What streaming services do you have on subscription? [Cost of Living Crisis Remix]

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That's pretty massive. Only took up the Lloyds bank account because it came with free Disney+ but I can move that now. Wondering why I'm paying £40 for Sky now though :D
 
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Sky brings together Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max and Hayu into one single subscription, exclusively on Sky

Sky today announced that in a world-first, it is bringing together Disney+, HBO Max, Netflix and Hayu into a single Sky TV subscription. Sky becomes the home of must-watch entertainment, with the most popular streaming apps sitting side by side alongside Sky Originals including Saturday Night...
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From launch, HBO Max Basic with Ads will be packaged together with NOW Entertainment, included at no extra cost for existing customers and fully integrated into the NOW platform.
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Sky Atlantic will continue to air upcoming seasons of much-loved HBO shows, such as Euphoria, House of the Dragon and The White Lotus, alongside HBO Max
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That’s a 24 quid add on though right?

So you’re saving money overall but it’ll still be about 35 quid for NowTV and about 60 quid for Sky, before you even get to movies and sports.

Great if you watch all those platforms but otherwise you’re just getting cheaper carrots that come with your potatoes that you didn’t need in the first place.

If they swapped out Hayu for Apple then we might have a deal. Although I get Apple for free anyway.
 
funky said:
That’s a 24 quid add on though right?

So you’re saving money overall but it’ll still be about 35 quid for NowTV and about 60 quid for Sky, before you even get to movies and sports.

Great if you watch all those platforms but otherwise you’re just getting cheaper carrots that come with your potatoes that you didn’t need in the first place.

If they swapped out Hayu for Apple then we might have a deal. Although I get Apple for free anyway.
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No it’s not an add-on. It’s included in one price

For the first time, new customers will be able to get Sky, HBO Max, Disney+, Hayu and Netflix together as part of Sky Ultimate TV from £24 a month
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They might charge £24 for new customers but can't see them being so generous to existing customers even after a haggle. They also whack on not insignificant charges for HD on their Sky packages.
 
It's probably a loss lead for them to avoid mass cord-cutting. Pinning all their hopes on making their dosh from movies and sports. If you've got 4 premium TV services, half of which offer thousands of movies, do you really need Sky Movies anymore?

I don't blame Sky for doing it, it's smart, but they're just delaying their doom. I imagine a future where they're just a Live Sport / PPV platform - very full circle.
 
I’d have probably gone had they not had this HBO Max deal but damn they have the best GUI out of all of them.

I’d say are they’re already full circle. Instead of aggregating channels they’re aggregating streaming services (largely from the same people who owned those channels)
 
Well this is fucking horrible, and somewhat predictable and inevitable. The Netflix deal wasn't ideal, but WB going to Paramount is even worse.

Netflix drops bid for Warner Bros, clearing way for Paramount takeover

One of entertainment's biggest and richest Trump supporters will now have control of Warner Brothers, HBO and more significantly, CNN.

He had already started to turn Paramount's CBS News, previously a mildly left-leaning news channel, into a diet Fox News.

I swear, there is something way bigger happening in the world with this right wing cabal of billionaires.
 
For all the noise about HBO Max UK, at first glance the basic package looks like The Pitt, a lot of stuff that has been shown on Sky over the years, some foreign language shows, Friends and Harry bloody Potter.

I guess as new shows launch without existing deals it may begin to look a bit more interesting.
 
NowTV, clearly shitting it about the decimation of their subscriber base, have hooked me in with their £2.99-a-month for a year offer, because it includes all of HBO Max. As well as my new favourite TV show SNL UK

You need to pay for the fucking boost subscription to get it without ads, but I'm happy to do that for the odd month of concentrated viewing. I guess longterm they won't be able to offer all their programming and all of HBO Max for half the price of HBO Max (who I'm sure will withdraw from Sky/Now at some point too) but for the time being Sky/Now are doing a good job of not dying quietly.
 
Right now:

Hacks
The White Lotus
The Comeback
The Pitt
The Last Of Us
Knight Of Seven Kingdoms
Euphoria
Dune Prophecy

Box sets of The Wire, Sopranos, SATC, Game Of Thrones, Deadwood, Girls, Veep, True Detective, Big Little Lies, Curb Your Enthusiasm …

All the WB movie catalogue

And that’s just scratching the surface!
 
funky said:
Right now:

Hacks
The White Lotus
The Comeback
The Pitt
The Last Of Us
Knight Of Seven Kingdoms
Euphoria
Dune Prophecy

Box sets of The Wire, Sopranos, SATC, Game Of Thrones, Deadwood, Girls, Veep, True Detective, Big Little Lies, Curb Your Enthusiasm …

All the WB movie catalogue

And that’s just scratching the surface!
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So nothing then. I’d quite like to see The Comeback. Hacks maybe one day but not a priority. The rest is either old (already own SATC and Curb) or rubbish.
 
Thought it was a bit funny for all the hype about The Pitt the main billing in the app was for the Harry Potter series trailer
 
I binged 20 years of Grey’s Anatomy in less than 2 years and only just watched my first episode of House MD on Netflix last night. I might start on The Pitt in 2042.
 
funky said:
Right now:

Hacks
The White Lotus
The Comeback
The Pitt
The Last Of Us
Knight Of Seven Kingdoms
Euphoria
Dune Prophecy

Box sets of The Wire, Sopranos, SATC, Game Of Thrones, Deadwood, Girls, Veep, True Detective, Big Little Lies, Curb Your Enthusiasm …

All the WB movie catalogue

And that’s just scratching the surface!
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Hacks doesn't seem to be on there for me. I guess maybe Sky have an exclusive deal or something. No sign of Deadwood the series either, just the movie.

I mean, I've seen both, so it doesn't really matter to me but it isn't as complete at the moment as I thought.

Also being on the basic, included with Sky plan, and seeing 'unavailable with your current plan' and 'get access' all over the films on the homepage is a bit annoying. I can't see anything obvious in settings to filter them out.
 
Too many really but Apple TV is free on some or other deal and Amazon Prime was more for the post and packaging situation. Also the ones we do have are split between my husband and I.
 
I wonder if anyone has Prime for the TV rather than the P&P?

I know if there was a cheaper tier where you just got the P&P I'd very much consider it.
 
I have Apple TV for free as part of a deal with my Internet/Landline provider, but it's been months, and I haven't managed to use it so I just gave up after a handful of tries. It has something to do with the fact that my Apple ID is linked to an email address that is also linked to my iCloud, Apple Music, etc. but I use another email address for my service provider, so I always get an error message saying "This account already exists under another email" or something along those lines. I haven't been able to consolidate everything under one single account. Fuck Apple.
I also get Disney+, HBO, Hulu, and Universal for free and my setup with them was seamless and quick.
 
My gripe with Prime Video is the interface. The selection of older films they have is actually quite exceptional, but without me putting things on a Letterboxd watchlist and getting the notification, I would otherwise never know certain things are available.
 
lolly said:
I wonder if anyone has Prime for the TV rather than the P&P?

I know if there was a cheaper tier where you just got the P&P I'd very much consider it.
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Same, but they do deliver a good show every once in a while, so I’d probably be back and forth with the tier anyway.

I refuse to go premium. Their ad breaks are so tedious, instead of making me want to get rid of them it makes me dig in and refuse to give them any more money.
 
funky said:
Same, but they do deliver a good show every once in a while, so I’d probably be back and forth with the tier anyway.

I refuse to go premium. Their ad breaks are so tedious, instead of making me want to get rid of them it makes me dig in and refuse to give them any more money.
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And the ads appear for longer and more frequently in their new shows and films. Dig in to a random catalogue film and sometimes there are no ads at all.
 
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Everything seems to have heavily tilted towards Apple anyway, be it Slow Horses or Pluribus or Widows Bay, Severance, Dark Matter, For All Mankind - its really on a strong run.
 
Apple is essential. I can’t even keep up with how many great shows they have. It would be the last thing I’d cancel at this point. Including electricity and water.
 
By far Netflix would be the first to go. It’s the one I watch the least, costs the most and has no external benefits. I only keep it because I share it with my mum for an extra £5 a month, but I don’t even think she watches it any more.
 
As my Sky Q was coming to an end I decided to take what seemed like a good offer for Sky Stream £20 a month for Sky, Netflix, HBO, Disney+, Discovery+ but still get the linear TV channels too. Well it seems that offer didn’t really exist and they’re going to credit me £360 lump sum for the difference in what I’m actually paying.

Anyways major plus point for Sky Stream is you can build a “playlist” of shows to watch across all the streaming services and then click to directly watch them rather than having My Lists across 6 services that I’m never gonna remeber. I also like that even when watching something via an App like Netflix you can browse the guide or Home Screen without pulling you out of the app. It just plays in the background like a TV channel would that you can return to or click directly to something else.
 
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