Poll: Winter Is Coming - HBO's A Game of Thrones [READ WARNING]

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Who will rule Westeros?

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Glaucus said:
Aren't all series available on nowtv for £5.99 a month or is it just current series.

In fact nowtv looks like an insanely cheap way to get TV. seeing as their major channels can be watched live in that price. And even movie passes can be had for 15 for 3 months on ebay.
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It is cheap, but YMMV. I found their service to be sub par and cancelled my subscription after one month.
 
Glaucus said:
Aren't all series available on nowtv for £5.99 a month or is it just current series.

In fact nowtv looks like an insanely cheap way to get TV. seeing as their major channels can be watched live in that price. And even movie passes can be had for 15 for 3 months on ebay.
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Game of Thrones Series 1-3 were available for 60 days and have now been taken off the service (they were removed the same day as S4E1, which was available for 30 days). This is the downside of NowTV. Being a Sky service, it's getting the big shows (GoT, Boardwalk Empire, 24: LAD, True Detective, Penny Dreadful and so on) but only for a very limited time. Outside of that, there's a reasonable amount of content with long-term availability, but it falls well behind Netflix and Amazon in this area. Also streaming quality. NowTV isn't great. Probably the weakest of the three. And it breaks a lot, resulting in lots of free month/£10 shopping voucher promises that are yet to be fulfilled. I'd still take it over a Sky sub, but I'll probably take a break once GoT and 24 are finished (unless Penny Dreadful turns out to be really good or they get The Wire/Boardwalk Empire back on catch-up so I can finish watching them).

I didn't find much appeal in the Movies subscription. The back catalogue was no better than Netflix or Amazon and it was rare that I'd find a Premier worth watching that I hadn't already seen. This month the big films are Pacific Rim, The Internship, The Croods and White House Down. Next month it's Kick-Ass 2 and Elysium. Personally I'd rather rent a couple of new releases a month from Xbox Video or Blinkbox and get films that I haven't watched yet and I'm actually excited to see.
 
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shadow_boxer said:
Same. Most eargerly awaited episode in quite awhile for me.
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yup, really want to see the result of the trial/duel.... am hoping they show a bit more of the wall/wildlings/white walkers etc... shouldn't that wildling army be assaulting it by now - surely that has to happen soon...
 
satchef1 said:
Game of Thrones Series 1-3 were available for 60 days and have now been taken off the service (they were removed the same day as S4E1, which was available for 30 days). This is the downside of NowTV. Being a Sky service, it's getting the big shows (GoT, Boardwalk Empire, 24: LAD, True Detective, Penny Dreadful and so on) but only for a very limited time. Outside of that, there's a reasonable amount of content with long-term availability, but it falls well behind Netflix and Amazon in this area. Also streaming quality. NowTV isn't great. Probably the weakest of the three. And it breaks a lot, resulting in lots of free month/£10 shopping voucher promises that are yet to be fulfilled. I'd still take it over a Sky sub, but I'll probably take a break once GoT and 24 are finished (unless Penny Dreadful turns out to be really good or they get The Wire/Boardwalk Empire back on catch-up so I can finish watching them).

I didn't find much appeal in the Movies subscription. The back catalogue was no better than Netflix or Amazon and it was rare that I'd find a Premier worth watching that I hadn't already seen. This month the big films are Pacific Rim, The Internship, The Croods and White House Down. Next month it's Kick-Ass 2 and Elysium. Personally I'd rather rent a couple of new releases a month from Xbox Video or Blinkbox and get films that I haven't watched yet and I'm actually excited to see.
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It's got to be better than the £110 I'm paying at the moment. Cut that back to £35 for fibre and telephone. £10 for entertainment and movies and if I really want sports £5-10 for a day pass. I have Netflix and amazon as well.

Movies you get ~4 a week just depends what they are and if you've seen them in the cinema.
Sky get the new stuff and neglect back catalogue. Netflix get back catalogue but can't get new stuff thanks to sky.
 
Calm said:
So basically they aren't doing streams because they believe it'll hurt their cable subscriptions. And being the most pirated, is great advertising.
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Yes. The revenue from regular subscriptions is far higher and more reliable than from a couple of successful series. If you only bought GoT on DVD/BR then they'd get a few quid. Pay a monthly sub in order to watch it and they are quids in. Even if you streamed it, the returns are much worse. They are not stupid, and make TV for their benefit, not viewer's.
 
if they prolong the dual until the last episode of this serious i wil not be happy but atleast we (who haven't read the book) no who it is now.

glad that nutty bird flew aswell.
 
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This show just keeps getting better. It's probably the only thing I watch where I don't look at the clock. I was cheering my head off for the second time this series. :D
 
cm1179 said:
if they prolong the dual until the last episode of this serious i wil not be happy but atleast we (who haven't read the book) no who it is now.

glad that nutty bird flew aswell.
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The names of the episodes give a good indication :)
 
Aedus said:
The names of the episodes give a good indication :)
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i don't want to spoil it. i'm tempted to wait until the series ends so i can watch them all in one go as the week wait is getting to breaking bad proportions now and the scenery gets better and better. i don't know why but i was blown away by the fork in the trail!
 
ZG002 said:
This is how I think it will go down, not sure how it will happen, but Cersei could well have a hand in picking the mountain as surely that would give her the best odds on a favourable out come, Then Oberyn volunteers as it's the reason he is in kings landing? Something like that could happen.
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I actually got it right :D

Loved that ep :)
 
Whoop! The Mountain vs Oberyn fight is on. :D

Nice stuff with Littlefinger giving his new wife the heave ho.

If Dany keeps flirting with Daario then I can see Jorah re-entering Varys' employ...

Edit: But no episode next week. :(
 
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