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Hmm, doesn't sound quite as dramatic as the Grauniad headline, when you actually listen to Reed Hastings talking about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDYOhoreOKk#t=2695

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How else are they going to pay for Top Gear Mk.2 :D

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I got a stick. Natalie has amazon prime and I have netflix so it seemed like a good combination.

It didn't take too long to set up and it's not bad.

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I think it was inevitable that the Netflix price would increase, Den, and it's the price we have to pay for increased and better quality content.

I hope that they have a tiered approach to higher pricing though, so that those who would be satisfied by existing content don't have to pay much more, and those who want more and better material have to pay the increased prices that they are looking towards implementing.

It would be a mistake, in my opinion, to put Netflix into a position where its content was completely out of reach to less well off households.

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Indeed, between those you get a good mix of content.

My TV upstairs has both built in and my PC is connected to my main Tv downstairs so no need for any sticks etc but they are really as close to plug and play as you can get nowadays.

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Why don't you listen to the head honco from the link I posted. A much better way to find out what they are actually thinking.

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higher priced packages for hd and super hd content?? i'm a dinosaur who doesnt even mind SD quality...i usually forget about putting the hd version on

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There is an advantage of the stick over the PC as on a PC, Amazon is limited to 720p, and unless you are using Windows 8, Netflix is also limited to 720p via a PC. At yesterday's £19 price, a stick would have been worth it IMHO.

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Now you tell me.

Using Netflix on W10 but didn't know bout the Amazon situation. D'oh.

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Also advantage with streaming boxes over windows pc no unsecure flash player needed or clunky silverlight.
I have both a ROKU1 and firetv box but still have my pc connected to my tv, the pc is for most on demand stuff as i use USA services i use adblock+ to block the adverts,for uk services all4 and itv player don't allow adblock to be used but demand 5 is ok with it,for the roku1 and firetv box are used for netflix and nowtv.
I do have plusnet tv but that is mostly for syfy and discovery there is no ariel connected to my tv or youview box.

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Did the free Netflix on xl rumours die by the way? After that survey from virgin media went out nothing else was heard about it...

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Don't you get it? VM spend most of their money subsidising Premium sport.

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Now TV

New HBO original series 'Ballers' coming later in the year to Sky Atlantic executive producer Stephen Levinson (Entourage , Boardwalk Empire , Lone Survivor) starring Dwayne Johnson.

Trailer
https://youtu.be/15lfITfxMDI

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Trust me the trailer makes it look much better than it is, it's watchable but nothing to get excited about.
Glad to see it will get a UK airing though.

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Not a massive lover of Dwayne Johnson's acting but I always like to give new series 3 or 4 episodes especially HBO ones.

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I'm the same i give new shows a few episodes to bed in, it's a pity no-one in uk has picked up Salem that is a cracking show, surprised Sky didn't go for it tbh it would do well on Atlantic.

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I was thinking more of additional content rather than picture quality, Vince.

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I just cancelled my Netflix sub, not much on there for us at the moment.

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Not on uk netflix but use a smart dns you'll get a hell of a lot more content for your money.

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Tbh with you mate, and i really appreciate your knowledge in this, but i'm not really sure how to go about doing that, I'd need a step by step guide lol.

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Go to ww.unblock-us.com take up their free 7 day trial they give full instructions how to set up your devices mate, it can't be set up on tivo but ps3,ps4,xbox360,xboxone,laptop,pc,firetv etc can easily be set up.
I personally have the smart dns set up on my router.

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I use unblock-us, and with the exchange rate, if you choose to use it permanently, I have never paid more than £2.75 for the service (it uses the Canadian Dollar, not US Dollar).

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I personally use unlocator but that's a bit more hands on than unblock-us due to region changing not just for netflix but tv services.
I always recommend unblock-us to new comers to smart dns as it's the easiest one to use, i also use cactus vpn for a vpn service overall works out at about £6.50p/m for both cactus do a smart dns but that only supports usa and uk netflix at the moment.

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I would tend to agree. I am watching Peaky Blinders and will then catch up on OITNB but after that, it is all stuff I have seen in the past. Not fussed about a lot of the exclusive content they have. I will probably keep it though, I can often something to watch if I am bored lazy and can't be bothered to put on a DVD or read something.

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I think I will have to do this as the free DNS codes I put in the Xbox One stop working after a few days.

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Never ever use free dns codes this s a sure fire way to get your bandwidth stolen and any information you may have too including xboxone console details.

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Thanks for the info.

Is it cheaper to pay unblock-us in Canadian dollars as I think they let you decide on first sign up?

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Yeah Canadian is cheapest, i used Canada location for my sign up to Netflix getting the 2 screen+hd one for £4.25p/m give and take exchange rates

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Cheers mate....:)

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I took up the 7 day trial.

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Had an issue with signing into Xbox live earlier after changing the DNS although it did work at first. Got it working again by using my normal DNS then putting the new DNS back in.

I hope it doesn't do this all the time.

1 question, do I need to be logged into their website on my PC for this to stay working 24/7?

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Nope, that just sets the destination.

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You may need to log in to unblock-us just to verify your ip address every now and again depends when vm change it or if you reboot your router etc, plusnet change mine once a week if that unless i reboot the router myself.
But you don't have to leave yourself logged in 24/7 once you confirm your ip if needed or changed your region you can log out of their website.

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Any idea why it stopped working on the Xbox One after I saw it working at first?

I never got the 3 green boxes on my PC as I never wanted to change it on that, maybe I need to change it also?

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I think you will have too put the dns into your pc too so unblock can see your ip.
I have my smart dns set up in my router directly, plusnet allow me to use my own router on their network.
You can use your own router with virgin too you put superhub in modem mode then connect your own router too it if i remember right, however only set it up on the router if you are confident and know what you're doing.

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The DNS change was still working on the Xbox this morning luckily.

If i set it up on the PC will it make my browsing faster as not using Virgins and will it make my downloads slower?

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Nope, all it does is makes it look like your location is a different country.

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Unblock us only works with sites they choose to make it work with (Netflix etc.) All other sites don't have any interaction with Unblockus.


If any device isn't working properly, first thing to do is to quit the app and then go to Ublockus site, click on check service status and then restart the app on the device.

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Make sure you turn the app off before quitting it though.

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You don't even have to bother with the site, just download the mobile app, you don't need to change DNS settings on you phone either (you will get a error to say there is a problem with configuration) and you can simply select what country you want. Quite the app start Netflix on desired device and job done.

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A bit confused with this, what has this got to do with changing the DNS on the Xbox One? :)

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Looks like it has stopped working on the X1 again, maybe i should verify my Windows 10 pc and change the DNS on that too like support suggested as they said they do ip checks.

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It is a more convenient way of switching regions so you don't need to use your PC, only the device that you intent to watch needs to have your DNS changed.

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Watch BBC, iTV, and 35+ more UK channels for Free with new Mediahhh app:

http://www.aftvnews.com/watch-bbc-it...app/#more-8009

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David Duchovny's US thriller Aquarius is coming to Sky Atlantic

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/...-atlantic.html

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You can watch it on the NBC.com website quite freely, you'll need Hola, Zenmate or similar.

http://www.nbc.com/aquarius/episodes

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I don't do tv on a computer personally although free is always better.:D

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Anybody know which two seasons of Game of Thrones are available on Now TV?

I have just bought a Roku 3 with a 3 month entertainment pass and I've seen seasons 1 and 2 and wondering if I need to get season 3 on bluray before I activate it?

Thanks.

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http://www.artesea.co.uk/nowtv/

tells you which box sets are on and for how long - seems GOT S01 is the only one on at the moment

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I have Atlantic HD anyway but before I knew about Sky getting it, watched it on TV via HDMI from the lappie - still good PQ

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For vm customers or anyone if you really want to watch trutv it is now available live on trutv website http://www.trutv.co.uk/

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Amazon Prime Music launches in the UK

http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...ic-launches-uk

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What's the bet that Prime will go from £79 to £99 in the next few months. They're getting like everyone else, bundling up stuff you don't need/want and saying they've got no option but to increase prices.

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Considering how many orders we place with Amazon, even £99 would be a bargain

Amazon Music is very limited, no Universal artists, but is a welcome addition

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I think its good value (for me) at £79, mainly because I don't do a lot of shopping with Amazon but I do get my money's worth with streaming. Had a quick look at the music earlier but nothing particularly exciting, can't see when I'd use it.

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Personally, I wish they'd do a stripped back Prime with just the free deliveries (as it started). I had a free trial of Spotify Premium which I rarely used (and cancelled a couple of days ago) so I doubt I'll use a service which, if anything, seems to offer a more limited selection of music. I prefer to buy the tracks and albums I like. That way I know that if I want to listen to them 5 or 10 years down the line, I'll still have access to them. I won't be at the mercy of some licencing deal.

Regarding Prime Instant Video, I find the original shows they produce to be overrated and, as with Netflix, it's often too much effort to find a halfway decent film or TV show, so I rarely bother with that either.

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I pay for Netflix as I find a lot of shows on there I want to watch. I did join Prime Video the other week, but I cancelled it the same day as there wasn't anything covered by the subscription that I wanted to watch that wasn't already on Netflix

The one thing I did want to watch - Star Trek TNG in HD - isn't covered by the subscription.

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But they still do free deliveries, and I don't see even if they had the option of delivery only that it would be significantly cheaper than current pricing. Adding value to their service is no bad thing.

You can still buy music, you just have the option to stream if you like now too. I wont be using the music service a lot either but it's certainly nice to have.

As for the video service, it would be nice if the service allowed me and my partner to ditch Netflix but sadly it isn't, but they do compliment each other nicely at times.

Frankly, at the combined cost of £131/year (Price locked at £5.99/m for Netflix and grabbed the £59/year for Prime) I have no problem subscribing to both.

As with anything though, value is different from person to person.

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Couldn't agree more. The music part can't compete with Spotify etc. but it's not meant to. For many people it will be all they need. After a quick browse yesterday, I found a good few things I could listen to. You can also make playlists that include tracks from your own collection and Amazon Prime tracks.

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I find Netflix is better for more recent shows for the kids and has some more off beat films (e.g. Odd Thomas, Death of a Salesman being two examples). It's also pretty good for catching up on shows I missed first time round (Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy).

I have found myself being drawn to Amazon's content more for the wife and I. Vikings is a top series as is Extand. Still to watch the 3rd season of Ripper Street (although it's coming to the BBC I see) and really intrigued by Black Sails and Halt and Catch Fire. The Man in the High Castle is also on my watchlist but won't probably start that until they do the series proper.

In short we're getting pretty good use out of both and with being on a half price offer for Now TV movies I feel we've got pretty good coverage, starting to look at whether we need a VM TV package to be honest, love the TiVo but only if it's recording stuff I can't find or get elsewhere.

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I'm finding the same without Now TV, I'm planning to drop down to L on VM TV due to the price rise, but I'm almost at the point to drop VM TV altogether and stick with streaming and Freeview

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cheers pal

Wow though either vm simply don't want to get this channel or they've offered two croissants to get the channel and trutv rejected it. trutv literally giving it away on their website

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I don't think TruTV wanted to pay the VM startup costs, much like Spike.

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Looks like the son of Top Gear is coming to Amazon Prime

http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/30/amazon-top-gear/

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New Now TV Box hitting shelves this week

https://recombu.com/digital/article/...nch-date-price

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New Now TV Box review:

https://recombu.com/digital/article/...st-impressions

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BIB That doesn't appear to be the case when using a PC. When I tried it, I used a track from the music library on my computer which must have been a track I'd actually bought from Amazon, rather than my CD rip of the same song.

It's a shame the combination is not possible, but I've still found loads of albums that can be combined into Prime music playlists or played as a single item. If I was using a tablet or a smart phone, then combining local tracks and Prime tracks would be possible. It's just not possible on a PC.

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Argos are selling NOW TV boxes, with 6 months Entertainment pass, for £28.99! That's working out at £4.83 per month. Buy 2 boxes, for £57.98, and that's you covered for a full year with a NOW TV box in your living room and bedroom.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...er/1985746.htm

No wonder cord cutting is becoming more and more popular.

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It looks like it's the old NOW TV box though, not the new one.

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It is the old one however the 12 months entertainment passes for £57.98 is still a bargain. The standard price for an entertainment pass is £6.99 per month, £83.88 over the year. Your saving £25.90 based on the standard price. You could buy the new NOW TV box for £14.99, along with these old 2, and still be saving money :D

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You can easily get now TV passes that work out at less than a fiver a month.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Months-Sky-E...rtainment+pass

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I went to cancel my entertainment pass last night and was offered it at £3.49 for 4 months.

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Heard that from a few people now. Seems to be their retention tactic. Who knows how long it will last but they've allegedly been giving that offer since January of this year.

As posted above, you can get 12 months worth of Entertainment passes for £57.98. If you sign up now, as a new customer, your first month is only £1.00. As you've posted when you cancel you get a further 4 months for £3.49. So all in £72.94 for 17 months, which works out at £4.29 per month! You seriously can't beat that for value.

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You can but not legally :p: but seriously the nowtv offers are good value at the moment also tesco are doing £5 off nowtv bundles too.

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Cheers for the info.

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From the horse's mouth:

http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2015/...-will-decline/

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And if Sky added subtitles, I'd buy it in a heart beat. Until then...

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They are adding it to Sky On Demand next year so I'd expect it to be introduced on Now TV at some stage.

https://corporate.sky.com/media-cent...demand-service

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Interesting article on 4kUHD TVs which goes on to talk about streaming & satellite delivery of 4k

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08..._tvs_any_good/

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Not sure i like the sound of this bit.

But he's right VM are way behind the curve on VOD, having had Sky now for a couple of months the offering from VM was/is embarrassing.

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I agree VM's On Demand offering is poor to say the least , it's a shame really considering they once led the market.

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Well if you sit on your laurels then others won't hesitate to take advantage of it.

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The now tv vod offering seems to be better than Virgin at the moment

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HBO Now Goes Live On Amazon Fire TV And Fire TV Stick

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2015/08/hbo...source=mainrss

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Bear with me, is HBO in partnership with Sky Atlantic or am i totally wrong.....:D

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It's USA only mate although you can get it by using a vpn or smart dns it HBONOW costs $15p/ that's about £8 ish.

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What's the on demand like on hbo now? Assuming they have it

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Cheers mate,,,,,,,:)

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Whilst it's good to have the choice of taking out a single sub the price is what does it for me you'd imagine if there was no Sky Atlantic agreement and HBO Now launched here it would be £10 a month.

I like to watch content from Showtime , ABC , Starz etc it would start to get real pricey if I had to take out a single sub for all those. When you start to really break down these single subs for me personally bundling starts to look better value , and I was originally of the view of cord cutting.

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HBO Now is basically HBOGO but not linked to a cable sub the on demand is superb loads of shows and movies.

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Agree mate this is why i'm grateful of my xinity login as that gives me HBO, Showtime, starz etc for £8p/m which is a absolute bargain, ok it's a friend that created a sub account for me but she could of easily of said "£30 a month" although our agreement is changing soon as she is interested in nowtv so we're going to do a simple swap my nowtv for xfinity can't get fairer than that really.

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Now that I have a smart TV, access to Netflix, Amazon and Now TV (the latter gives me access to HBO via Sky Atlantic catch up and boxed sets) I think I now have access to all the available programming that I need and it's really not costing a fortune.

I'm not convinced that a vpn would really make a dramatic improvement to my viewing, but I'm going to do some research on this.

I remain of the view that if Virgin Media offered Amazon and Now TV on the Tivo, this would draw in more subscribers to their TV package. I don't buy the argument that VM would never seriously consider adding the Now TV app. It would bring advantages to both Virgin and Sky.

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The US version of Netflix is so much better than the UK version which I access with a VPN enabled on my router

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Agreed also a us based vpn or smart dns opens up hulu which is free hulu+ isn't aswell as channels like cbs, fox etc.
I use a multi vpn set up on my pc, my pc is a wifi hotspot so firetv and appletv connect direct to that to access the internet, last time i tried to set up my tplink wd3600 to vpn it went pear shaped lol, the dd wrtr firmware installed no problem, the scripts went on correctly but it did not want to connect lol.

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I know that this is certainly the case, toady, but don't we get access to those programmes by alternative means? Am I not right in thinking that the main advantage of a vpn is access to these programmes at a cheaper price?

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There seems to be a wider selection of programmes and more current films on us netflix

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What would the free tier of Hulu give me access to?

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Thanks

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Although having looked at the '20 most popular box sets' on the US version of Netfix, we do appear to have access to them all.

I think I must commence a detailed comparison of these US sites with what we have on offer over here so I can work out whether there are any advantages to looking at the vpn solution.

As soon as I have a spare half day...!

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http://www.hulu.com/

But you need to access it through a PC.

CBS shows aren't available on Hulu, but Unblock us will give you access to the CBS website for their shows.

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Don't forget that it's not just US Netflix; Unblockus gives you access to 21 regions.

Here are just a few shows, off the top of my head, not available on UK Netflix, that are available on other regions.

The Borgia's
Mad Men
Bitten
Californication
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
Halt and Catch Fire
TURN: Washington's Spies
House of Lies
Magic City
Ray Donovan
Rectify

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The free tier of HULU gives you access to shows from ABC, FOX, NBC, Comedy central amongst other stuff most stuff is on there about a week after it airs in the US plus Hulu also has movies on too, HULU does have adverts but they aren't too bad about 5 ad breaks each a minute long per show (30 min shows get 3 ad breaks)
AS PB said unblock-us will give you access to CBS aswell as CW and a few others.

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Well after thinking abut it for months I have pulled the trigger and reduced my package from £68 to £37 by reducing my broadband from 152MB to 100MB, got rid of multiview so the Tivo in the bedroom goes and funnily enough keeping the Tivo in the livingroom with the free TV pack is actually cheaper then getting rid of it.

So TV will now consist of Netflix, Amazon Instant Steaming and Now TV (Via Fire TV/Android TV/Chromecast). If worst comes to worse I can always upgrade the TV back to XL if I miss it too much but I honestly can't remember the last time I fired up the Tivo in the bedroom and the one in the Living room only goes on once in a blue moon if I want to watch the news.

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I'd suspect you probably still count in their TV numbers just a guess though.

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Probably, I kept it as a back up for things like the world cup and European cup as streaming live channels isn't quite up there with VOD just yet.

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I think the main problem for footie fans like me is cutting the cord and then not having access to all the football, basically Sky and BT have us by the balls!