Cable Forum - VOD Netflix/Streaming Services

Consumers have complained bitterly over the years about traditional “bundled” cable and satellite packages, where they paid a monthly subscription for 100s of channels when they only ever watched a handful. Now many would welcome a return to that aggregation to find all of the content they want to watch in one place at a single price. Direct-to-consumer is the name of the current internet game and that can mean cutting out the middle man of traditional broadcaster or cable operator.

...However, catalogues such as Amazon’s and Hulu’s are shrinking as studios hold back content for their own streaming services, forcing viewers into paying for multiple subscriptions to access all the TV and movies they want.

There is much more that’s watchable in the post-57 channel age, but as Ampere concludes: “The golden age of cheap access to content is coming to a close.”

https://www.ft.com/content/079b8766-...c-4f333e95776c

Phunkenstein

14-12-2020 10:24

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https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/artic...-for-christmas

Sky & Amazon have signed a deal... going to be interesting to see how this affects the next PL auction and how aggressive (or not) the relevant parties will be...

1andrew1

14-12-2020 10:53

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Originally Posted by Phunkenstein (Post 36062240)

Don't see it impacting on the next PL auction and a sensible move for Sky given the profusion of Smart TVs; it keeps their customers in the Sky system. Amazon could have gone in big on sports rights before but they've decided not to and this is a global approach. Get people signed up to their Prime Service is the key aim with some sports rights and make money on such people using Amazon as their preferred online shopping site.

muppetman11

14-12-2020 11:52

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Originally Posted by Phunkenstein (Post 36062240)

Great news noticed the app earlier on my box.

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I notice you can also watch your previous purchases and buy/rent new movies in the Amazon app which I never thought Sky would agree to.

Phunkenstein

14-12-2020 11:58

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Originally Posted by muppetman11 (Post 36062255)

Reports some time back indicated that was a major stumbling block - they weren’t happy about the transactional content and the Prime channels. However Amazon didn’t want to give Sky integrated search and homepage access which will also be available in the coming months so clearly both sides were ultimately happy to get over that and also get Now TV onto Fire.

cheekyangus

14-12-2020 12:42

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Just as an aside, I was flicking through the Tesco magazine and they had an ad for Technika Smart TV with Fire TV built-in. Don't recall seeing Fire OS in a 3rd Party -branded device before.

Legendkiller2k

14-12-2020 16:30

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Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36062259)

Just as an aside, I was flicking through the Tesco magazine and they had an ad for Technika Smart TV with Fire TV built-in. Don't recall seeing Fire OS in a 3rd Party -branded device before.

Been on tvs in USA for awhile now, prob are some in uk too https://www.androidcentral.com/best-...0u21-4k-uhd-tv

buckeye

14-12-2020 18:35

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JVC sell some TV's with Fire OS on them in this country.

Also the Now TV app on my 4k Firestick doesn't framerate switch so unless you want to manually switch the video output of the stick to 50hz be prepared for jerky sports on it.

cheekyangus

14-12-2020 18:42

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Originally Posted by cheekyangus (Post 36062259)

Just as an aside, I was flicking through the Tesco magazine and they had an ad for Technika Smart TV with Fire TV built-in. Don't recall seeing Fire OS in a 3rd Party -branded device before.

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Originally Posted by Legendkiller2k (Post 36062283)

Been on tvs in USA for awhile now, prob are some in uk too https://www.androidcentral.com/best-...0u21-4k-uhd-tv

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Originally Posted by buckeye (Post 36062300)

Thanks for replies. :)

Raider999

14-12-2020 21:31

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 (Post 36062246)

I'm not sure why you say that, the article I read in the telegraph stated prime app would be on skyQ in time to watch amazons 20 EPL matches (they start tomorrow) and it is.

It also said sky/Amazon had come to an agreement over future EPL rights and the income from UK rights was likely to fall (already sky/BT have an agreement)

So it wouldn't surprise me at all.

Halcyon

15-12-2020 13:44

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Anyone know how to get rid of the spinning Netflix loading ball?

On several films or TV programs I find I then click on them and they just have the loading ball going round and round and it never plays.

Chris

15-12-2020 13:51

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I've not seen that behaviour in the circumstances you seem to be having (am I right in understanding that it always prevents you watching certain titles, while always allowing others?)

The loading ball may hang on 25% for a while if you have low bandwidth. It will hang on 24% if you have no bandwidth at all. If your internet connection speed is unstable, you may see this behaviour if you have a moment of poor speed coinciding with you starting a new programme. Netflix's bandwidth-adaptive tech is second to none so it is quite rare even on a poor connection for a programme to stall once it's going and has a reasonable buffer.

Have you tried going into your Netflix app's settings and running its internal speed/connectivity test?

Halcyon

15-12-2020 13:56

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Thanks Chris.
I'l take a look tonight and do a speed test. It does indeed only happen on certain programs.
A reboot of my AppleTV sometimes sort sit out, but not always.

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