Originally Posted by one2escape:
“I have a ps3 but I find it a bit clumsly for somethings. What I want is a product where I can get rid of my Virgin TV. So very close now too it but I need something to suppliment Netflix so Im looking towards the Apple TV route where I can Netflix as well buying some shows shows and movies to have a fully library. For me boys and girls we are approaching the tipping point. The only thing missing is the sport so if there was a legal streaming package for football I would be away!”
i found the Ps3 ok, have to use the controller and not the remote mind you, saying that I have not tried the remote on netflix, so it may work ok, rubbish with iplayer.
The only thing that annoys me is that the game controller goes to sleep after a certain amount of time, so i want to pause to make a coffee or take a phone call and wondering why on earth it is not working and then remember that it gone to sleep.
If I stayed with netflix, then I also got my lovefilm subscription of two DVds/bluerays a month, i would keep that as the blue-ray quality is far better than anything i would get from streaming and also Lovefilm optical media library is far better than any streaming library, sorry but it is.
i got out from Lovefilm, life after people, not on netflix and not on lovefilm streaming either.
I got a letter yesterday to confirm that my T.v licence will be invalid by the end of the month, so I could use part of the money I would pay for a T.v licence for netflix and use the BBc Iplayer for the odd thing I watch, which is very few and far between.
Not sure if we are approaching the tipping point or not, until you can watch your coronation street or eastenders using once service ot at least one box that does it all, then we are a long way from the tipping point. Then as you point out, sport, that will not go VOD, sure you get a few highlights and stuff like that, but how often would a main football match be on VOD?
I could be wrong here as I don't watch or have any interest in football, but I do like motor racing and was not impressed when the BBc allowed Sky to get their grubby hands on the F1 Grandprix, which is why I told them to shove their licence.
Nothing on the the BBc now that I can't get from elsewhere.
I don't watch that much t.v or video for that matter, I prefer to read and use my computer, in the summer I will be outside more than in, I hope. But i do like to relax now and again and watch a video and yes a streaming service would be ideal for that.
the problem is with all these streaming services, in fact I can see two problems at least.
We still relying on a broadband structure that is flaky and so many variables that you may end up with no service one day due to net problems, also a lot of people still can't get a decent broadband speed or even broadband at all. Fibre will help in some places and around here at least in the villages there is a wireless system that offers pretty good speed, but it is not cheap, it is not extortionate, but not cheap.
The second problem is that if people like myself decide to get rid of the T.v licence and use streaming for their video entertainment, how long will it be before we need a licence to even connect to the internet because the BBc losing money>?
) I'm cancelling before my trial ends. But would I be able to access his account at Uni as well so we're both benefitting from the one account?
