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Originally Posted by jfman
With many speculating that the streaming bubble is due to pop - who do you think will survive?
Entertainment/Movies
Amazon Prime - £9 a month
Apple TV - £9 a month
Discovery+ - basic £4, standard £7
Disney+ - with ads plan: £5 a month, standard: £8 a month
Hayu - £5 a month
ITVX - £6 a month premium
Mubi - £12 a month
Netflix - £5 with ads, £8 one device, £11 “standard”, £16 “premium”
Now - £10 a month entertainment, £10 cinema
Paramount+ £7 a month
Sports
DAZN - £10 (12 months), £20 a month flexible
Premier Sports - £11 a month
TNT Sports on Discovery+ £31 a month
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/08/e...ros/index.html
The market in the United States – obviously with a far greater user base and capability to sustain more providers – is already ringing the alarm bells.
We've certainly come a long way from a basic entertainment package being in a 3 for £30 cable service with a basic phone and broadband service. Even Virgin's original VIP package at £100 in 2010 looks a veritable bargain once you add a £25 a month broadband to even a small selection of the above. |
Well, we are where we are, but my choice out of that list would be:
Amazon Prime - £9 a month*
Apple TV - £9 a month*
Discovery+ - basic £4, standard £7
Disney+ - with ads plan: £5 a month*, standard: £8 a month
ITVX - £6 a month* premium
Netflix - £5 with ads, £8 one device, £11 “standard”, £16 “premium”*
Now - £10 a month entertainment*, £10 cinema
Paramount+ £7 a month*
Assuming your subscription figures are correct (I haven’t checked them) I would be spending a total of £82 on that lot. However, as I am already paying for those services I’ve asterisked, I would be saving the complete range of pay channels if I went for Virgin Stream without Sky, and I would only spend £17 extra (by including Discovery+ and Now Cinema in my package), so that’s definitely a saving on my current expenditure.
But as has been pointed out, you can make use of a selection of streamers for a period and then swap to other streamers if you want to save money. But I think the real story here is the sheer choice of content we now have available to us. Netflix alone provides far more dramas than all the TV dramas on the channels put together, and you can get the full range of BBC material anyway on the i-Player.
Certainly, I intend to hop in and out of NOW Entertainment and Cinema as there’s no longer much on there worth watching that I haven’t already seen. That’s £20 saved most months on that future streaming bill.
The real comparison for you to make jfman, is on a like-for-like basis. So if you look at what channels you can get on Sky, and compare this with the equivalent streaming services, you will get a correct picture.
So you need to look at NOW TV Entertainment and Cinema (£20), Discovery+ (£4), Disney+ (£5), so that’s just
£29, but with more choice. That compares very well with the existing Sky and Entertainment packages.
But it is even better than that. NOW is always making offers available, and I’ve been paying £3.99 for the Entertainment Pack for many months now.
I don’t subscribe to Sports channels, so you might like to compare those prices.