Paramount+ set to launch in NZ (and AU) on August 11.

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#284658 7-May-2021 23:24

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-plus-australia-nz-launch-1234949704/

Definitely feeling overloaded on the amount of streaming services out there now. I’m currently with Apple TV, Disney+ and Netflix. I won’t be adding another. Will be interesting to see their content library.

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#2703591 7-May-2021 23:43

My DVD rental spend used to be $12 per week. Close equal to four streaming services. Maybe I'll add one more. Maybe not.

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#2703627 8-May-2021 09:42

Oh great, another streamer...

i feel we are about to go full circle soon.... by that I mean back in the VHS days, there would be one or two major distributors e.g. “village roadshow”, and they were what we now call “content aggregators”.

I feel this should happen soon..... one or two major content aggregators e.g. Netflix, and Amazon to “distribute” other content providers work.

makes sense.....it made sense back then too...

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#2703631 8-May-2021 09:52

So people complained Sky was too expensive.... so now theyre paying more than Sky a month for even more stuff they wont watch ;)

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#2703634 8-May-2021 10:55

Wonder if this means channels like Comedy Central and Nick will get withdrawn from Sky?

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#2703636 8-May-2021 11:11

The market is getting flooded now. I only have Netflix, which I get free as I am linked to my son's account.

I may cancel SKY TV and get the Sky Sport Now subscription instead, which will save me $48 per month.

Its my iTunes account that takes my spare cash.

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#2703638 8-May-2021 11:25

Movieman:

The market is getting flooded now. I only have Netflix, which I get free as I am linked to my son's account.

I may cancel SKY TV and get the Sky Sport Now subscription instead, which will save me $48 per month.

Its my iTunes account that takes my spare cash.

I'm feeling tempted to go back to Sky due to so much choice being available.

There is still HBO Max to announce their world-wide expansion, also the same for Peacock

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#2703639 8-May-2021 11:28

Paramount is the home of Star Trek available in NZ on Prime and maybe others from time to time.

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#2703641 8-May-2021 11:34

xpd:

So people complained Sky was too expensive.... so now theyre paying more than Sky a month for even more stuff they wont watch ;)

People keep rehashing this argument. The difference in the bad old days was lack of choice. You gave Sky a big handful of money and they gave you a very limited selection of what they thought you ought to be allowed to watch. I applaud the tremendous explosion of choice we now have thanks to competing streaming services. This is a Good Thing. People should quit whining about the cost of subscribing to all of them. You don't need to subscribe to all of them. If you can only find your favourite choices on six different services, maybe you need to adjust your favourite choices, or even go outside and do something else.

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#2703643 8-May-2021 11:47

xpd:

So people complained Sky was too expensive.... so now theyre paying more than Sky a month for even more stuff they wont watch ;)

Except I can turn them on and off as needed, no hardware to return, on contract, no installer visit. Much better being in an app than a box.

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#2703698 8-May-2021 14:07

I'm tempted to cancel sky sport after 15 years... I just don't have time. Football cricket and f1 on spark.

Primary use of sky box is as PVR which is superfluous with all on demand stuff.

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#2704107 9-May-2021 18:03

xpd:
So people complained Sky was too expensive.... so now theyre paying more than Sky a month for even more stuff they wont watch ;)

I went looking for this comment... wasn't dissapointed...

Others have already explained the improvements of current vs what we had under "nothingbutSky".

No signature to see here, move along...

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#2704206 9-May-2021 22:59

Yup much prefer the choices we have now rather than being limited to sky.
We just subscribe to one service for a few months and catch up on stuff we want to watch then cancel that one and subscribe to another service for a few months. Rinse and repeat.

Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.

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#2704235 10-May-2021 07:59

Goosey:

i feel we are about to go full circle soon.... by that I mean back in the VHS days, there would be one or two major distributors e.g. “village roadshow”, and they were what we now call “content aggregators”.

I feel this should happen soon..... one or two major content aggregators e.g. Netflix, and Amazon to “distribute” other content providers work.

makes sense.....it made sense back then too...

This is exactly what has been happening the last decade: Netflix, Amazon, Lightbox, Neon et al were the content aggregators.

What we are seeing now is the big studio companies have finally cottoned on to the money to be made in cutting out the distributors and going direct globally to consumers themselves with their own VOD service, and even more so with COVID-19 killing the cinema market.

That's why you are seeing increasing numbers of Amazon, Apple, and Netflix originals; they saw the writing on the wall and knew that if they didn't get some skin in the game, they would only be left with the scraps from the IP owners. The only reason Neon is still around is Sky holding the distribution rights to content that we can't get directly from the supplier here.

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#2704266 10-May-2021 09:23

xpd:

So people complained Sky was too expensive.... so now theyre paying more than Sky a month for even more stuff they wont watch ;)

Err, not quite

For example ...

Netflix $16.99, Disney Plus $12.99, Prime $5.99, Neon $13.95, Prime $9, Apple TV+ $8.99.

Total for 6 streaming services = $67, roughly about a half of what Sky was charging per month a year or so back.

It was too expensive!

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#2705375 10-May-2021 11:27

dafman:

xpd:

So people complained Sky was too expensive.... so now theyre paying more than Sky a month for even more stuff they wont watch ;)

Err, not quite

For example ...

Netflix $16.99, Disney Plus $12.99, Prime $5.99, Neon $13.95, Prime $9, Apple TV+ $8.99.

Total for 6 streaming services = $67, roughly about a half of what Sky was charging per month a year or so back.

It was too expensive!

You've gotten two Primes there.

Regards,

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