knockoff nige

Yes, but HBO are still leading and they as well as AMC are getting the higher end exclusives. Netflix originals have had success such as House of Cards but others aren't really my cup of tea. They seem to add more and more documentaries which, will often good to watch, aren't close to the quality of the likes of Fargo or Game of Thrones.

Amazon Prime are getting exclusives too and they are soon to be showing a new series called Bosch based on the Harry Bosch novels. I want this show as much as anything as I'm a massive Harry Bosch fan. But, it means yet another subscription or pirate. That's what these service providers and studios are totally aware of but whinge about not getting paid for every single download/stream. No government seems to want to speak for us and demand reform. They are too quick to waste resources on catching the pirates than to take the most obvious and quickest solution to the problem.

Amazulu

I'm an Amazon Prime member. It's great. Loads of content and getting better all the time. There was a recent pilot for a end of world/disaster series that looked really good. You also now get streaming music as well

It was a gift but I am definitely renewing it and at $99, it's very good value

renth

Do you need to use jiggery pokery to get Amazon Prime or are we "allowed" to subscribe in Australia?

knockoff nige

Yeah I guess my point though is Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Amazon and whatever else subscriptions add up to a fair bit. You can't get all the content you want on just one or two of those and that's what our government should be pushing for.

Amazulu

You've got to muck around but it's fairly straight forward

I also have an Amazon Fire TV box which is great. It's geared towards Amazon content but you can also get NF, Hulu etc on it. It's also got some great games on it and you can buy an extra controller

Amazon were knocking them out for $70 before Christmas. I've also just got a Fire TV stick ($20 on a launch offer). Need to still set it up

not2old

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/reviews/d...reaming-stick/

if not already discussed elsewhere, maybe you already know this - that XBMC can be downloaded onto the 'new Amazon firestick which when done it is your XBMC device

On the Kodi (XBMC) forum they have recently put the details how this can be done

Up here in the great white north, sometime this month I'll be getting me the Amazon firestick

For now with firefox as my browser, I use 'mediahint' as my unblocker (with zero blips, squeaks or shakes) to watch what I cannot get on http://live.camposat.tv/ [UK TV only from the filmon] such as US TV, hulu etc

Swerv-o

Yeah, it's a pain that everybody seems intent on pushing subscription and package models, rather than a pay as you go one. I'd happily pay on an episode basis, but as you say you need many subscriptions to cover all of the content that you want to see, which starts to get expensive.


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Yes, pay per episode. Even if it was a week after its official release.

The Foxtel Go as you'd expect is the worst of all the online subscription services. The content is very lacking but it's also only SD. They clearly want you signing up for the cable box so you'll get all the shopping channels and other junk. Anyone know anything about Quickflix or is Foxtel Go the best we have in Australia?

Amazulu

Tried the ITV app again last night to watch Broadchurch and it was a waste of time. It started off well (apart from the shitty ads) but 10 minutes in, despite my 17Mb connection, it started buffering. We had just previously watched stuff on Netflix in full HD without a hint of buffer. Pointless so downloaded it instead

Still a good show

hoveactually

Buffering makes ITV Player unwatchable most of the time on the Now TV box and Samsung blu ray player but works perfectly on PS3.
It will be interesting to see what Stan has to offer when it is launched later this month https://www.stan.com.au/

Swerv-o

Watched S02E01 last night. Looks good so far. Nice to see all the local places there

As for the accents, it sounds like they imported a load of people in from Bristol...


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Looks like it was all a false alarm

BBC News - Netflix: VPN crackdown claims 'false', says executive

Amazulu

Looks like Netflix is coming to Australia at the end of March at just under $10, which is about what it costs in the US:

Netflix internet TV service will launch in Australia on March 31 | Tech news and reviews. Smartphones, tablets, laptops, audio, apps, digital cameras, TVs

I'm not interested but it's good to see that they are going to try and be competitive. Content may be limited at first but it will get better over time - they have to start somewhere

Interestingly, I was reading that more than 30% of US bandwidth at peak times is taken up by Netflix streaming

That's massive

Swerv-o

Looks like Netflix have pulled their agreement with Foxtel for House of Cards...

House of Cards

I assume they had a contractual clause for this one.

The problem I foresee (as mentioned above) is that now there will be several subscription offerings, and to get everything that somebody wants, they are looking at laying out $50 pm across several different providers.


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They obviously want us to pirate.