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Totally agree, IMHO Britbox is probably a decade too late for them, though I suppose they did try then with Project Kangaroo but the competition commission never allowed it.

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It is indeed a risky strategy. I certainly would not have launched the service as they did.

Given the initial reaction to the old material on there, both Sky and Virgin have decided not to have Britbox on their platforms. That is bad news indeed for ITV. They could have done so much better thsn this, how disappointing! Where are all these originals we were promised, anyway.

Too little, too late when they start coming through, I expect.

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As OB said, where are all the originals promised. You need the originals to go along with archive material.

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DAZN launches in UK so much for those predicting it wouldn't launch in uk a while back https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/bo...g-line-up.html

Streaming giants DAZN launch in the UK with plans to smash Sky and BT Sport's domination of the market by winning rights for big fights including Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury III AND Premier League coverage

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There are hardly any which is a no no for any new streaming entrant.

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Exactly, they shouldn't have released britbox until they had some original content. They didn't, they'll fail.

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Good find, LK.

The real surprise is that it has taken so long for a challenger to Sky to show their hand, but it's all going to happen now. And at £4.99, that's a bargain.

Expect it to go up a bit if they win the rights to the Premier league, though!

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Depending how much PL rights they get I would expect the monthly cost to jump to somewhere between £9.99 and £29.99pm - possibly after a short introductory period to try to get people on the hook (sorry interested)

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That's right, pip. I would have subscribed to Britbox by now myself if the promised originals had arrived. But as most regular contributors to this forum know, I would never dream of subscribing to an archive-only streaming service.

They should have been adding a minimum of one new series per week to gain interest and gain momentum, but instead we've just had additional archive programming. Or repeats, as referred to in normal parlence.

They need to get a move on, or the whole venture will fail. And will people give them a second chance at a later date, having decided the old stuff was not for them? Debateable.

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That's a very wide margin of error, Raider! :D

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They doubled their US price last year in one fell swoop (from 9.99 to 19.95) so they have form for increasing their prices!

But I expect we’ll see more people get unrealistically carried away thinking they’re going to get a huge portfolio of top tier sports for less than a fiver until the economics prove otherwise! In fact I think they’re being smart just focusing on one sport for now and spreading it across as many territories as possible.

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Haven't we been here before wasnt Eleven Sports going to challenge.:D

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And what happened there..;)

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Indeed, we’ve done sums before putting the cost of a service in excess of £30 a month assuming it can get 5 million subscribers. Ignoring things like VAT and additional sports rights for easy counting.

Or in other words, much more expensive than the Now TV deals that float around from time to time.

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Exactly and they will need a Linear channel to make it work even if they manage to snag some rights.