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Emmersons_BrazillianDong said:
Mad when you list it like that. Would love to see some of the costs when people add sky or virgin TV into that. I bet there's a few paying over £200 per month!!!!
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I'd say so, people with sky multiroom, fast broadband and all the TV packages above and then the likes of Britbox, Hulu, Paramount etc be easy £200 a month. Unreal

It's no wonder people have dodgy boxes.
 
If anyone has any students in the house don't forget to switch your prime account to student prime, it is half price. Likewise make use of Spotify student etc if paying for that
 
VestasBoro said:
I'd say so, people with sky multiroom, fast broadband and all the TV packages above and then the likes of Britbox, Hulu, Paramount etc be easy £200 a month. Unreal

It's no wonder people have dodgy boxes.
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Yeah the only thing we really pay for is fast broadband at 2gb, and to licence. Prime video is a consequence of having prime so I don't include that, and don't use it directly anyways. Easier to just have all the shows & movies I watch tracked in the same place than to stream some and download the rest
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
Yeah the only thing we really pay for is fast broadband at 2gb, and to licence. Prime video is a consequence of having prime so I don't include that, and don't use it directly anyways. Easier to just have all the shows & movies I watch tracked in the same place than to stream some and download the rest
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Thats the trouble i have. Everything is spread out between the different platforms, but i use the Hobi app to keep up to date with when a new episode is released. It's also really good for finding shows i'd never have found before, and shows new and upcoming stuff too. Anyone who watches alot of TV the majority of it on netflix/prime/US TV then i think an app like that is a must.
 
An ad at the start of a movie/show won't bother me too much tbh, but if they introduce breaks to show adverts, then I'll probably cancel instantly unless they reduce the price.
 
worth noting that if you have certain sky packages you get Netflix free. so if you have the full signature, HD and UDH you get the 16 quid netflix free as part of it. then it downgrades for just HD to the lower netflix. i bet tonnes of people are paying for both and don't know it
 
ThatFragranceGuy said:
I used to pay for a cineworld card, netflix, apple TV, paramount and prime, although like you I have that for deliveries anyways. Combined it was a pretty sum, although I've not bothered with sky or virgin in a long time

I have a low power server that sits in my office. I tell it what shows I want to watch, what movies I want to watch, and specify a quality. I can subscribe to lists (e.g any horror film above 7.5 on IMDB) that will auto download films above a certain criteria, or I can log in via an app to browse each streaming service and see what is trending, or I can do it all manually. Everything downloads in the top available quality with audio codecs, I watch it directly on my TV, but I can also watch it on any device around the home or even away from home. Its as easy or complicated as you want to make it. you can even make kids accounts and control which genres they're able to watch, and with a request portal, anything can be requested and added. With a 2GB up/down connection, stuff downloads pretty much instantly if I don't already have it, and it monitors for new episodes, new releases, quality upgrades etc. You can even download for offline viewing when travelling.

There will never be a one-service-fits-all model like that for watching TV/movies I am guessing, other than IPTV sticks, but they're very spotty and massively compressed. So certainly no legit ones. I want it at the same quality as a physical release where possible, and with atmos soundtrack intact. and not looking like a jpeg that's been saved 18 times.
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Isn’t this all illegal 😳
 
The problem with streaming services is that there are so many now and when you add sky into the mix it's a hefty outlay per month, if you want to access them all.

IPTV is obviously costing them all significantly and I can see a time when the streaming services offer a collective package, at a combined reduced cost.

Each platform has some decent stuff, but none enough to justify that provider as a single chosen provider, which I guess is deliberate.
 
Jonny Ingbar said:
The problem with streaming services is that there are so many now and when you add sky into the mix it's a hefty outlay per month, if you want to access them all.

IPTV is obviously costing them all significantly and I can see a time when the streaming services offer a collective package, at a combined reduced cost.

Each platform has some decent stuff, but none enough to justify that provider as a single chosen provider, which I guess is deliberate.
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That's exactly how cable/sky worked and is the main reason streaming was so popular because you no longer had to pay for everything, just what you wanted to watch (when you wanted to watch it). Sky especially has been selling their service as a streaming box with Netflix and the other apps included and you can pay for some of those packages through the Sky subscription. It's just the networks trying to force everyone back to a model that consumers rejected so they can serve us adverts.
 
I cancelled Amazon and Audible off the back of this because it is pure greed. I don't even watch that much on Prime video, but I am getting sick of these big companies turning the screw for every last penny. It's capitalism and as other have said they have shareholders to please, but at some point people have to vote with their wallet\purse\direct debits etc.
 
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