Vinnie Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 How many folk still watch just the BBC and ITV on the telly? According to the BBC more folk subscribe to Netflix and Amazon than subscribe to Sky and Virgin. Surely its simple..... make better TV shows, show fewer repeats, and charge less, and they'd likely regain the ground theyre losing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the saline hill puma Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 I very rarely watch either BBC or ITV mainly just use TV for watching live sport or stuff I have recorded. Its not really a surprise that more are subscriving to online providers and just watching shows when they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fu_Manchu Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 Watch cooncul telly every day. Not just the BBC and ITV though. Plenty other channels to watch at no extra cost but it is about time the TV licence was done away with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paradox Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 1 hour ago, Vinnie said: How many folk still watch just the BBC and ITV on the telly? According to the BBC more folk subscribe to Netflix and Amazon than subscribe to Sky and Virgin. Surely its simple..... make better TV shows, show fewer repeats, and charge less, and they'd likely regain the ground theyre losing. I think the whole 'on demand' thing is the key to it. People want to be able to watch what they want, when they want, where they want now. I prefer the TV to tablets etc, but don't actually watch much TV. 23 minutes ago, the saline hill puma said: I very rarely watch either BBC or ITV mainly just use TV for watching live sport or stuff I have recorded. Its not really a surprise that more are subscriving to online providers and just watching shows when they want. I can't remember the last thing I made a point of watching on any of the terrestrial channels (except the World Cup). Most of the stuff I watch on Sky is movies, box sets or SSN. The cost is incredible now, and continues to grow with the advent of new technologies like UHD, Sky Q and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fu_Manchu Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 Do the likes of Netflix and Amazon have subtitles on their shows/films? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldwiderab Posted July 18, 2018 Report Share Posted July 18, 2018 42 minutes ago, Fu_Manchu said: Do the likes of Netflix and Amazon have subtitles on their shows/films? Fu, yes netflix does as I just checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Beer Baron Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 Habits change, traditional TV is being replaced as already mentioned. It'll hang around for a while but it wouldn't surprise me if we didn't have it as it is now, in say 30 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teuchter Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 12 hours ago, Fu_Manchu said: Do the likes of Netflix and Amazon have subtitles on their shows/films? Like Channel 4 red triangle films do you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fu_Manchu Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 1 hour ago, Teuchter said: Like Channel 4 red triangle films do you mean? Naw. Good old fashioned subtitles (used to be page 888 on ceefax). Mrs Fu is sensitive to noise so we have the TV volume permanently aff. Tbh, all the major channels on both cooncul telly and sky have subtitles. Just curious as to whether the streaming channels have them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted July 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 TV viewing habits have changed - I recently had Sky Q installed, and the installer was telling me that Sky intend to moving away from satellite dish services and operate online. Obviously, my first question would be how much cheaper my service will be considering they will not need to pay rental on satellite channelling signals? If Netflix can offer services for under a tenner, Sky should be aiming to get very very close to that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted July 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 4 hours ago, Fu_Manchu said: Naw. Good old fashioned subtitles (used to be page 888 on ceefax). Mrs Fu is sensitive to noise so we have the TV volume permanently aff. Tbh, all the major channels on both cooncul telly and sky have subtitles. Just curious as to whether the streaming channels have them. They usually do @Fu_Manchu. Because they aren't live events, the subtitles tend to be available. Its obviously that bit harder to subtitle live events. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fu_Manchu Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 Aye, live events are more awkward. Watching the half hour news on the BBC, the subtitles go missing for a minute or two. Guessing that they change subtitlers at that point. Tbh, the only show/film that would entice me is The Man in the High Castle but I know that I would end up comparing it to the original novel and end up disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paradox Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 8 hours ago, Vinnie said: TV viewing habits have changed - I recently had Sky Q installed, and the installer was telling me that Sky intend to moving away from satellite dish services and operate online. Obviously, my first question would be how much cheaper my service will be considering they will not need to pay rental on satellite channelling signals? If Netflix can offer services for under a tenner, Sky should be aiming to get very very close to that Have you found that your broadband is much worse since you got Sky Q installed? Mine has definitely been poorer, and I've got a few mates had the same issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted July 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 Nope. I have EE fibre broadband - which is cheaper than Skys standard broadband, so I changed. Plus I get an extra 5GB data on one of my mobile handsets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifes Elite Posted July 19, 2018 Report Share Posted July 19, 2018 Is now tv any good as a substitute for sky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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