. In addition to many exclusive series and films, this also includes in-house productions, sports programs and sporting events as well as reality formats that you won’t see anywhere else.

In addition, with a paid RTL+ subscription you can stream a lot of content in HD quality and watch many programs before they are broadcast on TV. However, with a price of 18.99 euros per month for the most expensive subscription to RTL+, the price for so much entertainment is correspondingly high. The premium subscription is a little cheaper at 6.99 euros per month, but it still adds up to a hefty sum per year.

By subscribing to RTL+ Premium or RTL+ Max not just for a month, but for a whole year, you can save in the long run. With the Premium subscription you can reduce the costs by around 24 euros, with the Max subscription even by around 35 euros per year.

But it can be even cheaper. You can even use the extensive RTL+ Family subscription in full for a limited time and free of charge. How it works? We’ll tell you.

RTL+ trial month

Like many other well-known streaming services, RTL+ offers you the opportunity to test the full extent of your own streaming service in detail before you have to spend any money. As a new RTL+ customer, you can take advantage of a trial month, which allows you to enjoy RTL+ just as much as paying customers.

This trial month even has a little special feature. Instead of simply providing you with a trial month for the cheapest of the three paid packages, the streaming service gives you the choice of whether you want to test RTL+ Premium, RTL+ Max or RTL+ Family for free for a month.

Since RTL+ Family is the package with the largest scope, we would of course recommend that you apply for a trial month for this. Thanks to up to four parallel streams, other users can also get an impression of the RTL+ offering. Compared to the trial month for RTL+ Premium and RTL+ Max, the one for RTL+ Family actually only offers advantages.

But you should definitely keep one thing in mind: you have to cancel your RTL+ trial subscription within 30 days of the test month if you don’t want it to be extended for a fee. In addition, in the event of an extension, the notice period is then set at 30 days. With an RTL+ Family subscription, this can quickly become expensive.

Subscription tricks

So now you know how you can enjoy all RTL+ content for a month without having to pay for it. However, you can enjoy this free phase for much longer by simply stringing together several trial months.

Of course, the provider only plans one trial month per person. That’s why the offer only applies to new customers and only if you register with an email address that hasn’t been used before. But who says that not everyone in your household wants to use the trial subscription for RTL+?

Here it makes sense that not everyone takes out the trial subscription at the same time, but one after the other. To do this, each person uses their own email address. Once the first person’s trial subscription is over, the second person applies for a trial month and you can then use RTL+ for several months for free. If you choose the family subscription (as recommended), up to four members of your household can still enjoy the streaming service at the same time thanks to parallel streams.

And even when the last trial month has ended, the family subscription is still a good idea if you live in a household with several people. Even for two people, this is worth it at a price of 18.99 euros per month compared to the similarly extensive RTL+ Max subscription for 12.99 euros per month.

If you split the costs between you, everyone only pays around 9.50 euros for the family subscription, which is less than for the max subscription. With three people the price for each person drops to 6.33 euros and with four people you end up with around 4.75 euros per head.

This is how you redeem the trial month

Can you hardly wait to try out what RTL+ has to offer? Then you can start your trial month today. In the following instructions we will show you step by step how to take advantage of your test period with RTL+.

Try RTL+ Premium, RTL+ Max or RTL+ Family

1. 1

   To test RTL+ Max or Premium, click on the “Try Now” button at the top right of the RTL+ homepage.

2. 2

   In the following overview, select the package that you would like to try out for free for 30 days and click on “Try for 30 days for €0.00” in the corresponding window. Alternatively, you can also book the free package here on the left. Don’t be surprised, in the pictures you can still see the old prices before the price increase.

3. 3

   Don’t be surprised: If you choose RTL+ Premium, you will have to briefly provide information about your payment method in the following window. But don’t worry: no money will be debited from you during the 30 day test period. This only happens if you forget to cancel your test subscription in time.

4. 4

   Now you have to register again, as described above for the free package, with your email address, a password and your age (or log in if you already have an account). Once you’re done, click “Next” below.

5. 5

   You will now receive an email to the address you provided. There is a confirmation link that you must click on to activate your trial subscription. You will then be asked to provide your payment details. As mentioned: Money will only be debited after the test period has expired unless you have canceled on time. Complete the registration and you can now use the RTL+ package you booked for 30 days.

Cancel trial period

On the day your trial subscription expires, you will automatically be billed for the following month and the corresponding amount for the RTL+ package will be deducted. To prevent this, all you have to do is cancel your trial subscription well before this deadline expires. You can find out more about cancellation on the RTL+ website.

Practically speaking, it doesn’t matter whether you cancel your test subscription on the first day or on the 29th day, you can continue to use it for the full 30 days in any case, as the cancellation only takes effect at the end of the test month. It’s best to make sure again before the end of the 30 days whether you have actually canceled your contract.

Discounts

Apart from the trial month, RTL+ sometimes reduces the prices for one or even all three paid subscriptions. However, the streaming provider is currently not offering any discounts, which is why the fixed prices remain. Of course, this can change at any time.

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Special discounts like those offered by Amazon with its video streaming service Amazon Prime for students do not (yet) exist at RTL+. So every person pays the same price regardless of their status. The only exceptions are discount campaigns and voucher codes that are sometimes offered on other websites and by other service providers.

Avoid shady streaming portals

Some shady streaming portals may also offer free streams for RTL+. The use of such streaming portals is punishable. In the worst case, viruses get onto your device. So you should avoid the streams. We’ll tell you which streaming providers are reputable and which are not.