I am subbing Sky, netflix, youtube HD, prime for less than £35 per month. Then will take a silly offer of a few quid (or free) to binge watch any series i missed out on on Disney once in a while.
Thats a price level I am comfortable with.
Fragmentation of streaming services - can they survive
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I am subbing Sky, netflix, youtube HD, prime for less than £35 per month. Then will take a silly offer of a few quid (or free) to binge watch any series i missed out on on Disney once in a while.
Thats a price level I am comfortable with.
you mean music , videos , add free or ? ... didn't know they had a 4k service yet in uk
Sorry i meant Youtube Premium. So ad free and can download videos and get Youtube music as well with it.
I'm close to doing a rolling 6 months on streamers.
It's more content than cost. I'd quite happily pay netflixs price for 1080 continuously if there was constant content. By that I mean enough TV to watch 1 hour a day 5 days a week.
There is not enough of this anymore.
I think I've basically watched all the 'old' content that might have been tucked away for years that I never saw and now it's down to new content Being released.
I'd prefer netflix stick to TV shows as most of thier films are Sub par. But TV shows are average or above in general. Some are. Exceptional. All my favourite TV series (top 5)have been netflix original or bought by netflix.
But content is drying up.
Got this 6 months of Disney. But I don't there's 6 months of TV on it. I've looked.
As I said before amazon prime had 0 content I wanted to watch.
So I have to give a lot of credit to netflix. Its been our sole TV provider for 5 years and I've not needed anything else. That's some doing
It's more content than cost. I'd quite happily pay netflixs price for 1080 continuously if there was constant content. By that I mean enough TV to watch 1 hour a day 5 days a week.
There is not enough of this anymore.
I think I've basically watched all the 'old' content that might have been tucked away for years that I never saw and now it's down to new content Being released.
I'd prefer netflix stick to TV shows as most of thier films are Sub par. But TV shows are average or above in general. Some are. Exceptional. All my favourite TV series (top 5)have been netflix original or bought by netflix.
But content is drying up.
Got this 6 months of Disney. But I don't there's 6 months of TV on it. I've looked.
As I said before amazon prime had 0 content I wanted to watch.
So I have to give a lot of credit to netflix. Its been our sole TV provider for 5 years and I've not needed anything else. That's some doing
Also switched over to Youtube Premium and using the music, enabled me to ditch Spotify and save even more money last year. It's not as refined as Spotify but it's perfectly adequate and a worthwhile substitute. Doing the indian vpn trick for £1.30, could do Argentina for more savings but I can't grumble about such a little price per month.
Isn't that on a cheaper sub though? Seems like a good idea to me.
Its either bottom sub or bottom and middle sub not known which yet but it said the bottom tiers, there is nothing good about it unless you dont care paying for the 4k sub. Or do you think they going to add new cheaper subs for it?
Why would you want or need to sub to all of them at the same time? There would be more content that anyone could possible watch. It’s perfectly reasonable to rotate through the services as and when you want them.
Families. My son and wife are watching stuff on Netflix while I'm watching Disney+.
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I think that's the most sensible way forward.
Then it just will be a matter of digital competing against physical in the same way as your Steam vs physical example. That will be instead of having multiple digital companies competing against each other.
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I can easily get through 4 episodes of something a night. Others probably a lot more. That can be a series finished in 2 or 3 sittings. Unless you've never seen anything on Netflix or Amazon etc.. you've likely already seen most of the good stuff you want to watch, and are waiting for the next show you are interested in to land next week e.g. the final part of Ozarks.
Only subbing to one, without getting shows from elsewhere, might leave you short on stuff to watch. Then you are stuck having to go out onto the UK highstreet
If you are the bill payer you put your foot down on multiple subs surely ... like you would on the families food diet, it's not a democracy.
what series would you practically want to watch four episodes of, in an evening ? it would be boring as hell -even breaking bad first time round, or dexter.
e: would you drink a full bottle of a decent whiskey
e2: but maybe a cheap bottle of cider
what series would you practically want to watch four episodes of, in an evening ? it would be boring as hell -even breaking bad first time round, or dexter.
e: would you drink a full bottle of a decent whiskey
e2: but maybe a cheap bottle of cider
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I totally recognise that people want to watch different things, however, I hate to bring in a ‘when I was a lad story’ but I’m going to.
When I lived with my family, we had the choice of the basic TV channels on one TV, later I got my own TV but there was no chance my parents would shell out for something like Sky or Virgin (both were available) let alone something multi room on top of the basic packages. That was that.
So yeh, having to choose between a plethora of different streaming services is by definition a first world problem
I can easily get through 4 episodes of something a night. Others probably a lot more. That can be a series finished in 2 or 3 sittings. Unless you've never seen anything on Netflix or Amazon etc.. you've likely already seen most of the good stuff you want to watch, and are waiting for the next show you are interested in to land next week e.g. the final part of Ozarks.
Only subbing to one, without getting shows from elsewhere, might leave you short on stuff to watch. Then you are stuck having to go out onto the UK highstreet
I guess I have more to do away from the telly.
The point was sub to one, Watch what you want to watch, move on to the next one, come back the first one a few months later.packaging multiple streamers at reduced annual rates like sky/netflix maybe the economic solution ...
sky had had some of few series I watched gomorah & TWD, but seem to have let TWD go to netflix in anticipation.
Looking out for a good Eurosport annual deal they sometimes have £20 which is good for tdf & moto.
Hmmh - HBOmax - UK is not yet slated for it
but 3rd place above disney in usa
content https://www.androidauthority.com/hbo-max-movies-tv-shows-1123768/
sky had had some of few series I watched gomorah & TWD, but seem to have let TWD go to netflix in anticipation.
Looking out for a good Eurosport annual deal they sometimes have £20 which is good for tdf & moto.
Hmmh - HBOmax - UK is not yet slated for it
but 3rd place above disney in usa
content https://www.androidauthority.com/hbo-max-movies-tv-shows-1123768/
So yeh, having to choose between a plethora of different streaming services is by definition a first world problem
Wait, are you saying you grew up in the third world? I'm assuming not, which means it's more of just a modern-day issue I think
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I think Prime video is a very good price with the included delivery service. All the others are probably going to be affected as people cut back on spending.
