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By ‘they’ you do of course mean ‘you’. ;)

When any service provider is entirely reliant on a third party for product placement, that service provider becomes vulnerable. They no longer decide which of their shows come top of the menu. Worse, they may in time be asked to pay to appear, or pay more for prominence. If this occurs in an environment where it has become the norm for customers to access the product via a third party, the damage to the provider’s ability to get its product under the consumer’s nose may be significant.

Netflix has clearly decided the risk of allowing Google to control the UI is too great, and that there is a greater potential benefit in continuing to control their own, separately. That’s why they’ve withdrawn from it.

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Due to Brexit, Sky Go is no longer available outside the UK. I had assumed that the VM equivalent would be similarly affected, but it still says it's available in the EU:

https://www.virginmedia.com/help/vir...a%20connection.

Maybe they will switch it off at 11pm tonight, unless it's another VM cock up!

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It is via a vpn ;)

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I wasn't sure it ever worked outside the UK. Am sure I tried it last year and it never worked then.

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Had no issues with it when I used it in Berlin in October.

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Which country were you in?

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https://twitter.com/disneyplusuk/sta...307935232?s=21

First promo for Star on Disney Plus.

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https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/artic...nema-customers

Sky again being aggressive in picking up content agreements for Sky Cinema - like the earlier deal with Entertainment One, this is another major indie distributor moving their pay tv deal from Amazon.

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Not too much of a surprise - Sky need to fill the gap which Disney and 20th Century Studios will leave.

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Agreed (though there is still an ongoing pay tv window deal for 20th Century Studio titles - though how considerable that is remains to be seen as I expect Disney will use 20th Century and Searchlight to fill the Hulu/Star pipeline with direct to service pictures).

Studiocanal and Entertainment One however are still in the business of mid-range, star driven films (as well as more British skewing movies) and I think those deals should help fill that gap nicely.

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Doesn’t sound very inspiring to me and it is not a deal which can adequately replace existing deals for new films with the bigger studios, which, like Disney, will continue to find alternative streaming outlets for their films.

Those other films like Paddington and the Hurt Locker have been on the Sky Cinema channels for some time, so no great shakes there either.

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Paddington 2 is even on iPlayer, some nice films on there actually

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/catego...lms/a-z?page=4

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I know, the Beeb is quite good at selecting films to show on their channels.

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Aside from the Disney pipeline, what are they replacing? Sky still have their deals with Paramount and Universal, have renewed deals with Warner Bros and Sony and renewed a deal with Disney for movies via the 20th Century brand that are not destined for Disney Plus - if anything these deals are additive and will go someway to giving them fresh and fairly high profile content and a boost to the wider catalogue... seems like a fairly adequate replacement to me!

Also Studiocanal (and what was formerly Optimum Releasing) have not had any pay tv window output deals with Sky for the best part of a decade so a significant number of those movies will be on Sky Cinema’s proposition for the first time including the Paddington movies.

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It seems Disney + is the next streamer to raise prices and not even a year old.

The monthly price is set to rise from £5.99 to £7.99. Existing subscribers will stay at £5.99 until August 21.