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Originally Posted by jfman
Disney and Discovery are pulling minority interest general entertainment and documentary content in different directions, so it isn’t true to state that viewers of non-sport content will be unaffected by higher costs.
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Higher costs are inevitable. All I have said is that streamers of scripted content will provide better value for money than conventional channels, which to my mind is pretty obvious. The flexibility subscribers have to change providers without hassle is an added bonus.
The problem with sport is that the limited number of sports that attract a large percentage of viewers encourages those with big pockets to scrape up all the goodies for themselves. That inevitably puts up the price because the bids are so high. Sky and BT have as much as said they have had enough, so they are both likely to pull out of the market altogether before long.
Where dramas and documentaries are concerned, there is no limit to the amount of content that can be produced as originals, and so the price of all that is relatively low. Competition helps the consumer in that area.
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Originally Posted by ScottishSteve
The last rise was hard to swallow but I stuck with them, don’t think I would be keen to pay any more considering the amount of other services to choose from.
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You won’t get us much choice that is free within the subscription with any other provider, although it’s fair to say that you’d never get around to watching more than a small fraction of the choice on Netflix.
Prime is second best, although there is also a lot of content on there that you need to pay an additional charge for. However, if you stick with the Prime originals, there’s loads to choose from, and there’s quite a lot more under the ‘Prime’ banner that is free also.
Apple TV and StarzPlay have some good stuff, but choice is much more limited. You can move on when you’ve seen enough anyway.
Acorn has some good stuff although they are still building their library - many of their programmes are archive content. Britbox may come into its own eventually, but I think there are only three originals on there so far, one of which is ‘Spitting Image’! If you like revisiting the old stuff, that might be worth a try.