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Which streamer wins your vote ?
View Poll Results: Best value for money streamer
Netflix 32 52.46%
Now 4 6.56%
Amazon Prime Video 15 24.59%
Disney + 18 29.51%
Apple TV + 1 1.64%
Other 5 8.20%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 61. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 29-05-2021, 12:00   #1
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Which streamer wins your vote ?

Looking purely at the range of choice and quality of titles which streaming service offers you the best value for money either as a standalone or addition to your pay TV sub ?
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Old 29-05-2021, 12:11   #2
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Re: Which streamer wins your vote ?

Now for me, but I'm only paying £4.99. Atlantic and Sky channels on multiple TV sets/devices. Bargain.
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Old 29-05-2021, 12:31   #3
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Re: Which streamer wins your vote ?

Discovery+ was £29.99 for a whole year when it launched and I have watched more on it than any other streamer since.

I do have most of the others as well.
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Old 29-05-2021, 12:36   #4
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Re: Which streamer wins your vote ?

Disney + as there is plenty of content on there that suits our own households taste.
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Re: Which streamer wins your vote ?

Not sure why this is a multi-choice poll when you want to know which one people think is best?

Anyhoo ... it’s got to be a little subjective because it depends what sort of stuff you want to watch. There’s an absolute ton of very high profile stuff on Disney+ for example, and it’s great to get access to new content so soon after it’s been in the cinema. But they’re still falling far short on new episodic content of the sort most people want to dip in to on a weekday evening. They added Star to try to rectify this but even here they’re still relying on a large back catalogue rather than producing lots of new content.

Amazon is a bit weird and experimental, probably because they’re giving it away free with Prime parcel delivery so perhaps they think they’re not risking losing subs. They obviously really, really want to get into live sports which doesn’t interest me in the slightest. They have a nasty habit of providing partial box sets and then giving you barely enough time to watch them before they go off Prime.

Apple TV seems to exist because Apple thinks this is something it ought to be doing, though it has little idea why. For All Mankind is exceptionally good but it’s the only thing I’ve been able to stay with. Like Amazon, the service has other reasons to survive - they’re also renting and selling content so the platform is going nowhere if only for that reason.

Now TV I have no experience of, but as I have no interest in Sky I don’t think I’m missing out.

That only leaves Netflix, which gets many more hours of screen time in our house than everything else combined. Netflix has by far the cleanest UI, the simplest proposition (pay once, all you can eat) and an enormous, highly varied catalogue that they are constantly adding to with new content, much of which they’re commissioning themselves so it’s there for good.

So, I voted Netflix for all-round excellence, and in our household Disney+ gets a solid second place because when they do make original shows, they do it exceptionally well.
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Re: Which streamer wins your vote ?

if I had to subscribe to only one service it would be none of them and my trusted Usenet provider hehehe

I sub to Netflix Now and Prime. Hard to choose which is best but I hardly use Now
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Old 29-05-2021, 13:43   #7
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Re: Which streamer wins your vote ?

Netflix for me as offers more of what i watch plus i'm only paying £4.50 for 4 screens and 4k anyway.
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Dropped Amazon never seemed to watch it. So a vote for Netflix
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Dropped Amazon never seemed to watch it. So a vote for Netflix
I wangled a Student account so only pay £3.99 and I get netflix and youtube cheap to and on a £4.99 deal with Now till August
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Now for me, but I'm only paying £4.99. Atlantic and Sky channels on multiple TV sets/devices. Bargain.
Spot on, same here.
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Re: Which streamer wins your vote ?

Go to be iPlayer, so guess I vote 'other' !
The Beeb still has the best original output, many films on there too.
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Re: Which streamer wins your vote ?

I've had a couple of free trials with Amazon Prime, but ran out of things I wanted to watch before they trials expired.

None of the others have interested me up to now, but the loss of Fox might make me think again.
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I've had a couple of free trials with Amazon Prime, but ran out of things I wanted to watch before they trials expired.

None of the others have interested me up to now, but the loss of Fox might make me think again.
I love Prime. If I fancy a bar of fruit and nut I can order one then next day it is here and only cost me 95p. I make a number of purchases a month off Amazon often quite small cheap objects. Prime rules for that and £3.99 is nothing. The Video side of it is just a bonus for me
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