I'm moving and am looking at what my best options are.
The flat is already fitted out with a Sky dish and looks like it runs into the bedroom and living room.
It also has fibre, so I am set for all options.


Currently I have BT Infinity with BT TV and Sports, with HD.
The price isnt bad at £45 per month, uncapped and about 65 mbps at peak.
The problem is it is flakey as fuck and any TV that isn't SD freeview comes down the internet. A big problem especially when watching sports. The Youview box is also limited and doesnt have a Prime or Youtube app.

For online services, well impressed with Prime as a whole but the TV/Movie isnt as good as Netflix and Audio not as good as Spotify/Deezer. Overall though it is well worth the price.

IanHamlett wrote:

Amazon Prime. If it wasn't for the next day delivery if would not be worth it.

This.

I don't have a TV. Join me. I ignore BBC letters and then the man comes to my flat and I mess with him a bit, eventually letting him in to see my consoles and monitor set up.

I only use iPlayer and All 4. Occasionally I watch something on YouTube or TED. Netflix often tempts me, but I can't find more than a couple of things on it that I'm actually that bothered about watching. Fuck Sky and anything else that puts adverts into a service you've paid for, that's such an insult I'm more than happy to pirate anything exclusive to them.

I watch most of my stuff through Google Cast, it works pretty much flawlessly.

It is a nice notion Oznoz but I'm at capacity for learning already.
Taught myself Illustrator and Substance Painter this month.

I do plan on getting a dog though.

The big problem is I like to watch the football but doing that legit costs a fortune.
They have tried to stop a monopoly by splitting how many games any one provider can show but the reality is you end up having to get two subscriptions.

legaldinho wrote:

I don't have a TV.

This.

Dark Soldier wrote:

Paying for media in 2016 lol

And that.

For people who don't miss £7 each month (majority), it's hard to understand how DS and I became opposed on more than just financial grounds. If I still had a good disposable, sure, I'd probably pay for this stuff without much thought; that's how they get away with offering subpar services. But it's when that small amount means something to you that failings become critical in your choice. If I'm gonna pay for it, then - since that represents a fair cost to me - I want it to provide everything I'm after, thereabouts.

But it doesn't. That's why I refuse; I'm not stretching myself to afford something that fails everyone via an overall lack of discernment. People complain, 'course they do, but that's all they do, 'cause what's £7?! And I'd still have to stream sports, 'cause I'd never afford those. If I could get everything (Oldman GIF) for £12 pm, as Sky was in the mid-'90s - boom! - where do I sign? (That's the cost for Ruya, BTW.)

Netflix want a sub-par service when I last used it. I'm going to torrent Star Wars because I can't rent it anywhere, though.

Liveinadive wrote:

A few of my mates use the VPNed Indian streams for the Prem, then wifi it about using a media hub type PC. It is a right faff though.

Acestream plus a USB is all you need, if you don't mind the occasional commentary being in Russian or something, which honestly is more entertaining than the classic Savage/Owen masterclass.

As/When/If/Lol I get my own place I wouldn't sign up to any service unless I was making a couple grand a month or more. Far more intriguing things to spend disposable income on than an advert box.

Amazon Prime (as others say, the delivery thing helps a lot with that), Netflix (the exclusives make it pretty much worth it), plus FreeView for the odd time I just want something on, but All4 and iPlayer for most stuff that I actually want to watch.

I'd sign up to HBO Go in a heartbeat if it didn't involve dicking around with VPNs.

And yes, the splitting up of football was an extremely dumb idea, however, I'm very glad that the rights were sold to Sky so I don't ever have to watch it.

Liveinadive wrote:

Netflix was great with a VPN.
Now I can't see it being worth it beyond 6 months for most.

This is my problem with it. Well, any service, really. There isn't enough to watch. If Google Play had rent options for the stuff I wanted, it'd be all I use. As it is, I'm forced to sign up for a bit then cancel for some stuff and torrent for others. The media industry is an absolute shambles.

AJ wrote:

Netflix want a sub-par service when I last used it. I'm going to torrent Star Wars because I can't rent it anywhere, though.

I had Prime for a short while, and in fairness, I watched Sons of Anarchy (lol), all of the Blackadders, and up to the third series of Vikings. With a clean slate, it was absolutely worth £6 to me. But having watched a fair bit, I'd have been paying for nowt most months thereafter. Smash-and-grab.

Consolidated content's the future hope, with any differences coming from the quality and reliability of streaming, instead of having fractured content all over the shop in each vendor's interests.

Yep, fuck exclusivity deals.

As an aside, purely for my own purpose, how many titles, tv + film, does Netflix currently have/offer? If there is such a statistic.

EDIT: Doesn't matter, found it. Roughly 10-15k or summat across all regions.