Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
05-08-2021, 16:13
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Couldn't agree more. I've recently cancelled Netflix (for the second time - last time was for three months two years ago) for exactly these reasons. Plus I've got plenty of blu rays & dvds I've never watched, not to mention purchased digital content.
I won't say I'll never subscribe to Netflix (or another streamer) again, but in future I'll just sub for a month at a time to watch a particular show, if I sub at all.
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Do Netflix ever do retention or 'come back' deals?
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05-08-2021, 16:15
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Do Netflix ever do retention or 'come back' deals?
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No
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05-08-2021, 16:16
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Do Netflix ever do retention or 'come back' deals?
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No, but they don’t tie you in to a contract either. You can come and go as you please.
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05-08-2021, 18:00
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Originally Posted by muppetman11
Further devaluing your current Sky subscription , its now getting to the point where I say what exactly is the point of a Sky subscription.
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I don’t think so, muppetman. You need to remember that these are AVOD streamers that are provided free of charge. It is also the half-way house to the eventual abolition of the pay-tv channels.
If the content is integrated into Sky’s system as they say it will, all the better. Everything on one box.
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No point just buy a streaming device its much cheaper.
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If it was up to me, I would. However, my wife is tech-averse and is still trying to adjust to the 360.
If it’s all integrated into one box, it makes things so much easier than having to access multiple watchlists.
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We’ve been approaching for years by your count.
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And there are some years to go by my count.
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05-08-2021, 18:02
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You are missing the main point you are still paying the best part of £45 plus just to get entry to these with Sky if you want HD and multiroom capability.
If you want streaming services its much better to elect for Freesat or Freeview topped up with the services of your choice you can then add/remove these as required.
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05-08-2021, 18:08
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k
What at it for playing smart and knowing how the streaming world is growing so investing in it?
It's called good business practise and is the way forward.
Edit: VM have quite a few things in the pipeline.
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I do hope so, Legendkiller. They are behind the curve at the moment, having started with great promise when they gave us Netflix.
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You are missing the main point you are still paying the best part of £45 plus just to get entry to these with Sky if you want HD and multiroom capability.
If you want streaming services its much better to elect for Freesat or Freeview topped up with the services of your choice.
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As I have explained, though, with all the streamers on the Sky system, you can access them all with just one watchlist.
Your original point was that the new AVOD streamers would devalue Sky, when all they are doing is adding free services without taking anything away. Surely, that’s added value?
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But the base entry package to get all this devalues with each deal they announce , if you want all this content I'm not sure why you'd pay for Sky and its 18 month lock ins to get it but each to their own.
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I can’t agree with that view at all for the reason I have given. Sky won’t lose any subscribers by what it has done - quite the contrary, I would have thought.
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05-08-2021, 18:09
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I do hope so, Legendkiller. They are behind the curve at the moment, having started with great promise when they gave us Netflix.
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As I have explained, though, with all the streamers on the Sky system, you can access them all with just one watchlist.
Your original point was that the new AVOD streamers would devalue Sky, when all they are doing is adding free services without taking anything away. Surely, that’s added value?
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As far as I'm aware I can't add things to one watch list on Sky Q and I'm still currently using the service. How are these additions free ? The Paramount + service requires you to have Sky Cinema which many don't have these days and last time I looked that was an additional £11.
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05-08-2021, 18:15
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Originally Posted by bluecatt73
Couldn't agree more. I've recently cancelled Netflix (for the second time - last time was for three months two years ago) for exactly these reasons. Plus I've got plenty of blu rays & dvds I've never watched, not to mention purchased digital content.
I won't say I'll never subscribe to Netflix (or another streamer) again, but in future I'll just sub for a month at a time to watch a particular show, if I sub at all.
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But isn’t that the beauty of the streamers? No contractual commitments, so you can chop and change every month if you want to.
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As far as I'm aware I can't add things to one watch list on Sky Q and I'm still currently using the service. How are these additions free ? The Paramount + service requires you to have Sky Cinema which many don't have these days and last time I looked that was an additional £11.
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Yes, sorry, I didn’t realise you didn’t have Sky Cinema.
But I was sure you could bookmark Netflix and Prime shows on Sky - I thought it was supposed to be an integrated system. You can even do that on the V6.
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05-08-2021, 18:22
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Whatever happened to Sky Q via broadband?
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05-08-2021, 18:22
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Integrated in that Amazon Prime and Netflix titles see showcased with the Sky On Demand content but that's about it as far as I'm aware.
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05-08-2021, 18:26
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Integrated in that Amazon Prime and Netflix titles see showcased with the Sky On Demand content but that's about it as far as I'm aware.
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Can you not bookmark on demand content though?
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05-08-2021, 18:32
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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Can you not bookmark on demand content though?
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No don't think so
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05-08-2021, 19:14
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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No don't think so
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I’m seeing my daughter at the weekend and I will find out for you.
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Whatever happened to Sky Q via broadband?
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It’s just launched….in Germany.
https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2021...sion-of-sky-q/
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05-08-2021, 22:54
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Re: Streaming services news, offers and general chit chat
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However, if you cannot see what is happening before your very eyes, there’s not going to be anything I can do to make you see it.
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Okay Mystic Meg.
By definition I can only see the present with my “very eyes”. Your projections for the future are merely that - speculative, often based on what you desire to happen rather than the likelihood of them happening. Economics - which underpins the great capitalist endeavour - would indicate you are much further than you opine.
I’m still waiting on whether linear television as understood by the rest of the forum over IPTV is linear by your own definition. Which as we all know would significantly negate your ability to further shift the goalposts as you have done before.
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05-08-2021, 23:04
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Does the Sky integrated search return results include services you're not subscribed to?
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No
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That's a shame, but last time I looked Netflix was only £4 via Sky with free HD/UHD if you already subscribed to those services.
Now TV can be had for as little as £1 a month with retention deals. I wonder if free Paramount+ will be added to Sky Cinema when bought through Now TV?
I find that Sky Cinema is usually a lot cheaper through Now TV than via VM, but I still don't find it worth subscribing to.
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