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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
There are only three major streaming services available in the UK at the moment - Netflix, Amazon and Now TV.
I would envisage maybe half a dozen popular streamers here altogether with the passing of time (excluding those devoted to sport) and if we use those in place of the existing scheduled channels, the price will be similar to what we pay now for the Full House.
Most of them (like Netflix and Amazon) will be less than a tenner a month. Some (like Hayu on Virgin) will be free to subscribers and others will be bundled by the cablecos at a reduced price, as Sky has done with Netflix and the Sky Box Sets.
The fragmentation of sports coverage and the price of these services is a problem, however, but we will probably end up with three or four main players including Sky and presumably BT. I would not discount Eleven Sports at this stage, but the other main players could possibly include Discovery, Disney or Amazon. The technical issues associated with streaming, including latency, should be resolved over the next couple of years or so.
I think we have much to look forward to rather than be nervous about, and competition between these services should keep prices down to an acceptable level. Just look at how the streaming services have improved our choice of non-sports programming from a few short years ago, offering excellent value for money.
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Personally I wouldn't count Now TV for various reasons, it's not comparing like with like. One, it's a Sky owned service without the Sky branding, so if anyone is getting added to the list it's Sky. Two, Now TV doesn't (to my knowledge) commission content unlike Netlfix and Amazon and therefore has no exclusives.
In my head I view Now TV in the same bracket as VM, their parent company Sky or BT i.e. as a deliverer of TV not a creator of content.