Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
13-09-2022, 02:04
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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My contract is up with Virgin in a few weeks, any of you guys threatened to cancel and then received a better deal? Thx.
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When a contract ends mate best advice i can give is aske yourself "do i need it? Do i want it? Can i afford it?"
if you answer no to just one of those questions then you're just wasting money.
A lot of people i know with VM are dropping the tv and just keeping broadband and they have been given good deals on that.
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13-09-2022, 11:47
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
It will be interesting to see whether the trend in this difficult financial climate will be to drop the pay-TV channels in favour of SVOD streamers or to drop the streamers in favour of TV channels.
Some, of course, will drop pay-TV altogether for the time being.
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13-09-2022, 12:08
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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It will be interesting to see whether the trend in this difficult financial climate will be to drop the pay-TV channels in favour of SVOD streamers or to drop the streamers in favour of TV channels.
Some, of course, will drop pay-TV altogether for the time being.
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I’m more interested to see the opposite effect. Disposable streamers dropped in favour of existing incumbents who deliver premium content and greatest value, often alongside a essential services (broadband and mobile) being better able to weather the storm than those losing tens/hundreds of millions a year relying on generous benefactors.
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13-09-2022, 14:05
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I'm awaiting confirmation on a rumour i've been told that Amazon are looking to make huge cost cuts.
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13-09-2022, 16:31
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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When a contract ends mate best advice i can give is aske yourself "do i need it? Do i want it? Can i afford it?"
if you answer no to just one of those questions then you're just wasting money.
A lot of people i know with VM are dropping the tv and just keeping broadband and they have been given good deals on that.
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Hi mate, I would definitely like to keep it as I just love my football, if it wasn't for the football I would have probably just gone the BB route and used streamers for the content that we like.
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13-09-2022, 17:57
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Hi mate, I would definitely like to keep it as I just love my football, if it wasn't for the football I would have probably just gone the BB route and used streamers for the content that we like.
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A bargaining chip you might be able to use atm mate is SKY are doing SKYsports pack for £18p/m
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13-09-2022, 19:17
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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A bargaining chip you might be able to use atm mate is SKY are doing SKYsports pack for £18p/m
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I've been on their site and the cheapest I can get which is similar to what I have with Virgin is £97.50 when you start to add on BT Sport etc it soon makes their deals very similar to what Virgin offer.
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13-09-2022, 19:40
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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I've been on their site and the cheapest I can get which is similar to what I have with Virgin is £97.50 when you start to add on BT Sport etc it soon makes their deals very similar to what Virgin offer.
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What about BT TV? You can now stream most of the Freeview channels without the need for an aerial.
https://www.bt.com/tv/packages
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Netflix is continuing to look more and more like the incumbents.
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Netflix is considering the unthinkable - and that's getting rid of the ability to binge-watch our favourite shows on release day.
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13-09-2022, 21:18
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
I've never understood why Netflix do that anyway.
Releasing entire seasons in one go always seemed a bizarre thing to do.
I have never binge watched an entire season of anything, I dont have the time.
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13-09-2022, 21:24
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
I will just wait and binge the series as I do with most things. There are only a couple of things I watch week to week
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13-09-2022, 21:25
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k
I'm awaiting confirmation on a rumour i've been told that Amazon are looking to make huge cost cuts.
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I wonder what that is as Amazon reinvest their profits to avoid hefty tax bills.
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13-09-2022, 21:38
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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I've never understood why Netflix do that anyway.
Releasing entire seasons in one go always seemed a bizarre thing to do.
I have never binge watched an entire season of anything, I dont have the time.
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I think they did it originally to be different and get a few media headlines. However, they're probably realising that it's best to string out a good series so that people don't binge a series and then cancel till something else they like comes out.
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13-09-2022, 22:30
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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I think they did it originally to be different and get a few media headlines. However, they're probably realising that it's best to string out a good series so that people don't binge a series and then cancel till something else they like comes out.
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How is that going to stop them? wait till it finishes watch it cancel rinse and repeat
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14-09-2022, 00:18
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Well a typical Netflix Season is 10 episodes, so to watch it weekly, you would need a 3 month subscription, not one month.
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14-09-2022, 02:11
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Netflix seem to be doing everything they can to push customers away.
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