@JohnnyShoulder
That must be really annoying to have to sign contracts for your services. Used to be that way over here in the states but i think you now can cancel just about any service over here anytime. My only streaming service right now is Hbomax and that has pretty much everything i care to watch at the moment. I dropped Netflix like almost a year ago as aside from Stranger Things there is nothing left there I care about. Do they really not have Hbomax in the UK? If so they need to fix that quickly.
@PegasusActual93 Yeah as far as I know HBO max is not available in this country. There is probably ways of getting it with a vpn but that is not something I want muck around with.
That is how it works over here for streaming services too. But most most of the HBO shows are only on SKY, which you can get by either signing a contract with them, or by subbing to NOW TV their streaming service which you can cancel at any time.
The main reason I don't like the service is that in order to get 1080p quality movies and TV shows, you need to pay an extra £5 per month. I don't mind paying extra for something like 4K content, but not 1080p which almost every other service offer as part of the basic package.
i renewed my netflix membership yesterday. Last time i was using Netflix was back in March. nothing good on at the time where the only thing i was slowly binge watching was Naruto.
@PegasusActual93 720p I believe. Which was acceptable 10 years ago but not these days. I think it is cos they don't want to accept people who have a contract with them, as they can get 4K, but not through the NOW TV streaming service.
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Having had the house to myself for a few days, I finally decided to give The Boys a go as it’s been on my radar for a while but @LtSarge talking about the new series made me decide to go for it.
I blasted through the eight episodes of series one in three days and it is a bonkers show. A really clever premise (even if the MCU leant into the same sort of ideas in some of the middle films) but it’s darker and more brutal than even Deadpool would go for; each episode normally has a particularly shocking moment at least.
After the first seven episodes, the finale almost felt a bit tame in comparison but wrapped the series up nicely. Am very keen to watch on from here!
@Thrillho Nice, I'm glad I helped convince you to watch it and that you enjoy it!
I do have to admit that, for some reason, it feels like each season finale happens in the second to last episode in every season and that the last episode is very mild in comparison to the episode before it. I don't know if I'm the only one who feels like this. It's very weird but I guess it's also a nice way to "cool off" from the previous episode before ending the season.
@LtSarge
Havent seen the Boys so can't comment but me and my wife watched True Blood and every season of that had the final episode wrap up thats season conflict in the first 30 minutes and then spent the rest of the episode kind of just meandering. It was really weird.
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Looks like it is not just Netflix that has to adjust to life after people being in lockdown (I'm hesitant to use terms like 'struggling' like I've seen elsewhere), with HBO Max laying off a number off staff and cancelling a bunch of original movies and TV shows.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Just finished season 1 of My Hero Academia - it took me a while to get into it but yeah it did live up to the hype I’ve heard from all quarters. Netflix only have season 1 so I have no idea how I’ll end up watching the later seasons but I’m definitely keen to continue with it.
@colonelkilgore
I don't get why they would have only the first season, you would think if Netflix were paying the rights to stream the series on their platform then that licensing deal would extend to covering the whole series thus far.
@JohnnyShoulder It’s ridiculous. Just goes to show that these companies absolutely don’t care about any sort of artistic integrity as it’s all about the money. They’re literally removing shows and movies from their service to never be sold anywhere else again so that they can get a partial tax writeoff.
@nessisonett
Corporations have always been about wanting your money. That has been the case for centuries if not thousands of years. Sure some have better customer relations than others but at the end of the day if they can save 100 million dollars off tax write offs just from a single movie then you bet they will do it. It's called Capitalism.
@PegasusActual93 Not necessarily. Artists in the Renaissance period had wealthy patrons who funded their efforts but the motivation wasn’t a return on their investment. They just wanted to see the result of their artists’ efforts. Everything revolving round the accumulation of wealth is a relatively new concept in terms of human history. HBO Max and other streaming services are in a perfect position to fund great media which wouldn’t necessarily make a profit on a wider release.
@nessisonett
They could fund films that might not turn profit....but will they? Films have always been viewed as money makers by studios and never as stritcly art pieces no matter what movie snobs would have you believed. In the states our Supreme Court even ruled in 1915 that movies are not art but attractions. They later overturned that in 1948 but still that was the general mindset from the beginning even though like many things film is art. Movie studios have always put money before anything else and have executive meddled in stuff since for that very reason all the way back since the silent era.
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@PegasusActual93 But streaming services don’t turn a profit in a traditional structure anyway. Films and TV are all included in your subscription so you’re essentially creating these not to turn a strict profit and instead to just make your service appeal to an audience. Critically acclaimed movies that bring plaudits to your service are surely a better fit for these streaming companies than something that’s designed to appeal to the masses, as that would turn a larger profit being released into cinemas.
The thing that has stuck in the craw of entertainment execs recently… was two—fold but plain to foresee for anyone with even half an idea about people and their habits. First, as soon as the world began to return to normal, the general populace would have far less time to vegetate in front of their entertainment of choice. Secondly and imho the much more integral facet… Streaming was basically a one-man/woman… /corporation show for the longest (okay amazon ‘dabbled’ but until recently never really looked to take it that seriously). Now all of a sudden there are 6 or 7 ‘major’ players in the streaming space and your average joe and Josephine are only gonna be signing up for one (maybe two). The streaming wars was always gonna produce some fine (and ample) entertainment for us in the short term but as soon as the corps realised how far (or short) our wallets would reach, there was always gonna be constraints imposed. Covid and the return to normality has just served to amplify and expedite the situation.
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