Sigh. I don't want to, but...

If I can't get it on blu ray from love film and is not on free view hd I'll torrent
Simple

I'm not paying sky for all the guff I won't watch

Like in this thread, it's easier, better, anytime access and cheaper to do it illegally. the content controllers are basically encouraging you to.
This coupled with slow inet means no streaming

I dint much care for the sob stories from the film industry about jobs etc, I pay my love film subscription, that's enough asking with the extortionate cinema
 
al4x said:
If I can't get it on blu ray from love film and is not on free view hd I'll torrent
Simple

I'm not paying sky for all the guff I won't watch
Like in this thread, it's easier, better, anytime access and cheaper to do it illegally. the content controllers are basically encouraging you to.
This coupled with slow inet means no streaming

I dint much care for the sob stories from the film industry about jobs etc, I pay my love film subscription, that's enough asking with the extortionate cinema
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Loving your sense of entitlement there! as so often in these threads I hang my head. The shows belong to the content makers, they decide how much they cost and when/where they are shown if you don't agree with either then don't watch really it isn't difficult. :o
 
One year on from making this thread and the distribution model still sucks donkey balls.

Having just decided I'd like to watch a certain film, I check which (legal) streaming services will let me watch it. None. You have to get the DVD.

Wut? It's 2014, you know. I'll pay you money to watch your film but I threw my DVD player away years ago. Who wants to wait for a DVD in the post anyhow? With all the scratches, etc, that might render it unwatchable.

Nevermind. It's a film that's already been on TV so meh, I'll just find it online.

How many more years are the big film publishers going to drag their feet? What good is it for Lovefilm, etc, to sign up to exclusive agreements which only let them supply DVDs?

Physical media are/should be going the way of the dinosaur. It's about time these people got with the programme :/

[edit: turns out this particular film can only be streamed in the US due to licensing issues. If you aren't in the US... **** you, say the film studios. OK then.]
 
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Hey.

If physical media left I might add well go back to a 420p TV
I can't steam anything above that
Few services let you download

So I torrent to try and if I like will get it on blu ray

Streaming is just not an option
 
al4x said:
Hey.

If physical media left I might add well go back to a 420p TV
I can't steam anything above that
Few services let you download

So I torrent to try and if I like will get it on blu ray

Streaming is just not an option
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When I say "streaming" I'm also including legal, time-limited download services.

So even on crap broadband you can ditch the physical media, to a certain extent. Depends how much you watch and if you're capped.
 
FoxEye said:
When I say "streaming" I'm also including legal, time-limited download services.

So even on crap broadband you can ditch the physical media, to a certain extent. Depends how much you watch and if you're capped.
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Not capped. But it's a ball Ache. To download one GoT in HD 5.1 takes a 24 hours of full bandwidth or more
That's 5 days ish of real server uptime
 
If you just type 1s and 0s randomly eventually you'll get a string which is binary code for the media you want to watch/listen/read. Basically that makes everything digital free.
 
al4x said:
Not capped. But it's a ball Ache. To download one GoT in HD 5.1 takes a 24 hours of full bandwidth or more
That's 5 days ish of real server uptime
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The problem there is how much the UK lags behind other nations in terms of building a 21st century communications network.

Compared to other places we pay through the nose for a very slow connection indeed.
 
Which only goes further to proving that your previous suggestion that physical media is/should be on the way out is misguided. Until the infrastructure is there to allow it (and the studios etc are fully behind that sort of model) physical media is here to stay and for all our sakes, it needs to be.
 
I pay a TV licence, I pay a Sky subscription, I pay a broadband fee, I pay to regularly watch Films at the flicks.

If I want to down load something to watch off the internet I don't feel like I shouldn't and have no guilty conscience about it. Watch away OP.
 
jamesblade said:
I pay a TV licence, I pay a Sky subscription, I pay a broadband fee, I pay to regularly watch Films at the flicks.

If I want to down load something to watch off the internet I don't feel like I shouldn't and have no guilty conscience about it. Watch away OP.
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So pay the BBC
Pay Sky
Pay BT/Other
Pay Cineworld/other
Steal from NBC/other

So as long as you're only stealing (don't need more posts on why this isn't theft etc. A rose by any other name....) from a few companies but paying others all is well?
 
For films I have recently discovered the Chromecast as I used to buy lots on DvD/Blu-Ray.
Pay for a film on Google Store, get the Chromecast to stream it to the TV. Job done.

But that does require a half decent internet speed! Also when it comes to buying box sets Google is horrendously over priced. The films are quite competitive to retail though.
 
Completely, 100%, agree with the OP.

Like most people my age (27) I grew up with Napster, Limewire etc and 3 years ago I went to Spotify and haven't looked back. Brilliant, simple service that does exactly what I need. Pay for Premium.

Unfortunately the same can't be said for film and TV. Content is split amongst a dozen providers and generally the quality is terrible. Plus I only have 6mb internet so streaming normally isn't an option. In literally every single requirement torrenting wins - choice, quality, pre-download, XBMC library. That doesn't even include price, and I'd be happy to pay for torrenting. Generally I even buy things on DVD/Blu-ray but just download it and don't touch the disc because it's easier, quicker and neater.

Even now, catching up on Rudimental @ Glastonbury, I had to skip 25 minutes in (?!?) to BBC's programme to actually get to Rudimental and the quality is god awful. I'm pretty sure it's about 15 fps instead of 25 and keeps buffering every few minutes.

I work in the media industry and they desperately need to catch up with customer expectations and requirements.
 
Russinating said:
Completely, 100%, agree with the OP.

Like most people my age (27) I grew up with Napster, Limewire etc and 3 years ago I went to Spotify and haven't looked back. Brilliant, simple service that does exactly what I need. Pay for Premium.

Unfortunately the same can't be said for film and TV. Content is split amongst a dozen providers and generally the quality is terrible. Plus I only have 6mb internet so streaming normally isn't an option. In literally every single requirement torrenting wins - choice, quality, pre-download, XBMC library. That doesn't even include price, and I'd be happy to pay for torrenting. Generally I even buy things on DVD/Blu-ray but just download it and don't touch the disc because it's easier, quicker and neater.

Even now, catching up on Rudimental @ Glastonbury, I had to skip 25 minutes in (?!?) to BBC's programme to actually get to Rudimental and the quality is god awful. I'm pretty sure it's about 15 fps instead of 25 and keeps buffering every few minutes.

I work in the media industry and they desperately need to catch up with customer expectations and requirements.
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Agree Spotify has sorted the illegal downloading of music for me, I have no need to now. It's easier than downloading, it's cheaper, I don't need to go to the shop, it has 95% of what I listen to, I can listen offline (massively important) and the quality is OK.

Give me a movie/TV show service that can do all the above, implimented into something like XBMC. With the option of a proper HD/DTS download feature. I would pay a large premium for a service like this, at the moment I have to use Sky/Netflix/Amazon Prime(None which provide a decent HD option), bluray and I still can't watch what I want when it's realised overseas.

So yeah clearly I don't do this and get it otherways. I wonder if they still receive more money now, with the large percentage of pirates, than they would if they had to join together and create one subscription for a whole libary.
 
I've give up with all my subscriptions.
Cancelled Netflix, TV License, Lovefilm etc.

I realised it was just never worth the money.

What I do instead is simply download the first 3-5 episodes of a Tv Series. If I like it enough, I simply order the entire box set on Bluray.
Currently, it's the easiest way to get the content I want in the quality I want. Hassle free.

The problem is also there with Sport. I paid NHL Gamecentre Live for an annual subscription which gives me access to every single in-season game that isn't broadcast on Premier Sports (Sky Add on for £10pm on top of Sky sub).
NHL Gamecenter is great quality, has console apps and they upload condensed versions of every game really quickly. Only cost me £65 for the season which was great value.

However, Premier Sports bought rights to the Playoffs! So all playoff games were on blackout for 48 hours to me. If it was just on Sky I could have watched it but Permier Sports is only bought through Sky as an extra.

Problem is, clearly enough people are paying for it to justify this - although I'm very surprised that is the case.

Competition is often good for the consumers, but when it comes to the distribution of media, it's quite the opposite. It's best if 1 company rules the markret and provides an overall service to cover everything.

Warner Brothers recently complained to me about downloading The Hobbit 2 and some episodes of Supernatural.
By the time they complained, I'd already bought both of these as I enjoyed them.
 
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