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I agree, although I wouldn't be surprised if Now TV was to transform completely into something bigger over time.

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Why should it? as its doing very well as it is in my book.

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It certainly is at the moment, Den, and I would be surprised if they changed Now TV substantially in the short term.

However, assuming I am right about the coming audience shrinkage to be experienced by the linear channels, I would see Sky looking at changing the way in which Now TV is presented. How this will manifest itself, however, I am not altogether sure, but if it is to compete against the big global streaming undertakings, they will have to keep on the ball and ensure that the service remains competitive.

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Maybe they will offer a basic entertainment pass which will be the channels currently available and leave it at £6.99p/m and introduce a premier entertainment pass for say £20p/m which will include many more channels such as syfy, universal, nat geo, the remaining uktv channels etc.

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I agree they may offer separate tiers --- was thinking the same myself. But £20 is too high in my view. The pricing needs to be significantly less than the basic satellite subscription, especially as there is no recording functionality

The other thing is most cord cutters don't want is dross channels. The channels you mention are the types of channels most cord cutters want. I think an extra £3-4 is about right for those extra channels.

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Agree with you there mate. SKY themselves are now selling a 6 month NOW TV pass for £24.99. That's only £4.16 per month. Whilst NOW TV is advertised as 13 channels you actually get SKY Sports News to when you apply either an entertainment pass or sports pass. That works out at 30p per channel per month.

Then you've got TV Player plus offering 25 channels for £4.99 per month. That works out at 20p per channel. So between NOW TV and TV Player the going rate for a streaming channel is 25p per month. If I could pick and choose the channels to stream, the popular ones in our house, my subscription would only cost me about £4.00 per month!

Okay so my new dream PVR would include Freeview as standard, all the free catch up TV apps (iPlayer, ITV Hub, All 4, My 5, UKTV) NOW TV, TV Player, Netflix, Amazon Instant Video, Youtube and the Boxnation app.

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Ripper Street axed by Amazon Prime.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...dia_b-gdnmedia

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HULU have started blocking pre paid credit cards http://cordcuttersnews.com/hulu-bloc...-credit-cards/

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Sky takes $45m stake in Netflix rival iflix

http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...flix-streaming

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A finger in every pie it seems...

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I like how that article seems unaware that Sky is part of a much bigger entity. So, its not really Sky just buying a stake in a Asian streaming service, but Murdoch.

We wondered if the big media cos will get involve in streaming, now we're starting to get answers. Murdoch is taking on netflix, who next??

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Clearly, Sky have recognised that the future lies in video streaming. It will be interesting to see how this develops.

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So that's why they still have 12 million TV customers then in the UK plus all the other TV customers in Europe?.

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Sky are cleverly covering both aspects, and they started doing that a couple of years ago. Kudos to them for realising the growing interest in content delivered by streaming, independent of 12 month contracts.

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I did say the future, Den, not the present. Linear broadcast channels are currently in rude health, and will probably remain so for the next few years. However, in the medium term, more people will increase their viewing to embrace the new ways of viewing, thereby diminishing revenues from advertising on the broadcast channels.