yeah BLUERAY..... we have a guy who downloads them for us but am getting fibre in properly, not the lower ****ty broadband. that blueray stuff... well they get you blocked if you don't know what you are at and i don't know what i'd be at. I agree about that sky ****e... spectre was the same and its not real, its preorder pretending to be right up to date and then i suppose you realise in 8 months you ordered it. I agree about broadcast TV. all the TV companies need to sit down and figure this out. HBO etc.. they cannot offer 500 different subscriptions so they will have to get with the program. Sky used to offer a customisable offering where it was a couple of quid for the discovery type channels, a couple quid ofr the kids but they stopped allowing people pikc and choose so much. I think they have to go back to that type of model and it should all be on demand. You have to be able to pick what you want and the rest go in a general pot. I WISH i could stop paying for e, mtv etc (well MTv has ridiculousness which is fun) cos i find them horrible. I can block channels but i'd rather remove them all. These issues have to be fixed with TV.
You gotta go find with Netflix, there's a lot of good films but it takes a while before you have a good list going.
New films? Saying that in my job I can get most new the films for free rental. Its the TV stuff thats harder to get as we don't do as many TV series as films, but thats also cause its hard to keep up with which service they're on and its almost impossible to pay for them all. Its no wonder people go for internet piracy, as I used to before we had Sky and certain programmes I'd started watching on terrestrial moved to Sky. I've been tempted many times to go back to these ways.
No none of the new films but I've found loads that I had missed, I'm a fan of it because of the price and that all the kids can use it in different rooms.
It does take place in the US. Not really that weird... Just an alternate history drama- not idiotic like lost, etc. It won't be on any networks because it is an Amazon original. I suspect you need Amazon Prime to see it.
Prime's user interface is nowhere near as nice or polished as Netflix or Hulu. However we get prime really cheap because my wife is back in University so we get the university rate. Prime, Netflix, and Hulu all do their own original programming now. In the case of Netflix and Amazon it's usually higher quality than the dross the major networks put out. Hulu (which you can't get without a US vpn) only produces crap but we use them because they get most of the British shows.
Most of the big TV shows like Game Of Thrones and the Walking Dead broadcast almost simultaneously in the UK and US now, or a day apart, so its not so bad. But I still download them so i can watch them when I want rather than having to be in front of my TV at 9pm on a certain night, plus I would then have to contend with the missus and all the **** she likes to watch. ****ing Eastenders, Corrie, I'm a Celebrity, X Factor and the like, bunch of horse sh it. So I just download it and watch it on my PC with headphones on. But at least there have been some strides in syncing up our TV to America. Used to be when I was younger that shows like the Sopranos and Buffy were about 2 months ahead of us in the US, so I used to download them as well, but its not so bad now. Broadcast TV needs to die a death though, seriously.
I just record, ignore the spolier sites (saddos) and watch when i feel like. thats an old way of doing it though. its the technology of pre fibre. downloading TV and holding it on a drive is like when we had dial up and newspapers could still compete. Theses days I just don't understand how the **** papers are still in shops... old folks i guess. These days there is nothing in a paper i've not seen 2 days before. especially not football junk. all the hacks writing in papers are tweeting the stuff. The thing is... ok i could see how the huddled masses might still need papers cos they can't afford or are so thick the can't google stuff.... but..... actually the TV model is different. You actually have to be RICH to afford all the fees to get the worst service. Its actually your fibre broadband and then go find what you want for free. I can see TV dying off faster than newpapers have declined as a result. The music industry is interesting too. There was mass piracy ten years ago and now with the channels available especially spotify free (the kids love it) theft of musci is probably dead. Mine no longer download music. they used to be streaming killed it.. but all the artists are whining about the customer getting a good deal. Look at adele. nobody pirated her crap they all bought it in store cos the skills to pirate are gone... and the audience wouldn't know where to go anyway. if everyone follows here the pirates will be back. Lazy bitch is to fat to tour to make her money. Spotify might not be my thing but i can see the value.
I can't help but feel that all these are missing a trick. Can anyone tell me if apple TV is applying any of the apple music style stuff? Surely what is needed is a level of personalisation to these services. Like you walk in and the TV says... oh hi there MITO.. (if you are not creeped out by that) and then it's got to know what you like and says hey. I've battle of britain or star wars a new hope.... or if you like theres an episode of GoT where the blonde one gets her kit off... and it can go find new stuff for you. I mean SKY TRIES, but its weak. they do now remember what you did record and record the "next series" but its not joined up and often records wrongly. theres also a basic "similar" feature in there that you can search on one show and it'll give 3/4 others in a similar genre but really you'd want a seamless experience.
Yes. Although if it were just me I'd probably trim the spending. I use Amazon least so probably would drop it). Spend about $25 a month on the three subscriptions which is less than half what I would pay if I had cable TV... Well, I do have basic cable still... But only because the cable company didn't disconnect us after we cancelled. Almost never watch cable though.
I get NBCSN. Not paying for it though. Cable company never turned it off after we cancelled our subscription a few years ago. NBCSN is the only cable I watch. Sports is really the only reason to have cable these days. Not sure what I'd do if cable company turned it off. I can't get NBC Extra though (what I'd really like) because I don't have username/password. But I get to see 90% of weekend league games. It's rare they don't show the Liverpool game.
I use Spotify. I remember about 20 years ago when MP3's first came about. The first MP3's I ever downloaded, I still remember, was "Space - Neighbourhood" "Finlay Quaye - Sunday Shining" and "All Saints - Never Ever" That wasn't because I particularly liked those songs, but because they were the only ones available. I may be a bit archaic in liking to have my TV shows on my harddrive, but it means I can watch them when i want, without having to worry about bandwidth and streaming, (which I wouldn't really anyway because my net connection is ace), but if the net goes down I can still watch ****, and best of all....its free
