Reply to: Streaming services again

[Martin Scroatman]

I have GOT to be less of a Victor Meldrew. Leaving the current gig will help. Now where's that late summer bench thread...

Did you cycle, Michael?

[TykeMerc]

Like what? Or do you mean "if you're an Apple anti-fanboi" rather than "not an Apple fanboi"?

Price is high for the kit.
Kit isn't anything spectacular to look at compared to other offerings.
Kit is very ordinary in functionality terms.
Too much iTunes integration and I've never liked their tracking behaviour.
Subscription price is absurd.

I'm not an Anti-fanboi, I just have never seen a reason to treat Apple as if they're worthy of any special regard.
The argument that Apple has become a form of religion with acolytes worshipping at the altar of anything with a logo does have a lot of validity.

[stek]

I get lumped in with the Apple Fanboi crew, but as I am an über-geek I should align with the Android boys.

And I do for dicking around, AIX 7.2 out soon, but when I just want something to work and not have to act as unpaid home IT support, Apple wins every time. It just works...

[d000hg]

If you're not an Apple fanboi, quite a lot.

Like what? Or do you mean "if you're an Apple anti-fanboi" rather than "not an Apple fanboi"?

[MicrosoftBob]

Thanks Bob, As mentioned I've actually got OSMC (ie Kodi) running on Pi2 complete with those naughty plugins that do real time bittorrent. However I want to be legit and pay for my stuff. OSMC/Kodi runs lovely and quick on Pi2. What a nice piece of software.

Interesting from d000hg about the rent/buy mess. Not good news. I would go Netflix but I'm more interested in recent (ish) films.

Sorry I didn't realise it was the same thing

[unixman]

...finds a clothes peg too technical.

lol.

[TykeMerc]

iTunes/AppleTV works for us especially when your better half finds a clothes peg too technical.

The 'old' AppleTV is now £45 I believe, pending the new release, films to rent or buy, usually a choice of SD/HD, cool remote well worth fondling, what's not to like?

If you're not an Apple fanboi, quite a lot.

[stek]

iTunes/AppleTV works for us especially when your better half finds a clothes peg too technical.

The 'old' AppleTV is now £45 I believe, pending the new release, films to rent or buy, usually a choice of SD/HD, cool remote well worth fondling, what's not to like?

[TykeMerc]

I guess licensing affects most vendors the same, other than those who have an exclusivity period.

It does seem very silly you can buy the film months before you can rent it... do they just do this as a way to jack up the price? If so I'd rather they just charge a "new release premium" and be honest about it.

That has always been the case back to the VHS days when rental shops were a common sight, rental release was weeks to months after it was available on sale. It is to encourage the sales figures and those matter a lot to the studios, not forgetting the revenue which is massive compared to the production cost.

[d000hg]

I guess licensing affects most vendors the same, other than those who have an exclusivity period.

It does seem very silly you can buy the film months before you can rent it... do they just do this as a way to jack up the price? If so I'd rather they just charge a "new release premium" and be honest about it.

[unixman]

Use Kodi for all your film streaming goodness

Thanks Bob, As mentioned I've actually got OSMC (ie Kodi) running on Pi2 complete with those naughty plugins that do real time bittorrent. However I want to be legit and pay for my stuff. OSMC/Kodi runs lovely and quick on Pi2. What a nice piece of software.

Interesting from d000hg about the rent/buy mess. Not good news. I would go Netflix but I'm more interested in recent (ish) films.

[d000hg]

This rent Vs buy mess seems to be the same across Blinkbox, Sky and PSN stores. All pretty annoying - we end up searching all these (plus Netflix) sometimes trying to see if a specific film is rentable.

And yes, Blinkbox UI isn't very nice.

I'm not aware of a service/website which will help you find who is renting which movies, it would be nice.

[TykeMerc]

Use Kodi for all your film streaming goodness

Seconded. Also TV series and sport.
I even have it running very happily on an Android tablet for portability.

Binned Sky off in June and not missed it one bit. I occasionally look to see what I would be missing on Sky Movies and I've either watched it, started watching and binned it or couldn't care less for it. I've a bit of a taste for old movies and there's only one or two that I've failed to find on Kodi and that's probably because I didn't try hard enough.

[MicrosoftBob]

Use Kodi for all your film streaming goodness

[unixman]

I have GOT to be less of a Victor Meldrew. Leaving the current gig will help. Now where's that late summer bench thread...