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TalkTalk Buy to Own
I have just received an email from TalkTalk, detailing their new Buy to Own service. This must be what they had in mind when they bought Blinkbox a few months ago. Apparently we can now buy the first series of 'Game of Thrones' for about a tenner and it is downloaded to our hard drives to watch whenever we like. I reckon I'll be taking advantage of that. It is the only thing on Sky that I regret not being able to receive - and now I can! The first five series are available, and the special price on Series 1 is fixed until the end of June.
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I did that with S4 of GoT and will be getting S5 as well when a window opens in my viewing schedule currently dominated by so much motorsport.
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Correction to my original post. It seems that the bought content is not downloaded to our hard drives, but appears in a new 'My Library' section on the TalkTalk Player. Having bought it, we can stream it whenever we like.
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Correction to my original post. It seems that the bought content is not downloaded to our hard drives, but appears in a new 'My Library' section on the TalkTalk Player. Having bought it, we can stream it whenever we like.
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I have now bought the first series of 'Game of Thrones' and watched the opening episodes. It's fine, the streamed quality is first class and in HD. Apparently we retain ownership of the material we have bought even if we leave TalkTalk because Blinkbox continues to run separately as well as being integrated into the TalkTalk Player. I will certainly be investigating as more material becomes available. I suspect that the likes of Blinkbox, Netflix and Amazon Prime are driving nails into the coffin of Bluray discs, but that is the price of progress, I suppose. The ultimate quality is still only to be found in BD, but downloads are running it seriously close now in picture and sound terms. How long before it becomes completely impossible to tell one from the other? BD has certainly never been the runaway success that DVD was, but, then, the older system didn't have to compete with high speed Internet.
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