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#2548918 24-Aug-2020 17:26

I have to wonder how much TV people "need" to watch. I watch about 1-2 hours per day, maybe 50% TVNZ live or on demand and 50% netflix, BBC or ITV streaming. I think I'd have to give up work or sleeping to consume the volume of content some are subscribing to.

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#2548919 24-Aug-2020 17:27

are there any decent aggregators available in nz? my biggest gripe is having to use different apps for everything..

reelgood looks awesome but only available in US and UK at the mo

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#2548923 24-Aug-2020 17:42

You only need to get them when they have something you want to watch I would rather have all these streaming services than monolithic crappy Sky. I had Amazon free with 2degrees I find Netflix has enough new content to be worthwhile subscribing. I have Google music family and premium because I get 5 sharable family logins and ad free YouTube for the same price as Spotify family i will pick up Disney plus when they release new content i want and the same with Amazon.

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#2548933 24-Aug-2020 18:01

The only thing the fragmentation has going for it, is that you can stop and start your subscriptions as you like. So the solution is, don't run them all at once. This does nothing for your once-a-week releases that are right-up-to-the-minute ala GoT, but it does suit binge-watching, which is what streaming services tend to be fore.

Currently paying for Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+. Likely to drop Disney+ shortly and pick it up again in several months. Dropped Lightbox when my wife changed cellphone carriers. Amazon Prime is just barely hanging on...
There's no reason to have all of them, all the time, unless you are seriously that starved for content or alternative things to do...

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#2548995 24-Aug-2020 18:41

ajw:

DjShadow:

Very much so I think. I remember reading a news story somewhere about piracy being on the rise again as there are too many streaming services offering their own content.

Goes back to how people were upset for paying over $100/month for Sky TV and were happy when Netflix showed up and only cost around $15/month. Now all these streaming services have shown up you could easily be back to paying over $100/month for them all.

I prefer to have a life and hardly watch television.

By have a life, do you mean making non contributory remarks on a thread you have no real reason to otherwise be involved in?

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#2549001 24-Aug-2020 18:52

Streaming started out so promisingly. It was the product most pirates were asking for, however I suspect that the fragmentation will cause piracy to increase again.

My understanding is that music, for the most part, doesn't suffer from the same fragmentation. It's due to the fact that the content is mostly centralised and available to every service that wants it.
Apple being the main exception.

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#2549019 24-Aug-2020 19:24

We asked for new content providers to enter the market to break the Sky monopoly. They gave it to us.

We asked content providers to allow us to pay for only the content we wanted to consume. They gave it to us.

We asked them to do away with contracts so we could come and go as we please. They gave it to us.

We asked them to provide content on demand so we could consume when, where and on whatever device we wanted. They gave it to us.

Now we complain there are too many services?

Pay for what you want, don't pay for what you don't. Chop and change as new content becomes available on the different services. What's not to like?

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#2549027 24-Aug-2020 19:44

i only pay for 1,

youtube premium family $24 month.

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#2549029 24-Aug-2020 19:50

DjShadow:

Very much so I think. I remember reading a news story somewhere about piracy being on the rise again as there are too many streaming services offering their own content.

Goes back to how people were upset for paying over $100/month for Sky TV and were happy when Netflix showed up and only cost around $15/month. Now all these streaming services have shown up you could easily be back to paying over $100/month for them all.

As stated a number of times way back on the Sky bashing threads, I mean discussion threads.... You dont get anything for nothing.

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#2549074 24-Aug-2020 21:00

I just wish the local streaming options properly supported captions. TVNZ has it on some programmes, but then it doesn't work on chromecast.

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#2549090 24-Aug-2020 21:25

pom532:

I just wish the local streaming options properly supported captions. TVNZ has it on some programmes, but then it doesn't work on chromecast.

Agreed. There are a couple I would like to subscribe to but I don't know how good the captions are (or if they offer it at all). So most of my streaming is YouTube/Netflix.

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#2549104 24-Aug-2020 21:48

If people start only using 1 or 2 months a year of a streaming service and only in small numbers some of the lessor services might find the guaranteed revenue of selling to a different platform or streaming service to be a better bet.

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#2549557 25-Aug-2020 15:52

How many streaming services are actually profitable ?

I would wonder how long some can continue running at a loss .

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#2549560 25-Aug-2020 15:57

1101:

How many streaming services are actually profitable ?

I would wonder how long some can continue running at a loss .

Also, consider that once a particular level of uptake is reached, expect companies to start turning the profit wheel..

Somewhat unrelated, but one of our customers got a nice letter from their cloud LOB operator last month giving them 4 weeks notice of a 44% hike of their already non insubstational fees!

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#2549564 25-Aug-2020 16:06

Well I subbed into Netflix about 3 years ago and have been a consistent customer ever since, as their NZ content just keeps growing and their own productions are pretty top notch too.

AppleTV+ came free for a year with a new iPad (and isn’t likely to survive once that expires, particularly as new content is even less possible now with Covid)

DisneyPlus came as a ‘splurge’ last lockdown for $100/year (roughly $8.30/month) and I’ve now watched all the ‘good’ (Marvel) content in sequence for way less than hiring the individual shows legally, so it’s likely to take a hiatus when the year’s up too (also due to Covid scheduling issues with movie content)

So for roughly $25/month I could get all these consistently for less than the ‘base’ cost of Sky, and have exactly the content I want when I want it... or jump in and out of each (keen for HBO too!) and pay $10-$20/month indefinitely quite happily.

But if a pain having to open 3 different apps to pick from, but worth the while for the price as it stands right now 👍

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